Speech #630223336

Now. we have $967.000 paid out every year of the taxpayers money. You have no way to safeguard that. you must trust to luck that some of it will get into the hands of those to whom it belongs. No American law can reach the payment of that money. and at least twothirds of it goes into the hands of people who. since 1893. have become nonresidents and in many cases noncitizens of the United States. This amendment ought to be adopted in fairness and justice to the taxpayers of the United States. in fairness to the old soldiers who stand by the old flag. and if any man is entitled to fair treatment it is the soldier who stands by the colors that pays him the pension. There is no reason. no justice. in paying nearly a million dollars of the peoples money every year into the hands of foreigners.