The Massachusetts spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1831-1858, 1831-10-19
From The bingham Gazette.
JACKSON STATE ADDRESSING. 3.

! 0ao'S INN tiiose Vi announcer, Nnere the mode.
OF paying public officers are entirely differ
ent. Any candid mind must be satisfied witt
me method OF paying by salaries in this State
IN preference to that of paying by fees, as il
DINERS. did not mention the item of SIS.
444 90, IN the State Expenditures Of last wear
pad to agricultural Societies to be distribut
ed to "Farmers and Mechanics" in premi
uihs, Tor the encouragement of their respec.
i've pursuits. Few States have such proyi
SONS IN their laws; and suppose here We
shail De told that this amount is "drawn from
the pockets OF the people and flows back
again INTO those Ct the aristocracy Abou
nine thousand dollars were appropriated fol
t me. benefit OF L1nqtics, Deaf and Dumb and
bstfld persons. The Address notices these
! appropriations, and while it cautiously alb
STAINS from direct censure of these EXPENSES.
ana processes not to "repine" at them. still
the ali'lson to those "whose physical defects
OF Inorlai diseases, are bar to eminence If
aot 10 usefulness, becoming charge upon the
state" is a pretty distinct ntimation cfwbat
might be expected from jackson misantbro-
! Ply and misrule in this State. Who that
Knows any thing or has heard any thing of
the astonishing cures of Lunatics in foreign
hospitals, and of the large numbers who have
been restored to the possession f their men
tai faculties by skillful Treatment, or who has
witnessed around him the wonderful i'm
proyement of the minds ofthe deaf and dumb
under the patronage Of this noble charity of
the state, would not be ashamed to counte-
nance the cold and unfeeng manner in
winch this subject is treated N the Jackson
Address
The salaries Of officers and the incidental
expenses Of government, last wear. (includirg
lIiteen months compensation amounted to
SI,o4s ~; of this sum S41 900 is for saIa-
res PAD to Judges of the Supreme Court
Judges OF the Common Pleas, Judges and
REGISTERS OF Probate and prosecuting officers.
being the expenses of the Judicial establish
ment. Included in the same amount are the
salafies OF the Clerks and other officers oftbe
Legislature 1t is not proposed, | believe.
by any party, to put the hand of reform upon
the Judicial establishment, to reduce the sala
rles of the Judges. The best talents are de-
manded In those stations, and cannot be COM
manded without liberal and honorable sala-
RES, as an equivalent for the sacrifice of large
professional income.
Making the deductions of salaries of Off
GERS above named, and the result is. that the
whole amount paid in salaries for the execu-
tive department and for the departments con-
nected herewith, is little more than sere,,-
teen thousand dollars! This includes the sal
ary of the Governor, Lieut. Governor. &c.
NOW 1t may be, and probably is, expedient
to abolish the office of Lieut.. GOVERNOR
HE people however have seen fit to letajn
that officer by their constitution, and have
never heard that the Jacksonia,s have pro-
posed to abolish it. So long as it is contin-
ued, and the Lit Governor sits with the Cuun-
cll during all their sessions, should he not re-
celye Tor his services as much compensation
as the Jackson Tide Waters in the inconsid-
erable.ports of the United States?
know very well that it has been pronosed
at different times to retrench" by cutting
down the salaries ofsome few officers, among
others that of the Governor. A proposition
was made to that effect in the legislature last
winter, by some of the eage-eyed friends of
reform. A bill was brought in, proposing to
save III this method about seuen thousand DOL
Lars!! While the friends of the State Adj
mlnlstratlon were making substantial re-
trenchments to almost ten times that amount,
the genuine" friends of retrenchment could
discover that only about seven thousand DOL
lars could be SAVED! and that by cutting down
the salary of the Governor and some other
officers!
1t is matter of opinion upon which Judi
clous men may honestly differ what amount
should be paid TO Governor of the State
The Governor of Massachusetts receives less
than the Governors of some States and more
than others. There is view of the subject,
however, which it may be well to present,
that the community may distinctly see when
the largest salaries are paid for services rem
dered, and that it may seem also how shame
less is the effrontery of the "reformng" par
ty in Massachusetts. That party propose to
reduce the salary of the Governor. The
head" of that party takes annually five thou
sand dollars of the peoples money for dis
charging the ministerial duty of Collector
of the Customs of the District of Boston and
Charleston and of certain other offices con-
nected herewith "Retrenchment' preach
ed by party whose chief counsellor has null
tiplied the officers in the Boston Custom
House, and recently increased their salaries !
"Retrenchment" preached by party who
pay in that Custom House, annually; for sal
aries, nearly eighty thousand dollars-beng a
greater amount than all the salaries of the
sets! "Arlstocracy" preached by party
NC tIlC tACluSlNt VI llit
".MechanicS and Workingmen," who have
given eight offices inthat same Custom House
to the despised profession of LAWYERS!
Can the citizens of Massachusetts believe
that there is any sincerity i'll the pretension:
of the Jacksonians TO be the friends of reform
when Governor of the State, called upol
to devote his whole energies to administer il
affairs-to select men of talents and integrit,
to fill the Judicial and Executive oflices-t
examine every law which the Legislator
may pass, in all its bearings upon the Consti
tuition and existing laws-to sustain outright
in reference to other States-to enforce G.,
claims upon the General Government, las on
/ present Governor has done, with consun
mate ability and discretion to recommen
all wise and salutary measures for legslatiy
action-can there he any sincerity in part
who practically say, that such all officer, viii
such duties, is entitled to less salary tina
the Collector of the Customs for the Distri
of Boston and Charlestown.
Again, there isa view ofthis subject whic
should arouse the indignation of every gent
ine workingman in the Commonwealth
Cut down the salary of the Governor, or tn
of any oaher officer to an unworthy amoul
and man of moderate fortune, however Ell
inent his talents and qualifications, could n
afford to take Office without the risk of +
ducing himself to beggary. In such cas-
the offices would be an object of ambitic
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