New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1866-12-17

cha I,riion attached to Office had taken promin emit
po.tO1. Ye GOV, even IN mo boor posos sne ,sF,
res are efficient only TO provide the necessares OF ma
,y I'D pos,i bio lnent The create number cannot
tbirL gI mi dim i'm society. While IN Baden tho ex,
7scs II wolcOldrcod me 1ani family are nom IVY
p lO'J tblcrs ycadyon winch, lo"eYet no Bfeat H!ie
... bs suci-tho official, who has spent fom 200 70
BOO thacrs ~ preparing lOr his Office, and up % hs jysl
,'.,r l5s earn d nothing. sits down with from oVJ
4, 0ul tlaers per annum. This state Of thiUge
has become almost intolo.ab'c. Tue Goyenmsnt
desires 100000 thalers more Per annum IN 9 ~;
10 Increase the salaries OF public otbceT. IDis
increase However will be confined 70 the inferior anu
middle grades whose narrow Circumstances have Geaecsu
them extreme necessity The social cOndinon o. Ine
greater mart will not be bctered, and yet no
main as IL is Already the complaint among tie Proies
sOrs Of the University who educate the pubic omcisa
has become general, that talents among their Pup
every year rerer because ambitious young men are az
raceA from the service Of the State 70 trades ana COM
meree These occupations offer more auflng nope =,
wealth and social position than the GoVernnent eau hU
out This is an evil from which all European nSuohs
moro or less suffer. For all European nauons except
England have gone through the deSpotsas eedlre wnon
TO support its power among the passing people,
the people no longer exists but nevertheless tho eTen
of tie last year have shown that are stu unaer tni
sof su1e scl0rt This burdensome oroWq OF oncus 10
not so dangerous as in Austria ana hussia' ov ~
France and Spain, who suffer from Tue SANS WI
Our officials are at least cultivated men anu .a on
morality IN spite of their restricted M
NAMED wonderfully uninpared Though our luulclary
has shown itself in political processes dePenosnt on snS
Government yet in civil processes corruption Is ueu
Of, Happily the same thing eau DC oal0 Va W.
gsneroE We 10 not however delude ourselves 80 lar
"a 10 believe that this morality could continue to be PROOF
against thp temptations presented BY increasing wealth
and social laruy Of tho other classes For TINS reason
ssn fla matter rannot rest IL is We must either re-
solve 10 double or treble the salaries OF ocas or we
must look for retrogession among tnem IN .
and INTEGRITY And since cannot give much better pay
10 the geat mass We must change our Governmental ss-
tenn in Older to work the machinery OF state with sHaer
number OF better paid officers We must pass 20
enment and this By making the State more denocratlc
But the classical cultivation Of our numerous pubic o
GERS has had too happy effect on the nation Tor US NOT
70 fear dmnuaon tS stnSV of the classcs
especialt shave devoted, doubtless, too mucn time
20 scientific especially classic work But we must thaek
his devotion 10 science for ell that we are, even LOT
me existence OF the nation which exhausted to death
bY the relations Of 1888 In the face OF the ever
increasing struggle for wealth and material enjoyment We
are justified II seeking method By which our naon can
atom bf Industrial occupations TO general wealth, aud
carry through her political changes, without giving up
that deas which we essentially owe TO our deVSon 70
TIRE sciences and classics This wish makes the Severn
mental suppoft of the schools very popular shocked IS
the Chamber vas at the extent OF the Budget YET the
Liberal party received with applause the announcement
that half million thaeTs was expended IN order 70 in'
crsass the salaries Of the teachers in the public SCHOOLS
200 900 thaeTs devoted especially 70 the teachers OF
primary schools esmall sum VIII Dc s sac iOr 'H lO
relation 10 the end proposed is not so small as at hrst
sight seems The primary schools are exclusively con;
neeted With the 0omunites and must be toleraby well
maintained by the latter And this sum is appropriated
oaly those communities which are 100 poor 10 pay tue
teachers sufficiently
The soldiers are to be somewhat better pad than
hitherto You will be sstonished 10 learn what they have
heretofore Eoten. Prussan soldier receives six cens
daily but stsT the lst Of next January Is TO receive seven
cents or course Il Is impossible TO live on this and they
must be supported BY their relatives The cost TO parents
is thence 80 great that the entire amounts 70 as much
as paid out of the military chest OF the State We have to
pay dear for Our renown, and your Franklin says We
m1st pey dearly for our whistle. Our finances in spite OF
the heavy budget in extraordinarily prosperous
condition. We were able TO begin and end the war with
TpOular npOmo the cOnr1Du-
tons imposed on the conquered States has since the war
delivered as from this necessity The loan, which the
Chamber approved in September Of the present year has
remained unused Consequently Prussia has everything
that makes a State powerful. 1t has well organized
army well arranged finances, and, what Is sl more I'M
porent good school system II will thus be n con;
organization of the whole German nation in spite OF The
political wants under which Prussia herself suffers.