Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1870-07-26

pay for it. This is the inevitable
tendency of things in a country
where no salaries are paid for public
service.
There is one branch of the British
government which it is intended
shall be open to the poor as we'll as
10 the rich, and be at all times i'm
partial between the high and the low,
the rich and the poor that is, the
judiciary. And how is this end Sc
cured :? BY paying to their Judges a
higher salary than is paid to such
officers by any other nation on earth.
The salary of the chief justices is
5S,OO0-about $40, 900 per annum.-
by this means poor man is made
as eligible as rich man to the iu-
dicial office; and England has for a
long series of years enjoyed the
best Judiciary on earth.
See how low salaries work in this
country. When General Grants
administration came in he offered
the office of Secretary of State to a
statesman of the West, of Iowa, a
man whom all Of US would been
proud to see in that placer How
did he look at it? TO come To Wash
lngton and live as q Secretary of
OF State should live would cos. him
Sl5,OOO a year, and his salary was
$4,000; $1,000 out of pocket each
year. If he were to stay in his fam
lily in Iowa he could support them
on $4,000 and make SIS, 900. There
was S17, 900 difference in his bank
account. He could not afford to pay
that amount to be Secretary Of State.
Then General Grant goes to the
Eastern States and offers the Office
to man whom the 81, 900 made no
earthly difference and so your So
900 paid to the present Secretary OF
State is thrown away, because he
would have taken the Office just as
quick without a salary as with it.
Sir, let us do one of two things
let us put up the salaries of civil Of
hcers TO the point of compensation
tor the grade Of talent and kind OF
service required, and thus open the
door of civil promotion to the poor
as well as the rich or let us cut of
all salaries, and gracefully abandon
the Government to the rich, excusing
ourselves to the world by saying the
people would rather be governed by
the rich than to pay the expense Of
selt-government. Sir, the people
would condemn such philosophy ,ant
spurn those who should assign tt
them motives so mean and contempt
ible.
Let me give another instance, t.
which my friend from Nevada (Mr
Nye) calls my attention. During
the war Mr.. Stanton was working il
the War Office on an average sixteer
hours day, doing an amount of toll
meeting weight of responsibility
which no man on earth ever endured
for such a length of time; toll anC
trouble that broke down his giant
constitution and sent him untimely
to his grave, where the representa-
tives of this nation with heavy
hearts and with heads bowed dowI
have SO recently laid him. All this
for Sc, 900 per annum less than hi
house rent and family expenses
During those Same years railroad
companies all over the country were
paying $4,000 a year to their attor
neys. There was not county in thu
United States in which the president
of insurance companies and cashiers
of banks were not receiving more
than this nation paid Stanton for his
sixteen hours of labor each day.
They went to their banks and their
offices at nine o'clock, sat there until
three, had quiet time during the
day, and spent the evening pleasantly
with their families elsewhere-
The VICE PRESIDENT. The Chair
must state to the Senator from Wis
consin that his five minutes hav,
expired.
Mr.. CARPENTER. | was afraid O.
that.