The new daily appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1872-1873, 1873-02-12
THG SUBJECT OF PUBLIC sAI-
A4ES.

1Ae suDJECT OF PUBLIC SAL
AMES.
The government should either pay
it. servasts adequate salaries or non :.
The Eaghsh Government pays its
judges. H. ministers, its ooasuls and
al IL various heads Of departments
asvsn - IT. clergy With y lavish
hand. The salaries paid the Royal
FAnily are AMPLY mo stroua: and
the vast incomes paid 10 the nobility
and the chief officers in the civil and
military ser ices of the kingdom are
proportionately enormous. On the
ether hand, me.Abers of Parliament
ars paid nothing-although it notori-
ously costs . fortune 10 obtain an
election to the House Of Commons.
British ofaceholdera are doubtless
overpaid and overloaded with em.'lu-
ments; bht It is very certain that in
continuing to pursue a oourss oppos-
lite to that which obtains in Great
Britain the government of the United
States displays very decided lack
Of wisdom. We don't mean to say
that We advocate the followi & of
ELgland's example in the payment
Of our public servants; but we do
mean to diss mt from 90 much of our
policy ~ pays q Congressman a
starving rate and cuts down the sal
aries Of al Department officers to q
eorrsspondingly parsimoniousfi figure.
''The earlier and simpler days of the
Republic" are all we'll enough to
contemplate through those eyes
which are ways looking to the past
for the exercise of virtue in public
places; but these States and their
sovelameni have not only outgrowa
theirexperimental swaddling clothes.
but have come upon times when one
dollar in specie will only purchase
about one eighth Of the value of any
staple that it would have purchased
when Tom Jefferson laid down rules
which the Bourbon mind loves to re.
gard - suited to the emergencies Of
tho present. General Butler has
lately introduced bill into Congress,
che spirit of which We do most heart
lily commend. Only his rates are
not high enough. He proposes to
raise the Presidents salary from
81. 900 to $50. 900 per annum; to iu
crease the salary of Supreme Court
Justices to $40, 600 and that of Mem
hers Of Congress to IS, 900. We be-
1ieve it would be . good and profit
able investment we're the government
TO pay the President as much as
.dve thousand dollars per month
and it, Judges and Congressman
.oorrespondingly liberal salaries. :
The difference - between these ade-
.quate remunerations and the mig
gardly pittances which are now doled
ont to our Judges and our Senators
and Representatives would not be
felt; and q . result of their payment
We should see an exemption from the
distresses which are often visible in
the persons and families Of our elder
judges; aud there would come a
greater purity in the average Con
gressional mind. The recent prob
inRs into the Credit Mobilisr bust
ness have shown what the tempta
ton to make . little money will in
duoe even our most tried public
servants to do. We are not of those
Who believe that Senators and mem
bers of Congress are eager to prosti
tute themselves by the acceptance
of gross brides; but it is to blind
oneself to the history of mankind not
TO eco that it Is the promised relief
from IN old aud irksome condition of
respectable poverty" that tempts
mon to compromise themselves ~
did the Senators aud Representatives
Who bit at OAkes Ames' seductive
bats. Rich men aud men in com
parative comfort rarely steal. They
don't need tor are out of the nee.l
Of entertaining temptations TO do
wrong. Elevate the pecuniary con-
dition of your Congressman to that
Of comparative independence. and
ron strike the lobby the hardest