The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1874-06-15
AS TO Salaries.

Thc president OF the A''"''', ~
owl OHIO railroad gels salary o' '~e">y
fire ;Season1 dollars a gears Fer! S''"
s,,,,, for these h ,rd times; particularly goo"
Co.. tho president Of company that Is no'
n.y;nc the interest on lis debt. four m''''o"S
NJ which hears no interest at ALL very
c,o5 salary for a company that Is, besides,
not having lis debt not fl filing any "' IL
arca, promises. II was going TO onita W
tnc yiruinia cities make great towns grow
whore small ones stood. and cnTirh Virginia
bnvnnd all computation. 1t certainly iii tin:
c,>hcs the great corporation for one great
thing. aud that is: great salary.
Some mouths since / was determined that
the company couldn't pay &l The salaries in
cash, and that all clisc-ho'dcrS must
put up with twenty per cent. OF their Saa
rieS in certificates 0: debt. General MA,
ROME most condtsccndnglv took his place
On the roll Of otfice-holdcrS, aud took also
his twenty per cent. in said certificates
Amazing, To take FIVE thousand out q
TWENTY-FIVE thou.and in scrip, while your
fellow Of a thousand only sacrifices two
hundred.
VIVA. wonderful ability it must be tina
deserves twenty-five thousand dollars pei
annim in period Of general prostraiion
and poverty! Is ii tuat the ability is inn
menSelv beyond the achievements Of The
management, So great head should crown
n powerful body. Rut instead we have q
head of gold and feet Ct clay.
Why. General MAu,SE's salary is twice
that ofall The heads OF depar' msnt ofthe State
Government. Governor ksMrEE. $1,000
First Auditor, MIR. TAYLOR, $1,000; Second
Auditor, General ROGERS, $4,000; Treas
urcr. Mr.. Bu>rsR, !.000-joinEiy. $1,000 -
which covers not half Of tie salary OF one
railroad president-the president OF rail
rotd which is not paying the interest on lis
der.. and which denies 10 the principal city
in tie State Of Virginia the ordinary express
facilities, nv which we might reasonably con-
lecture one nth Of the commerce Of the
country is conducted.
Whcn wp look at the facts, we wonder
how they ever came 10 be facts ut all. Is it
not strange? What sort OF madness was it
that led the stockholders of the Atlantic,
Mississippi and Ohio to give so much money
t, one man and so little 10 Others: How
cane i, ;ha, set of directors could be found
to consent TO such lavish disbursement Of
money from i'm povcriShcd Golfers:
We do DOT wouder al The winter residence
in Richuond-ths costly game on the chess
board played on. during the scaSon-the wet
groceries, &C.. &C., &c. including vast Zeal
to be remembered, and possibly some day to
be commented upon.
Certainly the President of the Atlantic,
Mississippi and Ohio is 1 fortunate man in
times when it is just as much as other peo-
pie can do to make 'buckle and tongue
meet" that he should receive in one year
what in our boyhoOd would have been con-
sidered handsome fortupc-a salary unprc.
ccdented south OF the Potomac-a salary as
great as that of The President of the United
States until very recently-and all this salary
for experimenting four hundred ralrs Of Il
railway which is not paying the interest OK
it. debt.
We-have tried to think that the State in
which such salary is paid is rich; but We
have signally failed. Her condition is not
at all improving. Her people arc poor and
her State treasury empty. The leading or
gan OF General MALONE says the people can
pay no more, and it damns anybody who
sly> they can. And yet, We suppose. it will
a. readily damn anybody who says $4,000
is large salary to pay Il railroad president.
We regret all this very much, but are COM
PEELED TO say that "tis true, Ills pity; pity
'ti>, lis true"