The daily gazette., 1875-08-13
From he Reading Eagle.
Useless Officials and high saiarte,

e" oheiaiS hnd high Salaries.
lhe demand Of number Of Derno.
cratic conventions for reduction az
Tue number OF offlcice- holders shcrs
ina! Tue people are having their eyns
opened to one Of the greatest "a
most expensive abuse; of the nanr
which have for years diseraced ou.
government and burdened the nstion
AAeIe are to-day hundreds Of partisaas
Acldlhg stnecure positions merely as 3
reward Tor political services In The
past, CT IS bribe for strnfifar ssryioes
IL the future. Occasionally q few rev
enue districts are consolidated, and fho
Administration newspapers claim for
the government the credit of endesv.
orin9 10 reduce expenses, The Ea9,.
long ago atVocated the dismissal of ali
revenue assessors and collectors, and
.he colectlon ot revenue by the low
est responsible bidder, ,as common local
tHAes are now collected Had this
system been adopted the taxpayers
would have saved millions of dollar
every year. hut instead of that. one
after another of hundreds Of Republi-
can rartisanS have amassed lsree for
tunes, all made in few years through
the emoluments oil office in the 1evenue
department, Many useless office have
been created By the gevernment. mere
y to give place to persons who conld
be relied on to to control certain dis.
triots on tho day of election or n
cheat and swindle the people into the
belief that black was white. The nre-
sent situation of affairs at Washinrton
Is an instance of the number and the
expense OF maintaining public officials
who are entirely unnecessary. The
wheels of the government are moi
stopped-on the contrary, the nubiic
business goes on steadily and without
uiinGulty at Washington, although ali
The heads oil the departments are FIRE
quently absent for weeks at time fol.
lowing the President about like lackeys
TO watering places, horse races and
resorts Of fashionable dissipation.
somebody attends to the business AZ
the capitol and attends to it properly,
Occasionally Grant and his Cabinet 90
10 ashlngton, stay an hour OF two In
coanultation, and depart to some loaf
ing place. a few clerks are left to
run the government. Now as tber
do run it as well as Grant and his Cab
incnt could do, why should the peonle
pay thousands Of dollars TO each mem.
Der OF Cabinet annually and hundreds
70 each OF the clerks who do the work.
lhe fact Is evident that either these
heaq. clerks or the Cabinet officers
.Iemse,'Fe7 are useless and unnecessary
and should b>e done away with. The
same Is the case with hundreds. perbans
thousands, Of entirely uEneccssary
1flc holders throughout the country
t!"-J ~ HON draw large salaries for
the supposed performance OF public
duties which are really attended to BIZ
sIbordinltes.
Ihen the -alaf.ee Of nearly eli pubic
officials are entirely too high. TheT
snculd &c cut down, ana what Is still
more important, the 'perquisitss," es
they are called, should be stopped. In
manJ oas9s ttey ere do"nriSht rcbbarT
81 the people Nearly all the officials at
" a7Eingtcn vnc vent into ofEce pocT
or in moderate circumstances. are noy
worth 1nanT tLousinds CT doilars nors
than trelr salaries would amount 70 if
they had saTet every cent CT their pa
and inveitedit It on compound interest.
PRESIDENT Grant, according to the Chics-
90 4r.t-ae. IS worth about $500. COO, His
farm neaT St. Louis Taluei at 500 OOU.
his live sCock On Il : valued at $50 COD
Dere' ne has Taluatle property in Wash
lngton, residence at ong Branch. and
owns considerable stock IA the Chica9o
street railway v hen he vas nouins-
ted fc- President n bad nothing but bis
2ay as General q TIE arEy, It Is stated
IN F;2d authority that tbs Republican
sGdsr5 paid hin S5yQ, ,QQo cash 70 I .ecr-e
.heir candidate. his salary fc, four Tes-s
vas SES,QNS : sar, With "parcux;tas,
~c@th soue so, TO- : Jea1 mere fo- tba
e2t three years his salary has essn $50.
~ year with $50, 80 year perSuisitee,
'lt5e the. amounting TO only sSCO. COO.
I'D Yet l. Aa7 nysd most e1trayasantly
ilrlns the whole tins. Secretary OsIs
no - wort. 81 v'V.Qtv, RAn. Butler and
l7arly all the feeders at the p-hlic rra-
l1r7 GuriIs Tie list eight Tears at Wash
ngtan 3r. "erth suns nsing from hun
;red3 Ct Thousands to millions Of dollars
y here io theln men set Ill this nouey:
Che M sTer Is from the perQnisites OF
,th'e.' No" 4 - high time that these
'pArluisitss' 7Aouli be loppel off and
he money they represent should b
nrnsd into the treasury, It's time thai
he immense salaries ot official loafar5
hould be reduced. 1t Is time that tarsS
hould be cut down. and it is time that
he thousands If unnecessary otEcs- hold
rs ,houli be made to earn their own
ivinE, instead Vi aping the layishnsss cf
European aristocracy ., the expense OF
he tarpay-r7. In demanding the reduc-
ion Of the NUMBER of otfce-holders and
he lowering OF official salaries the Dem
cratic conventions have spoken for ths
Ionest masses, who should support with
heir votes the party and the candidates
rho arc pledged to do all in their poTe-
Q effect this much needed reform