Ashtabula telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1874-1880, 1877-03-30

which the public don't understand
which will come out in a few days.
Oakley Hall will probably turn up in
Europe, and will make himself the
centre of circle there as he was
here. He has not committed suicide
for he enjoyed life too much. His
life has been failure here, and in
stead of attempting to amend it, he
has thrown off all restraints, and will
live as he pleases somewhere else.
This will be the true sequel to the
Hall mystery.
LIFE INSURANCE.
The life insurance companies are
In state of mind for the legislature
is investigating them. 1t is shown
that some of the companies pay their
presidents such salaries as $37, 500
per year, medical examiners from
$4,000 to $I5, 900, and the legal ad-
visers of the companies have an
equally soft thing of it; the public
is exercised about it, and it is not to
be wondered at, especially as the Of
ficers vote themselves these salaries.
On the other hand it should be borne
in mind that a man capable of keep
ing proper care of such enormous in
terests, is worth about all that can
be paid him. The public don't care
so much about the salaries as they
do about the other work some of the
officers have done. For instance one
president was paid $33O,OOo for
wTecking another company. The
investigation shows that it has been
a regular thing for two companies
to combine, and send out men to
weaken confidence in one of them,
that majority of its policies might
be bought up for little or nothing,
those who refused to be so swindled
being re-insured in the surviving
company. Ii was very neat specu-
lation if a company could be so dis
credited that its policies could be
bought up at ten cents on the dollar
of their value. The searching in.
quiry now being ade is a good
thing. The shysters in the business
will be made known, the weak COM
panies will be weeded out, and those
entitled to confidence will be made
all the stronger and better.
POLITICAL.
Leaving out the disappointed
Democracy who expected places un-
der Tilden, and the almost as objec-
tiOnable Republicans who make pol
itics a business, and find that under
Hayes it is to be no business at all.
There is but one party in New York,
and that is Hayes party. Never
was there a President so universally
popular. That portion of the Dem
ocracy who are not place-hunters,
believe that Hayes intends to settle
affairs and that is what they want.
The Republicans believe that he
means to do it, and yet maintain the
principles of the Republican party,
and they are enthusiastic in approx
al. However satisfying this is to
good men, it is wormwood to the
professionals; for if the pot don't
boil the scum stays at the bottom;
if there is no dirt for them to do, of
what use are they? Only admins
trations low enough to require their
services can pay them, and if they
are not paid they die. President
Hayes has the city in his hand; his
stern adherence to his promises for
civil service reform, his wise selec-
tlon OF a cabinet, his refusal TO be
made a tool of by professional poll
ticians, and last, his wisdom in send
ing non-partisan commission to in
vestigate the condition of affairs in
the South, before deciding. stamn
him as not only statesman but one
who honestly desires to do that
which will be the best for the coun-
try.
CLUB ADJUSTMENTS.
The straits that young men of
fortune are put to for amusement is
shown in an affair that happened in
one of the clubs the other day. One
young man made remark concern
ing wish-bone in a turkey, and an
other said there was no such thing