Daily Republican., 1882-08-21
mONDAY. AUGUST 2I. 1883.
A MOurb on Wall Of Anguish.

ABOuEbOn Wall of Anguish.
The out and out penny organ of tn
Bourbon Democracy has gone to con
siderable trouble to convincepo work
inRmen that they should have as muci
wages for their labor as postmaster
who get from $1,000 to $1,000 year sala
ry from the Federal government, anC
it names over New Castle, MiddletOwn
Milford, Smyrna and Dover as places
where postmasters are paid those
amounts. The organ very patheticallS
says:
t'WhiIe they (the mechanics) toll
and labor day after day, earning theil
bread by the sweat of their brow, and
making at the utmost but $500 to 5000
peF wear, these fine country postmas-
ters. at least three of whom are also en-.
gagged in lucrative mercantile transac-
tions, receive from $1,000 TO $1,000, for
doing less actual labor in one year than
any Industrious mechanic of Whining
ton performs in three months,
We are no advocates of Overpaying
public officers, but it is settled policy
with all, that an office which requires
heavy bonds for the faithful perform
ance of its duties, should payhigher sala
ries than offices or callings in which no
bonds were required. The complaint
of the Bourbon organ, however, is not
that high salaries are paid at those post
Offices named, but if the truth vas
known it is because they are not paid
to Democrats. This wailing is because
the other party is at the flesh pots. If
the complaining organ was honest i'll
its opposition to large salaries, why
should it not object to the offices filled
by Democrats which pay higher sala-
ries than any of the post offices named,
and as the present is State campaign,
it would have been most appropriate to
have referred to the State officers. For
instance why should the Clerk OF the
Peace OF New Castle County be paid
from 5000 to $4,000 q year? The Re
cOrder of Deeds, $500; the Prothono
tary the same; the Register of Wills
from $500 to $1,000; the Clerk Of the
Orphans Court from $1,000 to 81, 800 ?
Their duties are not more Onerous than |
that of the postmasters named and
their salaries are double. What is more
every one of these offices IS filled by a
Democrat. Or to come to the city Off.
Ces the Bourbon could have found room
for comparison with its own Office
holders. The City Street Commissioner,
the Chief Engineer of the Water Works
the City Solicitor, the City Treasurer
the City Auditor and the clerk of the
City CouRcil, have until recently all
bSen Democrats, and with three excep.
ITEMS are Democrats still, and their
salaries range fir ON $1,000 to $500, but
there seems to have been no objections
70 these salaries as long as they are
received by Democrats, We would no
doubt hear the same complaint against
the salaries of all these we'll paid offices,
were it not considered little Cheeky"
as they have all been filled by Demo.
Gratis, some of them for nine and ten
years, and under the administration of
Democrats the salaries were raised to
what they now are and we may safely
say without stretching the truth that
If the post Offices were all in the hands
of Democrats, there would be no CON-
plant at all. Besides this, working
men are not too blind to see and to know
that an organ is not honest in its optn-
ions, which pretends to befriend the
workingman, while it supports Mr.
Bayard in his vote to retain the tax on
matches which supports q monopoly
that puts profit of 1921, 900 on the pur.
chase of stamps alone into its pockets,
while it pays to its operatives from So
to S5 per week.
But the Bourbon organ knows some-
thing after all. These high salaries to
postmasters are paid to enable them to
literally, "that the black
mail assessments of Jay Hubbell may
be paid and still leave enough for the
meagre service rendered" This poor
soul is an innocent little thing
1t is very likely that these postmasters
do give something to assist the Repub-
licaps in carrying on their campaign
W by should they not if they felt like 1t?
Where is the postmaster getting from
1920 to $1,000 a year, who does not feel
like giving something to assist the par
sy 10 which he is indebted for his of.
ace? But are Democratic office hold
urS not required to pay any thing to a
fund? Ask all the Demo.
Gratis that have held and still hold an
Office whether State, County or City, If
they have not been and are still as
zessed to raise campaign fund. Yes
indeed, we will also repeat in the Ian.
gnage OF the Bourbon: "How long will
tho workingmen of Wilmington
vote fer the party that thus t
degrades and impoverishes their labor l.
for the benefit Of Office holders, who are
paid more than double what their ser.
vices are really worth ?"
a
THE "OyERALLs" got away on Sat- a
irday with the Second, Third, Fourth, b
Fifth, Eighth, Ninth and Eleventh il
wards. Good fellows, as 1t does them O