Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1883-10-11
OFFICE HOLDERS PAY.
The Contrast Between America
and England.
Wa.hiagton cor. Philadelphia Pfols

Washington cor. Philadelphia Press.
Of course any congressman who is
hunting quarters for the coming long
session thinks that the United States
government does not pay money
enough to its officers. Il does really
seem so. No country in the world pays
It's civil officers so badly. Take Eng
land for example. England pays moth
ing to the members OF the lower house
Of congress, which every intelligent
person knows is wrong, But England
makes up in other ways, Let US look
into the subject for a moment. We
pay our minister to France Sl7 800,
Eogland pays her minister to France
S50, 900 and gives him a palace to live
in We nay our minister TO England
sl7 800. England pays her minister to
Washington $50, 600 year gives him a
great mansion, fully equipped and fur
nished, and $4,000 a year for entertain>
ments. England even pays her minis
ter to Persia SO, 900 year, and gives
him a palace. She even pays her re-
preventative to the beggarly court Of
Greece more than we pay our highest
officers. We pay our Chief Justice
SO, 800 a year, and our Associate JUS
tees $4,000. We are just now max
ing much of Chief Justice Coleridge
How much, dear reader, do you think
he gets annually in the way'of salary ?
Forty thousand dollars The other
eight judges of his court get S25, 900 a
year each. Even the English Consul
at New York receives a salary of over
$50, 900 year. General Sherman gets
something over $4,000 a year. Gems
eral Wolseley gets about $4,000. The
Clerk Of the House of Representatives
receives, | believe, $1,000 a year. The
Clerk in the Lower House Of Parlia
ment in England receives about Sl2,-
900 year. All this, mind you, 10 a
smaller country than ours, a poorer
country than ours, and with less pop.
ulation than ours.
Shall we 20 further? The Queen Of
England, for herself alone. receives
every year fir m the English govern.
ment over three millions Of dollars.
This is for life. Our President, with
as great power as hers, receives $50, i.
600 a year for four years. One Of the
4 Queens yachts, the Victoria and AL.
bert, costs every year more than we
pay our President, and she has four
or five yachts. The figures, my mas
tiers, are worth remembering. The
Prince OF Wales draws every year
100000 from the English treasury.
| And yet he owes half the aristocratic
tradesmen in London money he can
not pay. The Princess Of Wales, for
pin money, gets $4,000 a year. The
cost of the Prince of Wales visit Ia
| 81. Petersburg to bestow the Order Of
the Garter on tie Gar was $4,000
| The Duke of Edinburg draws over
100000 a year; the Princess Chris.
tan, Of Sohleswig> HOlstein, gets $50,
600 year; Princess Louise, Mar
chioness Of Lorffe, gets $4,000 a year
Prince Arthur gets Sl32,500 year
and Prince Leopold about the sam,
sum. Then come the Duchess o.
Cambridge, $4,000; the Princess O.
Teck, $4,000; the Duke of Cam
bridge, 100000, and any number o
others. The grand total Of twelvl
months payment 10 connection will
the royal family of England, not in
GLIDING the cost Of the royal parks
was the enormous sum Of a, 49l ,5lC