The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1883-05-11

grumblers who live around drug
stores and barber shops' &C., and
thus it always has been in all ages of
the world, that we find '.judicial
minds" with enlarged views of pub
propriety, who pay little or no taxes
or revenue into the public treasury,
and who are willing to hold the pub
lie officers, and draw their pay for
filling such offices, from the tax pay
ers, and when these tax payers, the
commonwealth, presume to invade
the sacred liberties of that official
with a judicial mind" to simply in
quire and discuss where the taxes
go to, which they pay out every
year, and whether they are paying
such public officer their servant more
than the labors of the Office justly
deserves, such officer rears back upon
his ''pastor joints" with his head
raised heavenward, and while he pre-
sumes to assume an attitude of almost
divine authority he by intimation
says you "fault finders who pay
the taxes, you have no right to ques
ton the amount OF official pay which
I receive. You old "fossil grum-
lers who live around drug stores and
barber shops" who pay the taxes
from winch I draw my official pay,
you have no right to discuss the
question as TO where your money
goes to Or whether the pay of your
public servants too great or not.
Such filings as "Fault Finders" ''fossil
grumblers who live around drug
stores and barber shops'' may be
convincing arguments to "judicial
minds" such as are particularly
adopted to fill the Recorders Office,
but with common sensible minds who
pay the taxes to keep up the ex-
penses of the government and who
reason from their experience and OBJ
servation of things do not regard it
as at all convincing. Mr.. Jeffrevs
laboring under the influence of a
mighty judicial mind based upon his
experience in Office growing out of
the clerical branch of his duties, states
for public information, that the night
watch gets $3.50 in city scrip per
year for watching the city every
night during the 12 months. This
statement is good so far as it goes,
but thus far it misleads the public
because in addition the nIght-watch
gets the regular fee for all the arrests
which he makes at the rate of $3a or
81 each. However, we are not pre-
pared to say that this is too much
pay for the night watch, but on the
contrary We have always maintained
that She night-watch was not paid
too much; but the point in alluding
to it is that when a public officer
possessing '.judicial mind" volun-
teers to publish statements ostensibly
for public information, he should not
stop by stating part of the truth, but
he should state the whole truth.
Again he states that the Marshal
gets about $e4o from the city, in city
scrip during the year In this state
ment like the former he fails to give
the full pay received by the Marshal
because he stops short of stating the
whole fact in this that.he neglects to
give the amount received by the
Marshal during the year in the way
of fees ontside of what the city pays
him. But the Marshal's office like
the night-watch as it takes their en-
tire time if they make good officials
and do their duty we have always
expressed the idea that they were
likely not paid too much. Another
very convincing argument used by
this judicial minded Recorder in
his estimation although not correct
ly stated wherein he says:
"The expenses of this office seems
to bother the GAZETTE. l think it
lily becomes man to argue that the
pay is disproportionate to the labor
done, who for glancing over the re-
corded deeds of a mans property
and possibly taking a days time will
charge $25 or more"
The above quotation furnishes
another knock down argument no
doubt to judicial mind' convinc-
ing him that the Recorders fees are
not high; but to the minds of us COM
mon herd it amounts to nothing and
especially when we learn that there
is no truth in the statement made in
the above quotation. Because in
the first place there are a half dozen
other things to do requiring much
more time than glancing at the re-
corded deeds of a mans property
before a person can have made a