The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1884-06-06

their victims. Il is needless to SAY
that most o. the money. lent out By
them finds its way into their own peck
cts within twAuty-four hours afteI
having left them, hey being for the
greater psrt, either owners OF or part
ners in - bucket-shops."
Some very curious skeletons might
be brought to light II you could but
peer into the closets of some OF the
people high in the employ of the Gov
eminent. How many of thekn. l won.
der, uanege to keep up the style Of
living they do on the salary they re-
ceive. They were not rich when they
entered Office. Their wives did NOT
bring them handsome d0wTieS TIC
suspect their integrity would be doing
them q gross injustice. But to specu.
late little bit, Ell? Trade, may be.
upon superior knowledge of AFFAIR."
which their official position may give
them. Is it. after all. 30 very wr0Dgf
Is it, at any rate, considered SO BY
many Of them? lr
Without wishing to moralize any
further in this line, can not help re-
marking what q horrible thing the Of
fetal register is. Il tells you at once
every public mans income, or, in 3 ma
jority of cases, very nearly SO. You can
not help expressing some establishment
at how Mr.. and Mrs. X, at whose
house you dined the other day, can af.
ford to entertain SO handsomely. Turn.
ing to page Is. 3O6 you run down your
finger until you come to friend KS
name. and opposite it you find "Sl. ZOO"
Well, I declare! you exclaim, how X.
manages to dress those girls of his is
q mystery-and, by Jove! there is w.
Look here: He gets only $4,000. and
last week he gave an entertainment
which must have cost AT leaSt-well,
I wouldn't like to mention the figure.
Let's see what z. gets. know the IL
pay at least 81, 200 rent for their house.
not to mention the wages they give
their big, greasy porter whom they pass
in the presence of all their friends as Q
family servant (has been in the family
ever since he was picaninny. sir, u.
says; played with him when 1 was
boy. on the old plantation; his mother
was owned by my father and brought
up the whole family, etc. Eyes. z. gets,
here it is, ouly $500. How do they
manage to live? Speculation?
Washington is unique perhaps in pre-.
senting examples of men broken down
in spirit and fortunes. whose uncon.
trollable desire to feed at the public
crib makes them willing to accept any
position, however lowly. rather than BE-
kept out of government employ for any
time. Not that they are unable to Sc
cure employment elsewhere; on the
contrary, their past experience should
make their services valuable in many
respects to private individuals, and un.
doubleday would do SO if they could bring
themselves to abandon what they per.
hsps consider public life." know
of an ex-member of the Wisconsin Leg
islature, now q door-keeper and mes.
senger of one of the Senate commit
tees; another. also doorkeeper. who
not long ago was a bank president in
Virginia and occupied some response
bic public position in his State; still an
other. who is the son of an eX-United
States Senator. and as such, very like.
ly. imbibed the taste for holding public
office which he now gratifies by filling
the position of doorkeeper; and
could 60 on citing an indefinite number
of cases to support my proposition, il
space permitted mo to do sO.-Wosh.
ifig Cor. NJ Y. Tribune.