The state chronicle. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1883-1893, 1886-02-04
Is Received b. Public Officials in These
Hard Times.

Especial Cor STATE CHRONICLE
WILLIS CREEK, n c., Feb 1-Tour
fearless articles on the Agricultural Bu-
rcau, strikes key note which should keep
sounding till it reaches the White House
Our servants are, nearly all, living too
high and drawing too much pay Our
Governor don't got too much, and onr Leg
lslatura is perhaps the poorest paid body
that assemblies in the State, unless it be a
conference of Methodist preachers Take
them out and nearly avery other official
State and National gets four times what
he could make if turned loose in the world
on his own resources. Five thousand for
{. Senator when many, their equals, don't
make more than two thousand per annum.
This is why there is such an everlasting
hunt for ot1ice-there is more money IL it
than anything else. Cut the pay of the
rascals down, that's the first step in the
line of civil service. A man amt going
to plow bob tailel OK in the '.land of
simmon seed and sandy bottom, " and live
on sweet potatoes and persimmon beer,
when he can get a big salary out Of the
government and drink champagne. Five
thousand year is plenty for old Cleve-
land. l don't suppose when he was sheriff
he made the half of it.
Talent ! see some Tarhee'ian adver-
tises to sell editorial matter for brainless
editors at a dollar and quarter a column,
and the idea of paying a man -, coo to go
to Congress OF course we can afford It, ,
that isn't the question. The government
is rich, but put official wages down to
about such sums as the average lawyer and
doctors and farmer makes and the civil
service commission will be sinecure Our
servants are all living too high and draw
ing too much pay-besldes their fat places
puff them up and get them TO render un-
civil seryices-the reverse of .Shat we are
after.
a rich government and a furnishing peo-
! pie. Too much money goes into the treas
ury out of the peoples pockets and it
, scarcely strikes the till before its in some
pOdy clse's pockets Man wants but little
lere below. 500, a year for Cleveland
; Then as cheap as ratlOns are he can't eat
. bore than one dollars worth day to save
: m. one months pay would make bis
t hts encug'. /, sink the Great Eastern;
hen my old woman has 10 skinp 50 close
| ven the COOS packs the quart pct she
c!S for new deal and a !ightp ~ from
Il -four barrel. am ready at any time
; td1ake the sacrifice Of serving M coun-
/ tl'f0r 50 600 per year. Old Leb knows
: he tight the times are, he has a big heart
! an wants the people themselves to have
is tht The trouble with me is when the
y mis- make the dollars how are we going
. 10 hike presto change" and sset EN- IN
! ouialIets One way would bc to send
n eao county a four horse load driven
I alol the highways and pass it out by the
/ hatll. Although the love Of Il is the
e rootf all evil / am in favor of silver
e mon. gold, grt enbacks, and rather than
e be dd broke Id like to have little Con
Il fedete 4 man without money must
worhor somebody who will pay him, this
Il is a sd way to obtain it-but finding an
: empler with the chink, that's the rub.
It Buy pmething and sell it for more
d than u give for it-that's a good idea,
), but y, have to sell it on crop time
e Proce something, but who is going to
: feed t man and mule, while they do the
e work?Ah, me. I'm dazed, a tiara Of
g diamos for the officials wife and fly bon
It net forbur oHn old woman. One the ser
d want, t other he ruler Down with in
e cidenta extra ,ance and high salaries
G for the wants, tn ike the irishman at the
/ top of t. ladder, We can 'shoid on below
If till the man spits IN his hands Tell
II old Zeb start along his silver wagons
d let the Emigration concern 90 and the
i agricultul too collect S45, 000 out Of
n these ferizng ahlishments employ a
It chemist Il Cne or two assistants for 50
/ 900 and + the other forty in the money
a box, it " pay our Governor thirteen
II years. Dgive Mr.. Page (its a wonder
} somebodyasnt called him Colonel long
n ago. my " best and warrnest regards,
he and say tn feel not a little gratified
). that he yetmembers CUPID.