Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1892-09-03

This table shows that salaries are no
higher now than fourteen wears ago, rs a
whole and the Governor salary is much less.
He gets now almost half as much as some
Of the commercial travellers receive.
In 1873, the revenue of the secretary of
states office. paid into the treasury was
- plg.O0. In 1891 the same revenue. with
only one additional clerk. was Si3, iiG.o0-
enough to pay the salaries of all or nearly
al of the state officers.
la other words in 1873 il cost 10 pay
salaries in secretary of states office nearly
5000 more than that office earned IN
1921. after paving all salaries in that Office,
the office paid into the treasury SO, 5000
This sum, S..3 90, came not from the
farmer and l,borer, in the form of taxes,
but under laws passed hy Republican Legs
latnres. wa> gathered mainly from capital
ists AM corporations largely resident out
of the State.
The superintendent of schools receives
the same nov as then in 1873. but his Lsbors
under recent laws have been doubled, as
is true of every department. and in addition
to office work the law requires him TO spend
Is DAYS in work all over the state. The
land agcn, receives fifty per cent. less now
than IA ISIS but his additional duties As
forest commissioner, under new laws makes
b.. labor almost if not quite equal - those
of his predecessor in -.
rh,, superintendent of public buildings
| receives now two hundred dollars more than
! in 1873, an addition or increase of one-titth
: in nav. while his work has been increased
! by one-haif owing to the new state House
addition.
The insurance commissioner in 1875 re-
| ceieed in fees no one knows how much, but
in 1891 after receiving u salary of SIioO he
I turned into the State treasury several th0us-
I anIs of dollars The liquor commissioner
in 1875, received in fees, no one knows
/ what. bat "A very large sum, as is commonly
supposed In 1891 after taking out a sal
arv of sl500 he too turned into the State
treasury severalS thousands of dollars.
! The railroad commissioners salaries and
clerks pay have been increased from 5000
in ISIS 10 5000 in 1892, but as these sal
aries are paid by the railroad corporations.
D and not hv the taxes of the people, would
perhaps be FAR for Democratic papers and
orators to leave them out. in the interest of
the swhole truth" from their attacks upon
the Republican party management. In
, ISIS there were no State Tax Assessors,
no State Board of Health, no Bureau OF
Labor but inasmuch as all these Boards
( were called for by popular demand, are non
partisan in their composition. and receive
as little compensation us like officers in any
state In the Mon. in coumen justice they
too might he left out of truthful accusations.
/ There have been some additional clerks,
porters and laborers employed, over the
number employed in ISIS. Increase of bust
ness enlargement of State House ami con
seauent increase of labor TO be performed
in every case, properly accounts for such
increase without assigning the cause TO be
real administration by the Republican
party.
An additional Office. seems to have en-
tirely escaped the notice of the Democratic
speakers and newspapers. that OF private
secretary Ia the Governor, when office WAS
iuauynra,ed in 1882. nv a Democratic
j Governor, and very properly too. The pay
of this office has been increased and ia not
more to-day than fair compensation for time
and labor.
+. Maxim. Just allowance for increase OF
necessary work. the salaries of t@isv are
no higher in the total than in l~'s. AMI are
less than are paid IN any state Ia the mon
for like services, save possibly two.
: Take a look Mt the rate of State taxation
for twenty wears