Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1901-06-27
A Mans Wages.

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paid to holders ofimporlant position
in business and otherwise, and fai
to remember that there is anothel
relation in which wages should b.
considered besides that Of dollars:
Wages have various designations
The man who does days work, or Q
weeks work with his hands, calls biz
pay plain wages. A clerk, or
clergyman, or a president Of a cor
poration, or Of nation, whose en-
gagement runs on from month Ia
month or year to year, calls bis wages
salary. A doctors wages, received
In portion from different employers,
he calls bis fee. Lawyers, who have
more skill than any other class Of
workers in exscting the return for
their services, split up their wages
into retainers and fees, and jockeys
do the same. The little Jockey who
rode Mr.. Keene's horse to victory OF
the English Oaks last week, Is said to
have received q retainer Of 100000,
besides the thousands which be re.
oeives for bis successful mounts. The
wages Of kings are usually made up
Of a number Of separate accounts,
but there are not many Of them whose
total salary exceeds that Of Mr..
Schwab, who receives $4,000 this
year for managing the largest con.
solidated business on the planet.
The difference Of wages received by
men Of equal ability, or even the
great excess Of wages paid to men
Of inferior ability, sometimes causes
surprise or even resentment. Is IT
not absurd that Mr.. Keene's Jockey
should earn more money than the
chief justice Of the United States su-
preme court; or that Mr.. Schwab
should be paid for one years work as
much as Washington and Adams and
Jefferson and Monroe received for
thirty.two years service as presidents
Of the United Statesp
Yet this difference of money pay.
ment for services rendered Is not
quite as absurd as it looks. Money
Is not all that Is to be counted a.
wages for a mans work. For some
kinds Of work money is all the wages
. man gets; and he ought to get more
Of that than be would II he were paid
In part In another, and perhaps more
valued, commodity. There is firm
Of lawyers in New York famous, or in.
famous, for their skill in saving
criminals from conviction. They
make rich wages and wear loud da-
monds. But money is the only thing
II value they get for their work. 1t
s not the kind Of work that brings
lonor; and honor Is q valuable COM
modify. Probably there is not a
Justice Of our supreme court, or
Judge Of the higher courts Of our
tates, who could not make more
money as practicing lawyer than he
eceiyes as salary for sitting on the
'ench; but he gives up a part Of
lis money wages and receives in
'art, for his service, payment In
'onor, dignity and squable mind.
Professor Agassiz was a hard worker,
'ut when he was told that be could
eceive large payment for public leo
uring we all remember that be said
. had no time to make money. He
ot modest professors salary, per.
APPS half Of one per cent Of what Mr.. |
chwab gets; but bis main wages was
n the satisfaction he had in increas-
ng the knowledge Of the world and
q raising up a multitude Of young
nen who would carry on and develop
Is work. His salary was by far the
part Of his wages. He was
aid vastly more than Mt. Keene's
ockey gets. That boy, whose name
70 have seen but forget, though we
appen to remember his employers
anne, can live like lord in a palace;
ut he gets nothing but money for
ages. Even bis fame and skill are
q low sort which Gao be reckoned
My by a money standard--so much
kill to ride a horse so as to get so
luch money. All his wages he must
AXE in money, and, doing his work
ztremely we'll, 1t Is proper that he
hould get extremely good wages for
), all in money; and those who pre-
'r TO get part Of their pay, or the