The daily morning journal and courier., 1903-12-19
THE PAY FOR SPECIAL TALENT.

If1E FAX stOtt SPEClAL TALENT.
 As speaker of the House of Lords the Lord Chancellor gets four thousand pounds a year. As judge he gets an- other six thousand pounds, making the comfortable total of ten thousand pounds as one years income A simi- lar amount is paid yearly to the Bishop and the Archbishop of York, while the Archbishop of Canterbury receives the largest yearly payment that the state makes to any one below the royal fam fly in England, namely, fifteen thou sand pounds a year. t.~
 Yet these salaries, paid by the richest country. compare but poorly with those which public functionaries receive in the realms generally looked upon as nearest bankruptcy. The Turkish min lister of finance has seventy-eight hum dred pounds year, the minister Of for eign affairs eighty-eight hundred pounds, and the grand vizier 13,2S0 pounds. Even he however, is less well paid than the official who is in charge of the admiralty, and who manages the few rusty, old, broken-down ships dig nified by the name of the Turkish fleet. His salary is 16,SO0 pounds a year, and the pickings are so plentiful that the present holder is said to have piled up the neat little fortune of 2,40o,800 pounds. ~ as# 1.'
 Without doubt, however, the best paid statesman on earth Is the grand vizier of Morocco. The whole revenue of the country passes through his hands, and Ben Hamed, the recently deceased hold CT of the vizierate, left sum equal to nearly four million pounds. It was stored in gold bullion in the cellars of his palace at Marakesh.
 Compared with riches such as those of these eastern statesmen, the ten thousand pounds which the president of the United States receives is poor sum, even though 1t is backed by free residence to the White House and a handsome allowance for entertaining foreigners of distinction
 The president of France is somewhat better off. His salary is twenty-four thousand pounds year, and his allow ances are on a most generous scale, amounting, indeed, to sum equal to his salary He thus may be said to be paid at the rate of forty-eight thou sand pounds a year, which is almost one thousand pounds week The. gov- ernor-general of India gets only half this amount. a. S&s,5
 A very few years ago the great i1- comes of state officials were looked upon with envy as quite unapproacha- ble by salaried workers in private life. To-day there are number Of the latter mi al 1to1xr o.xe even such salary as that of the presi- dent of France
 There is man who received an offer of the large salary of forty thousand pounds a year, and, incredible as it may seem, refused it. This is Herr Ballin, the gifted German, who is man. aging director of the Hamburg -Ameri- can line of steamers The offer was made to him by the heads of the Anglo American Shipping Trust, if he would become director of that corporation.
 A dozen years ago the public had never heard of MT. Clinton Dawkins. Then he became MT. Goschen's private secretary, and in 1895 secretary of finance in Egypt. There, and later on in India, he made a great name as financial expert His fame attracted the notice of the heads of one of the biggest private banks in the world that of J. s. Morgan and Company. He now draws fifty thousand pounds year in their service. His is said to be the biggest salary paid by any bank. There are not more than three bank managers in England who get one- fifth of MT. Dawkins' salary. Ef