The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1903-09-25
OFFICIAL DEADHEADING.

"The Philadelphia Record is the
authority for stating that the
New York Sun claims to be in pos
session of information warranting
the statement that the King of Eng
land and the Emperor of Germany
pay all their expenses when they
travel; that Mr.. Cleveland did so
when he was President, and that Mr..
Roosevelt takes all the free trans
portation that he can get from rail-
way companies, besides having three
naval vessels as pleasure yachts for
the use of himself, his family and his
friends. Probably The Sun s informa-
ton is correct as to the others; it is
pretty certainly correct as to MIR.
Cleveland. This is not a sort of
thing that becomes officially public,
but there is good reason to believe
that free special trains and private
cars were offered to Mr.. Cleveland,
and that, knowing that he could not
accept without coming under obi
cations to the railway companies,
he refused the favors and paid forhis
transportation. 1t is entirely prob
able that President Roosevelt accepts
free transportation from the railroad
companies, for he has made a point
of getting everything he could out of
the Presidency.
"He may have inherited this tend
ency with his Office. During the Nc
Kinley administration there was a
free use of public vessels for private
transportation that was a radical
departure from the practices of the
Cleveland Administration and the
traditions of the Government. This
habit of using public property for
private purposes, and of accepting
favors from railway companies which
are extended to the official, and not
to the individual, grows rapidly. 1t
is becoming customary for the Secre-
tary and the Assistant Secretary of
the Navy to take their vacations on
Naval vessels. The Secretary of the
Treasury has revenue cutters at his
disposal; Secretary"Charley Foster,
of the Harrison Administration, be-
gan using these as official pleasure
vessels. Of course this puts two
members of the Cabinet at a great
advantage over the Others, but they
are generous enough to extend favors
to their colleagues; the Postmaster
General has had the use of a Govern
ment vessel. In few more years of
Government by the Republican party
we shall have one or two vessels of
the navy assigned regularly to each
member of the Cabinet.
"The gentlemen who use public
property for private pleasure assume
no obligations to private and cor
porate interests, as those do who &C
cept free private cars and free special
trains from the railway companies.
A man can hardly accept such evil
dences of good will without making
some return, and the man who
lectures the rest of the community
upon it's duties as industriously as
the President does, ought occasional
" ask himself whether the President
of the United States can afford to put
himself under very heavy obligations
to privatecorporations, and whether
he is living up to the high standard
of President Cleveland, who acted
on the principle that public office is
II public trust, when he makes an
extremely free use of public property
for his own pleasure.
"The salary of the President is not
princely, but it has always been sew
eral times as large as any other salary
paid by the United States, and the
gentlemen who have received it have,
until recently, been careful to live
within their income and incur no OBJ
legations. AS too long possession of
power by the Republicans is breed
ing in their minds the feeling that the
Government belongs to them, and the
national property belongs to the
national officials, it would be in the
interest of good government and a
higher standard OF official morals to
install Democratic Administration
in power"
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