The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1906-09-28

the service of their country by seek
ing to elevate good patriots to Office?
If it should happen-and it does very
often, if not usually happen-that this
day is the most valuable in the year,
and so the daily wage has to be in
creased a half-score or a score of
times, who shall say that the impor-
tant work to be done on that day is
not worth the extra compensation?
Officeholders may be self-sacrifcing,
and may accept a beggarly $4,000 or
$4,000 year in lieu of the great sums
that they can earn in private employ
/ ment, but why should the patriotic vot-
voter, who aspires to no Office, be ex-
pected to sacrifice his pecuniary in
trests by accepting less for days
work than is paid for the board of
member of the Campaign Committee?
1t is too much to ask, and hence all
expenditures to get out the men who
are anxious to vote their sentiments
and yet, like John Gilpin's wife, have
frugal mind are, without the least
reserve, treated as legitimate. And
dollar contributions will not suffice
to pay the expenses which are thus
conclusively presumed to be legiti-
mate. When a thing is conclusively
presumed to be true, no evidence to
the contrary is heard. 1t must be said
in behalf of the g. o. p. that it has al
ways declined to hear evidence that
any payment made by campaign COM
mittees was illegitimate. Hence the |
conclusive presumption STAINS fast.
What, then, is to be done? The
members of the campaign committee
must have their board, including ter
rapin and champagne. The untram-
meled and unpurchaseable voter who
sacrifices his business interests on the
busiest day of the year, in order to
secure a pure government and pro-
mote a pure ballot, must be saved
from loss. Money must, therefore, be
had. We have heard the objection
that payment has already been made
to the trusts, for which and by which
the Republican party has lived, and
must continue to live, if it live at all.
OF course, they are to be asked to dis
gorge some of the money paid them
in order that people may be free to
vote for the party which created them.
Remember now thy creator in the
lays of thy youth that the evil days
come not" when the wicked Democrats
will destroy you. But before this last
appeal is made, the Federal Office
holders, possibly too serene in the en-
oyment of public pap, are to remind
ID that they are mortal AS the tyrant
# old appointed man to say to him
n the hour of triumph, Remember
Ter that thou also art a man." so the
must be reminded that -
either his soul nor his salary is his ;,
wn. He is getting four, ten, twenty, .
hirty dollars a day when he would >,
e earning from Is cents to dollar :,
nd quarter as a laborer, did not
benefcent Government resolve to
vail itself of his services. He is ac- =
asked to contribute five per :
ent. of his salary, which will leave :
i'm still much ahead of the game. He
not assessed-perish the thought!
That he gives must be given freely
nd voluntarily. That is the law, and
nder its broad and beneficent aegis n
e lives and flourishes. If he does not n
i've five per cent. voluntarily, he will ~
e sent back to the joys and emolu- M
ents of private life-not for failing M
, pay, but "for the good of the SER NJ
ce." While he has the good of the iN
erivce at heart, he sincerely doubts N
lat there can be good service without y
Is cooperation, and so he will pay.
he collectors have very little doubt co
bout that, and still less as to what WI
i'll happen to the officeholder who M
,es not pay. Whenever one refuses, er
e solicitude for the good of the SER
ce is really pathetic, or at least the WI
calcitrant finds it so. ov
The prediction long ago made in Oh
csc columns that dollar contribu- TO
ms would be found insufficient has
ready been verified. The assess an
emit of oficeholders will yield larger or
turns, but these two will not answer. W,
lie trusts are the ultimate reliance, err
d they know how to pay large sums
thout losing a cent of their own w,
Dney. II.