The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1907-12-06

Mexico, seventy-siX in France, eight
in Argentina, thirty in Austria, twelve
in Belgium, one in Bolivia, twenty
two in Brazil, twelve in Chile, forty
six in China, fourteen in Columbia,
seven in Costa Rice, fifteen in Cuba,
ten in Denmark, eight in the Domni-
can republic, seven in Ecuador, eight in
Greece, eight in Guatemala, thirteen
in Haita, sixteen in Honduras, three
in Congo, four in Liberia, two in
Luxembourg, two in Montenegro, six in
Morocco, nineteen in the Netherlands,
eleven in Nicaragua, nine in Norway,
two in Oman, eight in Panama, two
in Paraguay, four in Persia, eleven in
Peru, seventeen in Portugal, two in
Roumania, twenty-siX in Russia, four
in Salvador, three in Servia, five in
Siam, thiryfour in Spain, nine in
Sweden, eighteen in Switzerland, forty
eight in turkey, three in Uruguay, fiji
teen in Venezuela and one in Zanzi-
bar.
The duty of these officials is to
keep out of trouble with the other
nations of the earth and to promote
our export business.
The government is all the time
reaching out for experts i'll various
lines. The geological survey has on
its payroll l06 experts drawing more
than $4,000 each. The reclamation
service has 100 men drawing more
than that sum. Thirty four men in
the weather bureau draw that much
more. There are ninety experts in the
bureau of animal industry, seventy
one in the plant bureau, forty-three in
the forest service, fortyeight in the
chemistry bureau, ten bug men and
sixteen expert soil men receiving from
1900 up year.
The Isthmian canal commission has
720 $1,000 men at work on the canal.
Some of these draw as high as $4,000
a year. The interstate commerce COM
mission has thirty high priced men on
its rolls, the civil service commission
twenty and the immigration bureau
ninety. 1t may interest printers of
the country to know that there are
actually sixty-siX men, mostly old
newspaper men, who draw $4,000 or
more in the government printing Of
flee. Washington city has forty eight
officers drawing more than
$4,000 a year. This does not include
thirty four local court officials.
The United States senate employs
44O people and the house of represen-
tatives employs $50. More than 200
people are employed in the congress
sional library, of whom thirty draw
more than $4,000 each.
The Smith family has the call in
the matter of getting public jobs. The
first volume of the new register con-
tains 1850 Smiths, 995 Browns and
ST. Joneses. There are ninety-eight
John Smiths and l25 William Smiths.
the Smiths in the postal de-
partment there are, all told, perhaps
5000 Smiths in the government serv-
ice
There are only two Roosevelts in
the book: Theodore Roosevelt, pres
ident of the United States, at salary
of $4,000 year, and Henry L. Roose-
welt of New York, assistant quarter
master general of the marine corps,
at $500 year.
The names of the grand army of
office holders are printed alphabet
cally. The first name in the book
is John Aalbue, a mechanic in the
New York navy yard, and the last
name is Miss Lussie Zwitter, a scrub
woman in the government building at
The government employs 2S,96l peo
pie in Washington city alone. New
York leads all the states in the num-
Der of Jobs which it has here. The
patronage is divided by states as fol-
lows:
New York, 2,3l6; Maine, 1876; New
IA; Vermont, 1876; Massa-
724; Rhode Island, 1903; Con-
necticut, 260; New Jersey, 473; Penn
sylvania, 1921; Delaware, 95; Mary
land, 2,205; District of Columbia,
SIP Virginia, 1852; West Virginia,
3S7; North Carolina, 436; South Caro-
lima, 25l; Georgia, 1862; Florida, lOl;
Ohio, LOT; Indiana, SOP; Illinois, 932;
Michigan, 1888; Wisconsin, 339; Mime
sofa, 500; Iowa, 1876; Missouri, 56S;
North Dakota, 81; South Dakota, 76;
Nebraska, 2lI; Kansas, 307; Ken
lucky, 35S; Tennessee, 1862; Alabama,
2ll; Mississippi, $50; Louisiana, 1870;
Texas, 409 Indian Territory, 40;
Oklahoma, 54; Arkansas, 1873; Mon
tana, 40; Wyoming, 40; Colorado, l2l;
New Mexico, IS; Arizona, 10; Utah,
So; Nebraska, %; Idaho, "a; Wash
ington, So; Oregon, 81; California,
264; Insular possessions and Alaska,
II. foraiun on,,pt, ;oc 100