Martinsburg statesman-democrat. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1906-1921, 1908-10-09

partner) now do, four good public Of
fees at the same time, to-wit: Collec-
tor of internal revenue, which pays
81, 500 a year, commissioner of the cir
cult court, and twice commissioner of
the county court. Brother Glasscock
has become, as we are glad to know,
what may be STYLED in West Virginia
a rich man, living as he does in his
beautiful $4,000 home, with its veneer
ed floors and fine furnishings. This
home and other valuable real estate,
which he owns in this city, represent
ing many thousands of dollars, were
obtained by his holding office all his
life under the people to whom he now
denies the right to speak through his
paper upon the vital question of
whether Charles w. Swisher shall be
the rominee of the Republican party.
Collector GIasscock is subject to
grave criticism, for no man ought to
hold public Office, unless it is a public
trust. Holding it as he does while
continuing to practice law at Morgan
town with lucrative fees, during all the
time he has been collector of internal
revenue, and being retained as attor-
y
he IS simply drawing his salary from
the public purse without giving value
received If he is not subject to just
criticism in receiving from the govern
ment about $40p per month, under such
circumstances, remaining away from
his Office more than one hundred
miles, and perhaps only once or twice
a month looking in on the Parkersburg
Office to receive his voucher for mis-
salary and possibly to sign a few rec
ords, when there are so many other
worthy Republicans who for the last
forty years have made SO many Bacri-
fees for the grand old party, who
would give their whole time and atten-
ton to the work of the office, and who
have earned the right to it much more
than our brother.
The old soldier, who, leaving home
and dear ones, went out and fought for
the dag that the Union might be per-
petuated; who often used a snow pill
low upon which to snatch a few mo-
ments of slumber, and who tramped
through the mud and mire and freez-
ing from perhaps one to four long
/ years, when he looks at his little pen
sion check of $12 per month, and real
ICES that he sacrificed his all and gave
up his health and his fortune for his
country-and then knows that Col
leetor Glasscock gets-not $12 pei
month-but at the rate OF about SO
per day, Sunday included, for pIac-
tically doing nothing for the govern
ment. will come to the conclusion, and
1 justly so, that there is something
awfully wrong in the makeup of our
institutions, if this is to be the rule in
this republic. viii he not write in the
/ leaves of his Bible, as he reads the
Golden Rule. that in this age greed has
become rife, even among the men of
West Virginia in high places?
If this government Is simply to make
Christmas gifts of $4,000 or $1,000, in
four years time to any of its citizens.
we would just as leave see Collector
| Glasscock receive 1t as any one else;
but the principle is all wrong, and the
government that permits 1t will sim
ply teach dishonesty among its people.
| The men standing down in the hard
places of life, and looking to the gen.
tlemen who receive such elegant COM
pensation for such little or no labor
Will come to the conclusion that social
Ism will finally control in this country.
J Nothing is so dangerous to the Repub-