Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1909-01-16
1T is P2UNTNG TIRiE.

When the member Of the state legis-
lature meet in Carson City next Mon
day, for the purpose of strengthening
up the affairs Of the state, every mem
her should receive, through the mail,
letters from his constituency demanding
that some steps be taken to reduce the
complimentary pay roll of the state.
The TOnOpah Bonanza has already
shown that there are II lot of deputies,
clerks. .stenographers and typists on the
pay roll of the state-their appointment
being to pay political or personal debts
and with no idea that these same ap-
p0intees are earning their money. TAX
ing the Office of secretary of state, for
instance, there is now the secretary,
his deputy, a clerk and Il stenographer.
We have it on good authority that five
or six years ago the force in that office
consisted Of the secretary Of state and
his deputy, and that they did all the
work connected viii! She office AMI then
had plenty Of time to spare whether to
attend to private business or to go a.
fishing. Also that the work of that
Office has not increased beyond the
point where two men can handle it,
working almost us faithfully us the $3.50
per month bookkeeper of any private
establishment. 8
The creation of state official when
the scheme of state and national govern
nent was mapped out by the honest
and frugal and hard working cOlonials,
was that the work of state might he
faithfully executed, and that the man
who did the work might be paid for the
faithful execution of the same The
official, however, was supposed to earn
his salary. This idea has gradually be-
come more misty, and it finally develop
ed that the state official is man who is
to be put into office as payment of
political debt; and that while he is SUP
posed to faithfully draw his salary, he
must not be forced to dameun himself
by the performance of actual work. At
this stage of the evolution, the deputy
evolved--the deputy to draw a pretty
fair salary and do the work of the head
of the office
In this state the evolution has been
been carried still further So numer-
Gus had become the political and person.
al debts Of the politicians that they must
absolve both head of department and
deputy from workout not from sal
ary-and this necessitated the crea-
ton of the clerk, or deputy deputy, also
at very nice salary. The II the clerk
came in for compassion and he was given
IL stenographer-a sccretarys deputy's
clerks helper. How far along this
evolutionistic chain will be mace to
stretch no man can fOresee. 1t has
gone far enough now and it is up to
the people of the state, through the men
they have elected to the legislature to
carry out their wishes, to put IN end to
it, and SEQ that every man who draws
salary from the state cuu'.!s that salary
The man in private life has to earn his
salary. Why not the man whom the
people of the state have hired to trans
act the affairs of their state?
Another thing we would like light on
is this: Does not the attorney general
Of the state, who is by law required to
reside in Carson City, reside in Reno
and maintain his Office there. vote there
and keep his family there? And does
he not use the stenographcr, whom the
state pays to help transact the state
business, in his private office at Reno,
and in attending to his private buinessY
We want to know.-Tonopah Bouanza