The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-03-23
From rid Bis.

rfOIn Ilu DIS. - HO have ones salary reduced at one
 fell swoop from f2o,00o to s10,0oo a
 A year. as has just been the sad ex- perience of the President of the United States Steel trust, is calculated to- dis turb any mans equanimity; but even the reduced stipend would have ample conso- lations for the average Englishman, who thinks himself passing rich" on twen- tieth part of the smaller sum.
 In America, however, where it is said there are hundreds of employees who draw salaries in five figures, 1t Is a serious mat ter to have ones income reduced to a paltry as10,0O0 year, especially when one is the autocrat of trust with capital of a22e, 100000.
 MT. Schwab was a veritable emperor among employees. In addition to his f1e0,- coo a year (more than f3Ooo a week. he held s3,7s5,oO0 worth of shares in the com- pany he controlled; so that his income could scarcely have been less than f10o0 a day, or more money than he received in 12 months few years earlier. It is little wonder that he could afford to keep up three lordly pleasure houses-one at Pittsburg, palatial mansion which cost e75,o00; one at Braddock and third pal ace at Loretto, place where, as boy, he had been glad to do farm labor for a few cents a day, and later to carry the mails between Loretto and Cresson.
 On this side of the Atlantic such sal aries. ranging from e10,oo0 to f1o,oo0 a year, are so rare that you could count them on the fingers of two hands, and not one of them goes beyond an eighth of MT. schwabs regal stipend, which indeed is more than double the official revenue of our entire cabinet.
 Still, we Britons are not altogether un- familiar with five-ngure salaries. It is quite easy to mention several of them off, hand. The lord lieutenant of Ireland draws G20,o0O year from the exchequer, and probably spends g great deal more on his exalted office, which, it is said, cost Lord Dudley much more than twice this figure. The Archbishop of Canter- bury has salary of f15,O00, and the Archbishop of York, the Bishop of Lon don and the lord chancellor just qualify with a bare f1O,O00 each. It is said, too, that two or three of our great shipping organizers have similar stipends, although exact figures are not available. Among our governors, Lords Dudley and Grey have a10,O0O annually in Australia and Canada respectively. and the Viceroy Of India has more than twice this sum.
 It is when we descend to salaries rang ing from e5Oo0 to f1o,OO0 that we find our selves in much larger company, if no less select. Last years income tax report shows that the number of employees eii- toying salaries within these limits was POP, almost twice as many as in the pre- vious year. Their total income was e1,e54,oOo, or an average of over fSOOo each This average-e esO00-is the precise emolument of the lord chief justice or England and the lord chancellor Of Ire land.
 Indeed. the world of the law is excep- tionally rich in these fat salaries. The English attorney general has f7oOo year and the solicitor general f6000, both in adai,ion to fees, which increase the sums materially Five of our judges, including inc master of the rolls. follow with f600O an,ece annually, and no fewer than 30 other judges of the supreme court are happy on e5OOO year, as compared with one Scottish judge and the lord advo- cate and two Irish lawyers-the attorney rener al and the lord chief justice.
 In England alone 3S lawyers, at ''the top of the tree," receive an aggregate sal ary of e2O0,Ooo. or an average income of R6263.
 Our bishops do not fare so well finan- cially. for only nine of them receive sti- pends of E500O year or over, including the two Archbishops and the Bishop of London. The Bishop of Durham takes fourth place with E7000. and Is followed by winchester. es5Oo: Ely. R55oo, and three others at a50o0 apiece-Bath and Wells, Oxford and Salisbury. Time was when his lordship of Durham enjoyed a revenue of at least e70.0OO and was by far the most richly gilded official in Eng fand, but in these degenerate days his in- come has been cut down to q tenth. of our cabinet 10 members share f5s,0oo year among them. and of these nine