Show NO MORE PAY GENTLEMEN It will be so much better to understand understand under under- stand stand right at the start that the three general offices of or this cit city pay rate rale was was wa raised at the council meeting of Monday londa night will not get that raise during an any part of the time for which they were elected It It is all aU right for the council to increase increase in in- crease the compensation of of- any office of the tho city I when whenever over in the jU judgment judgment judg judg- g. g ment of the tho council it should be raised S There may mar be bo some difference of or oras opinion as i to whether or not the council is ri right rihL ht But that is not a matter for di discussion It Is within the judgment of the tho council It is one of or the things which they have bave a right to decI decide e. e And when they nay cay a that a certain office may have more salar salary that office gets more moro salary Tho TIlo council allows allows' it it and the law approves ap proves it None of the rest of or us who happen to b be outside tho the council has n a right to argue tho the matter Of course none nono of the m men n who happen to be in those lifted offices can cnn themselves enjoy any auy of the Increased Increased In In- creased emoluments The pay of the tho treasurer may bo he lifted but the treasurer then serving can not get an any more mone money because of oC that increase And the tho treasurer treasurer- elect can no by it 11 it either That i is to say sar Mr lr Snyder was elected in November Novem No ber to the office alike of eH city treasurer At that time the tue pa pay of the tIle city cily treasurer was eighteen hundred dollars a year Mr Snyder will not get an any more than eighteen hundred dollars a year ear for the tho entire time embraced In the term to which he be was elected be elected be- be foro fore the change was made in the tho salary salary sal sal- aJ ary of tho the office Any man elected eJected city treasurer after tho the expiration of Mr Snyders Snyder's present term term term-or or the term which he will begin January first may first may have havethe havethe the twenty-five twenty hundred dollars a year rear at which the tho council J after last eJection election elec elec- tion fixed the salar salary unless the council coun coun- cil elI shall In the meantime repeal that end ordinance Similarly Mr Moreton can not have an any more for his next term than he had for his first term His pay can not be 10 increased after his bIs election He lie was elected eJected to an hun dred dollar job and ho he will not be per per- milled by the law to get twenty five hundred dollars And so with fiU any other offices the pa pay for which has been been raised after tho tile election eJection Men Ien elected in November will not profit b by a lift in salary enacted enact enact- ed el in December We Ve sincerely trust that none of them will make a mistake o about this and tr try to draw the tile twenty five hundred hundred hun hun- dred salary If they do the they are goIng go go- Ing to have o lots of of- trouble AntI And In the j t h dred dollars a year the year the sum attached to tho the offices at the time of the elec tion AntI And no more There should be no mistake e about that The raise may be all right But Dut the first ono one who WilO can enjoy enjo the benefits benefits bene bene- fits from Crom it will very likel likely be the Republican city officials to be elected in the pleasant autumn weather of 1909 1900 |