Show SALARIES AXD FEES It is pleasing to see that so many of our people including men who think and weigh the consequences of suggested suggest-ed acts favor the abolition of the fee system for the payment of public offers of-fers The Herald years ago pointed out the evils of the system and urged its abolishment or at least a reform of the practice Abolition of fee remuneration of public pub-lic officers does not necessarily involve doing away with the payments No doubtthere are services performed and documents prepared for the special benefit of individuals who should pay the expenses Incurrcd thereby But usually the fees charged are greater than the labor expended is worth The public are thus imposed upon Fees should be reduced to a proper minimum minim-um The state can afford to do work as reasonably as it may be done by private individuals Fees ought to be graded down and no person required to pay more for any service than it is reasonably worth Then the fees thus paid for Individual Individ-ual benefits received should be turned into the public treasury and become part of the public revenue Public officers of-ficers should be paid for their work Let every public servant be paid fair wages and let it be in the form of a salary guaged according to the average work in a week or a month or a year High salaries ought not to be a rule in the new state We believe in paying every person fair remuneration for services ser-vices rendered A mean and niggardly policy is not economical nor in anyway any-way profitable If ability is wanted it must be paid for Whatever is worth doing is worth doing well and that applies ap-plies with at least as much force to public as to private affairs Cheap and nasty is not altogether a mistaken mis-taken phrase Excess Is no worse in the direction of extravagance than in the road to parsimony I Fair salaries good and able officials fees reasonably graded and turned into the treasury no sinecures no multiplication multi-plication of 9ffices strict accountability accountabil-ity In the handling of all finances and rendering of public services should be secured in the organization of the new state so far as they can be made possIble I pos-sible by constitutional provisions and the laws made in pursuance thereof j Therefore send good and true and safe men as delegates to constitutional convention I |