| Show SWEETS OF PUBLIC OFFICE their Ite imer in the cleall changing a ill M of mills ANA opinions COURSE OF AVERAGE SERVANTS pensions anti and loyalty aro are closely at al ianiri A new annuity proon from 1 aich much 16 I 1 hoped lairs ambition Lo loviov Lov vroy tov baly 1 1801 1891 the rimce onre once sold said that there was but ono infallible method of securing loyalty loyally lit in Iri Ir luid cland and that was sins tu to make mory every irishman a pensioner of tho elio british biown whether this plan will prodico Iro duco tho the desired result I 1 will not stay slay to 10 discuss ill cai s but I 1 may say fay in aft slug that thai every dependent of tho elio government in ireland Is deeply intensely loyal tin the policeman tile the the civil service clerk cleric though lineally ducally descended fro from young Ir Ic clanders elanders Peo Ic nUni lAtib arid rebellious and blis ble material ina LeriAl are all us its leal leaf to great britain is as it they had been to the mannor manner born not kot that IriA irishmen linion are peculiar lit in till tah reilie respect ct lovo allies iloilo as much as their traus trans chin nul not step brothers and having attained atraill d it develop A sudden energy toward rigid bonien conservatism tako a youth whose fa father therisa Is a red md hot radical ono olio might as well expect to 10 gather figs front from whistles thistles es or brains braids ironi front briwn brawn as to b and it any conservative learning in ilk sudi a boy lie Is pregnant it a sturdy a I 1 that has ins grown with will ills growth and strengthened with mith ills bis th that a delu blou and a snare Is the leading article arsiclo of ills his political faith that the pension liba Is tile tho most un on adulterated fraud that was over imposed on a eh almed people lie ho Is 1 i nl as certain as ho he Is of death and taxes yot YOE appoint him to lo a petty office under tho the crown and note the effect As it by illogic all bli political ideas IlL corne reversed roc reser rod sed ere he has undergone his bis term ot of probation ho becomes bo comis a special pleader tor for monarchy arid and all its concomitant frauds lie he will III tell you that mat republican are foun foul dario ned on oil flaccid that thai they havo have do bo stability anil and that their inevitable ton ten deny Is to topple over bearing rod red ruin arid and desolation in their fall now mini Is tire the cause calof of this ibis turn about f ice the sweets of alfice I 1 hear somebody say well not exactly tile sweets are not so very delicious after all tale THE AVERAGE CIVIL SERVANT KVANT Sr lie ile enters the government benicas when ho his is SO 20 ills initial salary Is 2 20 bribing by small annual increments to a of this scale can hardly bo be said to err on oil the iho sido side of generosity at least cast as ai good a prospect Is held out by elie majority of commercial louses why then should there do be site such a consuming desire to enter government offices the rea reason cin Is not tar far to seek itis it is because of tho the pension to which every servant of the crown Is entitled afdera a cartain number of earsom cars of ap all praed service in ili this ago age of herco struggle and rough jostle it la Is an it balm of gilead gillad to 10 look for loew ard to a an n r k s s it r c it coin competency potency lor for ones deell on g years it covers a whole malLi multitude tude of tho the drawbacks that attend government employment such as small salaries snail pace advancement and lack of scope for energy and ability again in the event of one being overtaken by accident or perina tient illness ren rendering dring one unlit unfit for or tire the di discharge of one ones Is duties dalles it Is an undeniable advantage to be broad bread and buttered for the elie remainder of ones life tire the pension scale in this country la 14 after ten tell cars service ser vico ton t on sixtieths of salary and emoluments with an all additional dit ional sixtieth tor for every year of service seri v I 1 cc be between t feea 10 arid and 10 lorty forty or orico two being tho the highest amount of payable front from this it will bo be gathered thit that it Is not tile tho salary so much al ai the iho super annii alon that makes government e em ll 11 eagerly sought lifter in these s islands and that casil to exhaust all the moods and tenses in fit upholding tho the tottering hollerin tol lerin cause of monarchy and its political plop 0 con O AND aar LOYALTY to royalty are closely cl oely allied i for tho the very good reason that hat tho the wiping out of royalty royally would mean tho the annihilation of elio pension list it if tho the royalists royalist s could prospect a plan by which elie ibabes 11 ases of the people could ho be III I 1 ought within purview of something in the nature of tile the pension pin sion list thore there cannot boa bo a shadow of a doubt that loyalty w would 0 old bo be largely a galnor such it a scheme is i in n fal the iho only chopis hopis of monarchy in I 1 R ita future lithe it lh majority of tile tho people were interested in pension fund it may dirty bo be safely averted that they would bo be exceedingly cee slow to advocate or agree to any very radical or sweeping ch chanco I 1 A I 1 I 1 go in hi tile character of their institutions I 1 irions potter liott cr hear bear those evils alch we havn have than lly fly to wo iso linow know not of is a it a piece of sound aldom that is bo be brought homo home to the iho mind of c very every toller toiler in great britain arltain whereas as at conditioned iho elie hewer of wood and drawer of water argues that having nothing ho he can loan 1030 nothing and that any chango change roust bo be for the bolter better it is not many years ago joseph chamberlain of birmingham the then 1 in the renith of lis his radical tame fame made audo the country ring with math his exposition of the ilo iniquities of pension list and of the crushing cost of britaina Brit BrI ains royal family hut but joseph ills has changed all that thal lie has ashod him of his radicalism and cleansed cloa him of his dis Ioa lu alty Ity until now ho he has become a tory of tile tho hirst water and a 06 royalist Koy alist of tho elio gau gaudiest diest hue tho the peerage Is his ambition and that thab house of lords that lie be threatened lit in 1884 to raze to the ground tile the coveted location in which ito ho desires to air his bis eloquence now N ow like another joey jr fame joey chamberlain Is sly ca lea I 1 dov il 11 ah sly and what Is moro more ho he has ability of a high order with all the prospect of a coronet in the not very distant furuie what more natural than that ho should ito do bor that would tend to strengthen and TIGHTEN TIES BOND bonda that unite the crobu is with lilt its subjects in ilk his radical days when ho be was tile ho beloved of birmingham tie ike formulated tile aud a tow cow pan ix acers for or the iho ills under which tho the agricultural laborer groark d but tho the formula was never crystallized into actuality as indeed 11 0 body ever believed boll ovod it il would or could lie ile now dow comes come forward rivard fo will elih a still anoro ablio Y scheme and ono that bids fair to in buld 1 cas all ills previous efforts should he be succeed ho he will lie not only gain tho the applause of 0 it alie masses asse but b ho will largely augment hl I 1 ht X among what list is called 1 the clashes 1 so that iq the tha 1 higher middle ai and I 1 up lipor suc Liono ol of the ri 0 I 1 in question Is nothing more or less than a universal system of pensions lisko ol 01 acry e ry f irishman 1 ebman a pensioner and you will in every try Irl irishman hn loyal said E eng g lands greatest journal give ivory every tt a pension says joseph chamberlain and the monarchy will ride down safely through the generations undisturbed by social or of revolutionary rampages lint hut how isi is this brand now new scheme lor for the of monarchy to bo be NOr corked ked in ili this mile ta the state Is asked to det from all Us its subjects the ali sum stink of SO inch each ero cio they attain the ngo ligo of 21 it may be paid lit in bulk or in installments dinst but the total loli amount ennst bo be lit in lite hinds hands of tho the authorities by the time tire majority ago age Is reached ily hy inventing m this sum gain at compound interest tnt crosb for folly four 1 carmit cars it Is calculated that tho the state still nill bo be enabled to pay the contributor an annuity of 65 for every year lie ho flips after attaining tho the ago age of 05 0 of course it if ell all tho the contributors lived to 10 the litter latter age tt it be financially HS impossible to lo pay so large l argo irgo an annuity but it Is coned that at least loael half of them will ilia die before reaching tile tareo aloro and diio it Is urged on oil behalf of this scheme that it still mill promote tile tho self respect at and id independence of tile tho toller toiler Illas inasmuch muc 11 a as 3 it N hlll III forever to ass air with that borri borrillo blo bugbear thero are it tho elie present Lion moment icat in this country tons of thousand of honest hard working it huiea I 1 on only refuse in their declining years is III be ill alio big gatin any that would sao theta from such a lard hard lot mould bo be so long ea a it lawm was established on a just babis ti il i l the mord pauper makes many a respectable artisan tremble not so much on oil his ov 0 it account as on that ot of ills children ills it Is said that doorty Is no disgrace disK raco perhaps 11 not ot in sti an ordinary vay isay but lion it s sinks lia 1 k a do doun n as low as public charity it II e carries ades is lib fill it a stigma ss filch it takes generations to is alpe out oui Excellent though this ihla uni verga I 1 pension scheme may bo be lit in theory I 1 hardly hard think that it can bo be figured out into actual practice fifty dollars doll irs 1 a big sura to the 3 oung Ariit ti who has pei labb spent halt a bozon years ai an apprentice and as for tile tho agricultural 14 boror aith ith his wretchedly small wages lo lie could nover manage to scrape together be 0 o much louch before the completion 0 it of hla his first year aar then igalo talo ano female workers whose pay li is as a rule 50 per cent lobs than that of walus malus haw could they bo be expected to savo save 50 bo be foro fore attaining their majority tho the scheme could not possibly bo be made universal tho elio state consented to pay the of tho indigent out of the general taxes of the country and such lucli generosity would open up a wide avenue for I 1 raud fraud for who would plunk plank do don it ills 50 if lie he could get the authorities to do it for him in suta sum I 1 do not anticipate a very swinging success I 1 for joseph Charr ilici W s universal pension peni ilon scho ulo arid and calin cannot 0 t hilp that it will meet julet with a sinji lar fato to that is aich attended ills bla acres and binda a cow danalea pa adna naLea cn |
