Salt Lake Telegram | 1906-06-16 | Page 12 | The President's Salary

THE PRESIDENTS SALARY. A. bill has beeta introduced into Congress to give- the President, in addition to his salary, his traveling expenses, ex-penses, and $25,000 a year is to be put aside for that purpose in case the bill becomes a law. Some time ago the New York Sun proposed that a special private car be ordered for the President, that whenever that car is used the bill for it shall be sent by the railroad company or companies over whose lines it ran. It seems to ua that a much more direct and sensible way would be to give the President a decent salary, say raise his salary from $50,000 to $100000 per annum and then let him pay his own traveling expenses. One hundred thousand per year is not too much to pay the. President of this Republic if the incumbent is fit to be President; if he , is not, then it is the fault of the country in electing -him, and the country should pay for it. The laborer is worthy of his hire. That is the first proposition; the second is that a nation as rich as ours should not hu-'miliate hu-'miliate itself in the eyes of kindred nations by paying its employees so beggarly a salary that they are crippled crip-pled in meeting their household and traveling expenses. Congress paid the first President $25,000. At that time $25,000 would buy more than $100,000 will buy now. Our Nation ought' to be as generous at least now as it was when the Goverpment in poverty and half despair was founded. ' Of the declination of Mr. Coburn of an offer of an appointment to succeed the late Senator Burton of Kansas, Kan-sas, the New York Sim copies from a sunflower poet this: . Fill up the jorum To Coburn, here's how! He won't have the forum He sticks to the plough. And then reminds the Kansans that old Cincinnatus, , the old Roman populist of that name, was a fakir. He took the nomination and left the plough.