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Show dollar. Teople growl at the robbery;. but they buy the article all the'same, because it happens to be just what they want. ' When the laboring man employs an engineer to run a difficult line for a ditch,, which requires only a day's work on the engineer's part, and the charge is 25, while there is a. growl at the bill, all the same the poor man tries harder to educate his son to be an engineer. When the boy masters the profession, pro-fession, and returning tome tells his-father .what fees he is-getting, the bid man's sympathy for. the poor instantly evaporates and he congratulates the A -child dies and the clergyman at the funeral comforts the mother with the statement that the child was too sweat and dear for this world and so the Lord took him home, and all the old ladies present pres-ent concur; but as they wind their way home, one lady ventures the remark that had the child's mother not been so stingy, and had employed Dr. Curura instead of Dr. Killum, the.child might have been saved, and they all concur again. So we can't always tell. It is idle! to inveigh againsj high rewards for labor. It is a man's privilege privi-lege to exact all that he can for his services; it ia another man's privilege to pay if he feels like it. When it comes to the salaries of public officers, then they should be sufficiently large to pay for the services what the men" entitled to the office 'could obtain on the outside. Anything less is a constant temptation to be dishonest. : , - ITIIE RIGHT PAY FOR WORK. ; Gov. Johnson of Minnesota declares that no jman's work .is worth more than $10,000 a year. In lithe same spirit President Eliot of Ilarvard inveighs Against high salaries and says "they stir the sense 'fof injustice in the heart of the laboring man." . As a rule the same law governs salaries that governs all other prices. It is the law of demand and supply. The farmer is willing to sell his wheat ot 50 cents per bushel in September. But if he dots not sell then and a hard winter comes on, blocking the road, and flour advances to 25 cents per pound, the fanner is ready to exact $10 a bushel for his wheat, less the cost of grinding it, and when expostulated expos-tulated with for so taking advantage of the people's necessities, he pleads that he is entitled to the mar . ket price, and he would be just the man to go home after selling his wheat at those robbing figures and tell his family that it was wicked to pay any man a salary of $10,000 a year. Now, many lawyers get heavy fees for their scr jvices; so do many physicians; so do. many railroad men and so do all men who have charge of greaf industrial works, though plenty of cheaper men can be fottnd who would be glad to undertake the work ot much reduced rates. .So the question of high wages is one which is. in the hands mostly of those who pay the wages. A mamnay have a patent and manufacture au r rticle that does not cost 15 cents and selj it for a |