Show LABORER HIS ilire HIRE generally speaking there is a disposition to treat men fairly and pay them livin living wages when enraged enk ellk in any work wor k paid for out of the tha public treasury this thi is perfectly proper the laborer is worthy of his hire and wherever public necessity demand the employment of a man whether at intellectual tel or manual labor that man should receive fair com compensation penEa not extravagant wasteful waga wag c but enough to pay him for his work A couple of cases have occurred recently where by reason of certain contra contrasts ats presented at the tha same time lime the failure to pay men fair ms wages have been made alarin glaringly gly at the meeting of the agricultural college board the other day a poor employee peti troied fr for an increase of wages from thirteen and a half cents to fifteen cents per hour and the pro fessor immediately in charge of the department in which he labored indorsed endorsed indor sed his request the petition was wag humbly made and certainly the request was reasonable but it was denied not only this but later he was waa disc discharged hargea although we caarol say that it was because he had asked for an increase the college has been ii liberally dealt with by the nation and stae slate and several of too proter prolee sors be bein begin in the new year with an increased salary at tho the identical meeting referred to tho the salary of one of the I 1 professors was increased to 1800 per annum this affords a very sharply defined contrast certainly i there is but little chance for comparison arion between the mariat value of the service of a trained specialist and that of a common laborer but the specialists attainments are not of such a remarkable nature as to entitle him in justice to as much morey as four roea met can earn at hard physical labor if they worked steadily during the entire year although labor may be so chepp that twenty men ill be ba falling over each other to escure cecere the position left vacant by this mans discharge one dollar and thirty five cents a day is ia not fair air reminer tion for a days labor and an in ution that can pay salaries of from 1800 to 2500 per year can afford to deal more li liberally berall y and justly with its humble bumble employ clovee eeB the other case casa referred to occurred in another educational in sti tation the city Fen several teachers have had bad an increase of salary they deserved it and even now several of them do not get enough at the last regular meeting the salary of the city superintendent was raised from to nine hundred dollars but at the same name meeting the janitors ifor for an increase from 2500 per month to ome tome t greater figure on account of extra service required of him was denied and the contrast was too marked to io escape I 1 notice the true relative value of the service ta n both the cakes iotes floes does not c wll ill for such great discrepancy cre pancy the laborer is ia worthy of his hire no matter in what department part ment li he inay nifty labor |