| Show SHAn SALARY OF W PRESIDENT T TIn In most particulars fare It It Is a n distinctive dl gain that lint o It a people we WP Americans are arf conservative to a degree and und that our lawmakers In iii their acts reflect for the most moat part vart our notions of ot safe sate safety safety ty and Hut But these facts do donot donot donot not justify tho time extension of ot a system thirty forty tort or sixty years old Into times like the tho present that have hUe ob obviously obviously outgrown It Reference Is la hail had to tho the salaries of ot most of our fedi fed elal We Wo come came near to starving or bank bankrupting l half a n dozen of our president pr on pay fixed for tOt time the position half hilI u a 1 century and more before they were chosen to nil all It and when hen the tho salary tins as doubled not many years ago II go It made large largo enough to till fill the tho times It ought to be doubled at nt least IMst before tho time tern term beginning on March 4 1 1905 1005 comes along aluig alongA A correspondent of the tho New NelV York Press Iress J nt at Bayonne discusses dl eunes this thin matter both sensibly and anti forcibly It Jt Is dis dill disgraceful disgraceful graceful ho hu says for tor tills this the might lest I SI the nation on earth to offer Its chief but I WO a u year yean Our wealth he ahu Is near nearly nearly ly I Y equal I as l to t o the tha combined wealth of ot England la o m and eel ai ai or oIn o rIto r rt of ot Germany 0 and amt Russia t s ul and amid U It nearly equals that tit of Russia Austria lady Italy and Spain If rf c combined b I a indebtedness lode in III glued more than lhnn double ours aura The Tho T national I debt of Germany nearly lg is nearly U 00 niece more than thun ours pure and her population pO othan uthan n vile d IP Ie n UI I debt doli I of ot KU lt i Th n u tI 4 ours am 1 h 1 t I 1 In t Rolf half toper more ti p n f j us 9 I ap the tart i ipat 1 eI pat Ml with ni 1 1 s pa pays K I i II t t a C u y yen a I ROM from th tit i Y 1 bof bors b ore of ot tin the ro roof s i I of ot France l ranee r i 1 i Ii I you year r the tho a I I ll It J the t hn u I the limo king of ot ri r n I t n Ihl nor u o uthe I r a r ti the lord lonI ehan chanI l r f t i t a year Nr And mm I p da ont tit l n paltry p alir Y L r aM an i Our oil pincers n A pit I tit if 00 tIt fit which barely r to th s n of 01 sort Olt of II a houe hou to l t pert th them m nil o Ih y n 1 of the u 1 e t t tt c f rr u 1 |
