Show THE WE FEE EVIL of all the practices which modern office holding bolding has baa developed and magnified ioto into a positive cures that of permitting public servants er vanta to puy pay themselves or eke out their emoluments emo lumento by fees extorted from their masters we be or taken out of the latter lantere lat tere s trea treal flury lury JB in one of the he mst m et ar lovous the local community have seen and read elou enough th of this abuse in the last few weeks to make them sick ick of it forever not only have there been charges land and accounts aco ounla so 0 o petty patty and as aa to be simply dimply ridiculous but there have also been Does abre because the pay was waa not immediately forthcoming a plain off official loial duty has baa beo been omitted and grave wrong a well as a extra expense have av been inflicted upon the people it has baa come go ucb a pass that with many officials the legally leally fixed and generally under abood salary of ef the position po altion has baa been laughed at and pompously pompou aly as aa a contribution to the he cam atop fund the officeholder office doffies holder coo fusing himself with the extras ID of fees feea for recording for ad sing for travel traveling log for making copler all of which ot infrequently mu ta to several times the regular salary provided by law we need hardly baldly may aay therefore i hot bat such people all possible poa aible quirks and ei elan and with ingenuity worthy of a better botta r cause they squeeze out every cent cant ab that the be office can pay without the rr rc getting into the penitentiary we lift our voices solemnly sod in jill all plainness against an evil at once so palpable and so 0 o outrageous it if there air 41 oat aei me ae to fixing compensation by law at all there to ia sorely barely honesty bonty and oaklae in letting the we be whole claim of incumbent wk services ran rendered if fees eee for or certain oie class ot of work bere there must needs beg be lot let them jet e direct and with into tb jbf public treasury trewery trew ury if 11 ma garie jaries as already established are too low jow ho caume fess are expected to wake make up the deficiency the sooner the list lift to tilea and rectified and the extra rendered impossible the better for the public and for official consciences the to e knowledge so ae tu exactly what each to ie worth above which amount nut not oneo one cent ent 0 n D be realized save lave by dishonesty belong in common juluce no less to the aspirant aa for or occupant of the the to people who elect him and have hare to pay bl bi n we have all proper respect reaped for r t in his places who are forced to the iniquity of making these charges for every mile they travel ravel or every time they put pen to paper in order to yet got any compensation at all abd even then do not in many caa m got get what they would earn if they had any other paymaster ater and ware not sure aure but that they are rerunning a distin public service in making the pr otoe an ag wol wel known and aad hence as ae odious as possible po those thoe of them woo are of our way of thinking and this includes we believe nearly dearly all the he sell bel reft respecting petting men among cheva oin the lo in war to the death upon the fee method of paying salaries |