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Show and more expensive office or offices, in its place. Office-holders' salaries are often raised, but never lowered. Some day, possibly, a majority of the voters will rebel, as did the early fathers, and by their ballots, instead of bullets, call a halt on those legislators legis-lators whose chief aim appears to be the increase of public payrolls. SWARMS OF OFFICERS. In re-reading that immortal document, docu-ment, the Declaration of Independence, Indepen-dence, which recites the grievances which impelled the American colonies to rise and throw off the British yoke, wre were struck by a paragraph which appealed to us with a new significance. sig-nificance. Referring to King George, III, it declared: "He has erected a multitude of newi offices and send hither swarms of officers of-ficers to harass our people and eat out our substance." It appears that '? warms of officers" offi-cers" were distasteful to the stur1: forefathers. What would thev say to the army of office-holders who ' .... I harass our people and eat out our substance" today? Every session of congress and r-very session of the state legislature enacts lawn creating new offices. Sel-I dom is an -office once established ever abolished, except to create a different j |