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Show IEx-Presidenls. PolltiolanH, proaohora aud capital let papers are greatly perturbod over the well-being ot our ox.t naldents. Prom their velw point this lo a natter nat-ter worthy of eorioua oouaideratbu. Vto comomjatiiou cf hj president diir.nB hit teuuro ot oflloo is, aa most people kuow, quite tueaRio. thoaalaiy aud perquisites amouotiuR to only 8175,000 por yeHr, or 8700,000 during dur-ing au uUluial torm How can a poor president ba ex-pooted ex-pooted to pull through on a measly salary or oulv 8500 a day? With atioh a toaut inootue tho prea ident must tegulato bla expenditures upou a husis of etrlot eoouoray, avoid nil oxtrarauanoe and skimp wherever he can Any ouo, espealallv h wage-Blave, wage-Blave, knows ho hard it woiild bo to make ends meet jju Biioh paltry pay. It lu for ibis renso" that tbeio bonov-oleuc bonov-oleuc old gentlemeu tire bo solicitous about our ex-prosidents. It EOBua remarkable, however, that tho teudor-honrted conoorn of thesu philanthropists do oh not extend be yond ox presidents. Aud yet how can they, in their au-xioty au-xioty about our ex-presidents, know that thoro are 'J, 000, 000 men whose term of olQoe has expired long siuoe, aud who are out of jobs and wuo, day after day, have to carry the Bad words of "no work," to their Ipvod onoa? How, iu their anguish regarding our ox presidents, can thoy be expect, ed to think of tho millions of exploit ed obildren, little faotory slaves, whoso term of ofllno will expire when disease has fastened its deadly hold upou their palid throats? How iu tboir delirium for tho wol fato of our ox-presideuttt, oau tbey , . . kuow that there are multiplied thoua auds of young women who lose their jobs through hard times, or whose wages p.ro too small to support, them in respeotlblllty, and who are forced to sell their bodies to live? What philanthropists are ebeddiog tears about these hopeless beings? - The gentlemen wrought up over the possible poverty of our ex presidents should calm themselves There is uo ' !. oauBe for alarm. Tho trusts aud cor. . porations, always loyal to their '"' id. friends, will aeo to it that they are ' y not sent to the county houso or bur- f. Us e( 1Q the potterstleld. Ex. |