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Show ., Ex-Presidents. PoIIUuIr'ib, preaouors uud oapitullat , papers are greatly perturbed over the well-being of our ox.inaldenls. Prom tbelr velvv point this Ib a natter nat-ter worthy of serious consideration. , fro coniutnsarion cf i h 3 president ' (Itir.ng bit teuuro of oflloo Is, as tnoit peoplo know, quite tnoBgro. thoanlaiy aud ptjrqulBltes amounting to ouly $175,000 per yeHr, or 8700,000 dur-ing dur-ing an oLUoial tor in How can a poor pretijdent be ax- pooted to pull through on a meanly salary or onlv 8500 a day? With flu oh a count Inoonio tbo president pres-ident must tegulato bis expenditures upou a busls of striot eoouorny, avoid all extravHu.nco and skimp wherever he can Auy ouo, especially a wage-slave, wage-slave, knows ho a- hard it woiild bo to wake ends meut uu suoh paltry pay. It is for tblB roHBU" that theao benov-olenc benov-olenc old goutlemeu are so Bolloltous about our ex-prosldonts, It soriii a remarkable, however, that tho tender-hearted conoorn of theeo philanthropists doea not extend be Iyond ex presidents. And yet how can they, iu their anxiety an-xiety about our ex-presldenta, know ' that thero aro 2,000,000 men whose , term of oLUoo has expired long sinoe, . and who are out of jobs and wbo, day after day, have to carry tho sad words of "no work," to their Ipvod unoa? (low, in tbelr anguish regarding iour ox presidents, ouu thoy Lo expected expect-ed to think of tbo millions of exploit ed obildron, littlo faotory slaves, whoso term of oiOne will expire when disease has fastened its deadly hold upon their polid throats? How lu tboir delirium for the we Jg futo of our ox-preBldeuta, oau they jjj ., , know that there are multiplied tbous- n " auds of young women who loae tboir M jobs through bard times, or whose jl wageB p.ro too small to support tbom L.,.. in reBpeotibility, and who are forced " """ to Bell their bodltfs to live? I What philanthropists aro eb'iddiog 1 tears about these hopeless beluga? The gentlemen wrought up over tbo 1 possible poverty of our ex preallleuts i should calm thouuelvea. Thero la tin I cause for alarm. The truslH uud cor- 1 porations, always loyal to tbeir I fiieuda, will see to it that they are 1 not sent to the county houso or bur- 1 led in the potterslleld, Ex. |