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Show FAME BETTER THAN WEALTH. The man who was to have been appointed ap-pointed secretary of stato, William A. Day, would have resigned a $30,000 a year position in private life to accept ac-cept this public position at $10,000 a year. He considers it worth .at least $20,000 a year more than the salary to hold a high and dignified public position, po-sition, to serve the whole people instead in-stead of a few. He is ambitious for public preferment and honor, and to achieve some measure of fame as a diplomat and statesman. This he prizes more than mero money.-says the Omaha Bee. Mr. Knox Is a still more conspicuous conspicu-ous example of this sort of exchange-so exchange-so men would call it sacrifice. As senator his salary was $7,500 a year, and as secretary of state it will be, at j present only $3,000 a year, and but $12,000 later, yet in his profession he could no doubt easily earn $100,000 a year, and probably much more. He would rather gain the name of a j statesman than of a multi-millionaire. Assuming, as we no doubt may, that these and other like men have no ul- tenor designs, out, mean iu kivu mo people true and honest service to tho very best of their ability, this sort of ambition Is very laudable. It ls indeed in-deed an excellent species of patriotism. patriot-ism. It is well for the country that it has many such men, those of very superior ability who regard service of their country in high station as of Incomparably greater value than any amount of money. Great riches, unless bestowed for humanity's benefit, are but a monument monu-ment of crumbling Jross, but the fame oi a wise, true, devoted statesman, who serves well tens of millions of people, ls more enduring than granite or marble. And this thought, Idea or piinciple holds good in a decreasing degree all down the line, to a city councilman. |