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Harry V. Hoben. P Frank L. Ballaine. Sec. Erich Lucaa. Treaa.
Entered aa aecond-claaa matter September, 'J.i'Jlo, at the poatoftice at Seward, Aloaka,
under act of March 3, 1879.^ _
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AN OFFICIAL ARISTOCRACY
Having denounced Senator LaFollette for his out-1
rageous filibuster against the will of the president and
congress, which, although it failed to prevent arming our
merchantmen, did tie up government finance in a hard
knot, it is well to view the other side of the remarkable lit
tle man from Wisconsin.
Salaries of high officials of the United States in every
department, from the president himself down to assist
ants to the cabinet officers have been increased from 11 to
oO no" cent in the past ten years, but the salaries of minor
clerks remain the same or at a slight advance in spite of1
the tremendous increase in the cost of living. Concerning
this LaFollette said on February 26, in the senate:
“Oh. Air. President, are we building up an official
aristocracy in this country? What shall be said when
these figures come to pass under the eye of the American
people while we halt and listen to whispered arguments on
this floor as to whether we will let some poor clerk, who is
harelv subsisting on a salarv of $1,000 or $1,200 or $1,400;
a year, have a meager increase of 10 per cent or 5 peri
cent, as he may fall into one or the other of these classes? |j
Shame upon us! We ought to be hissed from our places.
This is a democracy, sir, and the measure of equal justice
to every man is the heart of our creed. Look into these
figures anil tel! me if you can find any justification for the
course of congress and its committees on appropriations?
“Riding home last night on a street car, I thought Ij
would sound out the conductor, and so I inquired about
his pay. I speak of this just by way of comparison. These
men start in for the first year at 23 cents an hour, per
haps a fraction above that; I think they start at 23 1-2
cents, but I am giving round numbers. They start with 231
cents an hour, and after five years of service they attain
to 27 cents an hour. They make an average of 10 hours,
or $2.70 a day, men who have been in the service five
vears. That is between S'.HK) and $1,000, figured by the
%
month. They get one day off out of seven, but they lose j
their pay for the day they are off. However, Mr. Presi-i
dent, they receive more than we are paying many of the;
government clerks. I asked the man with whom I talked
how they managed in these times to live upon such a wage.
“We11,” he said, "I am a single man. and I squeeze along."
He was a i mu of rare intelligence, and had been employed
_ - . • m •,I It I
in some other line or business, but had met with disaster
and had taken this position. He said to me, “You do not
know how it weighs down upon the other fellows who have
families;’ and, mark you, the best paid of them are get
ting nearly a thousand dollars a year. He said, “By mov
ing two or three families into one little house, dividing
up the rooms, and cutting out everything except the bare,
scant necessities of life, they squeeze along”—no flowers,
no music, sir: nothing that ministers to the artistic side;
only the scant necessities of life: no chance to own a home.
The permanency of democracy, as I have always viewed
it, rests upon the ownership of the homes by the great
citizenrv of this countrv. No homes for these men! They
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squeeze along; they barely subsist, sir. But if sickness
comes to the family, he told me it was a common practice
whenever any little disaster, no matter how meager it!
might l>e. afflicted a family, the subscription list circu
lates, and the men set down what they can give out of their
earnings to help the men of families out of their difficul- ■
ties. I am informed that there are employed by this great
government that is building battleships, each to cost over
$15,000,000. hundreds of employees who work during the.
day for their meager government salaries and then go out
and find employment at night somewhere, absenting
themselves from the home, working into the small hours
of the night, in order that they may take care of their
families!
“Oh. Mr. President. I regret to have felt constrained j
to make this address to the senate and put these facts in
to the Record. They are not to our credit.”
Courtesey Food Service
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Admiral Watson, March 19.
Admiral Evans, March 26.
SAILINGS FROM SEWARD:
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Admiral Watson, March 2(5.
Admiral. Evans, April 5.
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First Sailing for Anchorage: Admiral Watson, April 9th.
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Going Too Far
“A man should try to have a good
opinion of himself."
“Perhaps."
“I mean a certain amount of self
respect."
“Oh. that’s all right, but some peo
ple don’t seem to be able to distingu-,
ish between self respect and self ad
miration."—Birmingham Age-Herald.
Natural
“Let’s play house," suggested five
year-old Alice to her twin brother,
Ned.
1 A'l light," he agreed: you ge; the
broom : nd be the mother, up,I l'i! get
the newspaper and be the father.”—
Exchange.
Her Triumph
“Maria,” Mr. Durkins said, with a
note of exultation in his voice, “I
turned a trade today that netted me a
clean $2,000.”
“H’mph!” ejacultcd his spouse in
her loftiest you-make-me-tired man
ner, “I went out today to hunt up a
first class cook, and I got her, John—
I got her!”—Chicago Tribune.
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WEEK ENDING MARCH 17
From 25 Per Cent to 50 Per Cent Off
Beginning Saturday, March 17, we will conduct a Children's
Day Sale—Anything we carry in Children’s Wear
School Supplies, Etc
At Discounts that will
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Kansas City. Denver
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T
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work are not for the novice. It
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