Democratic Sentinel, Volume 16, Number 6, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 February 1892 — Uncle Sam's Servants. [ARTICLE]

Uncle Sam's Servants.

Uncle Sam has aa army of 150,000 people in his employ. More than 30 per cent, of these have been added to the service during the last .decade. Their salaries range from $50,000 paid the President to the $1.50 a year some Postmasters receive. The consumption of untaxed sugar in the first year that the people of the United States have had the opportunity of eating it increased thirteen pounds per capita. What an access of comfort is represented in this freedom of trade in one raw material of manufacture! With free wool the poor man’s back might be made to fare as well as his belly. Men would be very wise if they could only learn as much as their boys think they could teach them. At the time of birth the octupus is not longer than a common flea.