Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 59, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 March 1919 — Few Presidents Rich. [ARTICLE]

Few Presidents Rich.

The Roosevelt fortune was different, moreover, in being mainly an Inherited fortune. Its possessor may have added to It in his lifetime, but, as In the case of other presidents, most of his personal earnings in a period of forty years of public life were absorbed in the support of his family. No other president has ever enjoyed such advantages of remunerative publicity as Mr. Roosevelt, and besides his salary from official positions his income from his books and from editorial work must have been large. Yet it is a fair inference that if these had been the sole sources of his support he would have died a poor man, as Cleveland did. and most of their predecessors in the White House. This has been the common financial fate of presidents, and the example of Mr. Roosevelt probably merely proved the rule that the office of president Is not economically productive tn any logical proportion to its exalted state and onerous political qualifications. /