People's Pilot, Volume 5, Number 1, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 June 1895 — How Public Servants Are Ser ed. [ARTICLE]

How Public Servants Are Ser ed.

Mr. Carlisle, the secretary of the treasury, is a servant of the people. In his position as servant he sells bonds and creates debt that must be paid by the people without any law authorizing him to do so. His household servants are paid by the people, and his horses and carriages stabled by the government. His coachman, Reynard Green, draws SB4O annually out of the public treasury, and all he does is to act as coachman for Mr. Carlisle and family. Charles Edmonson and Charles Morgan are Mr. Carlisle’s butlers. They look after the secretary’s laruer and see that the family table is properly supplied. They are also footmen to b.'s secretaryship. They draw from the public treasury $720 and $660 respectively per annum, and render no public service whatever. Their names appear on the pay rolls as’, messengers. So it is with all the cabi-7 net officers. They are supplied with servants at the people’s expense. The 4 cent cotton raisers help to pay for this snobbery at the people’s capital. When Thomas Jefferson was inaugurated he rode into town on a mule and hitched it to the fence around the corner and walked to the capitol steps and took the oath of office. That was democracy, pure and simple. We see no such democracy now. it has all passed away, and the customs of English snobbery have taken its place. The taxpayers furnish the President a grand equippage to ride in down the avenue, with four white horses to pull It, and an empty-headed English coachman, with a feather in his hat, to do the driving. How do Texas toilers like the change from Jefferson to Cleveland? —Southern Mercury.