Not A Lucrative Office

The office of State Treasurer in this State, under the Eepublican party, can hardly he a lucrative one. The assessment made on Mr. Collier, the present incumbent for political purposes in seouring his eleotion and that ot hisfellowcandidates, was one thousand dollars. As the salary of the office is one thousand dollars it will readily bo seen that Mr. Collier, if ho has paid his assessment, will have received at the end of his term one thousand dollars for his two year's work. It is claimed, however, by some of those who were electod on the same ticket with Mr. Collier that he only paid half of his assessmeut. This would leave him a net inoome for the two years of fifteen hundred dollars, or soven hundred and fifty dollars a year. This would be email pay enough for tho simple service of taking charge of the people's money ; but when the Troasurér is expected in addition to so dispose of that money as to benefit a ring of political friends and office-holders and to set himself up above the people whose servant he is, the salary becomes absolutely insignificant. The man who will do all that deservos ten times as much as soven hundred and fifty dollars a year ; and if the State does not pay him the " ring " ought to. Indeed, if it were nok for the woll-known " morality " of the Republican party, we should almost bo tempted to believe that tho "ring" in this State is fully awarc of the obligation