The Howlers Did Not See It

ST. LOUIS, Kov. 26.- Fifteen thonsand employés of the Missouri Pacific, [ron Mouutaiii railroad system, whose salaries were cut from 5 to 20 per cent. n 1893, owing to the prevailing hard times, liave been made glad by a procaination, issued by president George Gould, restoring wages to their former Dasis. These salaries range from $50 aer uionth to $10,000 a year. About 3,000 employés live or have headquarters in St. Louis. Five hundred clerks are employed in the auditor's office and 400 in the general offices. The remainder of the 3,000 are in the yards and treight depots. President Gould's Thanksgiving present to bis men will be all the more appreciated because it was unexpected. The system gives employinent to 20,000 men. The monthly payroll averages $1,000,000. The cut, which is now restored, was effective June 1, 1893, "until further notice." Salaries of employés making from $50 to $75 a rnonth were reduced $5. Between $75 and $100 the reduction was fiye per cent. Ten per cent. was deducted from salaries between $100 and $200 and 20 per cent from salaries above $200, includiua; the highest officials of the road." The above dispatch doubtless did not catch the eye of the editor of the Adrián Press nor the Arm Arbor Democrat. Neither of these gentlemen read such items. They have too depressing an effect opon them, and spoils all their lme and cry about the efïort of the people to make times better. Tliey want Ui to 1 silver dollars and Mexican prosperity, with workmen living on salaries of 10 to 25 cents a day.