36/46 On the other hand your ten-thousand-dollar man has a wider outlook. If you offer him fifty dollars for his vote on the board, he'd probably laugh at you." "Ah, yes," said Mr.Newberry, "I see the idea. A fifteen-hundred-dollar salary is so low that it will tempt a lot of men into office merely for what they can get out of it." "That's it exactly," answered Mr.Fyshe. The women of the city--there were fifty thousand of them on the municipal voters list--were not behind the men. Though not officials of the league they rallied to its cause. |