Next, and this is . even more important than equalization
of salaries, comes the provision of an. automatic pension system. Ministers who have thrown up their powers of earning a livelihood in civil employments and devoted themselves to the public service should be placed above the reach of care on the question of how to live. For men who have private fortunes or family businesses, or who are of such commanding powers that great companies are always glad to, employ. them, the fact of being out of office need have no terrors. Under a democratie system, however, when poor men are called, and rightly called, to high office as often as rich men, it is essential that when their time of public employment is temporarily over they shall not be left literally without means of livelihood, and thus be tempted to make money in undesirable ways or else lire on a starvation pittance.
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