Fifty dollars ought to have covered the entire cost.
But then, you see, the gang that was bossing the job needed money; therefore, the State of Pennsylvania was supplied with a fifty-dollar flag pole for the moderate sum of $850.
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But the country is adorned with numerous other flag poles of the same variety.
One of them is Paul Morton, President of The Equitable Assurance Society.
No institution in this land of the free has a flag pole that is more expensive.
Paul Morton costs the policy holders of the Equitable $80,000 per year. Not $8,000—which would be a fair price—but $80,000—which is a gouge.
Just how many men, equally capable, could be found to fill his place at $10,000 per year, it would be impossible to say; but there is no doubt whatever that Paul himself would have served the Society just as well upon a salary of $25,000.
But then, you see, he wanted more. So he took it.
Flag poles come high—under certain circumstances.