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Excerpt from Clerkships in Washington: A Letter to Hon. Member of Congress
I am aware that some of the salaries sound wonderfully large, to some persons; especially to those whose occupations have been limited by very limited ca ities, and to those whose incomes and expenses are never measur because the first consist of productions necessary for their subsistence, which are consumed by the latter, without any account of them being taken, either way. It is a general Opinion among farmers that it costs them nothing for provisions, because they produce these; and they cannot comprehend why any person's expen ses need exceed the amount required for groceries, clothing, and taxes. I remember hearing, when a boy, that members of Congress received eight dollars a day, and I thought it was wonderful. I could only compare it with the eight dollars a month, that my father was paying to a laboring man, then just dug out of the marshes of Holland; and did not consider that M ynheer Von Dunderhead was getting, for his ser vices, besides his nominal wages, that which, I think you stated, costs you over sixty dollars a month; nor that, while he had no occasion for spending any portion of his eight dollars, except for a few cheap ar. Ticles of clothing (some of whic he would make up, himself, ) the. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.