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Show o THE POOR LAWYER. In the United States today there are over 176,000 lawyers more than in any other professon or calling save teaching and medicine. In addition addi-tion to this number there are thousands thou-sands of young men in law offices and colleges educating themselves for the law a mighty army of' legal representatives represen-tatives fighting and preparing to fight the battle of life. In the city alone there are over 10,000 lawyers, three-fourths of whom are wholly dependent upon the income from their practice as a means of livelihood. While from 30 to 50 per cent are "successful practitioners with good incomes and a monopoly upon the better class of law business it is safe to say that the remaining 50 per cent make on an average loss than $1,200 a year. In many law offices in our larger cities you will find a half dozen or more lawyers occupying merely clerical cleri-cal positions and working for others, like insignificant cog-wheels in a mighty machine, on salaries of from $15 to $25 a week, and who congratulate themselves that they are able to hold their positions. A motorman on a street car receives from $15 to $20 a week for his services, ser-vices, and ho is sure of his money. A) clerk in a dry goods store, a railroad rail-road or insurance office receives from 20 to $25 a week. A bank clerk is paid from $76 to $150 a month. A skillful mechanic or machinist earns from $8 to $10 a day. Many business men command salaries salar-ies of from $5,000 to $25,000 a year. A traveling salesman sells good on commission and earns from $1,000 to $5,000 a year and perhaps more. A reporter on a daily newspaper makes more money than the average lawyer. Opis Magazine. |