Show loag sty the tw barely a good liag the north abingdon ki its public publishes the wi 1 og lette written to its editor the 11 jones by congressman aig of that state D C air 4 my dear jones I 1 hare yur editorials on the ti rement ir dm thel louse T r 8 to tha it is a matter merely of a few dot lars more or less of salary aly habits are simple and salary is not 86 consideration with me and it ought not to be with say public official public turns on fir higher considerate con oda and what you any of his obliga tiu I 1 to them and the grave public re afes t hat rest on hain 4 true ar nd you a not say it too often f e bly 1 I da not write however aith reference to my retirement cesery ing what I 1 have to say about that until I 1 ai e a general letter to the district t ittle later I 1 arile to correct what I 1 infer from your edi corials to b a fotion with regard to ta manner congressmen generally live in washington 80 11 far from batu 9 to them a ba bylone full W antons and laviA 1 luxuries it is very m u ch what ab i I 1 n g ton or m Is to lout n e or mine there ate k few persons of gresi riches who nov tan 40 me live in an extravagant so pr way as some rich people do h overa other community but t 60 1 at greal bulk of the Ite presenta esin i ciudin noticeably all the men d I 1 iu fluence are men of I 1 limited beaus wholine wh olive in a and simple manner on the whole I 1 should say that the instance off lenry 4 yet cite I 1 is a t 0 of the present i mal arity of mem era our masse s chu senators dawes aad float 0 O live quite sa simple ode in a I 1 I 1 I 1 ti e tenement not better than our ardi n t ary new england parsonage a ad theo therina abich you will not think extravagant when I 1 tell you that with the ex 1 caption of myself the rest of the b larders abc government employs whose annual salaries range from 2000 rapidly downward walk 4 ing 0 ut with mrs long at sundown last ev ening we passe d a modest 3 doo re le on which with his toung r ep P laying about him eat a mem r who pointed to a plain finite ro ms As his and ose dress and manner of living are as sim g I 1 d u unostentatious as R abo be tb county farmer J and yet he ij a millionaire the rich W tat mail I 1 in the a 10 western lumber man voise and bard fa headed and not ashamed bu t p r loud of the goad stick be va e d ed I 1 in his youth and with aich he pricked his way to fortune adiong tb a leaders reed live in the fifth story of a small hotel 11 itell ll in a house that would pei baas yield a rent of or mckinley in two or three chamber p mille in a quiet boarding 9 15 0 on through the list the is full of poor men who make to show who are just plain well be I 1 caved haved temperate churchgoing church going peo ale as you and I 1 meet at home I 1 who go afoot and drive no fine team who ape no fashions some of whom g to the few public receptions or give en themselves vea I 1 fine raiment is so aar e among e them that an old suit which I 1 am now wearing for the third summer has actually been exploited by the newspaper reporters in the of any other sensation as I 1 me to the charge of being well I 1 11 deemed and if tom reed should cover chis shining head with a silk hat he would lose the republican I 1 i leadership the member who lives luxuriously is the exception what Is undoubtedly true ofa few I 1 especially to of some persons of great wealth who and en bertain in washington in the winter 1 and are advertised in the society columns not at all true of the great majority of the 5 PP I 1 a servants trul Y our J 0 U q D L N G |