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I suppose nearly every member of either House of Congress will tell you in private that he thinks the salary ought to be raised.
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Hoar shares the common sentiment among Congress members regarding the need for salary increases.
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It relates to matters more permanent than human life.
Self-seeking political adventurers and demagogues have not been slow to take advantage of this feeling for their own purposes.
But, as I have already said, when the time came, he always subordinated his own desire to what he deemed the welfare of the public.
As it is, the jetties have been of great value and well worth their cost.
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