[e] The annual expenses were estimated to be approximately $90,000. In _Advice to Connecticut Folks_, 1786, occurs the following estimate:-- =================================================================== Necessary Unneces'y ------------------------------------------------------------------- Governor's salary, £300 £300 Lieutenant-Governor's, 100 100 Upper House attendance and travel 60 days at £10 per day, 600 600 Lower House attendance and travel 170 members at 6s. a day, 60 days, 3,060 1,530 £1,530 Five Judges of the Superior Court at 24s. a day, suppose 150 days, 900 900 Forty Judges of Inferior Court at 9s. a day, suppose 40 days, 720 720 Six thousand actions in the year, the legal expenses of each, suppose £3, 18,000 1,000 17,000 Gratuities to 120 lawyers, suppose £50 each, 6,000 1,000 5,000 Two hundred clergymen at £100 each, 20,000 20,000 Five hundred schools at £20 a year, 10,000 10,000 Support of poor, 10,000 10,000 Bridges and other town expenses, 10,000 10,000 Contingencies and articles not enumerated, 10,000 10,000 ------------------------------------------------------------------- Total, £89,680 £66,150 £23,530 As a glimpse at society, it may be added that the _Advice_ itself is an energetic and statistical condemnation of the prevalent use of "Rum," estimated at £90,000 or "ninety-nine hundredths unnecessary expense" in living. "Deny it if you can, good folks. Now say not a word about taxes, Judges, lawyers, courts and women's extravagances. Your government, your courts, your lawyers, your clergymen, your schools and your poor, do not all cost you so much as one paltry article which does you little or no good but is as destructive of your lives as fire and brimstone."--Noah Webster's _Collection of Essays,_ pp. 137-139. The evil was beginning to be recognized in all its danger. Here and there voluntary temperance clubs were beginning to be formed among the better classes, but it was a time when hardly a contract was closed without a stipulation of a certain quantity of rum for each workman. CHAPTER XIV POLITICAL PARTIES IN CONNECTICUT AT THE BEGINNING OF THE NINETEENTH CENTURY As well dam up the waters of the Nile with Bullrushes as to fetter the steps of Freedom.--L. M. Child.