Proceedings at the Annual Meeting of the National Civil Service Reform League
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Excerpt from Proceedings at the Annual Meeting of the National Civil Service Reform League: Held at Newport, Rhode Island, August 2, 1882 been rapidly developed since the War. This awakening of interest is half the victory. For when once the shrewd and good-natured American mind clearly perceives a political evil, its correction has already begun. No prominent public man in the country saw the danger of the spoils system more plainly than the late President. No man felt more deeply the necessity of reform, and in his inaugural address he announced his intention of asking Congress to fix the tenure of the minor offices and to prescribe the grounds of removal. His position, however, was one of extreme difficulty. He was a strong partisan, and he had been elected by a party in which, as in both the great parties, the evil tradition was very powerful. The general opinion of his party would not have supported a radical reform, as the experience of his predecessor had shown, and his official action was closely restrained by the Constitution. The President felt, doubtless, that he held power in trust for a party, and for a general policy upon which it was agreed, and that he was bound in honor not to imperil that policy. He knew, indeed, that the convention which nominated him, like previous conventions of all parties had adopted a declaration of reform: But he knew also the significance of such declarations. They are meant to he polite hows to the whims of notional brethren which it is hoped will pacify them without committing the party. Robert Owen said that when he waited on Prince Metternich to unfold to him his scheme of a new civilization, the prince listened attentively, shook his head gravely, and remarked impressively, "Mr. Owen, your interesting suggestions merit the most serious attention," - and then rang for the servant to show the philanthropist the door." 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.
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