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The Spoils of the Post-Office System.
In the June McClure's Charles
W. Eliott, former President of
Harvard University, has written
an article on the experience of a
young woman in the civil service
of the United States. Dr. Eliot
sums up his article as follows:
“The moral of this story is plain
A young woman, well born, well
brought up, intelligent, better edu
cated than nine tenths of Ameri
can children and of irreproachable
character, demonstrates by five
years of service as assistant in two
post-offices that she is fully capable
of discharging well the duties of a
postmaster. By fidelity and in
telligence she reaches a good po
sition in the United States Post
Office —that of postmistress in a
third-class office —only to be de
prived of it by the action of local
political managers through the ad
ministration at Washington. Cha
racter and merit of the candidate,
the intr6st of the service, and the
wishes of the people go for noth
ing. Personal feeling and the sup
posed interest, party work, greev
pus injustice; and the case demon
strates that the largest busiuesi de
partment of the national govern
ment ie conducted on sound busi
ness principles in regard to its
Employees, and that a farmer s
daughters working for a living
honorably and in every respect
successfully, cannot expect from
the national government the con
sideration and support which
every intelligent and respectable
private employer would surely
give her. The case was not an ex
ceptionally hard one. All ap
pointees on political grounds li
able to just such treatment, and,
as a matter of fact, at the present
moment all the higher appoint
ments under the national govern
ment are spoils or patronage po
sitions. The merit system is ap
plied only to subordinate posi
tions. All good citizens under
whatever party names they habit
ually act, ought to unite on the
legislation needed to eradicate
from American politics this mon
strous patronage, system, the un
clean source of corruption, ineffici
ency and degradation in the gov
ernment civil service.”
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“The Poor Benighted Hindoo.”
Great are the uses of Poetry, my !
son. Consider bv the illustration
of the illustration how accurately
and comprehensively some forgot-!
ton bard in four short lines has
pictured for us the true condition
of the inhabitants of England's,
great Indian Empire:
“The poor, benighted Hindoo,
He. does the best he kin do,
He sticks to his ca9te from
first to last,
And for pants he makes his
skin do.
A Mr. Micawber might dialate
at length upon how this achieve
ment in verse informs us(l) as to
the financial condition of the peo
ple, to-wit, they are “poor,” the
average annual income having
been estimated at only $lO, and
the average wages for day labor
in the capital city of India, only
6to 20 cents per diem ; (2) as to
their intellectual condition, •‘be
nighted,” ninety men in each
hundred being unable to read or
write any language, while of every
thousand women, 993 are totally
illiterate; (3) as to the social sys
tem, each man living and dviuS
within the limits of the caste into
which he was born; and (4) as to
the clothing, garb or dress of the
inhabitants (or the absence there-j
of,) the children of both sexes be
ing frequently attired after the
manner cf our reverred First Par
ents before they made the ac
quaintance of a fig tree while the
adults also dispense generally
with trousers, and shoes and stock
ings, and other impedimenta of
our overly-developed civilation.
Great indeed are the uses of
poetry. In all that I write from
India I shall hardly be able to do
more than expand and enlarge up
on the great fundamental truths
so eloquently set forth in our 4-
liue poetry-piece. —Progressive
Farmer.
My husband and I were married
by a bishop. Were you? My hus
band and I were divorced by a
judge who is occupying a seat on
the supreme bench. —Judge.
If really desirous of getting
rich, this advice is as free to take
as it is freely given ; “work like
Thomas A. Edison and spend like
Hetty Green.”
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