Word: civillized
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Dana '74 will speak at a smoke talk of the Civil Service Reform Club, Monday evening at 8, in the Colonial Club. His subject will be "A General View of the Reform Movement...
Last evening in Sanders Theatre, Mr. Charles J. Bonaparte '71, delivered a lecture under the auspices of the Civil Service Reform Club on "A Danger to Honest Government." He was in troduced by F. H. Kinnicutt '97, the president of the Civil Service Reform Club...
...opening, Mr. Bonaparte pointed out that the task of civil service reform is the same as it has been for the last thirty years. The same evils are to be fought whether they are found under the name of Republican or Democrat. The particular danger is the same as it has been, that of patronage in its influence on legislation...
...Senate on all appointments mean nothing. Our real safeguard is in the sturdy sense of the American people. To seek some object first and then to seek the means to gain it, is illogical. To get good legislation, we first need to get good public men. To do that civil service is needed. In, say, a question of tariff legislation, keen strife between groups of producers is inevitable. If we commit such a task to men who peddle votes for places or a President who peddles places for votes, poor results are a foregone conclusion...
...concluding, he said: "We have lived to see the merit system applied to nearly all departments of our civil service and I firmly believe that if it continues true to its traditions and principles, it will live to see those principles recognized in legislation and observed in practice throughout the Union...