Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1878-02-13

= Is always "A iamcntahiC thing when word
Iacolnes Il mere noisy epithet. ooh Liberty
cried Madame Roland when on her way to the
scaffo,d what crimes are committed i'll thy
name One looks back to the days Of Philip
the Bigot, to the days Of Mary, to the burning
and drowning of innocent girls and homely old
women for witchcraft; one is reminded OF
what the Turk has done in Thrace and Arme-
MIA. and what the Purtans and Roundheads
did in Britain: what the Hindoo widow sui
fcrs and the Mormon women endure, and
claims. paraphrasing Madame Roland saying,
oh religion! what wrctchcdneSs and suiiec
ing, what cruelty and Unsparing torture have
been done in tho sweet name Of Christ, OF
3hudda and OF the Frophets.' One looks at
,1nslNlds history and professions, witnesses
the bloody atrocities Of the Old French war;
witnesses the wholesale murders committed II
India undar Give and Hastings; witnesses
British sympathy with the Sultan; sees Sc
loys sho- from the muzzlcs Of guns at Luck
now and the most atroeious hatharities in!lic-
ted upon the helpless, people of jamaica; sees
the whole !.ower Of the Tory party, all the
ar;stoclacy and wealth Of England arrayed
a-.ainst the Union in It's struggle against the
shareholders rebellion, and cEclajms at the
mockery of the fulsomo gusA and sentiment
.al,ty Of after-d:nner speeches and Lord May
ors shows And NOW, looking with searching
eve beneath the disgI,ises Of the men in mot
lay who are masqueraGing under the banner
of Reform, and analysing system OF Re
t9cnchuent and Economy III public affairs
wlich repeats the old absurGity of straining
at snat and swallowing a camel, let us see
what has been said on either side of the ques
ton. Five or six years ago in st. Louis Mr.,
Wendell Phillips i'll lecture on the Political
Situation, used the following language: THE
civil service reform (as promulgated by Geo.
William Curtis and other han. Drained tEeo-
rists), "seelns to me 4 magnificent delusion
that will probably be realized when we get to-
the other side of Jordan. doubt whether it
ever had a terrestrial fOothoid. have yet to
hear Of the form of government or its date
that was ever able to exist under such sys
TEN AS we call to-day the civil service reform.
Certainly have not the rcmotest idea that
with the extreme care of my health, which |
mean to take, shall ever live to see the first
quota or proportion 81 it administered to an
admiring people We all know that the mos;
yaunted feature Of Mr.. Curtis's plan was COM
petitiye examinations. If Young man want
"a a place as tidc-waitcr in Custom House
ne must exhibit certain prescribed amount
Of knowledge of algebra; if fresh college boy
with his hair parted in the middle, finger or
two disabled from catching a vicious and red
hot base ball, and a surface knowledge of
drawing room French were pitted against Mr..
John HOmespun who had been a practical
book keeper and salesman for a quarter of Il
century, and If the former could turn the
rgettier sentences i'll a communication to an
impossible Grand Mogul, your practiced hand
must he idle because of its inelegance of shape
and texture, and your softer palms must be
given employment, Your ''politician' was
to he superseded by Il tinical man milliner and
gilt-edged note writer with 'crest, a mono
gram and knowledge of the piano and the |
German. The fact Is, Mr.. Curtis movement |
was Il society affair. He was making a strue-
gie in a super-deliCate way, in yindication of |
the claims Of culture gentility and what in
Boston they do So much delight to call the /
aesthetics Indeed that was it: The civil ser
vice must be reformed OF its politicians and |
male usthctical. Some years ago Newton !
Booth was for Reform. That was why it came |
about that the Honorable Mr. Cannon, the