Nebraska advertiser., 1882-01-26

remarked tnaJ ne COUlu DOJ uIlueISlduu
why people would lie so. We noticed
that this same paper, few days later.
made the same criticism on Neal Dow.
We suppose If we lived to he four
score years and ten and had 10 other
criterion to found our opinion upon
than what we CLEAN from newspaper
correspondence and rOstrum eloqnenCe,
the exact status of the Maine law
would be rs fOggy to US as is the work
ing Of the Kansas law to down easter.
Neal Dow is over 20 years of age,
hair extremely gray, brow furrowed,
yet his step is elastic, his voice strong
and his energy astonishing. He re-
minded MS in his appearance OF the pic
ture we have seen OF Gen. Winfield
Scott. In stature he is quite u small
man, and when he is attred in close
fitting broad cloth. his bow legs set him
off oddly enough. He must have been
whole army in himself in his younger
days; even ut his present advanced age
he is equal TO u few regiments. We
were very much pleased with what we
saw of Neal Dow.
Last night and to-day Kentueky's
son, Geo. W. Balm. has been talking to
immense audiences. AS BrOwnyille is
acquainted with him, we need notice
him no further. In his remarks to-day,
Balm paid Il glowing tribute to our Ne
braska man, John B. Finch, who de-
livers lecture here next week Be
fore Finch comes, however, we are to
hear Ellen Foster of Iowa. Outside
of this course, but upon the same sub
ject, Oh January 26th, we are to hear
the worlds greatest temperance orator,
John B. Cough. Thus you see the big
guns are being fired off first
Well, ! suppose you have received
enough temperance, SO now for a little
civil service reform. for we must con.
fess tie whole country needs this bad
enough.
There has been established at the
University school OF political science,
the only thing of the kind, we believe,
in the United States. Judge Cooley is
one of the organizers and II leading
light Of the same, and in order that the
students might study civil service re-.
form to a better advantage, he in CON
junction with other professors and cit-
zens, have organized an association for
that particular object. A course of six
lectures for the winter was made ont.
G. r.. Adams, president of the ass0cia.
tion, professor of political history in
the University and author of "DemOc-
racy and Aristocracy in France" deliv-
cred the first two lectures. Prof. Adj
Inns leans strongly toward the English
system Of civil service. He criticised
both parties severely. and our modern
politicians would be unable to find a
single word of comfort in what he said
Last Saturday night we heard Hon.
Sherman Rogers OF Buffalo, n. Y. His
lecture WAS IA brief commentary upon
the political history Of this country
from Washington down, giving us the
condition of the civil service under
each administration. For instance he
told us that during Washingtons ad-
ministration of eight years there were
only nine removals from Office. Under
the elder Adams, nine. while Thomas
Jefferson discharged thrty-nine. Dur
ing the next three administrations only
twelve officers were removed. In the
light Of purer circumstances, the fact
that so few were remov ed in those days
seems hardly deserving of mention.
but we suppose our forefathers con-
Sidered it as serious evil. Rogers also
stated that J G. Adams was partly re-
sponsible for the doctrine, "To the
victor belongs the spoils," although he
did not put it into so general an appli
cation as did Gen. jackson. The speak
er also gave us an instance of how the
New York legislature. 1G years before
Jackson's administration, enacted
scenes that for shrewdness. trickery
and unfairness, discounted the stall
wart, half-breed fight in New York.
as we'll as the present dead lock at Al
bany. The lecturer gave us II sound
and instructive paper, and the senti-
ments therein contained should find u
lodging place in the mind of every
American citizen.
In the near future Judge Cooley will
give us a lecture on this important sub
iect, and of course we are on the qtti
ctce for something unusually good. If
we had had the right kind of civil SER
vice in this country, Judge Cooley
would have been appointed one of our
u. ). Judges long before this.
We received "A heavy snow last week