The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1885-12-18

for whose benefit 10 has been adopted should
be encouraged to avail themselves fully of its
advantages.
The prohibition of the importation into
several countries of certain of our animals
and their products based upon the suspicion
/ that health is endangered in their use and
consumption, suggests the importance of
such precautions for the protection of our
stock of all kinds against disease, as will dis
arm suspicion of danger and cause the remov-
al of such an injurious prohibition
If the laws now in operation are insufficient
to accomplish this protection, / recommend
their amendment to meet the necessities of the
situation, and l commend to the considera-
/ ton OF Congress the suggestions contained in
| the report of the commissioner of agriculture
calculated to increase the value and efficacy
/ of this department
THE CIVIL SERVICE.
| The report of the civil service commission,
! which will be submitted. contains an account
/ of the manner in which the civil service law
| has been executed during the last year, and
much valuable information on this important
| subject.
1 am inclined to think that there
is no sentiment more general in the
minds OF the people of our country
than n conviction of the correctness
of the principle upon which the law enforcing
civil service reform is based. In its present
condition the law regulates only part of the
| subordinate public positions throughout the
country. 1t applies the test OF fitness to ap-
! plicantS for these places by means of a com
pettive examination, and gives large discre-
! ton to the commissioners as to the character
/ of the examination and many other matters
| connected with its execution. Thus the rules
| and regulations adopted by the commission
have much to do with the practical usefulness
of the statute and with the results of its APP
| pliCatiOn.
The people may well trust the commission
to execute the law with perfect fairness and
with as little irritation as possible But Of
course no relaxation of the principle which
underes it and no Weakening of the safe
| guards which surround it can be expected.
| Experience i'll its administration will proba-
3 bly, suggest amendment CT the methods of eX-
ecution, but | venture TO hope that We
shall never again he RENTED to
the system which distributes PUG
lie positions purely as rewards for
partisan service. Doubts may well be enter
tanned whether our government could sur
vive the strain of n continuance of this sys-
ten, which upon every change Of an admin
istration inspires an immense army of claim
ants for Office to lay siege to the patronage
of government engrossing the time of the
public officers with their opportunities, spread
ing abroad the contagiOn of their
disappointment and filling this air with
the tumult of their discomfort.
The alluremeuts Of an immense number of
offices and places. exhibited 10 the voters of
the land, and the promise of their bcstowal in
recognition of partisan activity, dcbauch the
suffrage and rob political action of its
thoughtful and dcliberativc character. The
evil would increase with the multiplication
of offices consequent upon our extension,
growing from its indulgence, would
pervade our population generally that
patriotic purpose, the support Of principle,
the desire for the public good and solicit
tude for the nations welfare would be
nearly bani,hed from the activity of our
party contests and cause them to degenerate
into ignoble, selfish and diseraceful struggles
for the possession of office and public place.
Civil-service reform enforced by law came
/ none too soon to check the progress of demon
aliation. One of its effects. not enough re-
garded. is the freedom it brings to the politi-
cal action of those conservative and sober
men who in fear of the confusion and risk
attending an arbitrary and sudden change in
all the public officers with change of party
rule, cast their ballots against such a change.
Parties seem to be necessary, and will long
continue to exist; nor can 1t be now denied
that there are legitimate advantages, not
disconnected with office holding. which follow
party supremacy While partisanship CON
tinueS bitter and pronounced, and supplies
so much of motive to sentiment and action,
it is not fair to hold public officials In
charge of important public trusts, re-
sponsible for the best results in the per-
Torrance of their duties and yet insist that
they shall rely, in confidential and important
places, upon the work Of those not only OPP
posed to them in political aililiation but so
stepped in partisan prejudice and rancor that
they have no loyalty to their chiefs and
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