The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1885-01-23

he conceives, ample professional e,
perience, comes to his work with hi
mind full of crotchets, and thinks b
must signalize his term of office, how
ever short, by abolishing something
and setting up something else. L
England man of talent, who ma
have been presumptuous and flight,
as an independent member, quick,
gets sobered when he is set to learnt
difficult work of managing a depart
ment about which he knows nothing
He must rely at first upon his perma-
nent staff, and this prevents him from
attempting rash innovations: by and
by when he has acquired experience,
whatever reforms he may see fit to
propose will be mooted in prudent
spirit, and more likely on that account
to be satisfactory and durable. 1t is
certainly pity that minister of
proved ability should so often be turned
out of Office just as his services are
beginning to be appreciated; but under
our English system the services of a
statesman who goes into opposition are
not lost to the country, for he brings
his experience to bear in controlling
the work of his successor; besides
which there is departmental etiquette
which binds a minister under ordinary
circumstances to carry on and COM
plete good work commenced by his
predecessors. Two or three little facts
will show how tremendously both
parties in the state combine to keep
the mechanism of government in good
working order, despite their struggle
for power. An incoming minister is
always received in his department by
the outgoing chief who puts him in
possession of all the facts about cur
rent business to be transacted. In &C
acknowledgement of this the new minis
ter, during the whole of his stay in
office, takes care that his predecessor
shall be the first informed of all events /
connected with the department which |
may be made public. Thus, if impor-
tant news arrived from abroad, copy
Of the dispatch would be forwarded
at once by the present foreign secre-
5ary to the former holder of that Office
the idea of this being that the latter,
rs a critic ex-officio of the foreign
. olicy of the government, has a claim
% be supplied with rapid and ample
Information These patriotic courte-
les are not practiced in any other
country, and one may allude to them
With pleasure as showing that
For some true result of good
All parties work together.
Tut if they have so worked, the re-
ult is largely due, as we have shown,
D the queens wisdom in siding with
either party and in establishing re- '
ltions of personal friendliness with {
lost of her ministers, so that no
'alousy could arise among them. The I
tie king of Bavaria used to make the {
yes of ministers whom he disliked a
nbearable by questioning them about 4
lie affairs of their departments until b
3 had exposed their ignorance. This h
ould be resource always open to an C
lnatured sovereign, and it must be
membered again that the personal O.
huence which Mr.. Gladstone has +,
'aised her majesty for exerting in her q
with foreign rulers ;s
an influence which need not have n
zen given as it constantly has been, ,
serve ministers of either party who b
open to want it. The queen might q
we refused her good offices to get
competent ministers out of scrapes, !,
ID she would have had constitutional y
arranty for go doing, since ministers =
ho were not loath to solicit her :.
ajesty's assistance when they were -
distress have sometimes not scrupled -,
cavil at letters written to help their ~
onents.-Tenple Bar. s.