Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1885-05-21
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From nm ex-HIinister to BERLIN TO the
Present Minister.

Present Minister
The following letter in relation to the
recent farewell dinner to Minister PEN
dleton needs no explanation
CORNELL UNIVERSITY, ITHACA, N. Y, April
| "a, 1Ss5.-EUeTet p. Wheeier, Esq, DEAR
SIR Greatly to my regret l am unable to
reach New York In time to accept your kind
| invitation.
The tribute In which yodsinyite me to
Join is well deserved. At n turning point
in the history OF this nation your dis
| tinguished guest came forward--in advance
of popular sehtiment-risked position, de
| fled malice, seorned ridicule, and took his
stand with those who believe that the re-
| form which the nation most needs can only
| BE- begun by cutting out OF THE body polite
that canceroiis mass known us "the spoils
| SYSTEM"
When others shrank from such daring
surgery he took the responsibility, and the
sOundness of his Judgment Is proved by the
| fact that the patient began Immediately to
gain health AMI strength.
Whatever other hOnOrs, then, shall br
| henped upon your guest, at home or abroad
there will be none so high, none 50 lasting,
| ns the simple historical filct that the great
| charter OF the Reformed Civil Service will
| forever bear the name Of The Pendleton
BILL"
But, while eongrituiatlng him, allow mt
TO congratulate our friends, of all parties
who assemble to do him honor. Happy
indeed, may we all 10 that Civil Ser.
vice reform, has come, and CONT
TO stay; that it is daily growing
stronger MS the people more fully under
stand 1t; that In any American audience
when It is fairly discussed, 1t always secures
the overwhelming majority Of all present
and that its fundamental priuciple--th
| substitution OF fitness for favoritism-i
working Its way rapidly into the brains an,
hearts Of increasing myriads OF our fellow
citizens, and especially Of our young men
The politicians who think that 9Th
average American learns nothing and fol
gets nothing" are wofully astray. They fol
get that ours has become n land OF schools
that every school house is force on tn
side of reform; and they may well remen
Der that there are over 10000 school house
In this state Of New York alone.
General Jackson Is dead; the school-ma
ter lives.
No nation is less likely than ours to mi
take for any great length OF time Il
phrases OF political hucksters for wisdom
or their schemes for the interests of Il
people.
Now that the cloud Of war has rolled aw;
and the financial fog has lifted the thinkil
masses see more and more clearly array,
before them us their worst enemies Il
privileged class OF professional spoilsme
More and moro ClVll service reform
seen to he u triumph of sound sense ov
unreason; Of business methods over pc
petual breaches of trust; of practiC
politics over m outworn political supers
ton ;of craftsmanship over huckstering;
equal rights over favoritism; Ia short
democracy over aristocracy, aud of rolu
licanism over oligarchy.
AS your honored guest then takes his "
to his new post let us renew onr vows
obedience TO the living and growi
thought of the country; let us strength
our purpose not to recedc,n not to rest but
go forward; let us renew our faith that
great idea which he aided to set in mott
will surely overwholm all who stand in
way, and that those who shall develop
and perfect II and stand true to it shall,
the near future, secure the confidence u
WELD the force of our cities, our states, a
the whole country l remain, very tr
yours, ANDREW -. WHITE