Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1886-11-21
THE CAUSE OF REFORM.
What Civil Service Means In France
and engIaud--The Enemy OIFree-
dom and the Friend Of Royalty.
Clyil.Servico Agitation In the United
States--A CONNECTION Of the Pollll.
cal Pastry Cooks.
Our Foreign RelRtions-Mr. MoLRne--rfr.
fhelps--Tho Need OF nm overhauIIng OF
OR Diplomatic system.
1ouisylnc Courier. journal.

t.--CIyu SERVICE IN FRANCE AND ENo.
LAND.
In France, even more than In England,
the old klngly system Of doing business
the bureaucracy prevails In every de.
partment OF the public service. Political
economists have demonstrated It's cor.
ruptions and cumbrousness, It's lack OF |
ilexibility and character, and lts conse.
quent inadequacy TO great emergencies, |
The wits have satirized It's pompous and |
devious ofllciallsm. But stu IL dTags It's |
unwieldly length slowly along and IL to- |
day as autocratlc, inefficient and ride |
ulous as IL was IN the days OF the grand !
monarque and the second empire,
Being perpetuity, and existing by a
kind OF right divine, It's one prominent
feature Is It's adherence to feudal methods
and dynastic principles IL Is by nature
a royallst. There is not member OF the
civil service In England who is not at
heart opposed to home rule. There IL
not veteran OF the civil service In
France who Is not at heart opposed TO the
republic. The fight here for free gov
ernmont would have been half again as
easy but for the creatures Of Louis Ma
poleon, who everywhere filled the subor-
dnate Offices, and, by reason Of civil
service system more powerful than public
| policy and above all law, who could not
be displaced by men In harmony with the
new order Of things. AT every step the
| Republican leaders have been handicap
ped by enemies within cooperating with
enemies OUTSIDE. 1t Is proof Of the
strength and stability Of Democratic
opinions and purposes IN France that the
,,F M uraVyitpA aAs.taau
years Of treachery, and, in spite OF Il.
stands to-day Ia the heart Of European
monarchlsm, surrounded by external
hatreds aud beset by internal conspiracy,
master OF the situation as none other has
been these hundred years,
Time Il at length coming 90 the rescue.
Gradually the undertaken IL performing
the functions OF the headsm8u, and The
grave Is receiving all that remains IN the
bureauE of THE OrlCauists and the Bona
parlists. Presently he public business
will be exclusively IN the hands o. ReFuO
liCRns, and then we shall have, perhaps, a
civil-seryice reform In France working by
a rule exactly opposite to that which Is
being set up M America.
II.--CIYIL SERVICE IN THE uNiTHp STATES
The demand for reform Of the civil
service IN the United States was q natu'
raj reaction against the corruption wlich
had crept into the administration OF tbc
government during an exceptional polill
cal eGoch. These corruptions were great
under Lincoln because they were covered
the exlgencics ard decentralization Of
time Of war; they were greater under John'
son because congress took all power from
the president aud there was no responsible
supervising authorityi they were greater
under Grant because the Republicans hac
come to consider the government theii
own affair and had a mill
tary chieftain Ia the Whit
House who could be trusted to'stand by
his friends. The discussion OF the ques
ton produced some good results under
Hayes and st'll greater and better results
under Arthur, and the attention OF th'
country being directed Alright, and th'
sense Of personal accountability beinl
quickened In the official mind we are nav
Ing q cheaper and cleaner pubic service
THAN We have had for a long time.
But this is no argument IN favor Of o.
tablishing statutory system abohshtnl
the old idea OF party government en'
creating Bureaucracy, and an ndePend
pnt official class as they have IN Franc
aud England.
The extension Of the original idea au'
need VI CiyA.scryic3 reform TO embrace
hkeo clYii service tys'en n "il
OF an out-Ht FuhicAN anu al'
stutimea. Hhith voc kitRVy A"9''
wealth and Cui,nre Of the Ets1 hnY'
brought about in tbUt quarter OF tA'
Union " Is CONNECTION OF The pohlta
pastry cooks Some oi these NE DIT
Dorman b. Eatou, are tussy rmlfurs
who, in any other transaction, would pas
az busybodics. others iiko Mr. Georg
william Curtis, i've ID a rus OF tnqF o"l
conceits aud faucies, aud get their view
Of life out Of the woild's book Of ia Mon
lplstes, having turn aid taste Tor ,ha
which "a most genteel, and Of course und
lpr this out of their own country Other
IAll are mere Missionaries and crank.
whist not a few cheats and roRua3 tax
The cue and carry 70 forward because me
think llls popular, withholding l0sl
lon among intelligent psop'e, VINO tlthe
take superficial view OF lne qle'.u
or are content 20 ia!l WIN y ~ ~,
roncy-it ~. Bnt u ls uotleelplo,, ~
Cumstonce that, with those VINO oV 'li ~,
and VINO have purpose, more 10 y ueu
Of thrift underlying TINS GlVll setFiC !.
philosophy. AL ito operations ihule
tho benefit Of tho party when WIS Iu ii,
out of Office by the votes o. lhe Psopi,.
and 70 the disadvantage OF the Pgi,
which thought, when II Yoted LOT VA
Cleveland, Is was voting ior chauIe
public servants as well as pubic poAey'