The Newtown bee. (Newtown, Conn.) 1877-current, 1891-09-11
The Bee Buzz.

Why not educate our sons and daugh-
tiers for the civil service? 1t takes about
100, 900 officers to administer the gener-
al government. These officers receive
from $4,000 per year, all the way down
to a few hundreds but the most of them
gain their living from the public treasu-
ry. The civil service of the state of Mas
sachusetts has 925 officers, exclusive of
the Legislature and is, probably, fair
sample of the State governments
throughout the country. Add to these
all the officers of all the city, town and
county governments and what an array
of men and women it makes of the pub
lie servants of the sovereign people Com
mon sense and common honesty demand
that the government of the people shall
be conducted on sound business princi
pies. Efficient civil service requires COM
petent men and women to fill the offices.
A considerable per cent.of the civil offices
are now filled, according to law, by COM
petitive examinations and system of
promotions from the ranks of the people.
of the whole country will gradually be
redeemed from partisan politics and
placed upon the firm basis Of the science
of government. Public education does,
then, stand in most direct and vital re-
lation to the public service; and per-
manent and honorable career is open to
the rising generation in the departments
of state. A common school education
will suffice for some appointments for
others, higher schooling is Indispensable.
We have known men, prominent in par
ty politics, who could not accept desira-
BILE public Office, because they did not
60 to school enough in their youth.-[O.
o. Wright.
1t may not be wrong in itself to be
rich but to be rich at the expense of the
poor is sin and shame. The man who
holds wealth for the good of others is
benefactor; but he who boards money,
wrung from the necessities of the poor
who are oppressed, ought to suffer as
criminal. Real wealth gives people the
good uses of the good things of life, which
they could not have without it. But
there is only about so much of these good
things and, if one man holds and wastes
and abuses what ought to be distributed
among 10, then nine of them must go with
out. 1t may not be wise for any one man
to possess million ;but the most import
ant question is, whether he has one mil
lion or more, How will he use it? Ont
man may be enabled to employ million
dollars so that it will do more good Il
more people, many times over, than
though it was divided among hundred
The question of property is one of us
and not of mere possession. Lit rich me-
want to see the good of their riches, the.
must use them and ''to distribute, forge
not 70. O. Wright.
ANY theory of society which aims t
make people independent of each other
all wrong. Men are not. neither can b
Independent in any good sense. Men ar
brethren and members of one another
The members of society have ditferen
gifts and different stations; various ia
ents and diversities of uses, all of whic
are necessary and honorable in thei
proper places. The perfection and hal
} piness of society require the faithful us
of all the powers of all men and, there
fore, all being mutually dependent, eac
should put honor upon every other-eye
!, upon the most humble uses of life.
{ servant ought to be as honorable as
master OF mistress; the employe shoul
: be as responsible in his place as the en-
ployel in his. The poor man should NJ
/ be ashamed to be poor, nor the rich ma
J proud that he is rich. There are fe
: men in the world who would not be rie
/ if they could; they would sooner VI
money than keep it. Bishop Butler SAT-
81 should be ashamed to leave f10,0
: behind me- He who serves most al
best is greatest. ito. @. Wright.