The Coconino weekly sun., 1893-12-07

utNOtlng nllnSelI 10 HIS ueVelOpm6nk ALleutlOD is invited to the statements of his report Tn re- gard te workings Of the system
 The Civil Service.
 The continued intelligentexeeutiono of the civil service law and the increasing approval by the people of it's operation are most qualifying The recent extension of it's limitations and regua- tions to the employees at free delivery post offices which has been honestly and promptly accomplished by the commission, with the hearty cooperation of the pos mas ter general, is an immensely important advance in the use fitness Of the system l am, if possible, more than ever convinced of the incalculable benefits conferred by the civil service law, not only in it's effect upon the public service, but also what ts even more important in it's effect in eleyating the tone of political life generally.
 The law embodying civil service reform found its way to our statute book more from fear of the popular sentiment existing in its ia vor than from any love for the reform itself on the part of legislators, and 1t has lived and grown and fourished in spite of the covert as well as open hostility Of spoilsmen and notwithstanding tho Querulous impracticability of m ny selscon- stituted guardians. meath all the va aries an subimated theories which re attracted to 1t there underlies this reform sturdy. com mon sense principle not only suited 1to this mundane sphere, but whose application our pcOplc hIt HlOEe anu mort ToCOAulLiuH bO DS oD- solutely essential 10 ahe most successful opera tions of their government if not to it's per petuity
 Itseems to me to be entirely inconsistent with the character of this reform as well aa ith it's best enforcement, to oblige the com. mission to rely for clerical assistance upon | clerks detailed from othe- departments. | There ought not to be such condition in any department that clerks hired to do work there can be spared to habitually work at another | place. and 1t does not accord with 0 sensible view of civil serv!c reform that persons should | be employed on the theory that their labor is necessary in one department when in point of fact their services are devoted to entirely diff | ferent work in another department I earn estly urge that the clerks necess ny to carry on | the work of the commission be regularly put | upon its roster, and that the system of oblig- | ing the commissioners 10 rel upon the services of clerks belonging to other departments be | discontinued
 This ought not to increase the expense to the government, while 1t would certainly be more i consistent and adds greatly to the efficiency of | the commission Economy in public expend- | iture is duty that cannot innocently be ne- glected by thos, intrusted with the control of money drawn from the people for public uses | It must be confessed that our apparently end less resources the familiarity of our people with immense accommodations of wealth, the | growing sentiment among them that the ex- l penditure of public money should in some man | ner be to their immediate and personal advan' | tage the indirect and almost stealthy manner 1 in which larger part of our taxes are exacted- | and a degenerated sense of official accountabil- | ity have led to growing extrayagance in gov ernme tai appropriations
 Tariff Reform.
 Alter hard struggle tariff reform is di- | rectly before us Nothing so important claims our attention and nothing so clearly presents | itself as both an opportunity and duty-an oppori iunity to deserve the gratitude of our fel | low itiZens and n duty impos upon US by our | oft repeated professions and by the emphatic l mandate of the people After full discussion our | countrymen have spoken in favor of this reform | ane they have condded the work Of its accom- plishment to the hands of those who are sol emnly pledged toit If there is any thing in the theory of representation in public places of the people and their desires, if public onicer, are really servants of the people and if political promises and professions have binding force our | failure to give the relief so To g awaited will be sheer recreancy. Nothing should intervene to | distract our attention disturb our effort un- | til this reform is accomplished by wise and careful legislation While ve should staun hly adhere to the principle that only the necessity | of revenue tustifesN the imposition of tariff | duties and other federal taxation and that | they should be finite by strict economy, we | cannot close our eyes to the fact that condi. tions have grown up among us which in jus
 ii and fairness call for discriminating care in the distribution of such duties and taxation as the emergencies of our government actually demand.
 Manifestly,if we are to aid the people directly | through tariff reform, one of its most obvious features should be a reduction in present tarif | charges upon the necessaries of life The ben ehts of such Q reduction would be palpable and substantially seen and felt by thousands who would be better fed and better clothed and bet ter sheltered These gifts should be the willing
 benefactions of government whose highest function is the promotion of the welfare Of tho people Not less closely rela ted to our peoples prosperity and well being is the removal Of re-
 strictious upon the importation Of the raw ma l terials necessary 70 our manufactures The l world should be open to our national ingenuity
 and enterprise.
 For their goods soon fill the narro market
 to which they are confined Then folio JAS a
 suspension of work in mills and factories,
 discharge of employees and distress in the homes Of our worl1lngmen. Even if the often disproved assertion could be made good that | lower rate of ages would result from free raw
 materials and low tarin duties, the intelligence
 of our workingmen leads them quickly to dis.
 cover tn t their steady tmployment permitted by free raw materials is the important factor in their re ation to tariff egislation. | Q measure has been prepared by the appropri-
 ate congressional committee embodying tariff
 reform on the lines herein sugges ted, which | will be promptly submitted for legislative
 action. It is the result of much patriotic and
 unseltsh work and believe 1t deals with it's | subject consistently and as thoroughly as ex-
 istng conditions permit l am satisfied that
 the reduced tarin duties provided for in the | proposed legislation. added to existing internal
 revenue taxation will in the near future,
 though perhaps not immediately. produce suf-
 hcient revenue to meet the needs of the gov
 ernment
 The committee, after full consideration and
 to provide against a temporary deficiency
 which may exist before the business of the
 country adjusts itselt to the new tariff sched-
 ules, have wisely embraced in their plan few
 additional internal revenue taxes, including a
 small tax upon incomes derived from cer tain
 corporate investments These new assess.
 ments are not only absolutely just and easily
 borne, but they have the further merit of being | such as can be remitted without unfavorabie
 business disturbance whenever the necessits of their imposition no longer exists
 In my great desire for the success of this
 measure cannot restrain the suggestion that its success can only be attained by means of