The age-herald., 1897-12-26


 would allow a majority of the cases to go 1 into the courts for trial It is because the courts have not done their duty that the l public takes matters of this kind into it's own hands. Bishop Galloway may make a great many enemies by talking as he does. but no one will deny that he tells the 1 truth.
 That was a great decision of Judge l Rodgers, of Arkansas, when he practically knocked the stuff1ng out of the civil service | reform. Judge Rodgers is a fearless, dar- 1 ing fellow He served four terms In con- gress. He was not a friend of the civil service reform at that time. I have heard him make several speeches upon the floor of the house, when he characterized the law as a fraud, a snare and a delusion. An instrument used by one party to keep it's friends in office, and to prevent the
 friends of the other party from getting
 into office. I don't believe Judge Rodgers
 was enemy of the principle of civil vice reform, but he was an enemy of the practice of it. Civil service reform is no doubt a good thing when properly prac- ticed. Since 1t became law in this coun- try it has become Judge Rodgers char
 acterized it-a most conspicuous fraud.
 
 publicans when it comes to the practice of civil service. The democrats threw the re-
 publicans out of office under the pretense | that it was done to better the service, | when, in fact, 1t was done to place demo- crats in the republicans places. The re- | publican party has done exactly the same. l President Cleveland pretended to be a | friend of civil service reform, yet on hum l dreds of occasions he practically indorsed | it's violation. President Harrison did the | same thing President Mckinley is going | to do the same thing. He wants republi- ] cans in public positions, and he is going l to place them there. It is a mighty poor | president that cannot construe the civil | service law to suit the emergencies of his | own party. There have been great many democrats recently who have resorted to the courts to retain their office, claiming
 they were protected under the civil ser- vice rules. As many of the officehoders voted for Mckinley they believe they should be allowed to remain. Judge Rodgers knocks these rules higher than "Beecher's Life of Christ" His decision was exactly in accord with what had been the practice of three presidents; that it is
 rule that any president use to suit himself.
 George w. Smalley, who made speech
 a few nights ago in Brooklyn, roasting the United States for it's insolence to England,
 is receiving what he deserves from the public press. Smalley was born in Vermont. He became a newspaper correspondent dur ing the war. About fifteen years ago Whtelaw Reid sent him to London as cor respondent for the New York Tribune. i Smalley had no sooner struck the Picka-
 dilly and the Strand than he began to wear
 a monocle. He became ultra English in d
 day or two. He got admitted to some swell
 London clubs. The more clubs he joined the more intensely English he became. He
 seldom, if ever, had anything good to say about Americans when they came to Lon
 don. Smaley soon became possessed Of
 all the mannerisms of the cockney Eng
 fish. In time he made friends with the Walters of the London Times. They sent him out to this country about two years
 ago to become the correspondent of that
 paper in this country. Smalley has con-
 stantl, abused the American people through
 the columns of the London Times since he
 has been it's American correspondent. Small i ley is not a bad man, but he is a vain one.
 He. believes himself to be the greatest
 newspaper writer in the world. Smalley is
 perhaps the only one sharing in this opin- ion. That he should be invited to make 0
 speech at an American dinner. where the
 guests were all Americans, and the dinner
 given by the New England society, which
 is supposed to be the most ultra Ameri-
 can social organization in this country,
 and then in his speech to insult every one
 present. was more than was expected. I
 have no doubt that the more Americans
 understand of the English government, the l better it may be liked, but why man like
 Smalley or anyone else, because he does
 like the English government and peo-
 pie should so constantly abuse his own 1 country and the people of his own coun-
 try, is not looked upon as display of good l judgment. Smalley in some way became
 acquainted with the Prince of Wales, and l at that moment he fell