New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1898-12-17

dia or to long hold II as British dependency;
was Incorporated into the India act OF 1S3-one OF
the most enlightened liberal. salutary and far
reaching provisions incorporated into the adj
minstrative laws OF any nation.
OPEN COMPETITION.
The whole system of party favor. spos and in
huence for making appointments for India was re-
jected. In Its place It provided that any sub
tect Of Her Majesty might freely compete-accord-
ing TO fixed regulations and regardless of political
81 religious opnions-for appointments In the
Indian Civil Service and that the most merterious
~ Here MAS not merely rejection Of the old Eng;
influence upon which great parts of the English
constitution had rested. but there was an adoption
OF the republican and democratic theory Of equal
opportunities before the law and common justice
which are, fundamental under our National Consti.
and statesma nshp.
! cannot, stop to explain to you the desperate
and spoilsmen OF England for arrestng this noble
measure of democratic liberty and justice-efforts
present year to overturn our own Civil Service Re-
form law Of 1883 and 10 coerce the President Many
able men had leading paarts-Macaulay and Lord
Ashburton among them-in carrying the new sys.
mutny but was not t too oG late i' to continually Bring
into the service Of India those young men OF super;
creeds Of her people. which conciliated their favor
improved their government and eeyaed 'ne Ell,
dependency Of any nation, either ancient or mod
ern. has ever possessed: Indeed, think II not TOO
has ha9 fa in tas ar1s civil
perior to the sixty thousand or more which now
conduct the administration Of British india Inc
people OF India have been made peaceful ana con-
of justice and liberty. which prevail in England,
but thev have been made ready TO fight under her
flag wherever on the globe II may be unfurled.
Perhaps II may he said that there has been more
bad administration connected with our smaI NAL mo- no
been among the two hundred million OF people OF
British India
| have no time for explaining how the example
IN British India copied In the Brltlsn
colonies the extent to which It has contributed
that unapproa ched superiority OF English colonial
administration which the whole world recognizes
cannot even show how the experiment IN lndia
spoils system in Great Britain itself, and to the
substitution therefor Of free. competitions OF
meritboth in the military and the civil administra-
tion-a revolution 40 great that now-though parties
administration In Great Britain there are not. dis
regarding a very few neglected petty places.
hundred changes OF Offices for party reasons In both
the civil and military services combined. Incredible
as the fact may seem TO us.
This followed by a paper on The Murrain
OF Spells in the Indian Service. by Herbert Welsh.
Of Philadelphia. The final paper was presented
by Charles ]. Bonaparte. Of Baltimore. and was
entitled Can We Trust Our Army to Spoilsmen?
ENDED WITH A FEAST.
The convention closed tonight with dinner at
the Hotel Rennert. presided over by Charles j.
Bonaparte. There no set toasts. The speak
ers were Carl Schurz Congressman F. H. Glett,
OF Massachusetts: President Proctor. of the Civil
Service Commission. W. D. Foulke. OF Indiana;
Congressman W. II. Fleming. of Georgia. and DR..
Fabian Francklin. Of The Baltimore News"