The Portland daily press., 1900-01-15
WILL OF pORMAN B. EATON.
Good Government re Ne Taught In
Colleges.

New YORK, January lA-1ne VIII Oh ths
late Dorman d. Eaton, the exponent OF
civil service reform, was flsd for probate
today. BY the terms Of the viii several
large bequests are made for educationai
and charit able purposes.
Coiumbin and Harvard universities
recsive si09. 600 each. the New York akin
and canoer hospital gets $4,000 and the
society for suppression OF vice 20. eoo'
The value Of the estate is not stated.
The pequsss to Harvard 10 10 be used
in founding professorship Of the
science Of government. The principal is
TO be permanently Invested. and the In
come only to be used for the support OF
the professionally.
lhe money given to Columbia IL to be
devoted to the founding Of professor
ship of municipal science and admins
tratiop.
Ihs will also contained bsquest Of
5000 to the American Unitarian assooi-
alton of Boston, and another Of $500 TO
the Unitarian Congregational society
of Brattleboro. W. Regarding the be-
quest to Harvard, Mr.. Eaton says: 81 do
not attempt to prescribe the specific
Instruction to BE- given through shis
profsssorship but may say that have
endowed 10 not only In the faith that IL
will always be flied BY an able and pa
trlotIc citizen zealously devoted to Its
purpose, but In the hope that through Its
teaching the great principle, upon which
our national constitution Ii bssed and In
conformity to which administration
should be carried on, will DO indicated
and strengthened; that the nt relations
between parties and government will be
made plain; that the obligations OF the
moral law and of patriotic sndeavor In
party politics and all official life will
be persuasiveiy sxpounded; that the Just
relations between public opinion. party
opinion and individual Independence
will be set forth; that an effective infiu-
enoe will be exerted tor making public
administration and Liquidation In the
United States worthy Of the character
and intelligence OF their people ana that
not only lessons of history will b pre-
sentsd but that the mos appropriate and
effective means OF practical wisdom In
our day will be considered for preventing
corruption and partisan despotism In
politics and government and for. iEouo'
ing and enabling the most worthy oiti'
gems fairly to exercise q controlling pow
or in the republic. 1t seems TO me that
thess lsssons-and especially such as may
be drawn from the history Of the ancient
Italian and Dutch republics and from
that of Kngland-have been by no means
ada ately expoundsd 10 the teachings
of our political science"
M. Eaton says in respect Of the money
given to Columbia: "Ths problem oil
| municipal government is one Of great dill
Guilty and peril, and there is little In our
early constitution to aid In its solution
A true and safe municipal system II
yet to be created In the United States
| To determine . definite sphere within
which oities and villages shall substanti
ally control their own affairs; to fairiI
mark the limits Of cooperation between
them, and the state beyond this sphere
to provide ths.best methods Of munioi'
pal administration to create councils IL
cities and villages which shall, in sub
stance, exercise their local authority ant
represent their public opinion rathel
than their party opinion; to greatly re
duce the numbs and frequency Of elsc
lions In municipalities; TO prevent th'
control of their affairs Dy parties ant
factions; and to make good municipa
government the ambition and endeavol
Of the worthiest citissn-these seem to m
to be the great problems Of statesman
ship towards the solution Of which
trust this professorship will Iargly oontri
butte. Through 1t. 1 hope. municipa
wisdom gathered from most enlightened
cities of other ,ountries and from all tn
best governed municipalities of the union
will find effective expression"