The St. Louis Republic. [volume] (St. Louis, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1904-09-23

trusted under an honest and careful sys-
tenn Of promotion to find its way to the
tor.
The other thing is to make appoint
mentS by merit and promotion by SEMI
GRITTY and merit combined. For this pu--
pose II mus, be kept entirely out of pol
tiles. Let admission TO the public service
and advancement in the public service he
altogether removed from the political pres
sCre Of legislation and unaffected by tie
political opinions of candidates.
Forbid the public servant TO canvass or
TO speak, or TO write on any political sub
servant Of the nation. and not of the po-
1itical party In the nation. You are TO
doubt deharrinc him from one of his priv
ileges as 4 citizen. but he has other priv
ileses which the ordinary citizen docs not
possess. and his special powers carry " tn
them special disabilities. He must sub
init TO The latter il he is to be trusted in
the exercise OF the power.
The chief danger which seems TO
threaten political !if. in our times Is the
: growing power of wealth and the ten
dency TO abuse public authority and pub
lie Office for the sake OF private gain This
was a gross evil under the despotism and
oligarchies OF former days. and an evil
from which il was hoped that a demo-
has, however, reappeared under new
forms. and in many countries II threatens
the honest and efficient working both OF
the elective ard of the administrative ma
chinery of the nation.
REMEDY WITH THE VOTER.
THE granGer and the wider is the par;
which the national administration play
in the highly developed modern state. at
tempting a hundred new tasks and hand
ling sums of money Of uneNampled mag
nitude so much thu, more essential has 4
become that the machinery of government
should be worked with 4 high-minded and
a single-minded devotion to the interests
of the whole people.
no
this by showing that keen and sympa-
thetic watchfuiness over administration
which the founders of the American Re
public nearly CO years ago gave to those
simple and horneiy institutions. the prod
ucis of the long quiet OF English centuries
and Of which the vast fabric of your pres
ent national Government has grown. The
state is no doubt only 4 name for tie
totality OF .he individuals who compose
H. But it represents or ought to repre-
sent these individual citizens in their
highest aspect, III their most earnest
hopes Il enbodies the hsllowed tradi-
tons of their past. II looks forward To
an ever widening collective effort after
progress in the future
"a state wisely, purely, theoretically ad-
ninistered is not only itself the product
OF an enlightened and upright people. 1t
is the mighty factor in helping TO cure
their faults, to cultivate their virtues. to
bring them nearer 10 those ideals Of l
happy and a noble life
HCNGARY'S GOVERNMENT.
An address which attracted great inter-
est was delivered by Count Apponyi. the
eminent Hungarian patriot. before 4
large audience in the hall in the Palace
Of Mines and Metallursy yesterday morn
ing.
Count Apponyi has been travelling in
company with the Inte.parliamenta-y
Congress. and left that body of foreign
ers at Cleveland for St Louis to address
the Congress of Arts and Science HI.
address IVES a most interesting resume oil
The constitution of Hungary. and de-
Tense Of the assertion that Hungary Is
the Oldest nation with a democratic form
of government
He began by tracing the evolution Of the