The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1906-01-21
By POUL TNEY REGEE OV
(Republished from the New York
lndependent by Pernnission.l

and does not select a site where fever
| is the main crop. -,.--,
The practical man drains his fields
before inviting his friends to build
homes. A practical man would have
drained Colon before permitting 10000
negroes TO settle there.
/ The practical man would Immediately
take those negroes away from that
! swamp, where they are losing their
strength, and locate them in camps on
the neighbOring hills.
The practical man asks why there Is
| not common Justice for the negro; why
there are not tribunals before which
LABOR disputes can be summary
treated.
The practical man wants 10 know
why we cannot appoint agents for the
protection of negro interests just as we
appoint similar officers folpretect immi-
grants arriving in New York
The practical man asks for the dis
misSal of the present army OF useless
| White officials an da. selection OF COM
petent men at fair salaries, according
to business principles.
civil service examinations should be
requlTed-such examinations as would
satisfy q practical mara physical ex-
animation, and, above all a searching
moral one, in order to satisfy us that
Q y
an all around, sound, straight and
common sense servant Of his govern
ment
Today it would be a reckless father
Who would advise a son TO take employ
ment on the canal zone. Yet under
practical conditions such a service
would draw our best young men
The pay need not be high but the
candidates must feel that the eye OF
an. honest commander is on them and
tLaI they VIII be promoted according
to merit.
The practical man. also realizes that
the success of the canal is bound I'D
with the nature Of the powers which
may be given to the general command
ing the labor forces on the fsthmuS
The man to whom this honor is en-
trusted should be made to feel that his
position ts. not for this year oar even
for ten, but for life. He should be the
dictator Of the whole zone and its adj
Jacent municipal territory, and In thls
post feel the same security as a Judge
or the supreme court at Washfng1on
The salary should be generous, with
a retiring pension for disability or odd
age. He should have an official palace
In which to receive official guests, and
also an adequate allowance fog nec@gA
sary entertainments.
Such commander wooId fmmedAaao4
~ cut off from the payTOils the fancy
men drawing $4,000 for worse than
useless duties. He would abolish thA
$4,000 a year press agents. who are not
needed, unless you admit that the Ro1,.
eminent needs to conceal the truth
This proposed chief Is not Tar on
there are plenty Of them within call OF
the White House telephone. West PO4nk
alone could furnish q. dozen OF than
tomorrow, to say nothing OF the BossnZH
Institute of Technology,
Mr.. Roosevelt and Mr.. Taft no dJuaJS
mean well when they give Us the asa
surance that political jObbsry Is Hor-
eign TO their natures. At Ths Eanaa
time, jObbeTy f1OrishAs under theass
noses and they appear TO be Incapable
Of stopping it The people at large need
to appreciate this fact and 70 ConsAdeh
some change in a system which aRrsatr
gives omino1s signs OF rOttannesa
Panama, December 1905.