The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1914-05-15
MUST TAKE MEXICO SAYS COL. MCCLURE
This Country Badly Governed Because Early Legislators Had Unique Problems to Face.
Little Hope Until We Follow
 Executive Systems of Other Countries. :

'sThe business of government, is the only business in America that we carry on with unskil1ed labor" declared Col. Samuel S. Mcclure, the noted pub fisher. speaking last night before the Contemporary club at the residence Of MT. and Mrs. Nathaniel w. Bishop : we have Jagged behind the demo- cracies of the world because the Amer ican people never had a chance for self government" he continued
 Today we are taking the officials of the New Haven road to Washington as almost criminals and making them testify to their various operations. In a good government, such thing swou1d be impossible as all the Various operations in New England would have been done in the presence Of the government, and under the supervis> ion of men on both sides equally train Fed and would have been done legally or not done at alI ''
 s.The cause of the hostility between government and capital. said Col. McC1ure, "can be told in one sentence. It is due to the incompetency of the force our laws. The untrained man makes efficiency impossible We can not in America secure self govern meht under the present system of laws and the present constitution.
 According to Col. Mcclure our pres
  liar to our own country and due to the fact that during the nineteenth century, when a whole body of new inventions were brought into existence our government and statesmen were occupied by the slavery question, the tariff and the Civil war. Consequent ly the railroads and other large COT: .porations. which resulted from these inventions were allowed to form prac- tically as they pleased
 Now to the remedy,'' he continued. tIt is not a thing that can be done over night but neither Is 1t a hopeless task. The only way to get good gov ernment is to go after 1t. It can be had as Germany and England have shown us. A government, be it city. state g,-ors nation, should be run as . big corporation is run on a systematic basis. Efficient men should be en- ployed as efficient men are employed by a big corporation. their places should be made for life during good behavior and they could and would enforce the guarantees between the corporations and society. The quss- ton of good government is the per sonnel of the men who conduct the government Without competent men you cannot get good government and the clashes between government and capital will be bound to occur.
 Col Mcclure told of the splendid government or GGrHany WHICH A1o termed s.the best governed nation in the world
 You cannot reform the government of the United States until you get good city government. City service must be made a life career for self-respe young Americans. The habit of fre- quent changes means an untra1ned government, government by anna teurs. How can the work be done well if not by permanent officials as in private business? We should pur- sue the same methods in organizing governm ents as in organizing other | corporations. There are few private corporations in America organized with as able expert system as a gov 1 ernment in Germany.
 "A government should be organized as a. corporation. Who ever heard ] of a corporation electing a board of i directors and that board picking out 1 different things this or that man would do and then trying to make 8 1 profit. That is what the cities are do- ing in this country and as all our | government starts with the cities and