Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1920-08-10

guard OK civil SeTNaCS t4iS
must approximate those paid in pri-
waite employ. Today We are raced
with the fact that the majority OF
the most efficient government EN-
ployes leave the service when tne9
are becoming most valuable Inc
less useful remain. Many millions
of dollars could be saved to the tan
payers by Redistribution of the ser
vice, by the payment of adequate
compensation and by the rigid eliml-
nation of those who fail to measure
up to a high standard. All of this
also has been called to the attention
of the present Congress without re-
suit. and Congress only can authorize
the remedy.
Praises Cox
1t is a particular pleasure to know
that if we are sustained by the peo-
pie in the election, the country will
have as its chief executive man
who has already amply established
his reputation as successful admin
istrator by the reorganization of the
business methods of a great state.
task before the national government
can also be assisted by sympathe-
tic cooperation between the eXecu-
tive and the legislative branches,
and in this work partisanship must
not enter.
In the consideration of the. needs
of the country and the conduct of its
affairs like to dwell particularly on
that part of Lincoln's immortal
phrase which speaks of Government
for the people" Service on the part
of men and women in the govern
ment is not enough: it must be I'M
selfish service, ii must be service
with sufficient breadth of view to in
clude the needs and conditions of
every kind of citizen. of every section
of the land. Such a body of workers
would make impossible a return to
the conditions of 20 years ago when
men in the halls of Congress and in
the executive branches almost open
~ represented special interests or
considered the obtaining OF appro-
priations for their own localities as
of more weight than the welfare of
the United States as whole. Such
spirit of unselfishness would pre-
vent also the formation of cliques or
olegarchies in the Senate for the re-
tarding of public business.
Good Old Days Gone.
Some people have been saying of
! late: we are tired of progress, We
want to go back TO where we were
before. to go about our own business.
to restore normal conditions" They
are wrong. This is not the wish Of
America. We can never go back
The good old days" are gone past
forever: we have no regrets. For
our eyes are trained STRAIGHTFORWARD
to better new days.
In this faith l am strengthened by
the firm belief that the women of
this nation. now about TO receive the
National franchise. will throw their
weight into the scale Of progress and
will be unbound by partisan preju-
diccs and a too narrow outlook on
national problems. We cannot an
Choir our ship of state in this world
tempest. nor can We return to the
placid harbour of long years ago.
We must go forward or founder
Americas opportunity is at hand
We can lead the world by a great
example, we can prove this nation a
! living. growing thing. with policies
that are adequate to new conditions
In thousand ways this is our hour
of test. The Democratic program
offers a larger life for our country. a
richer destiny for our people. 1t is
Q plan of hope. In these chiefly let
1t be our aim to build UP, not 20
! tear down. our opposition is TO the
Things which once existed, in order
that they may never return. We
oppose money in politics, we Oppose
the private control of national imam
ces, we oppose the treating of human
beings as commodities. we oppose the
saloon bossed city. we oppose starva-
ton wages, we oppose rule by group
or cliaues. In the same way we Oh
pose a mere period of coma in our
national Iirc.
Progress the World
A greater America is our objective
Definite and continuing study shall
be made of our industrial, seal and
social problems. Definite and con-
tinuing action shall result there
from, and neither the study nor the
action shall be left to emotional cap
rice or the opportunism of any
groups Of men. We need a co-opera-
ton of the ablest and wisest heads
in the land irrespective of their poll
tics. So we shall grow-sanely,
humanity. honorably, happily con-
scious that the end that we handled
on to those that follow us the knowl-
edge that we have not allowed 10
grow dim the light of the American
spirit brought hither three hundred
years ago by the Pilgrim Fathers.
The coming years are laden with
significance, and much will depend
on the immediate decision of Amer
lea. This is the time when men and
women must determine for them
selves wherein our future lies. l look
to it for progress. In the establish
'ment of good will and mutual help
among nations, in the ending of
wars and the miseries that wars
bring, in the extension of honorab bic
commerce, in the International set
Element which will make it unneces-
sary to send again two million of our
men across the sea. l look to our
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