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Goodwin's Weekly VOL. XXI. Eleventh Year SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH, DECEMBER 14, 1912 5 Cents the Copy No. 35 I PUBLISHED EVERY SATURDAY. SUBSCRIPTION PRICE: Including1 postage In tho United States, Canada and Mexico, $2.00 per yodr. $1.25 for six months. Subscrip tions to all foreign countries within tho Postal Union, $3.50 per year. Single copies, 5 cents. payment should bo made by Check, Money Order or Registered Lottor, pay ablo to Goodwin' Weekly. Address all communications to Good win's Weekly. Entered at tho Postoftico at Salt Lake City, Utah, U. S. A., as second class matter. P. O. Box 1253. Tolophono: "Wasatch" 2007. 524-525 Felt Bldg., Salt Lako City, Utah. The Goodwin' Weekly PuMInlilnc Conipnny. LeROY ARMSTRONG . . Editor THE CIVIL SERVICE FRAUD IS the civil service system devised intentionally for the deceiving o the people, or is the shame of the business solely in the manner of its ' working-out. They called the author of that scheme "Gentleman George." His fam ily name was Pendleton, and he was a United States senator from Ohio. He i was a Democrat, hut the plan ho pro posed received the instant and em phatic approval of the people be cause they believed it to be right. The underlying principle of tho civil service system, was and still ought to be that the political parties of the country were all working for the good of tho country, and not for the measly measure of soft salary men might draw from the national treasury. He was a Democrat, and ho made his system approved by tho nation at a time when his party was out of power, and not very likely ever again to get in. Which Is tho best evidence in tho world that what ho asked for gained the approval of that portion of the nation that doesn't ex pect to he supported at some one's else expense. The men of Columbia i' who wore willing to work for what they got; who were willing to give an equivalent for the broad and butter they ate, indorsed the civil service law. They looked on tho Marcy doc trine that "to the victor belong the spoils" as a bit of pleasantry which no honest and self-supporting' man need consider. Thoy had the righte ous notion that men in office ought to do as honest a day's work as men who work in tho fields, as tho men who work at tho benches, as tho man who work anywhere, or at any time. Wherefore, the people ninety-nine hundredths of them, ninety of tho j hundred millions of themdon't care u whoop whether tho man who writes tho record in Washington, or tho man who takes care of tho forest, or the i( man who measures the governmental whisky is a Republican or a Democrat or a Progressive or a somnambulist, so long as he does his work accurately, faithfully and well. And this move of President Taft to place thirty thousand present office holders in a position where they may bid defiance to the storming of the paphunters of another year Is fully as disgraceful as the hunt of those papsters themselves. The civil service is a device for get ting the work of the nation done, and paying an honest compensation for it just as any man on earth would have to do his work, and would be expected to give an equivalent for it. The theory is that the man in a public office is no better than any other man. The theory of the civil service is that no man can draw his pay regardless of whether or not he earns it, and that no man alive has an assurance of his job a minute beyond tho day of his giving an equivalent in service. That theory which is the accepted doctrine of the many millions of tho people of the nation, is reversed by the action of the President in appoint ing a lot of people to places for the rest of their lives. It is an insult to every honest and Independent man in the whole republic. It is a reaction from the principles of citizenship. It is a denial of the right of men to make their own way. It is a confes sion that the thirty thousand Republi cans now in office couldn't earn a de cent living if they were dismissed from the offices to which they were elevated solely because they had flapped their wings for the party at the polls. If that extension of the privileges had been made three years ago, not a word could have been said against it. It was delayed because party politics demanded that every drawer of salary must get out and whoop it up for the Republican party and its candi dates, whosoever they might be. It is now made because even those in ser vice are nearer being Republicans, whatever their actions may have been in the campaign just closed, than are the men whom the Democrats would induct into office. Thoy were hold in office, with tho sword of dismissal over their heads, and the threat of ouster if they didn't obey tho behests of the political bosses. And they are made independ ent hy order because it is desired that they shall be independent of the political bosses the Democrats may elevate to place with the view that they may later bo useful to the party of the President so blessing them. It Is a scandalous perversion of an honest doctrine. It is the abasement of a system that the people approve It is the lowest possible proof of boss- ism, and the most shameless confes sion of slavery that has marKed the story of the whole American nation. The President ought to be ashamed of himself. And if he is not ashamed, he ought to be suddenly stopped in this his latest evidence of subserviency to the 'bosses. An evidence which the citizens of the republic wish had been less frequent. DOUBTFUL ECONOMY. THERE may be reason for question ing the wisdom of the county commissioners in declining to pay for the services of deputies now and in the past guarding the property of the mining companies at Bingham. The daily papers report that the com missioners have declared that if the companies need guards to protect property, they will have to pay for that service themselves or go with out It. It is a fair assumption that the pub liccity, county and state, and after that the nation is bound to preserve law and order everywhere. That Is exactly what the idea of community implies. That is exactly the pledge organized society gives every individ ual, corporation or other. No citi zen should bo required to hire men to defend his property, or to preserve peace in any part of the common wealth. The city of Pittsburg took our com missioners' view one time, and when the strike was over the Pennsylvania raihoad company brought suit, and collected millions of dollars from the city the declared value that had been destroyed because of the city's fail ure to protect; because of Its failure to maintain order. Of course the county is liable. A PICTURE AND A POEM. IN countless stores all over the na tion men and women of perception have seen and admired that ex quisite little picture by Clyde Squires, called "First Motherhood." Of course we, of Utah, find it especially attrac tive because the artist is native to our soil. Mr. Squires has lived hero, worked here, and has won his way by his talent in a far more difficult field than that ho would finr1 at home And yet the success of his picture does not rest on partisanship, for It is as popular in critical Boston, and in careless New York as in interested Utah. The picture shows a young lather standing at the side of the bed on which his wife and his firstborn child are lying. And both he and tho mother are looking in silenco at that sleep ing babe. It is one of tho scenes which reveal appreciation of the mar vel of a human life's beginning. It has all the tenderness, all tho hope, fl all the resolution that so serious a ro- Ifl lation can Impose. And it is infused ifl with all the tenderness of tho most In- ifl timate and sacred hour In humanity's w existence. jfl Years ago George Horton, a Chicago fl newspaperman, penned the following I verses, which deserve to bo bracketed I with the picture: I First Motherhood. jfl White as the sheet is her delicate I face, I Girlishly sweet 'mid tho linen and fl lace, I Motherly meet with its new-gotten II grace. H Go not away till she opens her eyes, H Deep in their gray lurkB a wondrous fl surprise, .1 Bright as tho day, and as pure as I the skies. !H Thrilling her breast is the heart of fl all love, fl Keen as tho zest of the raptures I above fl Tiger's unrest, and tho fear of the ,1 dove. fl Bliss that was bred in a transport of fl pain, H Suffering fled out of ecstasy's reign fl Fled now, and dead, though it lived fl not in vain. jB This is a bliss that no words can ex- fl press; fl Joy such as this thoy refuso to con- fl fess"; ! Thoughts only miss when wo deem fl that wo guess jfl Tuned is the heart of the mother full fl soon, H Lullabies start there, and mny a fl croon; fl Sweeter than art, and as old as love's fl boon. H Love's sea is filled to its uttermost I deeps, H If it is stilled, how enraptured It (fl sleeps; H If it is thrilled, how It trembles and I leaps! Wonderful power round humanity fl cast! fl All in an hour, and the old life is fl past; fl Womanhood's flower is expanded at H last. Curious that tho writer and tho H painter should isoom so exactly to B have conceived the same thought. fl Curious that each should havo caught fl that recognition of the wonderful, and fl havo been sllonced by tho mighty mir- fl acle. And it is quite as curious that H neither writer nor painter has else- fl where f .J in like manner made roc- 9 ord of tho really Impelling scene. fl WOMEN ON. A JURY. I IN this day of woman's arriving fl at her own, it is interesting to fl observe tho mood in which tho fl now dignities and responsibilities are fl met. In Colorado a report states that fl women privileged to become jurors, fl