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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
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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

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