Show the intelligent foreigner hits the te nail on the held head YOU VOTE FOB FOR ME AND ILL AI APPOINT yon you you APPOINT ME AND ILL VOTE fon FOB YOU once in awhile there appears an intelligent foreigner in the papers who criticizes criticises the political condlon condition on of this country and draws sur eur inferences and occasionally sets geta in centre shots wh which loh job make sensitive people twist and squirm and declare the intelligent foreigner a malignant libeler the latest of abne exotic productions i i has been ana analyzing lulng our system of electing congressmen and filling I 1 public offices and has arrived at the conclusion thal that we have completely changed ged the arm arrangements arrange ng e 1 me menta i from those originally instituted and have substituted a system by which the congressmen are chosen by the office holders and the office holders are appointed by theaon the tho congressmen gres siner in this instance there can be no doubt that the intelligent foreigner has hit the nail pail on the mead head bead the fanter factEr are bluntly he has bas stated them and it is precisely thia this evil condition of things that all thinking men desire to do to awa away y with it is this barrier to the growth of political purity and efficiency in the government that cirii service reform is designed to remedy and which nothing else can secure there is no other method by which the original intent of the founders of the republic can be restored nor Is there any other method by which the country can be relieved from that worst of all forms of despotism government by partisanship that the existence of party spirit is unavoidable and even necessary will not be disputed but corruption enters directly party spirit is made in add the excuse L for a stupendous spoils system and when through that system the dis disi bur bement of the revenues rl habitually entrusted to those who whose ce interest it is that ex extravagance tr should flourish given a political organization dep dependent enden euden t dpn tip n spoils for success and dishonesty follows as a matter of cauree cou ree given a 4 system under which officeholders control politics and congressmen and the jae jap of the public service is inevitable at the present moment thre no i ive more morn important than this sacramento 27 |