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Show THE CITIZEN 4 a resolution calling for the immediate resignation of Senator King, ukase was defeated by one vote, the majority but this voters explaining that they believed Senator King would tar his senatorial ambitions more frequently and more surely if left in Washington until his term expires, than as a private citizen. The gleeful, gloating seance of the antis session was caused by the solemn reading, by one of the members of the clan, of the piti- less publicity given Senator King by the daily papers of Mexico City. They were more or less pleased with the assertion by El Mundo that Senator Kings appearance in the senate was a novelty of the spring season, ending its caustic comment with God save the King. acid-charg- ed Others derived great comfort from the way El Democrata referred to his speech as of small significance and also the challenge from The Post to prove his sincerity by shouldering a gun and with his son and other male members of his immediate family, be part of the first landing squad. Noteworthy as all the above may be, as much as it may indicate the blantant ballyhooing of one misguided solon, it undubitably does not empress the general public as so grave and menacing as Kings all too evident love for foreign industries as indicated by his attitude regarding tariff rates in the Fordney bill, designed to protect his own state, as well as the rest of the country, from the present invasion of foreign made goods. His recent tirade against proposed tariff rates to foster the dye industry built up in the United States under the demand and his further attacks upon variexigencies of ous home industries facing utter destruction if they be not adequately protected from foreign importations, stamps him as a man to be shunned, politically, by all true Americans. When a U. S. senator conceives it to be his bounden duty to attempt to tear down the industrial fabric of his home land, it seems that the best interest of the nation, and especially of his home state, require his early retirement. claim they initiated several new memAnyhow the bers, that they also held another short but spicy meeting last Wednesday night in pursuance of their plan to defeat King and that they circulars to as many have mailed out over ten thousand anti-Kin- g Utah homes, being particular in selecting a list containing the names their parents and their friends. of The antis claim they will keep their fires sputtering from now until convention day; that no lost motion shall mar their activities until the day arrives when Kings successor takes passage on the varnished cars for Washington. war-creat- ed anti-Kingit- es ex-soldie- rs, THE MERIT SYSTEM IN GOVERNMENT. As a result of this condition thousands of federal to organizations outside the government service for 0 ing the character of their work rather than to the chiefs who are responsible for and entrusted with ca policies of the administration, which policies the ad charged by the people with carrying out. The first concern of any man or group of men in charge of a corporation or a business and entrusted m into effect and carrying to successful conclusion a ce to surround himself or themselves with a body of loyal subordinates, subordinates who not only go through of work but who so firmly believe in the policy of their they put all their ability and all their sympathy into the loyalty, this esprit de corps, is the very essence of the Without it there can be no merit system; the term be ery. The head of a railroad, or industrial plant, or busii tion, or banking house who would tolerate people upon who were faithless to the institution in that they did not its policies and were eternally breaking down the m employes and publicly criticising its management would bt ed to failure. It is exactly the same with the administration of 4 ment. Civil service and the merit system must mean son more than the ability of individuals to take a competitht tion on cut and dried lines and obtain a certain percentage, system in public administrative offices means loyalty toll of the administration, willingness to put ones shoulder to and ones heart into the work to make these policies IQ successful. Where an employe is not doing this in public affair should be dismissed the same as they would be in like dm in a private corporation. There must be no outside organizations whose standaii whose decrees in regard to hours of labor and quantity of precedent in the mind of the federal employe over the the wishes of the heads of the government. The. civil service system must refuse to permit itself i by such outside organizations for the purpose of protectinf employes. The President and his administration in their tion to clean out inefficient and disloyal help in all di the government have the heartiest support of all thinks especially of taxpayers who foot the bills incurred by petency, indifference, laziness and extravagance of such o cfl . co-operat- ion Itc he tic co-operat- bill si The country is standing with the President in his determination BEET SUGAR INTERESTS AGREE to put more business in government by getting rid of inefficient and disloyal employes. the I Agreement has been reached by the officials of The protests of Democratic leaders against the administrations Utah-Idah- o and Amalgamated Sugari placing loyal employes on guard in the responsible executive offices farm bureau and the read are having little or no effect upon public opinion. The arguments on the sugar beet contract for 1922. The decision to advanced by supporters of the civil service system with the approval of both parties, and clears the way The to the effect that the administration is breaking down the civil service production of beet sugar in the state this year. under and yielding to the clamor of spoilsmen is an argument that will cepted is based on the principle of the sliding scale farmers price for his beets will depend upon the price not stand up under honest analysis. on The only excuse which the civil service system has for existence the manufacturers for the sugar, division being made & is based upon the supposition that it means merit and efficiency in extraction in the ratio of 64.5 per cent to the farmer uip public administration. If it does not produce these two qualities cent to the manufacturers. Except as to the price,than ' farmer a somewhat greater return for his beets there is no justification for the civil service system in public affairs. contract, the bargain entered is substantially the same, There is no one familiar with conditions in the federal departa sfl? ments at Washington but knows that during the past eight years the price of $5 a ton is provided for on all beets having on civil service system has been used to break down efficiency rather of less than 18 per cent. This price ranges upward with than promote it. It has operated to protect slackers, agitators and scale as high as the price of sugar is apt to go, and bed for incompetents in public service rather than to oust them and make for at $8.50 a bag, the farmer would get $9.43 a ton merit in public work. It has joined hands with organizations outside per cent content. urca of the jurisdiction of government officials and with the Ephraim Bergeson, president of the state farm these organizations it has installed in the. departments at Washington man of 'the sugar beet committee, expressed hi thorn tion with the terms of the contract, saying: The a bureaucracy which places a premium upon the slowest, most incom' petent, most wasteful, most indifferent and most rebellious employes. the hearty indorsement of the farm bureau officials. of these external organizations bred a it is a contract that is fair to the farmers and fair to It has with the mcfl spirit of open insubordination and gross extravagance in nearly every panies, a contract that is just in every respect and of the beet growers of Utah. It is the hope of the far,n federal department. over-enthusias- irs ion . Oth( |