Now, Sir, I have been from the beginning in favor of civil-service reform.
In three successive messages to Congress I have called attention to the subject of "civil-service reform.
These views, together with the report of the commissioners, are submitted for your careful consideration as to whether further legislation may be necessary in order to carry out an effective and beneficial civil-service reform.
The progress made in civil-service reform furnishes a cause for the utmost congratulation.
Civil-service reform enforced by law came none too soon to check the progress of demoralization.
I am inclined to think that there is no sentiment more general in the minds of the people of our country than a conviction of the correctness of the principle upon which the law enforcing civil-service reform is based.
But civil-service reform is only a device for opening the door to merit that has been shut by privilege.
As a means to this end, civil-service reform should be in good faith enforced.
Civil-service reform as a practical question was then in its initial stages.
When six years later Roosevelt resigned from the commission the great body of the people knew well what civil-service reform meant, large bodies of voters cared a great deal about it, and it was established and spreading its control.
Civil-service reform, meaning the establishment of a classified service and the removal of routine administrative offices from politics, had not reached the masses of the people at all.
Hitherto it had been a safe amusement to ridicule and jeer at civil-service reform, and here was a commissioner who dared to reply vigorously to attacks, and even to prove Senators and Congressmen to be wrong in their facts.
My efforts to interest Senator Platt in civil-service reform; his slow progress in this respect.
Visit to Washington under the administration of General Harrison, January, 1891; presentation of proposals to him regarding civil-service reform; his speech in reply.
Every increase of public business brings us nearer to thorough civil-service reform, because it enhances the importance of that reform, impresses the need of it more strongly upon the people, and deepens their sentiment in its favor.
The acquisition of the telegraph lines by the nation would convert more people to civil-service reform in one day than all the speeches which have ever been delivered on the subject would win to this good cause in a year.
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