Word: politicians
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...part: Places of importance cannot always be filled by competitive examinations and it is in filling these positions that England far surpasses us. There experts are selected who retain their positions permanently irrespective of party. Wherever the position requires the formulating of a policy, there is a lay politician but all the real work is done by the expert. In this country experts are employed only on the Bench and in the army and navy, and this is why our higher political offices are not well filled...
...public, seeing a spirit of compromise in the new organization, at once loses all faith in it. Here we have the secret of the failure of many such enterprises, and it is hard to blame any one for it. Indeed, the claim is made that a practical politician, though of the future in his desires, must be of the present in his deeds. In other words, expediency is better than idealism. This is a false view to hold, however; party lines are rapidly dissolving in these days, and no party dares claim support merely as a party. The time...