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...Frothingham L. S., president of the Civil Service Reform Club, after briefly explaining the origin and purposes of the club, introduced Mr. Roosevelt...
...Roosevelt was warmly received. He said that he did not feel it necessary to try to enlist the sympathies of Harvard men in civil service reform. Every Harvard man, by instinct and training, believes in decent politics, and civil service reform is but another name for decency in a certain part of politics...
After referring with gratification to the vote of New York by which stringent provisions for civil service reform will be incorporated in the constitution, he told how he had come himself to take up the cause. He emphasized the fact that he had not approached it from the theoretical standpoint of a collegian, but from the practical standpoint of a member of the New York legislature. Several times during his address Mr. Roosevelt insisted earnestly on the practicability of such a reform. "Decent politics are practicable in this country," were his words...
There are, he explained, two main arguments for civil service reform. The first is the material advantage gained by the improvement in the government service; the second is the more ethical advantage of an elevation of public methods and standards. He illustrated the first advantage by reference to the postal system. When we simply wish that letters should be delivered with speed and accuracy, it is obviously absurd to insist that a man should have certain views on tariff or finance. In the second place he pointed out that the offices, given out by political leaders to their henchmen, really...
Wendell Phillips Club.The competitive debate for membership in the Wendell Phillips Club will not begin at 7.30, as announced on the placards, but at 7.00. This is done to accommodate men who desire to compete before attending the meeting of the Civil Service Reform Club later in the evening...