Word: civility
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...Indian is penned in his reservation with none of the rights of the United States Constitution except the riuht of childish appeal. He has no courts; no law except that administered through the despotic Indian Agent. Prof. Thayer suggested as a remedy the extension of the civil service rights and advantages to the Indian, and said that the great cause of the evil was a lack of thorough investigation by the department of Indian affairs at Washington, which seems impossible with the four years office system...
...Chickens for Use and Beauty" is a taking paper, fully illustrated. Jefferson's Autobiography loses nothing in interest. "Valor and Skill in the Civil War" compares the two armies without drawing any very definite conclusions...
Oliver T. Morton concludes his marshalling together for reprobation of "Some Popular Objections to Civil Service Reform." A critical article touches "Some Recent Volumes of French Criticism," and there is an article by Kate Hilliard, whose name is nowadays seen so seldom, upon "The Easter Hare." The Contributor's Club is very pale and fibreless...
...leading article in the Atlantic for April is a paper on "Some Popular Objections to Civil Service Reform," by Governor Morton. The paper is in two parts, the first of which is given here. Governor Morton's position is clearly suggested in one of his earliest sentences, "political progress is mostly narrative, consisting mainly in the repeal of bad laws or in the abolition of bad customs." Some of the objections are taken from the records of congress, others from the newspaper and street. None of them stand up before Mr. Morton's vigorous blows...
...taxation, of the different phases of taxation under the Articles of Confederation, of the curious methods of taxation in England during past centuries, and instanced the poll tax as the best of personal taxes, for it impressed upon the poor citizen the fact of his being part of a civil society which needed his support...