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Singularly fitting today are the words uttered by Macaulay when he urged "Reform in order that you may preserve." In the past year we have witnessed repeated examples of the inability of the machinery at Washington to cope with pressing situations. It is not that we have had ignorant or incapable officials in positions of responsibility, but that the means open to those officials are inadequate for the efficient execution of government work. The various departments have expanded to such an extent that the duties of one, overlapping, often interfere with the work of another; and those duties themselves have...
...supervise and unify the departments, a board of experts consisting of the best executive minds obtainable should be set up to direct and link the work of each into a unified whole. In this manner attention would be centered on the work at hand. A method of suggested legislative reform which seems plausible consists in the establishment of a committee whose sole duty would be the drafting of bills in such form that time may not be lost on the floor of the House in quibbling over details of phraseology and legality. Coordination of effort and legislative progress would...
...would inevitably result in the limtation of free speech since it would brand as criminal a vast, indefinable category of speech. Such legislation would, therefore, suppress all criticism of the United States government; would stop the necessary denunciation of existing evils; and would make impssible the advocacy of radical reform. The true function of government is to guarantee to its citizens the free exercise of these rights rather thatn to limit or deny them. The whole historyof repression shows us that all repressive measures have been inseparable from tyranny and that true progress has been away from such legislation...
Active in Civil Service Reform...
...Harvard in 1866 he was for a while private secretary to Charles Sumner. He has served several terms as Overseer of the University. During his long and honorable career he has been identified with a variety of public movements, having been active in such organizations as the Civil Service Reform League and the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People...