Civil-Service Examinations: Being Question Papers, With Actual Answers of Successful and Unsuccessful Candidates (Classic Reprint) - Softcover

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Union, and each city or town. They ought to get the best service at a fair rate, but they have often paid the highest prices for the poorest kind of work.

Civil-service reform had two things to accomplish first, to prevent the government service, the service of the whole people, from being misused for politicians or parties second, to provide for choosing fit men for the public service, on truly democratic principles.

Usually, after each election, the politicians who had won wanted places for their friends. They began this cry as long ago as the time of Thomas Jefferson. But Jefferson refused to remove good officers, unless they had been violent partisans. The party workers, nevertheless, kept up their pressure, and by the time of Jackson it was recognized that to the victors belong the spoils. This meant that the half of the American people which won in an election were entitled to look upon the other half as victims of war. This was a very un-american, um-demo cratic, un-republican spirit.

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