But great as our tax burden is, it has not kept pace with public spending. The dangers of a concentration of all power in the general government of a confederacy so vast as ours are too obvious to be disregarded. I ask the attention of the public to the paramount necessity of reform in our civil service - a reform not merely as to certain abuses and practices of so-called official patronage which have come to have the sanction of usage in the several Departments of our Government, but a change in the system of appointment itself; a reform that shall be thorough, radical, and complete; a return to the principles and practices of the founders of the Government. Nor is it for nothing that the grave and frugal Transylvanian sends out yearly from as far as the mountainous borders of Russia, and beyond the Hercynian wilderness, not their youth, but their staid men, to learn our language and our theologic arts.
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