SPOILS OF THE VICTORS.
4 THE PURCHASE OP TITLE?. Nj TelecraDl—Press Aesociatiou—CoryrleUt (E«c. February 18, 5.5 p.m.) London, February 17. Lord Selborne, in a speech at Cambridge, said ho did not suppose the Government desired to introduce a system of spoils to the conquerors, but it had made wholesale, appointments to the Civil Service. He deprecated the conferring of honours on men -whose only merit was that they had donated largely to the party funds. This tended to render public life corrupt an<l to bring honours into contempt.
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Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1367, 19 February 1912, Page 5
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88SPOILS OF THE VICTORS. Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1367, 19 February 1912, Page 5
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