THE CIVIL SERVICE COMMISSION

Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1455, 1 June 1912, Page 7

THE CIVIL SERVICE COMMISSION

Sir,-For astounding: impudence the act of the Mackenzie Government in deculing to appoint a Civil Service Commission can not 1& heat. -But it as quite in toping with the tricky behaviour of the party all along, the party that has degraded, debauched and driven swag-carry-ing the great word Liberal. A party that did its utmost by word and deed to sustain the rottenness of the Civil Service is now to appoint its nominees to save the face of its wretched administration, that has cost the country, yes, millions of pounds, and been an outstanding factor in the huge debt increase of tlio dominion. "The ablest banker, the ablest : accountant, the ablest business man in the country" are to make suggestions for eradicating a deadly poison of let things I rip; damn the expense,, which the Lib- , eral Government has instilled one way j and another into the country s Civil Service. Ablest tommy-rot. "Why, only men of great knowledge of life and great ability oan pull the Civil Service out of the j slough it has got into, and that only by patience and unlimited perseverance extending over years, and sitting as a properly constituted and instructed board. Ten thousand pities if it cannot happen that the better type of politician who in an educational faith allied himself with the Ward-Seddon system of politics cannot join in with what appears to be a party earnest for the welfare of the country, and get such important matters as land settlement, Civil Service, railway and public works reform gone on with, and give this great country a chance of opening up its wonderful wealth and becoming as it is destined to be a populous and happy land. Excepting for such acts as the initiation of closer settlement, etc., long since passed and now part of our very political being, the Ward-S-eddon regime is fast coming to be regarded by every decently intelligent person as a huge joke—a rather serious and expensive joke however. A strong party of Massyitcs, with such men as Mr. Millar, should be ablo to do great work in the service of good Government. One result would be that tho desert-wandering, toss-haired political articlo that is at present holding the balance of power would by a natural and mechanical process find himself jettisoned. But surely the Governor has had insight enough into colonial politics by this time not to make of himself an agent in the service of this Government that has never been before the people or Parliament, and is but a miserable remnant of a party that .have, with outstanding ability, shown how to look after themselves better than any political party that has figured in the history of British and colonial politics since the initiation of democratic forms of Government. N The Governor's duty is clearly to refuse to appoint such a commission until either Parliament or the people have considered the question. That tho Commission appointed by the Mackenzie Cabinet will contain only men in sympithy with the present downfalling Government gees without saying, and by the instrument of feelers thrown at them before appointment will tho country l;e again hoodwinked by the shifty force of politics in vogue.—T am. pfc., DECEASED LIBERAL.