Jasper Republican, Volume 1, Number 4, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 October 1874 — Consistency, [ARTICLE]

Consistency,

Complaining of an officer because at the commencement of his term, he was unacquainted with the duties of the office, and then when he has learned them, declaring that “he has been there long enough,” and demanding that he be replaced by a new man as unacquainted with those duties as he was at first. If you were building a new house would you discharge a skilled carpenter of long years acquaintance with his trade and employ a boy who had never driven a nail or pushed a plane? Is official place merely a school in which men are to acquire a knowledge they are never to be j>ermitted to use, or is it an employment in which, as in every thing else, acquaintance with the duties imposed, render the servant more useful to his employers ? Think of this when you hear the foolish my raised by demagogues and office seekers.