First Annual Report of the Bureau of Industrial Statistics of Maryland (Classic Reprint)

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Excerpt from First Annual Report of the Bureau of Industrial Statistics of Maryland It is with a full knowledge of the responsibility attaching to the proper performance of my duties that I have undertaken the work of this office. I have not lightly, nor without a due conception of the importance of such a work in all of its bearings, entered upon any part of it. Fully persuaded that such an office as this can and should be made a most important adjunct to the State government, I shall faithfully endeavor during my administration of it to place it upon such a basis that there may be assured to the people of the State the valuable results which it is their right to expect and my duty to give them. Every public office is created for the people who support it, not to benefit the individual who may be selected to administer it. I shall know no other line of conduct than to adhere strictly to this policy, and if thus, happily, I merit the public confidence, the future usefulness of the office may with reasonable certainty be assured. If the central idea, steadily kept in view, is the subordination of all to the common welfare, the consequent attainment of the greatest possible good on the lines marked out is inevitable. He who adopts this as the guiding principle in the execution of any duty has learned well his first lesson and has gone far toward the accomplishment of the ends desired. But without proper support, no efforts, however well directed, can secure the maximum amount of good. My exertions to carry out the provisions of the law, though they be in good faith, must fail of results unless the proper assistance is given me by the State. Whatever measure of success, therefore, may eventually be reached by this Bureau must not be judged by the results of the first year's work. It is new, and from the very nature of things largely experimental. Its usefulness in the public estimate and its ability to serve the ends of its creation have yet to be demonstrated. It is not possible, nor must it be expected, that after one year of existence, even under conditions more than ordinarily favorable, a bureau of statistics can be made capable of perfect work. It is only by slow development, patient investigation and careful study of the questions involved that this is to be done. Years may be required, indeed will be, for the perfection of a system which is to be productive of lasting results. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.