The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1872-08-30
The Chicago Tribune.

The CHICAGO TRIBUNE is an independent
Republican journal, which supports Greeley
and Brown and the Cincinnati Platform. II
believes that since all the distinctive prlnci-
plished, and all organized opposition to those
principles has ceased, there Is something bet
ter to engage the attention Of the people than
to fight old battles over again. It holds that
the most important thing to be done now is to
effect q complete reconciliation between the
North and the South. These two great sec.
tons OF our common country have been in
bitter hostility toward each other more than q
quarter Of a century in reference to the insti-
tuition of slavery. Eleven years ago this hos
tility broke out in War. Seven years ago the
War terminated, the Rebellion was crushed.
and Slavery abolished botn by force of arms
and by Constitutional Amendment. Since that
time the Southern States have been recon-
structed. Impartial Suffrage has been estab-
cured, and the payment Of the Rebel debt
prohibited by Constitutional Amendments.
All the old obstacles to Permanent Peace and
Reconciliation between the North and the
South have been removed. To effect such .
return of friendship and fraternal feeling, to
the end that there may no longer be any enc
mics OF our Government in our own midst, is
the principal mission of the Liberal Republi-
can party which assembled at Cincinnati on the
LIST Of May, whose platform and mt minees have
been wisely and periodically Endorsed by the
Baltimore Convention.
The CHICAGO TRIBUNE is an organ of PRo-
oREss. 1t believes that there are . multitude
Of abuses to be reformed, and that no tune
should be lost in combating them. The Civil
Service of the Government has become an in
strument Of party tyranny, and an object Of
selfish greed. 1t 1t is the great corruptor Of
public morals and Legislation. The Federal
Offices are openly used to control conventions
and elections. is to say. the taxes COL
lected from the People are employed to over
fact is presented to the public every day, and
the proofs OF it were furnished Overwhelmingly
by the recent Custom House investigation in
New York. No Administration has ever car.
ried this practice to such dangerous lengths
as that Of President Grant, and it is now be-
coming question whether the People them
selves are strong enough to throw of the yoke
CAGo TRIBUNE will labor for thorough Reform
Of the Civil Service.
The country also needs a Reform in the
Revenue System, whereby the taxes collected
from the People shall go into the Public
Treasury, and not into the Golfers Of private
individuals and corporations. The CHICAGO
TRIBUNE holds that the doctrine Of Protection
Is delusion, whereby millions Of dollars are
lost each year both to the producer and the
consumer. 1t will labor, therefore, for such
Reform as will gradually reduce the Tariff to
Revenue standard, to the end that Industry
may be as free as the revenue requirements Of
the Government, economically administered.
will admit
In short, THE CHICAGO TRIBUNE proposes to
act in the Living Present, and leave the Dead
Past to bury it's dead. It claims for it's course
the merit Of Honesty aud Independence. It
has no affiliations with any class Of Office
holders or office-seekers. It's relations are with
the People only. II seeks to elevate the STAN
dard of political intelligence and morality. and
to encourage independence of thought among
it's readers. In this sndeavor il has been
amply sustained From this course il will not
be swerved.
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