Eaton weekly Democrat. [volume] (Eaton, Ohio) 1866-1875, 1872-08-29
The Chicnrn Trihune.

THE CHICAGO TRIBUNE is an independent
Republican journal, which supports Greeley
and Brown and the Cincinnati Platform. 1t
believes that since all the distinctive princi-
pies of the Republican party have been accom-
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. 1t holds that
the most important thing to be done now is to
effect a complete reconciliation between the
North and the South. These two great sec
tons of our common country have been III
bitter hostility toward each other more than a
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 both by force of arms
and by Constitutions Amendment. Since that
time the Southern States have been recon-
structed. Impartial Suffrage has been estab-
lished, the payment of the National debt Sc
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 a
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 Republic
can party which assembled at Cincinnati on the
LIST of May, whose platform and nominees have
been wisely and periodically Endorsed by the
Baltimore Convention.
The CHICAGO TRIBUNE is an organ of Pro-
GREss. 1t believes that there are a multitude
of abuses to be reformed, and that no time
should be lost i'll combating them. TEe Civil
Service of the Government has become an
instrument of party tyranny, and an object of
selfish greed. 1t is the great corruption of
public morals and legislation. The Federal
offices are openly used to control conventions
and elections-that is to say, the taxes col
lected from the People are employed to over
ride the Peoples will. The evidence of this
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 becom-
ing a question whether the People themselves
are strong enough to throw off the yoke that
has been imposed upon them. The CHICAGO
TRIBUNE will labor for a thorough Reform of
the Civil Service.
The country also needs a Reform in the Rev
enue 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 a de-
fusion, whereby millions of dollars are lost
each year both to the producer and the con-
sumner. 1t will labor, therefore,, for such a
Reform as will gradually reduce tho Tariff to a
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 its dead. 1t claims for its
course the merit of Honesty and Independ-
ence. 1t has no affiliations with any class
of ofice-holders or ofice-seekers. Its rela-
lions are with the people only. IL seeks to
elevate the standard of political lntelllg snce
and morality, and to encourage independence
of thought among its readers. In this en-
deavor it has been amply sustained. From
this course it will not be swerved.
TERMS OF THE WEEKLY CAMPAIGN TRIBUNE.
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sent to mail subscribers till Nov. 6, at the fol-
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Address TIL TRIBUNE COMPANY.
Chicago, Illinois.