The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1876-07-02

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cisls and bspkrupts honest merchants. We
demand that all custom house taxation shall be
only for revenue.
pense, Federal. state and municipal Federal
| tsxstion has swollen from $40 900 900 gold in
1860 to 5000 900 currency in 1870, our az.
| gregate tsxation from $le4 600 600 gold In 1860
10 $3.50, 900 900 currency in 1870. Or in one de-
cade, from lese than Eve dollars per head to
more than eighteen dollars per head. Since
the peace the people have paid to their tax
gatherers more than thrice the sum OF the ma
tional debt, end more than twice that sum TOT
the Federal Government alone. We demand Q
vigorous frugsiity in every departments and
| from every officer of the government
Reform 10 necessary to put q stop to the pro-
| figate waste of public lands and their diver
| zion from actual settlers by the party In power
| acres upon railroads alone, and out of more
than twice that aggregate has disposed Of less
| than sixth directly to tillers of the soil. ke-
form is necessary to correct the omissions OF @
Republican Congress, and the errers of our
treaties and our diplomacy, which have strip.
ped sur fellow-cit,zens of foreign birth and
kindred race recrossing the Atlantic Of the
shield of American citizenship, and have ex-
posed our brethren Of the Pacific slope to the
incur",o's of race not sprung from the same
great parent stock: in fact, now denied by law
neither accustomed TO the traditions of pro-
gressive civilization or exercised in liberty I'M
der eqnal laws. We denounce the policy which
thus discards the liberty loving German and
tolerates the revival of the Coolie trade in
MoDgoliSn women imported for immoral pur-
poses, and Monaghan men hired to perform ser
vile labor contrsots, and demand suoh modih.
cation of she treaty with the Chinese Empire
or such legislation by Congress, within con-
stitutional Limitation, IS shall prevent the fur
Their importation or immigration Of the Mopgo-
lien race.
Reform 10 necessary and can never be effGct-
ed but by making it-the controlling issue of
the elections and lifting it above the Swo false
Issues with which the office-bolding class and
n q IL.
false issues with which they would enkindle
sectarian strife in respect to the bile schools,
Of which the establishment and support belong
exclusively to the several States, and which
the Democratic party has Cherished from their
foundation and resolved to maintain without
Partially or preference for any class, sect or
creed, and without contributing from the treas
ury to any, The false issue by which they seek
to light anew the dying embers of sectional
hate between kindred peoples, once unnatur-
ally estranged, but now re- united in one indi-
visable republic and q common destiny.
Reform is necessary in the civil service. Ex-
perienoe proves that efficient economical con-
Sble il its civil service be subjected to change
ut every election, and be prize offered at the
bollot-box as q brief reward of party zeal in
stead of posts of honor assigned for proved
competency and held for fidelity in the public
employ. That the dispensing of patronage
ehould neither be tax upon the time of all
our public men nor the instrument of their am
bition. Here again professions falsi6ed IN the
performance attest that the party in power can
work out no practical or salutary reform.
Reform is necessary even more in the higher
grades of public service President. Vice Pres
ident, judges, Senators, Represen tatives Cab
met Officers, these and all others in authority
are the peoples servants. Their Offices are not
q private perq uisite, they are public trust.
When the annals of this Republic show the
disgrace and censure of q Vice President, late
Speaker of the House of Representatives mar
keting his ruling as a presiding officer, three
Senators proating secretely by their votes as
lawmakers, five chairmen of the leading com
mittees of the late House of Representatives
exposed in jobbery, late Secretary of the
Treasury forcing balances in the public ac-
commits, q late Attorney General misappropriat-
ing funds, Secretary of the Navy enriched or
epricbing friends by percentages levied off the
profits of contractors with his department., AN
Ambassador to England censured in a dishon-
orable speculation, the Presidents Private Sec
rotary barely escaping conviction upon trial for
guilty completely in frauds upon the revenue,
Q Secretary of War impeRched for high crimes
and confessed misdeme anors, the demonstra-
ton is complete that the first step. must be the
public choice of honest men from another par
Ty lest the disease of one political organization
infest the whole body polite; and by making
no change of men or party we can get no
change of measures aud no reform.
All these abuses, wrongs and crimes, the pro-
duct of sixteen years of ssceudency of the Re.
publican party create necessity for reform
confessed by the Republicans themselves. But
their reformers are voted down in convention
and displaced from the Cabinet. The party's
eighty thousand Office holders, it's leaders and
guides. Reform can only be had by o peace
ful civic revolution. We demand q change of
system, q change of administration, change
of parties, that we may have q change of men.
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