The Cairo bulletin. [volume] (Cairo, Ill.) 1872-1878, 1876-07-21


payment.
We believe such system, well devised,
and. above all. entrusted t. competent
hands for its execution. Great ng 81 no liine
an artificial scarcity OF currency, aho at no
time alarming the public mind INTO WITH
drawal OF that vast machinery OF creuit Dy
which a5 per cent. of all our business trans
actions are performed: system open to
the public and inspiring general confidence,
would. from he day of its adoption. bring
healing on its wings to all our harrassed in
dustries, set in motion the wheels OF com.
meree. manufactures and the mechanical
arts. restore employment TO labor, and re-
new in all it, national sources the prosper
ity OF the people.
REFORM OF The TARIFF-FREE TRADE.
Reform Is necessary in The sum aud mode
Of federal taxation. to the end that capital
may be set free from distrtst and labor
lightly burdened. We denounce the pres
eEt tariff levied upon nearly four thousand
articles a a mat r piece OF injustice, IN
equality aud false pretense. Ii yields a
dwindling. not yearly rising revenue. IL
has Impoverished many industries to sub
sidizs few: 1t prohibits imports that might
purchase .he products of American libois:
il has degraded American commerce rom
the first to an inferior rank upon the high
seas: it has cut down the sales Of American
manufactures at home an abroad. and de.
pleted the returns of American agriculture,
an industry followed bv halt our people. IL
costs the people five TINES more than it pre-
duces to the treasury: obstruct> the process
of production, aud wastes the fruits OF la
Dor: il promotes fraud. fosters smuggling.
enriches dishonest officials and bankrupt.
honest merchants. We demand that all
custom house taxation shall be only for
revenue.
REFORM ECONOMY IN PUBLIC EXPENSE.
Reform is necessary in the scale Of public
expense-fedcral. >ta'e and municipal.
our federal taxation has swollen from sixty
millions gold, in 1S60, 10 four hundred and
fifty millions currency. in $50 Uur aggre-
ste taxation. from ore hundred and Nifty
four millions gold in 1860. to seven hundred
and thirty millions currency in 1870; or, in
one decade, from less than five dollars per
head 10 more than eighteen dollars per head.
since the peace the people have paid To
tneir tax-gatherers more than thrice the
sum of the Rational debt. and more than
twice that sum for the federal government
alone. We demand vigorous frugality in
every department. and from every ofiise
| OF the government.
| REFoRM-PUBLIC LANDS TO ACTUAL SIT.
TLkE>.
Reform l. necessary to pm: stop TO the
| prof gate waste of the public lands aud
| their DIV r-iOn from actual settlers by the
p1IAs III iUNtE. which nA- >tlHAlltTcu
20, uJ0, 900 acres upon railroads alone, and
IN amount o; more than thrice that aggre.
gate, has disposed of less than q sixth iii.
rectly to the tiileIs of the soii.
REF ADOPTED CITIZENS. REJECTED
yoNGoL>
E.forD l. Necessary 10 correc, the omInis-
/ sion OF republican congress. and the error
Of our treaties and cur diplomacy. which
| have stripped our fellow. itizens OF foreign
~ u l. -rN-
| lautic, OF The shield Of American cit zen.
chip. and have exposed our hreth ern Of the
Pacific coast TO the incursious OF a race rot
| sprung from the same great parent stock.
| and, in fact, now by law denied citizen.hip
| through nsturaliZ ,tioD, a. being neither ac-
cu.tomed - the traditions OF a prcgre ssiye
civilization. nor exercised in liberty under
equal laws. We denouaee the policy which
thu. discaTds the liberty-loying German
| and tolerate. the revival Of the coolie II ade
\ IN Mong0l!an women, imported for immoral
| purposes. and Mongolan men held TO per.
| form seryiie labor Contracts
| THE FALSE sEcTARIAS IssUE-THE FALSE
SECTIONAL ISSUE.
| Reform i necessary. and can never be eff
4 fected only by making it the controlling
| issue oil the elections, and lifting II above
the two false issues with which the Office
| holding elzs. and the party in power seek
| TO smother IL.
First the false issue with which they
! would enklndls sectsrian strife in respect
| to the public schools, OF which the establish
| ment and support belongs exclusively u
\ the several States. and which the deTaO-
| cratic party has cherished from their ioun.
! dation, and Is resolved 10 maintain, witbou,
| any Partially or preference for any class
! -ect or creed, and without contributing
/ from the treasury 20 any.
| -econd-The fsise Issue by which they
1 L ID.
/ sectional hate between kiudred people once
uDnatUrslly esiraDged, but now reunited
! on one indiyisible republic an a common
| destiny.
KEFoEN-THE CIVIL SERVICE
| Reform j. necessary in the civil service;
| experience proves that efficient, economic
al conduct Of the governmental business /.
not possible IL lis civil service be subject IA
| change az every election, be prize fought
| tor at the ballot box, be q brief reward o
party zeal, instead Of poet. Of honor, a.
| signed Tor proved competency and held ioi
fidelity la the public employ; that the de.
peDsing OF patronage should neither be
tax upon the time Of all our public men
nor the instrument OF their ambition: here
again, profes lions ial.ifed in the preiorm
ance, Il test that the party ia power ear
work out no practical or satisfactory
| reform.
/
OFFICERS.
Reform IL necessary even more In III,
higher grades Of the public service. The
president, vice president, judges, senators
! representatives and cabinet officer. and al
others in authority are the peoples serY
ants: their Offices are not a private perqui
site they are public trust
When the annals Of this republic show
the disgrace and censure Of a vice presl
| dent; late speaker OF the house OF repre-
| sentstiyes marketing his ruling. a. presid
ing officer: three senator proiiting secretly
| by their vote As law-Inaker-; five chairmeI
OF the leading committees Of the late hous,
OF representatives exposed In jobbery:
late secretary Of the treasury forging bal
ances IN public accounts; late attOInel
general incorporating public funds;
secretary OF The navy enriched or enrjchinl
friends by percentages levied of the profit
or contractors wi IA his department; al
ambassador TO England ccnsured ia a di,
honorable speculation; the PRESIDENT
private secretary barely escaping c0nyic
ton upon trial for guilty completely 1,
ts-uas upon tiic Irsenue, "A secretary o
war impeached for high crimes and mi,de
meanors' the demonstration Is complete
that the first step in reform must he IN,
peoples choice Of honest men from anothe
party, lest the disease OF one political or
ganization infect the body polite: and les
by making no change of men or parties W,
can get no change Of measures and no res
reform.
RLFORM-RLFORM-RE
All these abuses. wrongs and crimes, III
product OF sixteen years OF the sscendanc
OF the republican party, ere ate a neeessit
ior REFORM confessed Dy republicans then
selves, but their reioImers are voted dow
In convention and displaced from til