Union and American. [volume] (Greeneville, Tenn.) 1875-1877, 1876-08-17

head. Since the peace, the people have
Maid to the taxgaihereTs moretlian thrice
ihe sum of the national debt. and more
than twice that sum for the Federal
Government alone, We demand a Wig |
orous lrugality in every department and
from every officer of the Government.
Reform is necessary TO put a stop to-
the profigate waste of public lands,and
their diversion from actual settlers by
the party in power, which has squan.
dered ,wO hundre millions OF acre,
upon railroads alone, and out of more
than thrice that aggregate has disposed
of less than a sixth directly to %tillers
Of the soil.
O Reform is necessary to correct the
omissions of the Republican Congress
and the errors of our lrea les and dIplo>
macy, which have stripped our fellow
citizens of foreign birth and kindred
race. recrossine the A %lantic, OF the
shield of American cItiZenship,and have
exposed our brethren of the Pacific
coast to tine incursiOns OF n race not
sprung from the same great parent stock
aud in fact now by law denied citizen
ship through naturalization, as being
neither accustomed 10 the traditions OF
a progressive civilization nor exercised
in liberty under equal DAVIS. We de-
dnunce the policy which thus discards
the liberty-loving German and tolerates
the revival OF the cOolie trade in Mon
golian women imported for immo al
purposes, and Mongolian men hired to
perform servile la'or contracts, and de
mand such modification of the treaty
with the Chinese Empire, or such legis-
lation 10y Congress, within "A cnnstitu-
tional limitation, as shall prevent the
further importation or immigration OF
he MOngolian race.
Reform is necessary, and can never he
effected but by making it the controlling
issue o. the elections, and lifting 1t
above the two false issues with which
the oficeholding class and the party 10
power seek to smother 1.-THE false issue
with which they would enkindle section
al strife in respect to therublic schools
Of which the establishments and sup
port belOngs exclusively to the several
States, and which the Democratic party
has cherished fran that foundation nd
resolved to maintain without partially
or preference for any class, sect or creed
and without contribution from the treas
ury to any of them; and the false ISSUE
by which they seek to light anew the
dying embsrs of sectional hate bet weeu
kindred peoples once estranged. but
now reunited in one lndiyisible republic
and a common destiny.
WHERE REFORM is NECESSARY.
Re'oim is necessary in the Civil Service.
Experience proves that efficient, econ
omlcal conduct Of the Governmental
business is not possible if its civil ssrv'
ice be subject to change at every election
be q prize fought for at the ballot box,
he a briel rev ard of party zeal instead
of posts of honor assigned for proved
competency, and held tor fidelity in The
public employ; that the dispensing
of patronage should neither he a tax
upon the time of all our public men nor
the instrument of their ambition. Here
again prolessions-attest that the party
in power can work out no practical or
salutary reform.
Reform is necessary even more III the
higher grades of tie public service.
President, Vice President. Judges, Sens
ators, Representatives, Cabinet officers,
these and all others in authority are the
peoples servants Their Offices are not
"a private pe:qui lite, they are a public
trust. When an annual OF this Repub'
lie show the disgrace and censure OF a
Vice. President, a late Speaker of the
House of Represent %atives, marketing
his rulings as a presiding officer, three
Senators profting secretly by their votes
as law makers, five chairman of the
leading committees Of the latc House Of
Representative exposed in jobbery, a
late Secretary of the Treasury forcing
balances in the public accounts; a late
Attorney General misappropriatirg pub
lie funds, q Secretary OF the Navy tn~
riched or enrichlng friends by percent
ages levied off the profits OF contractors
v it'll his department. an Ambassador to
England cen ured for Il d~ishonOrable
speculation, the Presidents priva'e Sec
rotary barely escaping conviction upon
Trial for guilty completely IN frauds up
on the revenue, ~ Secretary ol Wal i'm
peached for high crimes and confessed
misdemeanors he demonstration is com
plete, that the first step in reform must
be the peoples choice of choice Ct hon
est men from another party, lest the
disease Of one l'oi tical organization IN
fest The body polite, and lest Ivy making
no change Of mel or party we can get
~ change Of measures and no reform.
All these abuses, wrongs, and crimes
the product of sixteen years 9-ccnden-
cy Of the Republican party, create a
necessity for reform confessed by he
publicans themselves, but their reform
ers are voted down in convention and
displaced from the Cabinet. The party
mass OF honest voters are powerleSs to
resist tie eighty thousapd o~ficeholders
fits lead RS, and guides. Reform can
only be hudlby n peaceful civic r%evnluS
ton. We demand "A change of system,
Il change of administration, "A chanf e OF
partiee, that we may have a change OF
measures and of men.
BEATTY PARLOR