The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1876-07-07

quiescence in the VIII OF tue maJoritv, the Vital
civil over the military authorities; the total separa-
ton of church and state for the sake alike Of civil
ss 80 70 o s sa ssn Ds s s
iaw rs; In ths fsithfI education Of the ris-
aS s ss:s ss PrsssTss
hAppiness and hope. We behold ne noblsst product
charter OF these rights, behoovesa free people
to practice. Also that eternal vigilance which is the
Reform IA necessary to rebuild and establish ID
the hearts of the whole people of the Union, eleven
years ago happily rescued from the danger OF Sc
cession of states, but now to be saved from cor-
| rupt centraiism which, after INJECTING upon ten
States the rapacty of carpebag tyrannies has hon-
ey-combed the offices of the Federal Government IT
! self with incapacity, waste and fraud, iniecteu
states and municipalities with the contagion Of
misrule and locked fast the prosperity OF an INDUS
| trious people in the paralysis OF hard times.
Reform is necessary to estabisha sound currency,
| restore the public credit and maintain the
national honor. We denounce the failure Tor
all these eleven years to make good the promise o.
| the lega-tender notes, which are changing stand-
ard OF value in the hands OF the people. aud the
non-payrnen of which is disregard OF the plighted
| faith of the nation.
We denounce the appropriateness which in eleven
years of peace has taken from the people in Fed
| eral taxes thirteen times the whole amount OF the
egal-tender notes, and squandered four times this
sum In useless expense, without accommodating any
reserve for their REDEEM ption.
| We denounce the financial imbecility and inn
morality of that party which during eleven years Of
| peace has made no advance toward resumption,
and no preparation for resumption but, instead
has ebstructed resumption by wasting our re-
| sources and exhausting all our surplus income
and, while annually protesting to intend speedy
return to specie payments, has annually enacted
fresh hindrances thereto. As snch hindrance
we denounce the resumption clause OF the act OF
| 1875, aud we here demand its repeal
| We demand judicious system of preparation
by public economies, by official retrenchment
1 hall Ala No
| soon to assure the whole world OF its perfect
ability and perfect readiness TO meet any of its
promises at the call of the creditor entitled to pay
| ment. We believe such system, well-devised, and
above all intrusted 10 competent hands for execu-
tion creating at time artificial currency, and
at no time alarming the public mind into with
drawal of that vaster machinery OF credit by which
95 per cent. of all business transactions are per-
forIned-a system open to the public, and inspiring
general conhdence--would, from the day OF
its adoption bring healing its wings to all our har
raised Industries, set in motion the wheels of COM
merce, manufactures and the mechanical arts, re-
store employment to labor, and renew in all its ma
tional sources the prosperity of the people.
Reform is necessary in the sum and mode of
Federal TAXATION to the end that capital may be set
free from distrust, and labor lightly burdened.
We denounce the present tariff levies upon nearly
1000 articles as masterpiece OF injustice, In
equality and false practice. 1t yields dwindling,
not yeary.rising, revenue. 1t has impoyerlshed
imports that might purchase the products Of Amer
lean labor. II has degraded American commerce,
from the first, to an Inferior rank upon the Nigh
seas. 1t has cut down the sales of American manu-
| features at home and abroad, and depleted the
| returns of American agriculture an industry
followed by half people. 1t costs the peo-
pie five times more than it produces to
the treasury. obstrncts the process of production
and wastes the fruits of labor. II promotes fraud,
fosters smuggling, enriches dishonest officials
aud bankrupts honest merchants. We demand
that all Custom House taxation shall be only for
revenue.
Reform is necessary in the scale of public ex-
pense, Federal, State and municipal Our Federal
taxation has swollen from S60,00O.0O0 in gold in
1860 to $3.50 900 900 in currency in 1870 our aggre
gate taxation from ZOO 900 in gold in 1860, to
$780, 100000 in currency III 1870, in one decade
from less than s. per head to more than s8 pei
head. Since the peace, the people have paid tC
| their tax-gatherers more than thrice the sum OF
the national debt and more than twice that foi
the Federal Government alone. We demand Wig
frugality in every department and from every
officer OF the Government.
Reform is necessary to put stop to the profgatC
waste of the public lands and their diversion from
actual settlers by the party IN power. which ha'
squandered 200,000,000 Of acres upon railroads
alone, and out of more than thrice that aggregat,
has disposed of less than sixth directly to tller
of the soil.
Reform Is necessary to correct the omissions of
Republican Congress and the errors of our treaties
and our diplomacy, which have stripped our fellow
citizens OF foreign birth and kindred race recross
ing the Atlantic, of the shield of American citizen
ship, and have exposed our brethren o.
the Pacific coast to the incursions OF a race no
sprung from the great parent stock and, in fac
now lately denied citizenship through naturaliz
alton, az being neither accustomed to the tradition
of alrogressive civilization, nor exercised in lib
: erty under equal laws. We denounce the polio,
which thus discards the liberty-loving German ant
toerates the revival of the cooe trade in the Mon
a golian women imported for immoral purposes, an'
. Monaghan men, held to perform servie labor
. contracts aud demand such modification OF tn
treaty with the Chinese Empire, such Legislation
by Congress within constitutional limitation, az shal
prevent the further importation or immigration o
I the Monaghan race.
Reform is necessary and can be effected only b
making it the controlling issue of the elections,
lifting il above the two false issues with which tn
1 oficeholding class and the party in power seek
= shackle it; the false issue with which they woul
enkindle sectarian strife in respect to the publ
schools, of which the establishment and support be
longs exclusively to the several States, and whic
the Democratic party has cherished from its FONDA
ton and is resolved to maintain without partialit
preference for any class sect or creed and with
ont contributing from the treasury the false issri
: by which they seek to Light anew the dying ember
OF sectional hate between kindred peoples, once I'm
naturally estranged, but now reunited in one ind
visible republic and common destiny.
i Reform is necessary in the civil service. Expe
rience proves that the efficient economical conduC
of the Governmental business is not possible If II
civil service be- subject TO change at every election
if it be price fought %9st for s.r at the ballot nnTt
: zeal instead OF post of honor assigned for prove
competency and held for fidelity in the public en-
ser '1 be ant tax npen the ii time Of al our pnS
q men the instrument of their ambition. Her
:. again, professions falshed in the performance a
test tlat tne party III power can WOrh out No pra
y teal or salutary reform.
: Reform is necessary even more in the hight
grades of the public service. The President, vi,
President, Judges, Senators, Representatives, Cab
net oficers-these and all others in authority al
/ the peoples servants their offices not priva
!, perquisite; they are a public trust. When Il
= annals of this republic show the disgrace and Gel
il sure Of Vice President, late Speaker Of IL
House Of Representatives marketing his rulings
o presiding officer three Senator's profiting secret
r. by their votes lawmakers, five Chairmen
l. the leading committees of the late House
Representatives exposed in jobbery, late Secreta
=. of the Treasury forcing balances in the pubic a
counts, late Attorney General inisappropriatir
the public funds, Secretary of the Navy enricni
l. his friends by percentages levied of the profits
IF contractors with his department, an Ambassad
a. to England censured in dishonorabe spcculatio
10 the Presidents Private Secretary barely escapiI
> conviction upon his trial for guilty compiled
. in frauds upon the revenue, Secretary of VI
u impeached for high crimes and confessed nj
demeanors, the demonstration complete III
Id the first step In reform must be the people
choice of honest from another par
Z lest the disease of political organization infe
the body polite, and lest, by making no change
/, men or party, get change Of measur
u and no reform. All these abuses, wrongs al
& crimes, the product OF sixteen years ascendency
re the Republican, party, create a necessity f
10 reform confessed by the Republicans tleI
nj selves; but their reforners voted down IN
y vention and dispacedfrOni the Cabinet, the part!
mass OF honest voters is poweress 20 resist the ~
900 officers, its leaders and guides. Reform OF
OK Ia baI hv paaceful civic rpyOiuti1n- do