The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1876-07-01

az no time a arti6cial scssoity ofSur.
rency, and at5no Time slArmipg thspnb-
lilo mind intoa Nitkdrawal 0t THAI yaater
machinery of credit BY which 70
per cent. of all business transactions
are performed. A system open, public and
inspiring general confidence, would, from
the day of its adoptron, bring healing on
its wings to all our harassed Industries,
set in motion the wheels of commerce,
manufactures and the mechanic arts, re-
store employment to labor and re-
new in all its natural sources the prosper
ity of the people. .g.
FEDERAL TAXATION.
Reform is necessary in the sum and
mode of Federal taxation, and to the
end that capital may be set free
from distrust and labor lightly burdened,
we 1enounce.ahe present tariff levied
upon nearly four thousand articles as a
masterpiece of injustice inequality and
false practice.
1t yields dwlndling, not yearly ris
ing revenue.
1t has impoverished many industries
o
1t prohibits imports that might pur-
chase the products of American labor.
1t has degraded American commerce
from the first 10 an inferior rank upon
the high seas.
it has cut down the sales of American
manufacturers at home and abroad, and
depleted the returns ofAmerican agricul-
ture and industry followed byhalf our
people.
1t, costs people five times more than
it produces to the treasury, obstructs the
process OF production, and wastes the
fruits of labor.
1t promotes frauds, fosters smuggling,
enriches dishonest officials, and bankrupts
honest merchants.
We demand that all custom house
taxation shall be only for revenue.
PUBLIC EXPENSE.
Reform is necessary in the scale OF pub
lie expense, federal, State and municipal.
Our Federal taxation has swollen from
$6O,OOOO0O in gold, in 1850, to
S45O,OOO,OOO in currency, in 1870; our
aggregate taxation from Sl54, OOO,OOO IN
gold, in 1860, to $3.50, 600, OOOin currency,
in 1870, or in one decade from less than
SIS per head to more than $l8 per head.
Since peace was restored the people have
paid to the tax-gathers more than thri' o
the sum of-the National debt, and more
than twice that sum for the Federal gov
eminent alone. We demand a rigorous
frugality in every department and from
every officer of the government.
PRoFLIGACY OF LAND.
Reform is necessary to put q stop
to the profigate waste OF pablicc
lands, and their diversion from actual
settlers by the party in power, which has
sauandered two hundred millions Of
acres upon railroads alone, and out of
more than thrice that aggregate, has dis
posed OF less than sixth directly to TIL
lers of the soil.
RADICAL OMISSIONS AND THE CHINESE
Reform is necessary to correct the
omissions of a Republican Congress
and the errors of our treaties
and our diplomacy, which have stripped
our citizens of foreign birth and
kindred race, recrossing the Atlantic of
the shield OF American citizenship, and
have exposed our brethren OF the Pacific
coast to the incursions of race
not sprung from the same great
parent stock, and in fact now lately
denied citizenship through naturaliza-
ton, rs being neither accustomed to
the traditions OF progressive
civilization nor exercised in liberty
under equal laws. We danounce
the policy which thus dIscards the liberty
loving German and tolerates the revival
of the Coelie trade in Monaghan women
imported for immoral purposes, and Mon.
golian men held to perform servile labor
contracts, and demand such moiitica-
ton OF the treaty with the Chinese
Empire or such legislation by Congress,
within constitutional limitation, as shall
prevent the further importation or i'm
migration of the Mongolian race.
FALSE PRETENsEs.
Reform is necessary, and can only be
effected by making it the controlling
issue of the elections, and lifting it
above the two false issues with which the
office holding class and the party in pow
or seek To smother 1.-THE false issue
with which they would enkindle sec
tartan strife in respect to the public
schools, Of which the establishment
and support belong to the
several States, and which the Demo.
cratic party has cherished from their
foundation, and is resolved to maintain
without partiality or preference for any
class, sect or creed, and without con-
tributions from the treasury to any; and
the false issue by which they seek to
light anew the dying embers of
sectional hate between kindred pco.
pie, once unnaturally estranged,
but now reunited in one
indivisable republic and common des-
tiny,
THE CIVIL SERVICE.
Reform is necessary in the civil SER
vice. Experience proves that an efficient
and economical conduct of the govern
ment business is not possible if its civil
service be subject to change at every
election; be prize fought FOR at the bal
lot box, be brief reward OF
party zeal instead of posts of honor
assigned for proved competence, and
held for fidelity in the public employ;
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