The Cairo bulletin. [volume] (Cairo, Ill.) 1872-1878, 1876-08-16

equal laws. We denounce the policy which
| thus discsrds the liberty loving German
and tolerstes the revival Of the coolie trade
in Monaghan women, imported for immoTs
purposes, and Mongolian men held to per-
form seryile labor contracts.
THE FALSE sKCTARIAN IssUE--THE FALSE
SECTIONAL ISSUE.
Reform Is necessary, and can never lie eff
tected only Ivy making it the controlling
issue OF the elections, and lifting II above
the two false issues with which the office
holding class and the party In power seek
To smother IL.
Fir.t- the false issue with which they
would enkindle sectarian strife in respect
to the public schools, vi which the establish
ment and support belongs exclusively to
the several States. and which the demo-
cratic party has cherished from their fOun-
datlon, and Is resolved to maintain, without
any Partially or preference for any class,
sect or creed, and without contributing
from the treasury 70 any.
Second-The false issue by which they
seek to light anew the dying embers Of
sectional bate between kindred people once
unnaturally estranged, but now reunited
on one indivisible republic aud common
destiny
RRFORM-1HE CIVIL SERVICE.
Reform is necessary in the civil service;
experience proves that efficient, economic
al conduct of the governmental business is
not possible il its civil service be subject to
change at every eles ton, he prize fought
for at the ballot box, be a brief reward OF
party zeal, instead of posts OF honor, as
signed for proved competency and held tor
fidelity in the public employ; that the dis
pensing Of patronage should neither be 3
tax upon the time Of all our public men,
nor the instrument of their ambition: here,
again, profes ions falsitied In the preform.
ance, test that the party in power can
work out no practical or satisfactory
reform.
REToRM-CoRRCPTION OF HIGH PUBLIC
OFFICERS.
Reform is necessary even more in the
higher grades of the public service. The
president, vice president, judges, senators.
others In authority are the peoples sery-
ants; their offices arc not private perqui-
site they are public trust.
when the annals OF this republic show
the disgrace and censure of vice presi-
dent; late speaker of the house of repre-
sentativcs marketing his rulings as a presd.
ing officer; three senators protting secretly
by their vote as lawmakers; five cbairmen
OF the leading committees of the late house
OF representatives exposed in jobbery; a
late secretary Of the treasury forging bal
ances in public accounts q late attOrne Y
general misapprOpriating public funds; a
secretary Of the navy enriched or enriching
friends by percentages levied off the profits
of contractors with his department.; all
ambassador to England censured in dis
honorable speculation; the president,
private secretary barely escaping conyic.
ton upon trial for guilty completely in
frauds upon the revenue; q secretary OF
war impeached for high crimes and misde.
meanOrs. the demonstration is complete
that the first step in reform must be the
peoples choice of honest men from another
party. lest the disease OF one political or
ganization infect the body polite: and les,
by making no change of men or parties we
| can get no change Of measures and no rea
! reform.
REFORM-REfORM-RE
All these abuses, wrongs and crimes, the
product OF sixteen years of the ascendancy
OF the republican party, create a necessity
for reform, confessed by republicans them
selves, but their refOrmers are voted down
in convention and displaced from the
cabinet; the party's mass of honest voter,
| Is powcrless to resist the eighty thousand
office holders, its leaders and guides.
Reform can only be had by . peaceful
civic revolution. We demand q change OF
administration, change of party, that we
may have change of measures and OF men