The Cairo bulletin. [volume] (Cairo, Ill.) 1872-1878, 1876-08-10

equal laws. We deno,lnce the policy which
thus discards the liberty-loving German
and tolerates the revival Of the coolie trade
in Monaghan women, imported for irnmofa
purposes, and Monaghan men held to per-
form servile labor contracts.
THE FALSE sKCTARIAN IssUE-TBE FALSE
SECTIONAL ISSUE.
| Reform is necessary, and can never I've ci-
fected only by making II the controll,ng
issue OF the elections, and lifting II ahoVe
| the two false issues with which the once
| holding class and the party IN power seek
| TO smother it.
would enkindle sectarian strife in respect
| to the public schools, OF which the establish
mcnt and support belongs exclusively to
| the several States, and which the demo-
cratic party has cherished from their foun.
dation. and is resolved to maintain, without
| any partially or preference for any class,
| sect or creed, and without contributing
from the treasury to any.
Second-The false issue by which they
seek to light anew the dying embcrs OF
sectional hate between kindred people once
unnaturally estranged, but now reunited
on one indivisible republic anu common
destiny
RKFoRM-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 clectiop, be prize fought
| for mt 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
pensiDg Of patronage should neither be q
tax upon the time Of all our public men,
| nor the instrument OF their ambition; here,
again, profes ions fal.ited in the preform
ance, u test that the party in power can
| work out no practical or satisfactory
| reform.
| REFoRM-CoRRUPTION OF HIGH PUBLIC
| OFFICERS.
Reform is necessary even more in the
| higher grades of the public service. The
| president, vice president. judges. senators
| representatives and cabinet officers and al
Others in authority are the peoples serv'
| 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 vice presi
dent: a late speaker of the house of repre-
sentatiyes marketing his rulings as "a presid
ing officer; three senators protiting secretly
by their vote as lawmakers; five cbairmer
| of the leading committees of the late house
| of representatives exposed in jobbery; ,
late secretary OF the treasury forging bal
ances in public accounts; y late attofne,
ASh'h"i 'hhc"PP'Opiia'ihS PophS iuhoss
| secretary of the navy enriched or enrichin!
| friends by percentages levied of the profit
of contractors with his departments; al
| ambassador to England censured in dis
| honorable speculation: the president
private secretary barely escaping conyiC
ton upon trial for guilty completely il
frauds upon the revenue; q secretary O
war impeached for high crimes and misde
meanors, the demonstration is complet
| that the first step in reform must be tn
| peoples choice of honest men from anothe
party. lest the disease Of one political oil
ganization infect the body polite; and lie,
by making no change of men or parties W
can get no change Of measures and no res
| reform.
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
All these abuses, wrongs and crimes. III
product of sixteen years of the ascendanc
of the republican party. create q necessit
for reform, confessed by republicans then
selves. but their refOrmers are voted dow
in convention and displaced from th
cabinet; the party's mass of honest yOteI
is powerless to resist the eighty thousan
oftceholders. its leaders and guides.
Reform can only be had by peaceful
civic revolution. We demand q change
administration, change of party, that W
may have change Of me asures and OF mel