Richland beacon., 1876-07-08
lormcrs are voted down in convention,
and displaced from the Cabinet.

formers are voted dogn in convention,
and displaced from the Cabinet.
The mass of honest voters are pow
crless to resist S0.G00 oilicc-holdcrs,
its leaders and guides. Reform and
guides. Reform can only bc had by
peaceful civic revolution. We de-
mand a change of system change of
administration, and a change of par
ties. that We may have i q angc Of
members.
Reform IS necessary in the sum and
mode of Federal taxation, to the end
that capital may bc set free from dis
trcss, and labor lightly burdrpcd We
dcnounce the present iariN' levied on
nearly four hundred articles as %
master piece Of injustice. inequality
and false prctcnsc II yields dwind-
lag in numhcr and Il yearly rising
revenue 1t has Impoverished many
industries TO subsidze few. 1t pro-
bibits important indutrios that might
purchase the prCduc,S Of American
labor. 1t has degraded the American
commerce from The iiro, 10 an inf r;or
on the high seas. II has cut down
the sale of American manufactures
at homc and abroad, and depleted The
returns of American agricultural Ill
dustry, followed by half our People
it costs the people five times more
than it produces 10 the Treasury, Oh
siructs The process Of production and
wastes the fruits Of labor it promotes
fraud and fosters smuggling, cnrichcS
dishonest officials and baUkrupts hon
est merchants. We dcma I'd that Gus
tom-bousc taxation shall be only for
revenue.
Reform is needed in the scale Of
public expenses, Federal, State and
municipal. Our FcGerai taxation has
swollen from $4,000. .GgC, gold, in
1860 to, Si50.OOGU,o, currency, in
1872; our aggregate TAXATION from
SlS4, 100000 gold in 1860 to $780,
600, 900 currency in 1870; or in, one
decade from less than - per head to
more than SIS per head. Since the
peace the people have paid to the tax
gathererS more than three times tho
sum of the national debt, and more
than twice that sum for the Federal
Government alone. We demand u
rigorous frugalily in every depart
ment and from every officer Of the
government. Reform necessary to
put u stop, 10 the profisatc waste Of
public lands, and their diversion from
actual settlers by the party in power,
which has sguandered 00,000,000
of acres on railroads alone, and out
of more than thrice that aggregate
has been disposed of, and less than
sixth Of it directly to the tiiIers 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
race recrossing the Atlantic of the
shield of American citizenship, and
have exposed our brethren of the Pa
cifc to the incursion Of race not
sprung from the parent stock-in fact
denied citizenship through naturali-
zalion, as being neither accustomed
to the traditions Of progressive civ
ilization, or exercised in liberty under
equal laws. We denOunce the policy
which thus discardS the liber,y-loving
German and revives the Coolie trade
in Mongolian women imported for i'm
moral purposes. and Mongolian men
hired to perform servile labor contracts,
and demand such modification of the
treaty with the Chinese Empire, or
such legislation by Congress, within
a constitutional limitation, so as to
prevent further importation Of immi-
grants of the Mongolian race.
The reform is necessary, and can
never be effected but by making a
crontrolIing issue of the elections,
and lifting it ahead Of two-faced issues
which the oifice-holding class and
party in power seek to smother it
The issue was false with which they
would rekindle sectarian strife in re.
spect to public schools, of which the
establishment and support belonged
exclusively the several States, anG
which the Democratic party cherished
from their foundation, and resolved
to maintain without Partially or pref
erence for any class, sect or creed, anC
) without contributing from the Treas
; ury to any false issue which the,
seek to light anew the dying cmbcr
of sectional hate 4; between kindre,
I. people once Hnnaturally estrangcd
but united 10 one indcvsible republi
; can and common destiny reform i
: necessary in the civil service expert
9 encc proves that efficient economics
conduct of the governmental busincs
is not possible if its civil service
r subject 10 change q. every election
8 TO be prize for at The ba lot-box,
l. reward of party zeal, Instead of
S post of honor for proved competcnc,
g aud held for fidelity in public emplo,
J. that dispensing Of patronage shouI
;, neither be tax 90 the time Of all OF
b public men or the instrument Of the
;, ambition. Here again, professions ia
It sifed in the performance attest th
8 the party in power can work out 1
r salutary reform.
Al ...e.s
:, "Patron's of Husbandry f? said Mrs. Pa
tns,on reflectively in reply to a remark