The Pickens sentinel. [volume] (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, 1876-10-26

ants. We demand that all custom house
taxation shall be only for revenue. Re-
form is necessary in the scale of pnblic
expeAseV Fedepal, State, and rn6ni+
cipaI. Our Federal taxation has swolI
len from $60,000,O00 in gold in 1860 to
$3.50, 900, ,000 I'll Currency in 1870. Our
aggregate taxation from S194, 900 900
in gold in, 1860 to1$73O, 600, ,0OOin our
rency in 1870. Or in one decade,
from less than $5 per head, to more
than $l8 per head. Since, the peace
the people haVo, paid to their tax gatho
erers. more. than thrice the sum, of the
national debt, and more than twice
that;sam Ethe1 f9derah hgoysTnmont
alone.
- We demand q vigorous frugality in
every department and from every Of
fcer Of, the governments. Reform is
necessary to put a stop to the profit
gate waste of public lands, and their
diversion from actual settlers by the
party in power, which has squandered
$500, ,00O,O Of acres upon railroads
alone, Pnd, gout Of more than thrice
that aggregate, has tdisposed of less
than sixth directly to tillers of the
soil. Reform is necessary to correct
tho omissions of the Republican Con-
gross and theerrors OF our treaties aud
our Piptomacy which have stripped
our fellow citizens Of foreign birth and
kindred race reerossipg. the Atlantic
OF the Shield of American citizenship,
and have exposed our brethren of the
rPacihc coast to the incursion of q race
not sprung from the same great par
ent stock, and, in fact, now by law
denied &itizenship through natnrali>
zatiph, as being neither accustomed to
the traditions of O. progressive civili-
zatiOn nor exercised in liberty under
equal laws. We denounce the policy
which thus discards the liberty low
ing German and tolerates the revival
of the coofie trade in, Monaghan wo-
men, imported for immoral purposes,
and Mongolian men hired to perform
,servile labor contracts, and demand
such q modification Of tho treaty~with
the Chinese Empire, or such legisla>
tion by Congress within q constitu-
tional Limitation as shall prevent the
further importation of immigration of
the Mongolian race Reform. is me-
cessary and can never be effected but
by making it the controlling issue of
tho elections, lifting it above the two
false issues with which the office holds
ing class and the party in power seek
to smother it. The false issue with
which they would onkindle sectarian
strife IN respect to the public schools,
OF which the establishment to support
belonging exclusively to tho several
States, and which the Democratic
party has cherished from the cir tound-
alton and resolved to maintain with
out partiality or preference for any
class, sect or creed, and without con-
tributing from the treasury to any
the false issue by which they seek to
light anew the dying embers of sec>
tional hate between kindrei peoples,
once NATURALLY estrauged, but now
reunited in cne indivisible republic
and common destiny. Reform is
necessary in the civil service. Expc~
,rience proves that efficient, cconomi-
cal conduct Of the governmental busia
ness is not possible if its civil service
be subject to change at every election,
be prize fou ght for at the ballot box,
be a half reward of party zeal instead
of posts of honor, assigned tor proved
competency and held for fidelity in
the public employ. That the dispons-
ing Of patronage should neither be o
tax upon the time of all our public
men, nor the instrument of their am
bition. Here again professions falsi-
fled in the performance, attest that
the party in power can work out no
practical or statutory reform. Reform
is necessary even more in the higher
grades Of public service. The PRESS
dent, Vice President, Judges, Sena~
tors, Representatives and Cabinet of
fcers. These, and all others in au-
thority, are the peoples servants;
their officers are not private perqui-
sites; they are public trusts. When
the annals Of this republic show the
disgrace and censure of Vice Pre-
sident, a late Speaker of the House OF
Representatives marketing his ruling
as presiding officer; three Senators
protiting secretly by their votes as law
makers; i've chairmen OF loading com
mittees of the late House of Repre-
sentatives exposed in jobbing; O late
Secretary of the Treasury forcing bal
ances in the public accounts; q late
Attorney General misappropriating
public funds; q Secretary Of the NAVY
enriched or enriching friends by per-
certals levied off the profits Of con-
tractors with his department; an am-