The Cairo bulletin. [volume] (Cairo, Ill.) 1872-1878, 1876-08-03

perfect Tehulilps> 10 meet any Oh It's pfotH-
ises Mt the call of the creditor entitled IN
payment.
We believe such system, well devised,
and, above all. entrusted II competent
hanu' for its execution. Great ng al no TINE
All artificial scarcity of currency, and at no
time alarming the public mind INTO WIN.
drawal OF that vast machinery OF credit 10y
which ~ per cent. OF all our business trans
actions are pcrformed 4 system open Ia
the public and inspiring general confidence,
would. from The day of It's adoption, bring
healing on its wings to all our harrassed In.
dustrie~, set IN motion the wheels Of com.
merce, manufactures and the me ehanlcal
arts, restore employment to labor, and re-
new in all its national sources the prosper
ity OF the people.
REFORM OF THE TARIfE-FREE TRADE.
R.t,1m is necessary in the sum aud mode
of federal taxation, to the end that capital
may he set free from distrust and lab r
lightly hurdcncd. We denouncc the pres.
ent tariff levied upon nearly four thousand
articles A. a mast r piece of injustice. in
equality aud false pretense. II yields a
dwindlng. not yearly rising revenue. Ii
has impoverished many industries to sub
sidize a few; II prohibits imports that might
purchase me products of American iiboi =:
it has degraded American commerce from
the first to an inferior rank upon the high
W
manufactures at home an abroad, and de.
pleted the returns of American agriculture.
an industry followed by halt our people. Ii
costs the people five times more than il pro-
duces to the treasury; Obstructs the process
of production, and wastes the fruits OF la.
Dor: IL promotes fraud, fosters smuggling.
enriches dishonest officials and bankrupt.
honest merchants. We demand that all
custom house taxation shall be only for
revenue.
REFORM ECONOMY IN PUBLIC EXPENSE.
Reform is niece ssary in the scale of public
cNpense-fcderal. state and municipal.
Our federal taxation has swollen from sixty
millions gold, in 1860, to four hundred and
nifty millions currency, in 1870. Our aggre.
gate taxation. from one hundred and fiity.
four millions gold in 1860, to seven hundred
and thirty millions currency 10 1870; or, in
one decade, from less than five dollars per
head to more than eighteen dollars per head
since the peace the people have paid to
TIER tax-gatherers more than thrice the
sum OF the rational debt, and more than
twice that sum for the federal government
| alone. We demand a vigorous frugality in
every department, and from every officer
OF the government.
RErORM-rUBLfC LANDS To ACTUAL SIT
TLxRs.
Hpom IL necessary 10 put stop to the
| their diversion from actual settlers by the
party in power, which has squaudcret
2U0, 900 600 acres upon railroads alone, anC
IN amount OF more than thrice that aggre
gate, has disposed Of less than sixth III
, recty 10 the tillerr of the soil.
REFORM ADOPTED CITIZENS, RrJEcIEJ
MONCoLS.
H.f"rU IS necessary TO correct the ommi-
slou OF republican congress and the error,
of. nj L
have stripped our fellow citizens of foreign
birth and kindred race, recrossng the At
ldn'ic, OF The shield OF American citizen
ship, and have exposed our brethren of til,
Pacific coast to the incursions of Il race no,
sprung from the same great parent stock
and, In fact now by law denied citizenship
through naturalization, as being neither ac-
cllntonied - the traditions of a progre ssiye
civilization, nor exercised in liberty under
equal laws. We deDounce the policy which
thu, discards the llbeIty.loyipy German
and toleratcs the revival OF the coolie trade
10 Mongolian women, imported for immoral
purposes, and Monaghan men held to per-
form scr,ile labor contracts.
THE FALSE SECTARIAN IssUE-IHE FALSE
SECTIONAL ISSUE.
HJo,0 l. necessary, and can never he et-
iected only hy making it the controlling
ISSUE oil HE elections. and lifting il above
the two false issues with which the Office
hoidlng clas> and the party in power seek
to smother il.
First the false iS.ue with which they
would cnklndle sectaTian strife in respect
to the public schools, Of which the establish
ment and support belongs exclusively to
the several States, and which the demo
cratic party has cherished from their ioun-
dalton, and l. resolved to maintain, without
any Partially OF 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 embers Of
sectional hate between Kindred people once
unnaturally esiranged, but now reunited
on one indivis bic republic and a common
destiny.
RRfORM-1HK CIVIL SERVICE
H.fofm Is necessary in the civil service:
experience proves that efficient. economic
al conduct of the governmental business il
not possible ii its civil service be subject 10
change at every elestiop, be prize fought
ior at The ballot box, be a brief reward o
party zeal, instead of posts of honor. as
signed for proved competency and held for
fidelity in the public employ; that the dis.
pensing OF patronage should neither he q
tax upon the time Of all our public men.
nor the instrument Of their ambition: here,
again, profes ions fal.itied in the preform.
ance, n 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 all
DINERS In authority are the peoples sery-
ants; their Offices are not a private perqui-
site they are q public trust
When the annals OF this republic show
the disgrace and censure Of vice presi.
dent; late speaker OF the house OF repre-
ssentaiives marketing his rulings as presid-
ing oihcer; three senators proftng secretly
by their vote as lawmakers five chairmon
OF the leading committees of the late house
OF representatives, exposed in jobbery: a
late secretary OF the treasury forging ball
ances IN public accounts: a late attorney
general Incorporating public funds: a
secretary OF the navy enriched or eprjcbipg
friends by percentages levied off the profits
OF contractors with his department.; an
cmbassador TO England cenStrcd in n dis
honorable speculation; the presidents
private secretary barely escaping conyic.
tion upon trial for guilty complicity i'm
uauus upon the revenue; secretary of
war impeached for high crime, and mj.de.
meanors, the demonstration is comnlete
thst the irst step IN reform must be the
pooples choice OF honest men from another
party, lest the disease OF one poli,ical mr..
ganizatlon infect the body polite; and les,
by making no change of men or partie. we
can get no change Of measures and no real
reform.
-prToEM-HFToKNI
AN thede abuses, wrongs and crimes, the
product Of sixteen years Of the ascendancy
o' tue republican party, create "A necessity
loi reform, confessed by republicans them.
serves, but their rciormers are voted down
10 convention ana displaced from the