Union and American. [volume] (Greeneville, Tenn.) 1875-1877, 1876-08-30

paid to he taxgaihcreIs morelLan thflce
The sun of thc national debt. and more
than twice that sum for the Federal
q. observation-disclosures. W. dtmand Q Wig
drSus fruAlty in every hepurtntn Mt and
from Every officer of the Government.
Reform is necessary iosput a stop to
Ithe PREDICATE waste Of public lands and
their diversion from actual settlers 10y
Ithc parry ia power. which has fquan-
blered WI hundre / milhehs OF acres
lupcn railroads alone, and out Of more
than thrice that aggregate has disposed
Of less than asixih directly 10 oilers
Of tie soil.
s., Reform is necessary to correct the
omissions of The Republican Congress
and the e,rols Of our irea les and diplo>
Macy wih have stripped on fellow,
cit Gems Of fSrelgR~ hlrtf and kindred
race, rccrossin9 The A lantic, OF the
| shield of Amer lean cHisenship,and have
exposed on. brethren Of the Pacific
coast to. tho Excursions OF a race not
sprung from the ssne great parent stock
and in fact now by law denied citizen
ship through naturaliza t1oD, as being
\ neither accust med 10 the traditions 'of
n progressive cIviiiZaticn MOI exercised
in liberty unaer equal laws. We de-
dounce the policy which thus di'cards
the liberty slowing Germans ami toleraies
the revival OF the coolie trade 10 Mon
golian women imported for imRso al
purposes, and Mongolian men hired 10
perform servile la',Or contracts, and de
mand such modification of the treaty
wi Ii the Chinese Empire, or such legis'
latinn 10y Congress, within a constitu"
/ %tional limitation, as shall prevent the
further iTportati n or immigration OF
he Monaghan race.
Reform is necessary, and can never be
effected but by making it the controlling
Issue o. the elections, and lifting II
above the two false issues with which
/ The nfficehuldiag class and the party ia
power seek to smother 1.-THE false issue
with which tLey would enkindle section
al strife in respect to the public schools
of which the establishment and sup~
pert brlangs exclusively to the several
I States, and which the Democratic parry
has cherished from that foundation nd
! resolve / to maintain without partiality
! pr prt~f crrsee for any class, sect or cree d
and without contribution from the treas
ury to any of them; and the false ISSUE
by which they seek to light anew the
dying tmbors of sectional hate between
k nhred peoples once estranged. but
now reunited in q indiyisible republic
and a common destiny.
WIFE EREFoRM is NEoE$sARY.
Re oaIa is necessary in the Civil Service.
Experience proves that efficient, econ.
om,cal conduct Of the Governmental
business Is not possible If its civil serv'
ice be subject to change al every election
be a prize fought for at the bailot box,
he a briet reward Of party zeal, instead
of posts of honor assigned for proved
competency, and held for fidelity in the
public employ; that the dispensing
of patronage should neither DC a tax
upon the time of all our public men nor
tie instrument of their ambition. Here
ayain profes,lons-attest that the party
in power can work out no practical or
salutary reform. fi.
Reform is necessary even more liz The
higher grades Of the public service.
| President, Vice President. Judges, Sens
ators, Representatives, Cabinet officers,
these and all others in authority are the
peoples servants Their Offices are not
a private pe:qui lite, they are a public
trust. When an annual Of this Repub~
lie show the disgrace and censure of a
Vice. President, a lat1 Speaker of the
House of Represent atives, marketing
his rulings as a presiding officer, three
Senators proftingsecIetly by their votes
/ as law makers, five chairman OF the
leading committees of the late House OF
Ropresen exposed in jobbery, a
late Secretary of the Treasury forcing
balances in the public accounts; a late
Attorney General misappropriatiEg pub
lie funds, a secretary of the Navy tn>
riched or enrichlng friends by percent
ages levied off the profits OF contractors
Nth his department. an Ambassador to
England cent ured for a dishonorable
| speculation, the Presidents privale sec
rotary barely escaping conviction upon
trial for guilty completely IN frauds up
ON the revenue, " Secretary OF War i'm.
peached for high crimes and confessed
misdemeanors, he demonstration is com
plete, that the first step in reform must
be the peoples choice of choice Ct hon
est men from another party, lest the
| disease of one political Organization in
fest the body polite, and lest Wy making
no change OF men or party we can get
Nv change of measures and no reform.
All these abuses, wrongs, and crimes
the product of sixteen years ascenden-
cy Of llle Repub lean party. create a
Necessity for reform confessed by Re
publicans themselves, but their relorm-
era are voted down in convention and
displaced from the Cabinet. The party
mass OF honest voters are pnwerless to
resist tie eighty thousand ofiicehoiders
Its lead re-, and guides. Reform can
only be hadlby a peaceful civic reV"Iu'
ton. We demand u change OF system,
a change of administration, a chan e OF
parties, that we may have u change or
measures and Of men.