The Tiffin tribune. (Tiffin, Ohio) 1868-1887, 1876-07-06


gent need OF immediate reform dc
hereby enjOin upon the nominees ot
this Convention, and OF the Demo
cratic party in each State, u jealous
effort end cooperation % this eud,
aud do hereby appeal tn our fellow
citizens of every former political con-
neeticn to undertake with us this
first and most pressing patriotic duty.
For the Democracy OF the whole
country, we do here reaffirm our faith
in the permancy OF the Federal Union,
our devotion 10 the Constitution of
the United States, with its amend-
ments, universally accepted as a final
settlement OF the controversies that
engendered civil war, and do here re-
cord our steAdfsst confidence la the
perpetuity Of republican self-govern-
ment In absolute aequiescenee in the
will of the majority, the vital princi-
Piles of Republics (; in the supremacy
of the cival over the military author
ity I; In the total separation of Church
and State for the sake alike OF civil
and religious freedom, in the equality
OF all citizens before just laws Of their
own enactment; In the liberty of in
dividual conduct unvexed by sumpt-
uary laws in the faithful education
Of the rising generation, that they
may preserve, enjoy and transmit
these best conditions OF human happi-
ness and hope. We behold the no.
blest products Of hundred years of
changeful history, but while uphold
ing the bond Of union, and the great
charter of these, our rights, it be-
hOoves a free people to practice, also,
that eternal vigilance which is the
price of liberty.
Reform is necessary TO rebuild and
establish in the hearts of the whole
people in the Union, eleven years ago,
happily rescued from the danger of q
secession OF States, but now to he
saved from q corrupt centralism,
which, after lnfilctiRg upon ten states
/ the rapacity OF earpet-bag TYRANNY,
has honeycOmbed the offices OF the
Federal Government itself with in
capacity, waste and fraud infected
States and municipalities with the
eOntSgion OF misrule, and locked fast
the prosperity Of an industrious peo-
pie in the paralysis of hard times.
Reform is necessary to establish a
sound currency, restore the public
credit, ard maintain the National
honor.
We denounee the Republican party
for its failure for all these eleven years
to make good the promise OF the legal
tender notes which are a changing
standard of value in the hands OF the
people, and the uon-payment of
which is disregard Of the plighted
faith Of the Nation.
We denounce the improvidence
] which, in eleven years OF peace, has
taken from the people in Federal taxes
thirteen times the whole amount of
the legal tender notes, and squan-
deTed four times this sum in useless
expenses without accommodating any
reserve for their REDEEM ption.
We denOunce the financial imbecil-
ity and immortality Of that party
which, during eleven years of peace,
| has made no advance toward resump-
! ton, no preparation for resumption
| by wasting our resources and exhaust
| ing all our surplus income, and, while
annually protesting to intend q speedy
return to specie payment, has annual
| ly enacted fresh hindrances thereto.
AS such q hindrance we denOunce the
resumption clause of the act of 1875,
I
We demand a judicious system OF
preparation by public economies, by
official retrenchments, and by wise
finance, which snail enable the Ma
\ ton soon to assure the whole world of
its perfect ability and its perfect readi-
ness to meet any of its promises at
/ the call of the creditor entitled to pay
ment.
We believe sIch system, well de-
| vised, and above all, intrusted to COM
petent hands for execution, creating
at no time an artificial scarcity of
currency, and at no time alarming
the public mind into a withdrawal of
that vsster machinery of credit by
which ninety-five per cent. of all
business transactions are performed
system open, public, and inspiring
general confidence, would, from the
day of its adoption, being healing on
its wings to all or harassed industry,
and set in motion the wheels OF COM
merce, manufactures, and the me-
chanic arts, restore employment to la
Dor, and renewing in all its natural
sources the prosperity OF the people.
Reform is necessary in the:sum and
mode of Federal taXstiOn, to the end
that capital may be set free from dis
trust and labor lightly burdened.
We denounce the present tariff,
levied upon nearly four Thousand arti-
cles, as q masterpiece Of injustice, in
equality and false pretense. It yields
8 dwindling, not q yearly rising,
revenue. 1t has improved many in
dustries to subsidize a few. It pro-
hibits imports that might purchase
the products OF American labor. 1t
has degraded American commerce
from the first to an inferior rank up
on the high seas. 1t has cut down
the sales OF American manufactures
st home and abroad, and depleted the
returns of America agriculture, an in
dustry followed by half our people.
1t costs the people five times more
than ii produces TO the Treasury, Oh
structs the processes of production,
and wastes the fruits OF labor. 1t pro-
notes fraud, fosters smuggling, en-
riches dishonest officials, and bank
rupts honest merchants. We demand
that all CustOmhouse taxation shall
be only for revenue.
Reform Is necessary In the scale OF
public expense, Federal, State and
municipal. Our Federal taxation has
swollen from $50, ,OOO, 600 gold, in 1860,
to $500, ,O00, COO currency, in 1870.
Our aggregate taxation, from $780,
900, 900 gold, in 1850, TO $3.50, ,OO0, 600
currency, in 1870, or in one decade
from less than s. per head to more
than SIS per head. since the peace,
the people have paid to their tax
gatherers more than twice the sum of
the National debt, and more than
twice tho sum for the FEDERAL Govern
ment alone. We demand vigorous
frugality In every department, and
from every officer of the Government.
Reform Is necessary to put a stop to
the prOfiigate waste of public lands,
and their diversion from actual set
tiers by the party in power, which
has squaudered 9, ,000, 600 of acres upon
railroads alone, and out of more than
thrice that aggregate has disposed OF
less than sixth directly to tillers of
the soil.
Reform is necessary to correct the
! omissions OF 3 Republican Congress,
and the errors Of our treaties and our
diplomacy which have stripped our
felloW-citizens of foreign birth and
kindred race re-erossing the Atlantic
of the shield OF American citizenship,
and have exposed our brethren OF the
Pacific coast to the incarsiOEs of q
race not sprung from the same great
parent stock, and, in fact, now by lsw
} denied citizenship through natural
izatiOn, rs being neither accustomed
, to the traditions of q progressive civil
: liZation nor exercised in liberty under
equal laws.
THE HEATHEN CHINEE.
Mr. DOrsheimer-I will say that, al
the end OF the resolution relating tC
the matter of MongOlian impOrta.
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