The Cairo bulletin. [volume] (Cairo, Ill.) 1872-1878, 1876-07-30

perfect readiness to meet any OF its PROM
ises at the call of the creditor entitled to
payment.
We believe such system, we'll devised,
and. above all, entrusted I, competent
hands Tor its execution, Great NJ ut no time
an artificial scarcity OF currency, and at no
time alarming the public mind into with.
drawal OF that vast machinery of credit by
which % per cent. OF all our business trans
actions are performed: system open to
the public and inspiring general confidence.
would, from The day of its adopt on, bring
healing on its wings to all our harrassed in
dustries, set in motion the wheels Of CON-
merce, manufactures and the mechanical
arts, restore employment to labor, and re.
new in ell its national sources the prosper.
ity OF the people.
REFORM OF THE TARlFF-FRgE TRADE.
Reform is necessary in the sum aud mode
OF feder. ! taxation, to the end that capital
may be set free from distrust and lab r
lightly burdened. We denouncc the pres
ent tariff levied upon nearly four thousand
articles As mast piece of injustice, in
| equality and false pretensc. 1t yields a
dwindling, not yearly rising revenue. 1t
has impoverished many industries to SUBJ
sidize few; 1T prohibits imports that might
purchase .he products Of American ,bois;
| IT has degraded American CONNIE. cc rom
the first to an interior rank upon the high
seas: it has cut down the sales of American
| manufactures ut home an abroad. and dc.
| pletcd the returns of American agriculture,
an industry followed by halt our people. 1t
costs the people five time more than il pre-
| duces TO the treasury; obstructs the process
| OF production. and wastes the fruits of la
| Dor: IT promotes fraud. fosters smuggling,
| enriches dishonest officials and bankrupts
| honest merchants. We demand that all
! custom house taxation shall be only for
| revenue.
| BEfoRM ECONOMY IN PUBLIC EXPENSE.
Reform is necessary in the scale OF public
eXpense-fedcral. State and municipal
| Our federal taxation has swollen from sixty
millions gold, III 1860, TO four hundred and
fifty millions currency, in 1870. our aggre-
gate taxation. from ore hundred aud fity-
four millions gold in 1860, 10 seven hundred
and thirty millions currency in 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
| their tax.gatherers more than thrice the
sum OF the national debt, and more than
| twice that sum Tor the federal government
alone. We demand vigorous frugality in
| every department, and from every officer
OF the government.
REFORM-PUBLIC LANDS TO ACTUAL SIT
| TLIRs.
R.fo,ns is necessary to put stop to the
prof. gate waste of the public lands and
their diversion from actual settlers by the
party In power, which has squandered
| 200, 900, 900 acres upon railroads alone, and
IN amount o; more than thrice that aggre.
gate, has disposed of less than a sixth di.
rectly to the tiilers Of the soft.
REFoRM-ADOPTED CITIZENS. REJECTED
MONGOLS.
Reform /. necessary to correct the ommis-
sion Of republican cOngre and the errors
Of our treaties and our diplomacy, which
have stripped our fellow .itizens of foreign
| birth and kindred race. reerossng the AT
lantic, OF the shield Of American cit z. H.
ship, and have exposed our hrethern of the
| Pacific coast to the ipcursions of q race not
sprung from the same great parent stock,
and, in fact, now by law denied citizenship
through naturalization, as being neither ac-
| customed TO the traditions of a progressive
civilization, nor exercised in liberty under
| equal laws. We denounce the policy which
thus discards the liberty.loying German
and tolerates the revival Of the coolie trade
in MongOlian women, imported for immoral
purposes, and M0ngolian men held to per-
| form seryile labor contracts.
THE FALSE sKCTARIAN IssuE-THE FALSE
SECTIONAL ISSUE.
Reform is necessary. and can never he ef.
fected only by making it the controlling
| issue OF The elections, and lifting IL above
the two false issues with which the Office
holding class and the party in power seek
| to smother il.
First the false issue with which they
would enklndls seetarian strife in respect
to the public schools, OF hich the establish
ment and support belongs exclusively to
the several States, and which the demo-
cratic party has cherished from their ioun-
dation, and is resolved to maintain, without
any Partially or preference for any class,
sect or creed, and without contributing
from the treasury TO any,
Second-The false issue by which they
| &C oil IN Hohf tlA frfn 3D. "a
sectional hate between kindred people once
unnaturdlly estraDged, but now reunited
on one indlvls.ble republic and common
destiny.
RRFORM-1HE CIVIL SERVICE
Reform is necessary in the civil service;
experience proves that efficient, economic
al conduct of the governmental business is
not possible ii its civil service be subject TO
change at every elestion, be q prize fought
for at the ballot box, be a brief reward OF
party zeal. instead of posts of honor. as
! signed for proved competency and held for
fidelity in the public employ; that the dis.
pensiDg OF patronage should neither be q
, tax upon the time of all our public men,
nor the instrument Of their ambition: here,
again, profes ions falsitied in the preform.
ance, 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, senator's
representatives and cabinet officers and al
others in authority are the peoples sery.
ants; their Offices are not private perqui.
site they are public trust.
When the annals OF this republic show
the disgrace and censute Of u vice presi,
dent; late speaker OF the house of repre-
sentatives marketing his rulings as resid
ing officer; three senators profiting secretly
by their vote as lawmakers; five charme1
OF the leading committees of the late house
OF representatives exposed in jobbery; q
late secretary OF the treasury forging bal
ances in public accounts; a late attorney
general Incorporating public funds; d
secretary OF the navy enriched or enrichine
friends by percentages levied of the profit,
Of contractors with his departments; an
ambassador TO England censured in dis
| honorable speculation; the presidents
private secretary barely escaping conyic-
ton upon trial for guilty completely in
{ frauds upon the revenues; a secretary o.
war impeached for high crimes and missile
meanors, the demonstration is complet,
that the first step in reform must be tht
b peoples choice of honest men from anothel
!, party. lest the disease OF one political or
Z ganiZation infect the body polite: and les
O by making no change of men or parties W,
!, can get no change OF measures and no rea
V reform.
y AUTHORIZATIONS.
a All these abuses, wrongs and crimes, In
), product OF sixteen years OF the ascendant
!. OF the republican party, create a necessiti
!. for reform, confessed by republicans them
selves, but their refOrmers are voted dow
in convention and displaced from tn
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