The Pickens sentinel. [volume] (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, 1876-08-10

$3.50, 100000 in currency in 1870. Our
aggregate taxation from S1s4 600 900
in gold in 1860 to $3.50, 100000 in cur
rency in 1870. Or in ono decade,
from less than $5 per hoad, to moro
than SIS per head. Since the peace
tho people havo paid to their tax gath,
erors moro than thrice the sum of the
national dobt, and moro than twice
that sum for tho Federal government
alono.
We demand vigorous frugality in
ovory department. and from evory of.
ficor Of tho govornment. Reform is
necessary to put a stop to tho profit
gato waste Of public lands, and thoir
diversion from actual sottlors by the
party III power, which has squandered
$500, 100000 of acres upon railroads
alono, and, out Of more than thrice
that aggregate, has disposed of less
than sixth directly to tillers of tho
soil. Reform is necessary to correct
the omissions of the Republican Con-
gross and tho errors of our treaties and
our diplomacy which have stripped
our fellow citizens of foreign birth and
kindred raco rccrossing tho Atlantic
of tho shield of American citizenship,
and have exposed our brethren of the
Pacific coast to the incursion Of race
not sprung from tho samo great par~
ont stock, and, in fact, now by law
denied citizenship through natnral>
zation, as bcing neither accustomed to
the traditions Of a progressive civli-
zation nor exercised in liberty under
equal laws. We denounce tho policy
| which thus discards tho liberty low
ing German and tolcrates the revival
OF tho cooIic trade in Mongolian wo-
men, imported for immoral purposes,
and Mongolian mon hired to perform
servllo labor contracts, and demand
such modification Of tho treaty with
the Chinese Empire, or such lcgisla-
tlon by Congress within constitu-
tional limitation rs shall prevent the
further importation of immigration Of
the Mongolian race. Reform is ne
ccssary and can never be effected but
by making it tho controlling issue of
the elections, lifting it above the two
false issues with which tho office holds
ing class and the party in power sock
TO smother it. The false issue with
which they would onkindc sectarian
strife m 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 their tound~
alton and resolved to maintain with
out partalty or preference for any
class, sect or creed, and without con
trbutlng from tho treasury to any
the fal8c issue by which they seek to
light anew tho dying cmbcrs of Sec
tional hate between kindred peoples,
onco NATURALLY ostrangod, but now
reunited in one indivisjblo republic
and q common destiny. Reform is
necessary in the civil service. Expc>
rienco proves that efficient, cconomi-,
cal conduct of tho governmental busiq
moss is not possible if its civil service
be subject to change at every election,
be prize fought for at tho ballot box,
bo Il half reward of party zeal instead
OF posts OF honor, assigned for proved
competency and held for fidelity in
the public employ. That tho dispons.
ing OF patronage should neither bo
tax upon tho tmo of all our public
men, nor the instrument of their am
bition. Hero again professions falsi-
fled in tho performance, attest that
tho party in power can work out no
practical or salutory reform. Reform
is necessary oyon more in the higher
grades of public service. The PRESS
dent, Vice President, Judges, Sona>
tors, Representatives. and Cabinet of !
iiccrs. These, and all others in au-
thomty, are the peoples servants;
their officers are not private pcrqui-
sltoaj they are public trusts. When
the annals of this republic show the
disgrace and ccnsuro Of Vice Pre-
sldcnC, a late Speaker of the House of
Representatives marketing his ruling
as presiding Oilicor; three Senators
proiiLing secretly by their votes as law
makers; five chairmcn OF leading com
miLtoes of tho late House of Rcprc-
scnIatvcs exposed in jobbing; Il late
Secretary OF tho Treasury forcing bal
ancos IN the public accounts; late
Attorney General misappropliating
public funds; Secretary of tho Navy
enriched or cnriching friends by per-
ccrtais levied Off tic profits Of con-
tractors with his department; an am
bassador to England ccnsurcd in a
dishonorabIo speculation; the Prcsi-
dents Private Secretary barely cs-
capped conviction upon trial for guilty
in frauds upon the Rovcn,
ucj " Secretary Of War impcached for
nigh crimes and confessed misdcmcan-
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