The Cairo bulletin. [volume] (Cairo, Ill.) 1872-1878, 1876-08-13

equal laws. We denounce the policy which
thus discartis the liberty-loving German
and tolerates the revival Of the cO0lie trade
In Monaghan women, imported for immora.
purposes, and Monaghan men held to per-
form servile labor contracts.
THE FALSE sRcrARIAN IssUE--THE FALSE
,sKCTrONAL ISSUE.
Reform Is necessary, and can never be eff
fected only by making It the controlling
issue OF the elections, and lifting 1t anoVe
the two fslsc issues with which the Office
holding class and the party in power seek
to smother II.
First the false issue with which they
would enkindls sectarian strife in respect
to the public schools, of which the establish
ment ard support belongs exclusively to
the several states, and which the demo-
cratic party has cherished from their fouu-
dalton. and is resolved to maintain, without
any Partially or preference for any class,
sect or creed. and without contributing
from the treasury 10 any.
Second-The false issue by which they
seek to light anew the dying embers Of
sectional hate between kindred people once
unnaturally estranged, but now reunited
on one indivis BILE 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 IL its civil service be subject to
change at every elestiop, be prize fought
for at the ballot box, be 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 .
tax upon the time Of all our public men,
nor the Instrument Of their ambition: here,
again, profes ions fslsified 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, senators,
representatives and cabinet officers and all
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 censure Of a vice presi-
dent; a late speaker of the house of repre-
sentatives marketing his rulings as u presid-
ing offcer; three senators prOtting secretly
by their vote as lawmakers; five chairmen
Of the leading committees of the late house
OF representatives exposed in jobbery; q
late secretary Of the treasury forging bal
ances ia public accounts; late attorney
general Incorporating public funds; a
secretary OF the navy enriched or enriching
friends by percentages levied of the profits
of contractors with his Department.; an
ambassador to England censu' ed in dis
honorable speculation: the presidents
private secretary barely escaping conyic-
ton upon trial for guilty completely in
frauds upon the revenue; . secretary OF
war impeached for high crimes and misde.
meanors, the demonstration is complete
that the first step in reform must be the
peoples choice of honest men from another
party. lest the disease OF one political or.
ganization infect the body polite: and lest
by making no change of men or parties we
can get no change of measures and no real
reform.
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
All these abuses. wrongs and crimes, the
product OF sixteen years Of the ascendancy
OF the republican party, create a necessity
for reform. confessed 10y republicans them.
selves, but their retoymers are voted down
in convention and displaced from the
cabinet: the part5's mass of honest voters
is powerless to resist the eighty thousand
oficehOlders, its leaders and guides.
eform can only be had by peaceful,
civic revolution. We demand q change OF
administration, change of party, that We
may have . change of measures and OF men.