The Cairo bulletin. [volume] (Cairo, Ill.) 1872-1878, 1876-09-19

civilization. nor exercised In liberty under
| equal laws. We denounce the policy which
| thus discards the lberty-lovipg German
and tolerates the revival Of the cooie trade
In Monaghan women, imported for immora
| purposes, and Mongolan men held 10 per.
form serviIe labor contracts.
TEE FALSE sECIARIAN IssuK-1nr FALSE
SECTIONAL ISSUE.
Reform Is necessary, and can never he ei-
tected only by making 1t the controlling
issue OF the elections. and lifting II 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 enkindln sectarian strife in respect
To the public schools, of which the establish
ment and support belongs exclusively 10
the several States. and which the demo
cratic party has cherished from their ;oun-
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--Thc false issue by which they
seek To light anew the dying embers OF
sectional hate between kindred people once
unnaturally esiranged, but now reunited
on one indivis bic republic and common
destiny
REfORM-1UE CIVIL SERVICE.
Reform i necessary in the civil service;
experie nee proves that eilcient, economic
al conduct of the governmental business is
not possible il its civil service be subject to
change ut every eleston, be prize fought
for at the ballot box, be brief reward 81
party zeal, instead of posts OF honor, AS
signed for proved .mpetency and held for
fidelity in the public employ; that the dis
pensiug OF patronage shoud neither be n
tax upon the time of all our public men,
nor the instrument Of their ambition; here,
again, professions ialSitied in the preform.
ance. II test that the party in power can
work out no practical or satisfactory
reform.
REFORM CORRUPTION or HIGH PUBLIC
OFFICERS.
Eetornt 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 peop'e's sery-
ants; their offices arc not a private perqui-
site they are public trust.
When the annals of this republic show
the disgrace and censure OF vice presi-
dent; late speaker OF the house of repIe-
sentativcs marketing his rulings as presid-
ing obcer: three senators profitin2 secretly
by their vote as lawmakers; five cbaiImen
OF the leading committees of the late house
OF representatives. exposed in j1bbery; \
late secretary OF The treasury forging bal
ances 10 public accounts; late attorney
general misappropriating public funds: a
secretary OF The navy enriched OF enrjehing
friends by percentages levied of the profit,
OF contractors with his department; an
ambassador TO England censured in dis
honorable speculation: the presidents
private secretary barely Escaping convic-
ton upon trial for guilty completely in
frauds upon the revenue; a secretary of
war impeached for high crimes and INSIDE
meanor-, the demonstration j. complete
that the first step in reform must nc 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 oil measures and no real
reform.
REFoRM-EKFORNf-R
All these abuses, wrongs and crimes, the
product OF sixteen years OF the ascendaney
OF the republican parry, create 4 necessity
for reform. confessed by republicans them
selves. but theiC rcioYmer- are voted own
10 convention and displaced from the
cabinet; the party's mass OF honest voters
Il powerlets to resist the eighty thousand
oftceholders, its leader. and guides.
Reform can only be had by O peaceful,
civic revolution, We demand q change OF
administration. change of party, that We
may have . change Of measures and OF men.