Union and American. [volume] (Greeneville, Tenn.) 1875-1877, 1876-07-13

this sum 10 useless expense without &C.
cumula,ing any reserve for their re-
demption. 't'a ' %.
We denouncc the financial imaecili'y
and irmorali'y Of that party which du
ring eleven years Of peace has made no
advance toward resumption: that in
stead has o5strncied resumption by
wasting our resources and exhaus.ing
all our surplus income, and while annu>
ally protesting to intend a speedy REQ
turn to specie payments has annually
enacted fresh hindrances thereto. As
such hindrance We denounce the re-
,umption clause OF the act of 1875.and
we here demand its repeal. We demand
a judlc.ous system OF preparation by
public ecouomiss, by official retr neh.
merits, and by wise finance, whicIIsaall
enable the nation soon to assure the
whole world of its perfect ability, and
Its perfect readiness to meet any of
its promises at the call of the creditor
entitled to payment. l "7'9!og'
We believe such system well devised
and above all lnlrusted 10 competent
hands for execution, creating at M time
an artificial scarcity OF currency, and ut
no time alarming the public mind into
q withdrawal of that vaster machinery
of credit by which 90 per cent of all
business transactions are peiformed--a
system open, public, and inspiring gen.
eral confidence, would from the day Of
its adoption bring healing on its wings
to our harassed industry, and set in mo-
ton the wheels oil commerce, manuiac-
lures, and the mechan cal ar $, restore
employment to labor, and renew in all
its national source the prosperity OF the
penpe --a >
Reform is necessary in the mode Of
Federal taxation to the end thatcapital
may he set free from distrust, and labor
lightly burdened. We denounce the
present tariff, levid upon nearly 1000
articles, as a masterpiece of injustice in
equality and false prerence. 1t yieldsa
dwlndling, not yearly rising Tcvcnue.
It has impoverished many industries to
subsidize few, 1t prohibits imports
that might purchase the products Of
American labor. 1t has deg AIDED Am
erican commerce from the first to an in
ferior rank on the high seas, 1t has
cut down the sale of American manu-
tActures at home and abroad, and depl :.
ted the returns of American agriculture
- an industry followed by hu f of our
people. II costs the people five times
more than it produces TO the Treasury,
ohs.ructs the processes of production,
and wastes the fruits of labor. 1t pros
NOTES fraud, and fosters smuggling. en-
riches dishonest officials. and bankrnp,s
honest merchants. We demand that
all Custom House taxation SHALL be
only for revenue. .... .tf
EXrRAvAGANCE AND C ERUPTION.
Reform is necessary in the scale of pub
lie expenses, Federal, State, and Mnni~
cipal. Our Fede al taxation has swoi-
len from sixty millions, grld, in 1850,
TO four hundred and fifty millions, cur
rency, IN 1870; or, in decade from less
than IS per head to more than SIS per
head. Since the peace, The people have
paid to the taxgathcrers morethan tbr'c:
the sum of the national debt. and more
than twice that sum for the Federal
Government alone, We demand Wig =.
orous frugality in every departmcnt,and
from every officer of the Government.
Reform is necessary to put stop to
the profligate waste of public lands,and
their diversion from actual settlers by
the party in power, which has squan-
dered 'wo hundre millions OF acres
upon railroads alone, and out of mcre
than thric that aggregate has disposed
of less than sixth directly to tilers
Of the soil. .r
Reform is necessary to correct the
omissions of the Republican Congress
and the errors of our irea les and diplo-
macy, which have stripped our fellow,
citizens of foreign birth and kindred
race, recrossing the A'lantic, OF the
shield of American citizenship,a and have
exposed our brethren Of the Pacific
coast to tine incursions' ot a race not
sprung from the same great parent stock
and in fact now by law denied citizen
ship through naturalization, as being
neither accustomed 10 the traditions OF
n progressive civilization nor exercised
in liberty under equal laws. We dc.
dounce the policy which thns' dtcards
the liberty slowing German and toleraes
the revival OF the coolie trade in Mon
golian women imported for immoral
purposes, and Mongoian mn hired to
perform servle la5or contracts, and det
mand such mpdi6cation of the treaty
with the Chinese Empire, orsuch lrgis-
lation by Congress, within c"ns'ltu"
tional limitation, us sb"ll prevent the
further importation or immigration OF
,he MOngolian race. -
Reform is necessary, and can never be
effected but by making 1.-THE controlling
issue o. the elections, and lifting 1t
above the two false issues with which
the ofliceholding class and tho orariy 10
power s-ek to smother it = the false issue
with which they would enkindle section
al strife in respect to thepublic schools
of which the establishment and SUPP
port belongs exclusively to the several
States, and which the Democratic party
has cherished from that foundation end
resolve to maintain without partialitv
or preference for any class, sect or creed
and without contribution from The treas
ury to any of them; and the false issue
by which they seek to light anew the
diving embsrs Of sectional hate het"ee'I
kindred peoples once estranged. hn'
now reunited in one indvisible republic
and common destiny.