Union and American. [volume] (Greeneville, Tenn.) 1875-1877, 1876-07-27

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than twice that sum for the Federal
|Gpyernment alone, We demands Wig
orous frugality in every departments and
from every officer of the Government.
Reform is necessary to put q stop ia
the pfshigate waste OF public lands, and
their diversion from actual settlers 10y
the party in power, which has squan-
dered wa hundre millions OF acres
upon railroads alone, Gndsout of more
than thrice that aggregate has disposed
of less than a sixth directly to ~tillers
of the soil.
Reform is necessary to correct the
omissions of the Republican Congress
and the errors of our treaties and dIpfo>
macy, which have stripped our fellows
citizens of foreign birth aud kindred
race, r~ecrossing the Atlantic, OF the
shield of American citizenship,and have
exposed our brethren Of the Pacific
coast to tine incursions of 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
a progressive civilization nor exercised
in liberty under equal laws. We de,
dounce the policy which thus ditcards
the liberty~loving German and tolerates
the revival OF the coolie trade in MOI
golian women imported for immoral
purposes, and Monaghan men hired to
perform servile LABOR contracts, and de.
mand such modification of the treaty
with the Chinese Empire, orsuch legis-
latiOn by Congress, within a constitu-
lional limitation, as shall prevent the
further importation or immigration OF
The Mongolian race.
Reform is necessary, and al never be
effected but by making it the controlling
issue OF the elections, and lifting II
above the two false issues with which
the officcholdlng class and the party in
power seek to smother 1.-THE false issue
with which they would enkindle section
strife in respect TO thepublic schools
of which the establishment and sup~
port belongs exclusively to the several
and which the Democratic party
has cherished from that foundation and
resolved to maintain without partiality
or preference for any class, secto creed
and without contribution IRAN the treas
ury to any OF them; and the false ISSUE
by which they seek to light anew the
dying emhars of sectional hate between
k ndred peoples once estraDged. but
now reunited in one indiyisible republic
and common destiny,
wgEgE REFORM is NECESSARY.
Re'oim is necessary in the Civil Service.
Experience proves that efficient, eco
omlcal conduct Of the Governmental
business is not possible if its civil serv.
ice be subject to change at every election
5e a prize fought for at the ballot box.
be a briet reward Of party zeal, instead
of posts of honor assigned for proved
competency, and held for fidelity in the
employ; that the dispensing
of patronage should neither DC q tax
upon the time OF all our public men nor
tac Instrument of their ambition. Here
again Professionalism that the party
in power can work out no practical or
reform.
Reform is necessary even more il the
grades of the public service.
President, Vice President, Judges, Sens
ators, Repres entatives, Cabinet officers,
these and all others in authority archie
peoples servants Their offices arc not
private pe:qui lite, they are, a public
trust. When an annual of this Repub>
lie show the disgrace and censure of a
Vice. President, a late Speaker of the
of Represcn atives, marketing
nis rulings as a presiding officer, three
Senators protiting secretly by thelrvotes
IS law makers, five chairman of the
eadiug committees of the late House of
Representa- tives exposed in jobbery, a
ate Secretary Of the Treasury forcing
balances in the public accounts; a late
Attorney General misappropriatiEg pub
ic funds, a Secretary.o of the Navy tn>
iched or enrichlng friends by percent
lges levied off the profits OF contractors
With his department. an Ambassador to
England Cent ured for q dishonorable
.peculatiou, the Presidents private Sec
'etary barely escaping CONVICTION upon
rial for guilty completely IN frauds up
IN the revenue, y Secretary of Wa i'm,
,eached for high crimes and confessed
nisdemeanors the demonstration is com
,lete, that the first step in reform must
DC the peoples choice of choice of hon.
st men from another party, lest the
disease of one political organization in
est the body polite, and lest Ivy making
10 change of men. or party we a get
10 change Of measures and no reform.
All these abuses, wrongs, and crimes
he product of sixteen yeaTs' asccnden-
,y-oe the Republican party, create a
necessity for reform confessed by Re.
)ublicans themselves, but their reform.
RS are voted down in convention and
displaced from the Cabinet. The party
mass OF honest voters are powerless to
'eslst tie eighty thousand o%ficeholders
Its leaders, and guides. Reform can
,nly be hadlby a peaceful civic r~evolus
ion. We demand change Of system
change of administration, q chanf e of
that we may have o change of
meas ures and of men. .
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