The Cairo bulletin. [volume] (Cairo, Ill.) 1872-1878, 1876-09-06

civ ilization. nor exercised in liberty under
| equal laws. We dcnounce the policy which
thus discards the liberty-lovipg German
and toierates the revival Of the coolie trade
In Monaghan women, imported for immora
| purposes, and Monaghan men held to per-
form serviIe labor contracts.
THE FALSE sKCTARfAN IssuK-TnE FALSE
SECTIONAL ISSUE.
| Reform is necessary, and can never he ei.
tected only by making il the controlling
issue oil the elections, and lifting IL 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 eukindls sectarian strife in respect
| TO the public schools, of which the establish
ment and support belongs exclusively to
the several States, and which the demo
cratic party has cherished from their ioun.
dalton. 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-The false issue by which they
seek to light anew the dying embers Of
sectional hate between kindred people once
unnaturaly estranged, but now reunited
on one indivisible republic aud a 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 a 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
| pensirg of patronage should neither be a
| tax upon the time Of all our public men,
nor the instrument Of their ambition: here,
IL fol in ha far
auce, test that the party in power can
work out no practical or satisfactory
| reform.
| REfoRM-CoRRUFTIoN 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 a private perQui-
site they are public trust.
When the annals OF this republic show
| the disgrace and censure of n vice presi-
dent. late speaker OF the house OF repre-
| >entstives marketing his rulings as y presid-
ing officer: three senators proiting secretly
by their vote as lawmakers; five cbairmen
of the leading committees of the late house
| OF representatives exposed in jobbery: q
late secretary Of the treasury forging bal
snces IN public accounts; late attorney
general misappropriating public funds: a
secretary OF the navy enriched or enrjching
friends by percentages levied off the profits
Of contractors with his departments: an
| ambassador to England censured in dis
honorable speculation: the president s
private secretary barely escaping conyic-
ton upon trial for guilty completely in
| frauds upon the revenue; . secretary OF
war impeached for high crimes and INSIDE
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.
REfORM-REfOHM-RE
All these abuses, wrongs and crimes, the
product Of sixteen years Of the ascendancy
OF the republican party, create a necessity
for reform, confessed by republicans them
selves, but their refoYmers are voted down
in convention and displaced from the
cabinet; the party's mass of honest voter,
Is powerless TO resist the eighty thousand
oficeholders, its leaders and e,rides.
Reform can only be had by peaceful
civic revolution. We demand a change OF
administration, change of party, that we
may have change OF measures and OF men.