The Rutland daily globe. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1873-1877, 1876-06-29

currency, aud ut no time alarming public
mind into withdrawal of that master ma
chinery Of credit by which nineiy.nve per
cent Of all business transactions are per
formed system open to the public and
inspiring the general confidence, would
from the day Of It's adoption bring healing
on lie wings to all our harassed industry
and set in motion the wheels of commerce,
manufactures aud the mechanical arts, re-
store empl ymeut to labor ard renewing
all its national source to the prosperity OF
the people.
Reform is necessary in the SUN and
mode of federal taxation to the end that
capital may be set free from distrust and
labor lightly bufdened. We denounce the
present tariff levied upon nearly four
| thousand articles as a masterpiece of in
justice, inequality and false pretenses it
yields dwlndling, not yearly rising,
revenue it has impoverished many indus.
tries to substitute few it prohibits i'm
| ports that might purchase the products of
American labor it has degraded Ameri-
can commerce from the fret TO an interior
rank upon the high seas it has cut down
sales of American manufactures at home
and abr Dad, and depleted the returns Of
American agriculture, an Industry follow
eG by half our people it costs the people
five times moro than it psoduces to the
treasury abstracts processes of produce
| ton and wastes the fruits OF labor it pro-
NOTES fraud and fosters smuggling en-
riches dishonest officials and bahkrupts
honest merchants we demand that all
custom house taxation shall be only for
revenue.
| Reform is necessary In the scale of pub
| lie expenac, federal state and municipal.
Our federal taxation has swollen from
sixty millions gold in 1860 to $50 millions
currency in 1870. Our aggregate taxation
from 1854 100000 gold in 1860 TO $780,
000. 900 currency IN 1870, or IN one decade
from less than So per head to more than
| SIS per head. Since the peace the peo-
| pie have paid to their tax gathererers
more than thrice the sum of tho national
Gebt, and more than twice that sum for
the federal government alone. We de-
mand vigorous frug%lty in every depart
ment and from every officer of the govern
ment. Reform is necessary TO put Il stop
to proflgate waste OF public lands and
their division from actual settlers by the
in which hos nap1ara1
two hundred million acres upon railroads
alone, and out of more than thrice that
aggregate has disposed of less than a sixth
directly to the tilers Of the soil.
Reform is necessary to correct omis-
sions of the republican congress and
errors of our treaties and our diplomacy
which have stripped our fellow citizens
of foreign birth and kindred race recross
ing the Atlantic, of The shield of American
citizenship, and have exposed our brethren
of the Pacific 'ast of the incursions of
race not sprung from the same great pa
rent stock, aud, in fact, now by law denied
citizenship through GENERALIZATION as being
neither accustomed to the traditions of pro-
gress We civilization, nor exercised in liber-
ty under equal laws. We denounce The
policy which thus discards the liberiy-lov
ing German and tolerates the revival of the
cooie trade in Mongolian women, imported
for immoral purposes, and Monaghan men
hired to perform sefvile labor contracts
and demand such modification OF the treaty
with the Chinese empire, or such leglsla-
ton by congress within the constitutional
Limitation, sf shall prevent the further i'm
portation or immigration of TIE Monaghan
race.
Reform Is necessary and can never be
ciTec,ed but by making it the controlling is
sue of elections and lifting it above the two
false issues with which the Office. holding
classes and he party in power seek 10
smother it; The false issue with which they
would eugender sectarian strife IN respect
to public schools of which the establish.
meut and support, belonging exclusively
to the several states, and which the demo.
cratic party has cherished from their foun-
dstion and resolved to maintain without
partisliiy or preference for any class, sect
or creed, and without contributing from
| the treasury; to any false issue by which
| they seek TO light few dying embers Of
sectional hate between kindred peoples, one
| unnaturally estranged, but now reunited
in one indivsible republic with a common
destiny.
Reform is necessary in the civil service.
| Experience proves that efficient, economi-
| cal conduct of the governmental business
is not possible if its civil service be sub
ject to changes at every election; be
| prize fought for at the ballot box be brief
reward OF party zeal, instead of posts of
honor assigned for proved competency
and held for fidelity in the public employ,
that dispensing of patronage SHOULD neither
| be a tax upon the time of all our public
men, nor an instrument of thes ambition.
| Here rgain, professions, falsified in per-
torrance, attest that the party in power
can work out no practical or Statutory re-
| form
Reform is necessary. Even more in the
higher grade of public service; president,
vice-presidsnt, judges. senators, represent
atiyes, cabinet officers, these and all others,
in authority, are peoples servants theil
offices are not private perqusite, they are
public trust. When the annals Of this re-
public show disgrace and censure of vice
president, lsto speaker of the house OF
representatives marketing his ruling as
presiding officer, three senators prohting
secretly by their votes as law makers five
chalrmen of leading committees Of the late
uouse of representatives exposed in job
berry; late secretary of the treasury
torcipg balances in the public accounts +; b