The Cairo bulletin. [volume] (Cairo, Ill.) 1872-1878, 1876-08-08

equal laws. We denounce the policy which
thus discards the liberty-lovipg German
and tolerates the revival OF the coolie traue
in Monaghan women, imported for immora
purposes. and Monaghan men held to per-
form seryile labor contracts.
THE FALSE sKCTARIAN 1ssUE-THE FALSE
SECTIONAL ISSUE.
Bef,rp, is necessary, and can never he eff
fected only by making 1t the controlling
issue OF the elections, and lliting IL anoVe
the two false issues with which the once
holding class and the party III power seen
to smother IL. ~ A..
Fret the false issue with Which tney
would enkinde 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 foln-
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-The false issue by which they
seek to light anew the dying embers OF
sectional hate between kindred people once
unnaturally es,ranged, but now reunited
on one indivisible republic and common
destiBy
REFoRM-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 election, be prize fought
| for at the ballot box, be brief reward OF
party zeal, instead of posts of honor, as
signed for proved competency and held Tor
fidelity in the public employ; that the dis
pensing of patronage should neither be a
tax upon the time OF all our public men,
nor the instrument of their ambition; here,
| again, profes ions tal.itied in the preform
ance, n test that the party in power car
work out no practical or satisfactory
reform.
REFORM--CoRRUPTIoS OF HIGH PUBLIC
/, OFFICERS.
, Reform, is necessary even more in TIT
higher grades of the public service. Th'
president, vice president, judges, senators
= | representatives and cabinet officers and al
| others in authority are the peoples serN
:. ants their offices are not private perqui
site they are public trust.
When the annals OF this republic shoN
the disgrace and censure OF a vice pres
# dent; late speaker OF the house of repr'
j. scntatives marketing his rulings as "A presit
e ing officer three senators protting secret
If by their vote as lawmakers; five chairme
il of the leading committees of the late hou'
If of representatives exposed in jobbery;
A. late secretary of the treasury forging ba
D. ances in public accounts; late attorn'
lie general misappropriating public funds;
n, | secretary OF the navy cnrlcueu vi enTjcull
it friends by percentages levied off the prof
IS, of contractors with his departments;
of ambassador to England censured in d
ut honorable speculation; the presiden
nd private secretary barely escaping COW
re- ton upon trial for guilty completely
at frauds upon the revenue; secretary
of war impeached for high crimes and misc
meanors, the demonstration Is compile
that the first step in reform must be
peoples choice of honest men from anOtf
sh party. lest the disease Of one political
IN, ganization infect the body polite: and
he by making no change of men or parties
to can get no change Of measures and no r
N, reform.
~ ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
elt All these abuses, wrongs and crimes,
ed product of sixteen years of the ascendal
ia of the republican party, create necess
os- for reform, confessed by republicans thu
pa selves, but their reformers are voted do
in convention and displaced from
cabinet: the party's mass of honest vo,
lie is powerless TO resist the eighty thous
officehoders, its leaders and guides.
md Reform can only be had by peace
md civic revolution. We demand a chang
nee administration, a change of party, that
to may have change OF measures and OF m
der