The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1876-11-02

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We believe such system, we'll devi-
sed, and above all, ihtrusted to compe.
tent hands for executive, creating at no
time an artificial scarcity of currency,
and at no time alarming the public mind
into a withdrawal ofthat vas.er machinery
OF credit by which ninety five per cent.
Of all our business transactions are per-
formed--a system open, public, and in
spring general confidence, would, from
the day ofits adoption, bring healing on
its wings to all our harrassed industries,
and set in motion the wheels of COM
merce, manufactures and the mechanic
arts. restore employment to labor, and in
all its natural sources the prosperity ofthe
people. l
REFORM OF THE TARIFF FREE TRADE.
Reform is necessary in the sum and
modes of federal taxation, to. the end that
capital may be set free from distrust and
labor lightly burdened.
We denounce the present tariff, levied
upon nearly four thousand articles, as a
masterpiece Of injustice, inequality and
false pretense. 1t yields dwindling,
not yearly rising, revenue 1t has i'm
poverished many industries to subsdize
few 1t prohibits imports that might
purchase the products of American labor.
1t has degraded American commerce
from the first to an inferior rank upon
the high seas. 1t has CUT down the sales
of American manufactures at home and
abroad, and depleted the returns of
American agriculture, and industry fol.
lowed by half our people.
1t costs the people FIVE times more
than it produces to the treasury, obstructs
the process of production, and wastes the
fruits Of labor. 1t promotes fraud, fos-
ters smuggling, enriches dishonest off
cials, and bankrupts honest merchants.
We demand that all custom house tax
alton shall be only for revenue.
REFoRM-ECoNoMY IN THE PUBLIC EX-
PEESE.
Reform is necessary in the scale of
public expense, federal state and NUM-
cipal. Our federal taxation has swollen
from $4,000, 900 gold, in 1860 to 45o, ,ooo,-
600 currency, in 1870. Our aggregate
taxation, from SI54ooo, 900 gold, in 1860
to $3.50 900 currency in 1870, or in
one d cade from less than S. per head to
more than $I8 per head. Since the peace
the people have paid to their tax gather
ers more than twice that sum for the
Federal government alone. We demand
arigorous frugality in every department,
and from every officer ofthe government
REFoRM-PUBLIc LANDS TO ACTIVE sETT-
LERS.
Reform is necessary to put a stop to
the profigate waste of public lands, and
their diversion from actual settlers by the
party in power, which has squandered
zoo. o.ooo,o 900 acres upon railroads alone,
and ut of more than thrice that aggre-
gate has disposed of less than a sixth di.
rectly to tillers of the soil.
REFoRM-ADoPTED CITIZENS, REJECTED MON
COILS
Reform is necessary to correct the omis-
sion of Republican Congress, and the
errors of our treaties and our diplomacy,
which have stripped our fellow citizens
of foreign birth and kindred races re cros-
sing the Atlantic of the shield of Ameri-
can citizenship, and exposed our brethren
OF the Pacific coast to the incursions of
race not sprung from the same great
parent stock, and, in fact, now by law
denied citizenship through naturalization
as being neither accustomed to The ira
ditions of a progressive civilization nor
exercised in liberty under equal laws.
We denounce the policy which thus dis
cards the liberty loving German and
tolerates revival of the Coolie trade in
Mongolian women imported for immoral
purposes, and Mongolian men held to
servile labor contracts.
THE FALSE sEcTARIAN IssUE-THE false
SECTIONAL ISSUE.
Reform is necessary and can never be
affected but by making it the controlling
issue Of the election and lifting it above
the two false issues with which the office
holding classes and the party in power
seek to smother it.
FvSt-The false issue with which they
would enkindle sectarian strife IN respect
to public schools, of which the establish
ment and support belong exclusively to
the several states, and which the Demo
cratic party has cherished from their
foundation, and is resolved to maintain
without partiality or preference for any
class, sect or creed, and without contri-
buttons from the treasury to any.
Sec0Hd-The false issue by which they
seek to light anew the dying embers of
sectional hate between kindred people
once unnaturally estranged, but now re-
united in one indivisible Republic and
common destiny.
REFoRM-THE CIVIL SERVICE.
Reform is necessary in the civil service.
Experience proves that efficient econo.
mical conduct ofthe government business
is not possible if its civil service be sub
ject to change 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 competence
and'held for fidelity in the public employ
that the dispensing ofpatronage should
neither be tax upon the time of our
public men nor the instrument Of their
ambition. Here, again, professions falls |
fed in the performance attest that the
party in power can work out no practical
or salutary reform,
REFoRM-coRRUPTIoN OF HIGH PUBLIC OF.
FICES.
Reform is necessary, even more in the
higher grades of public service. Presi.
dent, vice president, Judges, senators,
representatives, cabinet officers-these
and all others in authority are the peoples
servants Their Offices are not private
perquisite; they are public trust
When the annals of this Republic show
the disgrace and censure of vice presi-
dent late Speaker of the House of Rep.
resentatives marketing his rulings as a
presiding officer; three senators profting
secretly by their votes as lawmakers.
five chairmen of the leading committees
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