The Cairo bulletin. [volume] (Cairo, Ill.) 1872-1878, 1876-07-16

shall enable the nation soou 10 usSure thV
whole world of its perfect ability and 1t.
perfect readiness TO meet any OF ITS prom
ises AT the calf of the creditor entitled 10
payment.
We believe such a ~ stem, well devised,
and. above all, entrusted u rohPeieP'
hands for its execution. Great hg ~ no ,.s
an artificial scarcity OF currency, ana y
time alarming the pubic mind INTO h'
draWal of that vast machinery oi creuit Wy
which ~ per cent. OF all our business trans
actions are performed: system open l"
the public and inspiring general confidence
would. from the day of its ADOPTION bribS
healing on its wings to all our harrassed in
,iustrieS, set in motion the wheels oil com.
merce, manufactures and the me 'hanicai
arts, restore employment to labor, ana re-
new in all its national sources the prosper
ity OF the people.
REFORM OF THE TARIFF--FKEE TRADE. |
Reform, i, necessary in the sum and mode |
of federal taxation. to the enu mat capi'ai
may be set free IRON dlstfnst ana lap II
lightly burdened. We denounce the pres.
ent tarff levied upon nearly four tho'isahh
articles rs Il mast II piece oil injustice, III
equality and false pretense. II yields
dwindling. not yearly rising revenue. Ut
has impoverished many industries To sub
sdiZa a few; IL prohibits imports that might
purchase me products of American liboiS;
il has degraded American commerce rom
the llfSt 10 al lHIeIlOG IdHh hpph ihc IiSh
seas: il has cut down the sales OF American
manufactures at home an abroad, and de.
pleted the returns of American agriculture,
an industry followed by halt our people. II
| costs the people five times more thnn it pre-
duces to the treasury; obstfucts the process
of production, and wastes the fruits OF Ia
Dor; it promotes fraud, fosters smuggling,
! enriches dishonest officials and bankrupt'
honest merchants. We demand that all
| custom house taxation shall be only for
revenue.
REFORM -ECONoMY IN PUBLIC EXPENSE.
| Retor5a is nece ssary in the scale of public
| eXpense-federal. State and municipal.
| our federal taxation has swollen from sixty
million gold, in 1860, to four hundred aud
| fifty millions currency, in 1870. our aggre-
| gate taxation. IRON ore hundred and nifty
| four millions gold in 1860, to seven hundred
| and thirty millions currency in 1870; or, III
! one decade, from less than five dollars per
head to more than eighteen dollars per head.
Since the peace the people have paid to
| their tax-gatherers more than thrice the
| sum OF the national debt, and more than
twice that sum for the federal government
alone. we demand a vigorous irugality III
every department, and from every officer
OF the government.
REFoRM-PUBLlC LANDS TO ACTUAL SET
| Tiers.
| Ref0yHi l. necessary to put stop to the
profligate waste of the public lands and
their diversion from actual settlers 10y the
party in power, which has squanderec
200 900 ,OO0 acres upon railroads alone, an,
IN amount of more than thrice that aggre
gate. has disposed of less than a sixth di
rectly 10 the tiller- of the soil.
REFORM-ADOpTFD CITIZENS, REJECTED
. MONGOLS
RefOyUt /, necessary to correct the omms
sion of republican congress and the error
of our treaties and our diplomacy, Whicl
have stripped our fellOw-,iuzens of torelGI
Z birth and kindred race, recrossinG the Al
lantic, OF The shield of American citizen
ship. and have exposed our brethren of tn
! Pacific coast to the incursiOns of a race no
. sprung from the same great parent stock
and, in fact, now by law denied citizenship
a through naturalization, a. being neither az
customed to the traditions OF progresSlv
| civilization, nor exercised in liberty unde
:. equal laws. We denounce the policy whic
thus d.cards the hberty-lOviIg Germa
- and tolerates The revival of the cOOlie trad
:. in Monaghan women, imported for MINORS
purposes, and Mongolian men held TO pc
!. form scryile labor contracts.
!. THE FALSE sRCTARIAN IssUE-THE FAILS
SECTIONAL ISSUE.
IA ReforDl il necessary, and can never he G
fected only by making it the controllI
issue OF The elections. and lifting il ahoN
the two false issues with which the Ollie
holding class and the party in power see
to smother 1t.
# First the false issue with which tbs
would cnkIndle seotarian strife in respe
t. the public schools, Of which the cstablis
ment and support belongs exclusively
the several States, and which the dem
7 cratic party has cherished from their lou
latiOn, and l. resolved to maintain, Witho
any partially or preference for any cla'
sect or creed and without contributi
from the treasury to any.
Second-rhc false issue by which tn
le seek to light anew the dying embers
sectional hate between Kindred people on
unnaturally esiran%ed, hut now reunit
on one indyis bic republic an" a comm
u. destiny.
RKFoRM--THE CIVIL SERVICE.
Rttoym is necessary in the civil serNi,
experience proves that efficient, econom
tic al conduct of the governmental business
IN. not possible il its civil service be subject
he change at every ele.t ton, be prize fouf
mt Tor at the ballot box, be brief reward
m: party zeal, instead of posts of honor,
his | signed for proved competency and held
in fidelity in the public employ; that the {
ra- pensing Of patronage should neither be
to tax upon the time Of all our public IN
cal nor the Instrument Of their ambition; he
rst again, profes ions tal-itied in the prefer
ance, u test that the party in power
-. work out no practical or satisfact
IL reform.
$3.50 REFORM-CoRRUPTIoN OF HIGH PUB
- OFFICERS.
ion Reform is necessary even more in
les higher grades of the public service.
ted president, vice president, Judges, senst
lies representatives and cabinet officers and
re. others in authority are the peoples 81
ne ants: their offices are not private per,
site they are Il public trust.
When the annals of this republic 81
the disgrace and censure of a vice pr
OF dent; 4 late speaker OF the house OF rel
ub- sentatiyes marketing his rulings as IA pre-
The ing officer: three senators proiting seer
d OF by their vote as lawmakers; i've chair
lNll OF the leading committees of the late no
oil OF representatives exposed in jobbery
en- late secretary OF the treasury forging
on ances in public accounts; late attor
me general appropriating public funds
ION, secretary of the navy enriched or enrjcf
mt friends by percentages levied on the pr,
eSs, OF contractors with his department;
: OF emhassador To England censured in a
pu, honorable speculation; the preside
an" m private secretary barely escaping con
pc ton upon trial for guilty completely
that frauds unon the revenue: a sorrotar.y
Oh war impeached for high crimes and mi
mcanOrs, the demonstration is comp
NJ. that the first step i'll reform must be
dish people = cho,ee oil honest men from auol
ion party, lest the disease OF one polite al
the ganiZatiOn infect the body polite: and
" to ny mating no cnahSe vi men OF pail'e'
ieh, can get no change OF measures and no
riN reform.
ibed REFORM--REfORM-R
tsei All these abuses, wrongs and crimes
tieu product Of sixteen years OF the ascend,
nta- nf tho renuhlicon Marty create . ne.
fos- for reform, confessed 10y republicans II
pa selves but their rpfpTmprS ara yofpl A