The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1876-07-06

versies that engendered civil war. and do here
record our steadfast confidence in the perpetuty of
| republican self government; in an absolute &C
nuiescence in the will of the majority the vital
principle of the republic in the supremacy of the
civil over the military authorities the total separa
tion of church and state for the sake alike OF civil
and RELIGIONS freedom: in the equality of all citi-
zens before the just laws of their own enactment;
in the liberty of individual conduct by sumPtuary
laws: in the faithful education of the ris-
ing generation, that they may preserve
enjoy and transmit these best conditions of human
happiness and hope, we behold the noblest product
of hundred years of changefu history; but, while
unfolding the bond of our Union and the great
charter of these rights it behooves free people
to practice also that eternal vigilance which is the
price of liberty.
Reform is necessary to rebuild and establish in
the hearts of the whole people of the Union, eleven
years ago happily rescued from the danger OF Sc
cession of States, but now to be saved from cor
rupt centralism, which, after inficting upon ten
States the rapacity of carpetbag tyrannes has hon.
ey-combed the offices of the Federal Government it.
self with incapacity, waste and fraud, infected
States and municipalities with the contagion OF
isrule and locked fast the prosperity of an indus
| trious people in the paralysis of hard times.
Reform is necessary to establish sound currency,
restore the public credit and maintain the
national honor. We denounce the failure for
all these eleven years to make good the promise OF
the legal-tender notes. which are changing stand
| ard of value in the hands of the people. and the
non-payment of which is disregard of the phghted
| faith of the nation.
| years of peace has taken from the people in Fed
eral taxes thirteen times the whole amount OF the
legal-tender notes. and squandered four times this
sum in useless expense, without accumulatlng any
reserve for their redemption.
| We denounce the financial imbecility and I'M
morality of that party which during eleven years OF
| peace has made no advance toward resumption
and no preparation for resumption, but, instead
! has ebstructed resumption by wasting our re-
sources and exhausting all surplus income
| and, while annually protesting to intend speedy
return to specie payments, has annually enacted
| fresh hindrances thereto. AS such hindranca
! we denounce the resumption clause OF the act OF
| 1875, and we here demand it's repeal
We demand judicious system OF preparation
| by public economies, by official retrenchment,
| and by finance which shall enable the nation
| soon to assure the whole world of its perfect
ability and it's perfect readiness to meet any OF its
promises at the call of the creditor entitled to pay
| ment. We believe such system, well-devised, and
above all intrusted TO competent hands for execu-
tion creating at no time an artificial currency, ana
at no time alarming the public mind into with
drawal of that vaser machinery of credit by which
95 per cent of all business transactions per-
formed-a system open to the public, and inspiring
! general confdence-would, from the day OF
its adoption bring healing its wings to all our har-
raised Industries, set in motion the wheels OF COM
merce, manufactures and the mechanical arts, re-
store employment to labor and renew in all its ma
tional sources the prosperity of the people.
| Reform is necessary in the sum and mode OF
Federal taxation to the end that capital may be set
| free from distrust and labor lightly burdened.
| We denounce the present tariff levies upon nearly
| 1000 articles masterpiece OF injustice in
equality and false practice. It yields dwindl1ng
| not yearly-rising revenue. 1t has impoverished
many industries to subsidize few. 1t proh1plts
imports that might purchase the products of Amer
| lean labor. 1t has degraded American commerce,
| from the first, to inferior rank upon the high
seas. 1t has cut down the sales of American manu-
! features at home and abroad, and depleted the
returns of American agriculture, an industry
| followed by half our people. 1t costs the peo-
| pie five times more than it produces to
| the treasury obstructs the process of production
and wastes the fruits of labor. It promotes fraud,
| fosters smuggling, enriches dishonest ofhclals
4 ohn71f ln dom and
that all Custom House taxation shall be only for
revenue.
Reform is necessary in the scale Of public ex-
! pense, Federal, State and municipal Our Federal
taxation has swollen from SOC, 600, 900 in gold In
1860 to $3.50 900 in currency in 1870 our aggre-
gate taxation from $l54, 100000 in gold in $780, to
$780, 900 in currency in 1870, or in one decade,
| from less than S. per head to more than $l8 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 Tor
the Federal Government alone We demand Vlg-
osous frugaity in every department and from every
officer of the Government.
Reform is necessary to put stop to the prohigate
waste of the public lands and their diversion from
actual settlers by the party in power, which has
| squandered 2OO,OOO,OO0 OF acres upon railroads
alone, and out of more than thrice that aggregate
has disposed of less than sixth directly to tlers
| of the soil.
| Reform is necessary to correct the omissions of
Republican Congress and the of our treaties
and our diplomacy which have stripped our fellow
citizens of foreign birth and kindred race, recross
ship, and have exposed our brethren OF
the Pacific coast to- the incursions OF race not
sprung from the great parent stock and in fact
now lately denied citizenship through naturally
alton as being neither accustomed to the traditions
of progressive civilization, nor exercised in lib
erty under equal laws. We denounce the policy
which thus discards the liberty-loving German and
tolerates the revival of the coolie trade in the Mon
golan women imported for immoral purposes, and
| Monaghan men, held to perform seryle labor
| contracts, and demand such modification OF the
treaty with the Chinese Empire such legislation
by Congress within constitutional limitation as shall
prevent the further importation or immigration OF
the Monaghan race.
| Reform is necessary, and can be effected only by
making it the controlling issue of the elections and
lifting it above the two false issues with which the
oficeholding class and the party In power seek TO
shackle it; the false issue with which they would
enkindle sectarian strife in respect to the public
schools of which the establishment and support be-
longs exclusively to the several States, and which
the Democratic party has cherished from its founda-
ton and is resolved to maintain without partalty
or preference for any class sect or Creed and with
out contributing from the treasury the false issue
| by which they seek to light anew the dying embers
of sectional hate between kindred peoples, once I'M
naturally estranged but now reunited in one indi-
| visible republic and common destiny.
| Reform is necessary in the civil service. Expe-
rience proves that the Efficient economical conduct
of the Governmental business is not possible if it's
civil service be subject to change at every election
| if it be a price fought for at the ballot
| box; if it be brief reward of party
zeal instead OF post of honor assigned for proved
competency and held for fidelity in the public
| ploy; that the dispensing of patronage should
| neither be a tax upon the time of all our public
men nor the instrument of their ambition. Here,
again, professions falsfed in the performance at
test that the party in power work out no prac-
| tical or salutary reform.
| Reform is necessary even more in the higher
grades of the public service. The President Vice
President, Judges, Senators, Representatives Cabi-
net oficers-these and all others in authority are
the peoples servants their offices not private
perquisite; they public trust When the
annals of this republic show the disgrace and CEN
| sure of a Vice President, late Speaker of the
House of Representatives marketing his rulings as
presiding officer, three Senators proftng secretly
| the leading committees of the late House of
Representatives exposed in jobbery late Secretary
of the Treasury forcing balances in the public &C
the public funds, Secretary of the Navy enrichlng
his friends by percentages levied off the profits of
| contractors with his department., an Ambassador
| to England censured in dishonorable speculation,