The Cairo bulletin. [volume] (Cairo, Ill.) 1872-1878, 1876-07-29


shall enable the nation soon to assure the
whole world of its perfect ability and lis
perfect readiness to meet any OF its prom
ises at the call of the creditor entitled to
payment.
We believe such system, well devised,
and, above all. entrusted II competent
| hand for its execution, Great ng at no time
| an artificial scarcity OF currency, and ut no
time alarming the public mind into a with
drawal OF that vast machinery Of credit 10y
which ~ per cent. of all our business trans
actions are performed: a system open TO
the public and inspiring general confidence.
would, from The day of its adoption. bring
healing on its wings to all our hsrrassed in
dustries, set in motion the wheels of com
merce. manufactures and the mechanical
arts, restore employment to labor, and re-
new in all its national sources the prosper
ity of the people.
REFORM OF THE TARIFF-FREE TRADE.
Reform is necessary in the sum and mode
OF federal taxation. to the end that capital
may be set free from dstrust and lab r
lightly burdened. We denounce the pres
ent tariff levied upon nearly four thousand
articles as a mat r piece of injustice. in
equality and false pretense. 1t yields a
dwindling. not yearly rising revenue. 1t
has impoverished many industries TO sub
sidize u few; 1t prohibits imports that might
purchase .he products of American GboIs:
1t has degraded American commerce rom
the first to an inferior rank upon the high
seas; it 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 than ii pro-
duces to the treasury; obstrilcts the process
OF production, and wastes the fruits OF la
Dor; it promotes fraud. fosters smuggling.
enriches dishonest officials and bankrupt
honest merchants. We demand that all
custom house taxation shall be only tor
revenue.
REFORM -ECONoMY IN PUBLIC EXPENSE.
Reform Is necessary in the scale OF public
eXpense-federal, State and municipal
our federal taxation has swollen from sixty
millions gold, in 1860, TO four hundred aud
nifty millions currency, in 1870 Our agere-
gate taxation. from one hundred and tity-
four millions gold in 1860, to seven hundre q
and thirty millions currency ia 1870; or, in
one decade, from less than five dollars per
head TO more than eighteen dollars per head
since the peace the people have paid To-
thelr taX-gatherers more than thrice the
sum OF the national debt. and more than
twice that sum Tor the federal goyernme mt
alone. We demaud a vigorous frugaity in
every department, and from every officer
OF the government.
REFORM-PuBLfC LANDS TO ACTUAL SET.
TLYRS.
RJOrDa Is necessary to put stop to the
proh'gate waste of the public lands and
their diversion from actual settlers by the
party In power, which has squandered
20O, 900 900 acres upon railroads alone, and
IN amount OF more than thrice that aggre.
gate, has disposed Of less than a sixth di.
rectly TO the tillers of the soil.
REFORM-ADOPTED CITIZENS. REACTED
R.form /, necessary TO correct the omms.
sion VI republican congress and The error.
Of our treaties and our diplomacy, which
have stripped our fellow-citizens OF foreign
birth and kindred race. recrOssing the At.
lantic, OF the shield OF American cit Z. n.
ship, and have exposed our brethern 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 ac-
customed to the traditions of progre ssiye
civilization. nor exercised in liberty under
equal laws. We denounce the policy which
thus discards the interviewing German
and tolerates the revival Of the cOolie trade
in Mongolian women, imported for immoral
purposes, and Mongolian men held to per-
form serviIe labor contracts.
THE FALSE SECTARIAN ISSUE-IHE FALSE
SECTIONAL ISSUE.
HJorm Is necessary, and eau never be eff
tected only by making it the controlling
issue oil The elections, and lifting il above
the two false issues with which the office
holding class and the party in power seek
to smother it.
First the false issue with which they
would enkindle 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 ioun-
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-Ihe false issue by which they
seek to light anew the dying embers Of
sectional hate between kindred people once
unnaturally esiranged, but now reunited
on one indivis.ble republic and common
destiny.
RKFORM-THE CIVIL SERVICE
Reform is necessary in the civil service:
experience proves that efficient, economic
al conduct of the governmental business is
| not possible II its civil service be subject TO
change at every election, be prize fought
Tor ut the ballot box, be a 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 di..
penslng 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 fal.ifed in the preform.
ance, test that the party in power can
work out no practical or satisfactory
reform.
REFORM-CoRRUPTIoN OF HIGH PUBLIC
OFFICERS.
Reform is necessary even more in the
nigher grades OF the public service. The
president, vice president, Judges, senator's
representatives and cabinet officers and all
others IN authority are the peoples sery-
ants; their offices are not a private perqui-
site they are public trust.
when the annals Of this republic show
the disgrace and censure of vice presi-
dent; u late speaker OF the house of repre-
sentatiyes marketing his rulings as u pre.id-
Ing officer; three senators prohting secretly
by their vote as lawmakers; five cbairmen
OF the leading committees of the late house
OF representatives exposed in jobbery: a
late secretary OF the treasury forging bal
ances in public accounts; late attorney
general Incorporating public funds: a
secretary OF the navy enriched or enrichng
friends by percentages levied oil the profits
oil contractors with his Department.; an
emoassador to England censured in a dis
honorable speculation; the PRESIDENT
private secretary barely escaping conyic.
| tlon upon trial for guilty completely in
frauds upon the revenue; q secretary OF
war impeached for high crimes and misds.
meanors, the demonstration is complete
that the first step in reform must be the
peoples choice of honest men from another
party, lest the disease Of one political or.
ganization infect the body polite; and le.t
by making no change Of men or parties we
can get no change OF measures and no real
reform.
| REfoRM-REFORM-RE
| All these abuses, wrongs and crimes. the
product OF sixteen years OF the ascendancy
OF tue republican party, create a necessity