Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1876-07-06

eIal government itself with incapac-
ity, waste and fraud Reform is nee
essary TO establish sound currency,
restore public trust, and maintain the
national honor. We denounce the
failure of all the eleven years To make
good the promises, the legal tender
notes, which are "A standard of value
in the hands of the people, and the
payment of which is "a disregard
OF the plighted faith of the nation.
We denOunce the improvidence which
in eleven years of peace has taken
from the people in Federal taxes
thirteen times the whole amount of
legal tender notes, and squandered
four times this sum in reckless eX-
pense, without accommodating any re-
serve for their redemption.
We denounce the financial imbe-
cility and immortality of that party
which, during eleven years of peace
has made no advance toward resump-
ton, no preparation for resumption,
but, instead, has INSTRUCTED resump-
ton by wasting our resources and ex-
hausting all our surplus income, and
annually protesting TO intend a
speedy return of specie payment. has
annually furnished hindrances there
TO. As such hindrance we denOunce
the resumption clause of the act of
1875. and we here demand its repeal
We demand Il judicious system Of
preparation by public economies, by
official retrenchments and by the
I finance which shall enable the nation
soon To assure the whole world of its
perfect ability and its perfect readi-
ness to meet any OF its promises at
the call Of the creditor entitled to
payment We believe such system
well devised. and above all entrusted
to competent hands for execution,
creating at no time an artificial scar
city of currency, and ut no time
alarming the public mind into with
drawal Of that rotten machinery OF
credit by which % per cent. OF all
+ business transactions are performed.
4 system open to the public and COM
handing general confidence would
from the day of its adoption bring
healing on its wings To all industries,
set in motion the wheels of commerce,
manufactures and mechanical arts,
restore employment to the labofer,
and renew in all its national sources
the prosperity OF the people. Re
form Is necessary in the sum and
mode of Federal taxation TO the end
that capital may be set free from dis
trust, and labor lightly burdened.
We denounce the present tariff lew
+ les upon nearly 1000 articles as a
masterpiece of injustice, inequality
and false practice. 1t yields IA dwind-
+ ing. not yearly rising, revenue. 1t
+ has impoverished many industries to
subsidiZe u few 1t prohibits imports
that might purchase the product of
+ American labor. 1t has degraded
American commerce from the first to
an inferior rank in the high seas. 1t
+ has cut down the sales Of the Ameri =
can manufacturer at home and abroad
and the returns of American agricul-
ture, an iudusty followed 10y half of
our people. II costs the people five
times more than it produces TO the
Treasury. obstructs the process of
production, and wastes the fruits Of
labor. Ii promotes fraud, fosters
smuggling, enriches dishonest Of
iicials, and bankrupts honest mer-
+ chants. We demand that all custom
house taxation shall be only for rev.
/ enue
Reform is necessary in the scale Of
public expense Federal, state and
+ municipal taxation has swelled from
+ S6O.00O,0O0 gold in 1860 to $50, ,0e0
currency in 1870; our aggregate tax
alton from Sl5I 100000 gold in 1860 to
$730000,000 currency in 1870, or in
one decade from less than - per
/ head TO more than SIS per head.
Since the peace the people have paid
their tax gatherers more than thrice
/ the sum OF the national debt, and
more than twice that sum for the
Federal Government We demand
a vigorous frugality in every depart
ment and from every officer OF the
Government
Reform is necessary to put a stop
to the profigate waste OF public lands
and their diversion from actual set
tiers by the party in power, which
squandered millions OF acres upon
railroads alone, and out OF more than
thrice that aggregate has disposed OF
less than a sixth directly to tillers OF
the soil.
Reform is necessary TO correct the
omissions of Republican Congress
and the errors OF our treaties and our
diplomacy which have stripped our
/ fellow citizens OF foreign birth and
I kindred race-recrossing the Atlantic
of the shield OF American citizen
ship, ana have exposed our brethren
OF the Pacific coast to the invasion OF
race not sprung from the same
great parent stock, and in fact now
denied citizenship through IA natural
izatiOn, as being neither accustomed
to the traditions of progressive civ
ilization nor exercises in liberty
under equal law.
We denounce the policy which
thus discards the liberty-loving Ger
man and tolerates the revival Of the
coolie trade i'm Mongolian women
imported for these purposes, and the
Mongolian had to perform seryile
\ labor contracts; and we demand such
modification of legislation by Con-
! gress within constitutional limitations
which shall prevent the further i'm
portations or immigration Of the
\ MOngOlian.