The Cairo bulletin. [volume] (Cairo, Ill.) 1872-1878, 1876-08-18

equal laws. We denounce the policy which
thus discards the liberty-loving German
and tolerates the revival Of the coole trade
In Mongolian women, imported for immora
purposes, and Monaghan men held to per-
form servile labor contracts.
THE FALSE sKcTARIAN IssuE-THE FALSE
SECTIONAL ISSUE.
Reform is necessary, and can never be eff
| fected only by making II the controlling
issue OF the elections, and lifting IL above
the two false issues with which the office.
holding class and the party in power seek
to smother IL.
First the false issue with which they
| would enkindle sectarian strife in respect
to the public schools, of which the establish
the several States, and which the demo-
cratic party has cherished from their foun-
datlon, aud Is resolved to maintain, without
any Partially or preference for any class,
sect or creed, and without contributing
from the treasury TO any.
Second-The false issue by which they
seek to light anew the dying embers of
sectional hate between kindred people once
unnaturally estraDged, but now reunited
on one indivisble republic aud a common
destiHy
RRroRM-1HE CIVIL SERVICE.
Reform Is necessary in the civil service;
experience proves that efficient economic
al conduct of the governmental business is
not possible il its civil service be subject to
change at every elestion, be a prize fought
for at the ballot box, be q brief reward OF
party zeal, instead of posts OF honor, as
signed for proved competency and held for
fidelity in the public employ; that the dis
pcnsiDg 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 al.itied in the preform
ance, test that the party in power can
work out no practical or satisfactory
reform.
REToRM-CoRRuPTIoN OF HIGH PUBLIC
OFFICERS.
Reform is necessary even more in the
higher grades of the public service. The
president, vice president, judges, senators.
representatives and cabinet officers and all
others in authority are the peoples sery-
ants; their offices are not a private perQui-
site they arc public trust.
When the annals of this republic show
the disgrace and censure of a vice pres-
dent; late speaker of the house of repre-
sentatives marketing his rulings as presid-
ing officer: three senators profting secretly
by their vote as Lawmakers; five cbarmen
OF the leading committees of the late house
OF representatives exposed In jobbery; q
late secretary of the treasury forging bal
ances in public accounts; late attorney
general InlsapprOprlatlng publlc FUNDS;
secretary of the navy enriched or enrjchng
friends by percentages levied of the profit,
OF contractors with his department.; an
ambassador to England censured in dis
honorable speculation: the presidents
private secretary barely escaping conyic-
ton upon trial for guilty completely in
frauds upon the revenue; secretary OF
war impeached for high crimes and INSIDE
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 lest
| by making no change of men or parties we
| can get no change of measures and no real
| reform.
-REFORM-REFORM.
All these abuses, wrongs and crimes, the
product OF sixteen years of the sscendancy
OF the republican party. create a necessity
for reform. confessed by republicans them
selves, but their reformers are voted down
in convention and displaced from the
cabinet; the party's mass of honest voters
Is pOwerless to resist the eighty thousand
officeholders. its leaders and guides.
Reform can only be had by peaceful,
civic revolution. We demand a change OF
administration. change of party, that we
may have change Of measures and OF men,