The Cairo bulletin. [volume] (Cairo, Ill.) 1872-1878, 1876-08-01

| perfect readiness 10 meet any VI ~ P'..
ises at the call of the creditor entitled 10
payment.
| We believe such = system, well devised.
| and. above all, entrusted N competeut
| hands for its execution, Great ng AZ no ,iiIe
| an artificial scarcity of currency, ana AT ho
| time alarming the public mihd In'o ~, ~ W.
drawal OF that vast machinery OF creult U!
| which g5 Der cent. of all our business Trans
| actions are performed: system open 10
| the public and inspiring general confidence,
| would, from The day Of its adoption, bring
healing on its wings TO all our harrassed IN
dustries, set in motion the wheels OF com.
merce. manufactures and the mechanical
| arts, restore employment to labor, and re-
new in all it, national sources the prosper
| ty OF the people.
REFORM OF THE TARIFF-FRRE TRADE.
Reform is necessary in the sum and mode
| of federal taxation. to the end that capital
| may be set free IRON distrust and labor
| lightly burdencd We denounce the pres
| ent tariff levied upon nearly four thousand
articles as mast r piece of injustice, in
| EQUALITY and false pretense. 1t yields
| dwindling, not yearly rising revenue. 1t
| has impoverished many industries TO sub
| sidize few: il prohibits imports that might
purchase me products Of American liboTs:
! it has degraded American commerce from
| the first TO an inferior rank upon the high
| seas; il has cut down the sales of American
1
| pleted the returns of American agriculture,
an industry followed by halt our people. 1t
| costs the people five times more than il pro-
duces to the treasury; obstructs the process
| of production, and wastes the fruits OF la
! Dor; il promotes fraud, fosters smuggling.
| enriches dishonest officials and bankrupts
| honest merchants. We demand that all
custom house taxation shall be only for
revenue.
| REFORM IN rUBLIC EXPENSE.
Reform is necessary in the scale of public
| eXpense-federal, State and municipal.
our federal taxation has swollen from sixty
| millions gold, in 1850. TO four hundred and
fifty millions currency, in 1870. Our aggre-
gate taxation. from one hundred and nifty
four millions gold in 1850, TO seven hundred
| and thirty millions currency in 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 10
their tax-gatherers more than thrice the
sum Of the Rational debt, and more thar
twice that sum for the federal government
alone. We demand vigorous frugslity il
every department, and from every officer
| of the government.
REFoRN-PUBLIC LANDS TO ACTUAL SET
ILxRs.
Reform il necessary to put a stop to til,
pron gate waste of the public lands ant
their diversion from actual settlers by tn,
party in power, which has squandere,
2Q0,0N,W0 acres upon railroads alone. anC
IN amount OF more than thrice that aggre
gate. has disposed of less than a sixth di
rectly to the tillers of the soft.
REFoRM-ADoPTED CITIZENS. REJECTED
MONGOLs.
reform l. necessary 10 correct the ommis
sion Of republican congres. and the error
of our treaties and our diplomacy, whicl
have stripped our fellow. citizens OF foreigl
birth and kindred race, reerossng the AT
lantic, OF the shield of American citizen
ship, and have exposed our brethren of tn
Pacific coast to the incursious of a race no
sprung from the same great parent stock
and. in fact, now by law denied citizenship
through naturalization, as being neither &C
customed 10 the traditions of progre ssivs
civilization, nor exercised in liberty uncel
equal laws, We denounce the policy whicl
thus discards the llberty-loyipg German
and tolerates the revival Of the coolie trad,
in Monaghan women, imported for immora
purposes, and Mongolan men held TO per
form seryile labor contracts
THE FALSE sEcTARIAN IssUE-THE FALsy
SECTIONAL ISSUE.
Reform Is necessary, and can never be eff
tected only by making il the control ne
issue OF The elections. aud lifting il ahoy,
the two false issues with which the Office
holding class and the party in power seel
TO smother it.
First the false issue with which they
would enklndle sectarian strife in respec
TO the public schools, of which the establish
ment and support belongs exclusively L
the several States, and which the demo
cratic party has cherished from their foun
datlon, and Is resolved to maintain, withou
any Partially or preference for any class
sect or creed, and without contrihutinI
from the treasury 10 any.
, Second-The false issue by which the
al a oh he AxTfn
sectional hate between kindred people one,
unnaturllly esiranged, but now reunite,
on one indlvis.be republic aud common
= destiny.
RRFORM-1HE CIVIL SERVICE.
RJorm Is necessary in the civil service
experience proves that efficient, economic
al conduct of the governmen tal business i
: not possible IL its civil service be subject 4
Z change at every election, be q prize Tough
for at the ballot box, be a brief reward 0
! party zeal, instead of posts of honor. as
> signed for proved competency and held 10
fidelity in the public employ; that the dis
= pensiDg OF patronage should neither be
Q tax upon the time Of all our public men
Il nor the instrument Of their ambition: here
u again, profes lions falsitied in the preform
ance, test that the party in power ca
l. work out no practical or satisfactor
reform.
:, | REFORM-CoRRUPTIoN OF HIGH PUBLI
= OFFICERS.
RJ0Fm Is necessary even more in IN
:; higher grades of the public service. Tn
president, vice president, judges, or.
. representatives and cabinet officers and a
: others In authority are the peoples ser,
= ants; their offices are not a private per1ui
site they are public trust
when the annals OF this republic shoy
{ the disgrace and censure Of vice pres
: dent; late speaker OF the house of repre-
e sentatiyes marketing his rulings as a presid
f ing oihcer; three senators protting secret
4 by thelr vote as Lawmakers; five cbairme
i OF the leading committees of the late hous
l. oil representatives exposed in jobbery:
l. late secretary OF the treasury forging bal
e ances IN public accounts; a late attorne
/, general Incorporating public funds;
il secretary of the navy enriched or eprichip
J, friends by percentages levied off the profit
# Oh contractors with his department; a.
1 ambassador TO England censllred in a dis
/ honorable speculation; the president
private secretary barely escaping conyic
{ uon upon trial for guilty completely il
A frauds upon the revenue; a secretary O
war impeached for high crimes and misde
meanors, the demonstration is complet
that the first step in reform must be tn
b peoples choice of honest men from anothe
/, party, lest the disease OF one political O,
G gahlzatloh inject the body polite; and les
o by making no change of men or parties w
!, can get no change of measures and no rei
v | reform,
u REFoRM-REFoRM-RE
4 All these abuses, wrongs and crimes, In
=. product OF sixteen years of the sscenda nc
: OF the republican party, create a necesst
LOT reform, confessed by republicans then
selves, but their reformers are voted dow
| IN convention and dispIacab fron IN