The Cairo bulletin. [volume] (Cairo, Ill.) 1872-1878, 1876-09-15

civilization. nor exercised in liberty under
equal laws. We denounce the policy when
thus discards the liberty-loving German
and tOlerates the revival Of the coolie trade
In Monaghan women, imported for immora.
purposes, and Monaghan men held to per-
form servile labor contracts.
THE FALSE sRCTARIAN IssuE-1HE FALSE
SECTIONAL ISSUE.
Reform il necessary, and can never he ca
fected only by making II the controlling
issue OF the Ell ctions, aud lifting IL ahoVe
the two false issues with which the ONCE
holding class and the party In power seek
to smother IL.
First the false is ne with which they
would enklnde 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 foun-
dation, and il resolved to maintain, without
any partially OF 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 bate between kindred people once
unnaturally estrapged, but now reunited
on one indyis BILE republic and common
destiny
RRFoRM-1HE CIVIL SERVICE.
Reform j. 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 election, be prize fought
| Tor at the ballot box, be brief reward o
| party zeal, instead Of posts Of honor, as.
| signed for proved c'mpetency and held for
| fidelity in the public employ; that the dis
| pensiBg Of patronage shou d neither be q
| tax upon the time OF all our public men
| nor the instrument Of their ambition; here
again, profes ions fal ited in the preferm
ance, "A test that the party 10 power car
work out no practical OF satisfactory
| REFORM
| RECONSIDERATION OF HIGH PUBLIC
| OFFICERS.
| Rtform is necessary even more In the
higher grades of the public service. The
president, vice president, judges. senators
| representatives and cabinet officers and al
others in authority are the peop.e's serN
| ants: their Offices are not private perqui
site they are public trust.
When the annals OF this republic SHOW
the disgrace and censu6e of vice presi
dent: u late speaker of the house OF repre-
sentstiyes marketing his rulings rs y presid
ing officer; three senators Fronting secret
by their vote as lawmakers: five cbarme
OF the leading committees Of the late hous
of representatives exposed in )0bbery;
late secretary of the treasury forging ba
ances in public accounts; late attorne
general Disappointing public funds;
secretary OF the navy enriched or enrichin
friends by percentages levied oil the profit
of contra, tors wi h his department; a
ambassador 10 England censured in di
honorable speculat,o0: the president
private secretary barely escaping convi
! ton upon trial for guilty completely
Z frauds upon the revenue; secretary
war impeached for high cfimes and misd
meanors, the demonstration IL compile
that the first step in reform must be Il
h peoples choice of honest men from aDoth'
party. lest the di.esse OF one political Q
2 ganizaton infect the body polite: and lie
n by making no change of men or parties v
. can get no change Of measures and no re
8 reform.
4 REFORM-REFORM-RR
Il All these abuses, wrongs and crimes, II
A product Of sixteen years of the ascendant
!. of the republican party, create necessi
!. for reform. confessed by republicans thei
i selves, but their reiormers are voted dow
in convention and displaced from u
:. cabinet: the party mass Of honest vote
is powerless TO resist the eighty thousal
officeholders. its leaders and guides.
Reform can only be had by peacefi
d civic revolution. We demand change
e administration, a change Of party, that '
0 may have chance OF measures and OF me