The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1876-09-08

ter OF these our rightSf Il behoOycs free
people 10 practice also that eternal vigi-
lance which is the price of liberty. Re
form is necessary to rebuild and establish
in the hearts of the whole people the
Unicn eleven wears ago happily rescued
from the danger OF a corrupt centralIsm
which after iuHieting upon ten States
the rapacity Of carpet bag tyrannies, has
the Offices of the Federal
Government itsefwith incapacity. waste,
and fraud infcctedaStates aud municipal
tiles with the ccl,tsg ion Ut misrule, aud
locked fast The prosperity of an industri-
Gus people in the paraly sis Of hard times
Reform is necessary to establish
sound currency and restore the public
credit aud maintain the national honor
We denounce the fsilure for all these
eleven years to make good the promise OF
the legal-tender notes, which are a chang
ing standard of value in the hands OF the
people, and the non-payment OF which Is
a disregard OF the plighied 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 the legai-ten-
der notes and squaudered four times TINS
sum in useless expense, without accumu-
latiug any revenue for their redemption
We deuouuce the financial imhccllIly ana
immortality OF that parry which, during
eleven years Of peace, has made no ad-
vance toward resumption, and no prepar-
alton for resumption, but instead has 90
structed resumption by wasting our rev
enues and exhausting ali our surplus IN
come, and while annually protesting TO
intend speedy return to specie payments
has annually enacted fresh hIndrances
a.
uounce the resumption clause Of the act
Of 1879, and we hereby demand its repeal.
We demand n judicious system Of prepar-
alton By public economies, by official re-
aud By wise financial man
agemcnt. which shall enable the nation
soon 10 assure the whole world of its per
feet ability aud its perfect readiness to
meet any of its promises at the call OF the
creditor entitled to payment. We believe
that such "a system. we'll devised, and
above all, entrusted TO competent hands
for execution, creating at no time an ar
tificial scarcity Of currency, aud at no
time alarming the public mind into a
OF that vaster machinery Of
credit by hich % per cent. OF all DusI-
ness transactions are performed, a sys-
ten open, public, and inspiring general
would, from the day of its
adoption, bring healing on its wings 10 all
our harassei industries, set in motion the
wheels of commerce., manufactures and
the mechanical arts, restore employ ment
to labor and renew in all its national
sources the prosperity of the people.
Reform is necessary in the sum and
mode of Federal taxation, to the end that
capital may be set free from distrust and
labor lightly burdeuei. We icnounce the
present tariff, levied upon nearly four
thousand articles, as masterpiece Of in
Justice. inequality and false preteuse. 1t
yields dwindliRg, not yearly rising
It has Impoverished many in
,iustries to subsi,hze few. f. prohibits
imports that CAT purchase the products
of American labor Il has degraded
American commerce FROM the first 10 au
inferior rank ou the high seas II has
cut down he sales Of American manufac-
lures at home aud abroad, and depleted
The returns OF Amcrican agriculture, an
industry fol.owedby half our people. 1t
COSTS the people Eve times more than 1t
produces to the treasury, ohstructs the
processes Of production aud wastes the
fruits Of labor. It promotes fraud fosters
smuggling, enriehes dishonest officials
and baukrupts honest merchants. We
demand that all custom-house taxation
shall be only for revenue.
Reform Is necessary in the SCALE of pub
lie expense, Federal, State aud municipal
Our Federal taxation has swollen from
500, 10000 gold in 1861 to Si5U,oOO, 600
currency in 1870, and our aggregate tax
alton from Slj0000 0o0 gold in 1860 To
$3.50 0O0 600 currency in 1870 or IN one
decade from less than i've dollars per head
TO more than eighteen dollars per head
Since the peace, the people nave pau IN
taxes more than thrice the sum OF the
national debt. AMI more than twice that
sum for the Federal Government alone
We demand rigorous frugality In every
department, and from every officer OF the
Government.
Reform is necessary 10 put stop to the
prOfigat waste of the public lands ana
their diversion from actual settlers by
he party in power which has squandered
TWO hundred millions of acres upon rail-
roads alone, and out of more than thrice
that aggregates has disposed OF less than
a sixth directly to tilfers Of he soil
Reform IS necessary To correct the
omission OF Republican Congress aad
the errors Of cur treaties and our dipio-
macy which hay e stripped our fellow
citizens of ore On birth aud kindred
race recrossing The Atlantic, oil the
shield Of American citizenship ana nave
exposed our hrethrea of the Paeinc eo1st
TO the iucursons Of race not sprung
from the same great parent stock ana IN
fact now hy law denied citizenship,
though naturalization is being neither
ccomolated 10 the traditions OF pro
gressive civilization nor exercised in
liberty under equai laws. We deuounee
policy which thus discards the liberty
loving German aud toierates the renewal
of the Coolie trade in Mongoliau women
imported for immora; purposes, and Mon
golian men hehl TO perform servile labor
contracts Aal We demand such moli.
fcation of the etreaty with the Chinese
empire or such legislation by Congress,
within constitutional Limitation shall
prevent the further Importation immig ra
ton of the Monaghan race.
Reform is necessary and can never br
effected but by making il the controllinl
issue of the elections and lifting il above
the two false issues with which the office
holding class and party in power seek t,
smother il; the false issue with which
they would enkindle sectarian strife il
respect TO the public schools. of which tn
establishment and support belong exclu
siveIv to the several States, and which
the Democratic party has cherished from
their foundation, and is resolved to main.
tain without partiality or creed an,
without contributing from the treasur,
to any; and the false issue by whicl
they seek TO lift anew the dying ember
of sectional hate between kindred people,
once unnaturaily estranged. but now re
united in one indivisibie republic and
common destiny.
Refom is necessary in the civil service
Experience proves that the efficient eco
noInical conduct of the Governments
business is not possible, if its civil servic
be subject TO change at every election. b
prize fought Tor at the ballot. box. he
brief reward Of party zeal, instead o
posts of honor asst ned for proved com
potency, and held for fidelity in the pub
lie employ and that the dispensing q
patronage should neither be a tax iipoi
the time of our public men. nor the in
strumeat of their ambition. Here agai,
professions Ialslhed in the performanc
attest that the party in power can worl
out no prac'ieal or salutary reform. Re
iorn is necessary, even more in tn
higher grAdes OF public seryice-presi
dent, vice president, Judges, senators
representatives. cabinet offiers- ,hes
and all others in authority are tho noe
pies servants Their offices are M, pri
vate perquisite; they are a public trusi
"hen the nnais of public disgrace an
cehsnfe 81 = wee president, late speak
er VI the House Of Representatives. mai