The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1876-07-07

lure And Industry, Followed by half Of
our people II costs the people five times
more than IL produces TO the Treasury
obstructs the processes Of production and
wastes the fruits of labor; 1t promotes
fraud, fosters smuggling, enriches dis.
honest officials, and bankrupts honest
merchants. We demand that all Custom
House TAXATION shall be only for reve-
nue.. Reform is necessary IL the scale
|of public expense--Federsl, State and
municipal. Our Federal taxation has
swollen from 500, 100000 gold in 1850 to
$45C. 100000 currency in 1870; our AZ.
gregate taxation from tl5%,0OO, 900 gold
ia 1860 to e730,O0e, 900 currency in 1870.
Or In one decade from less than five dol.
lars per head to more than eighteen del
lars per head. Since the peace the pe0.
|ple have paid their tax gsthersrs more
than three times the sum Of the National
debt. and more than twice that sum for
the Federal Government alene.
We demand . vigorous frugaiity In
every department and from every ofaeer
lof the Government.
Reform 10 necessary to put stop to
the prenigste waste Of public lands and
lshcis diversion from actual settlers by
|ths party In pswsr, which has sqnander.
led 10000, 600 Of acres upon railroads
|oloAo, aud out Of more than thrice that
has disposed Of less than sns-
|sixth directly 70 the tillers Of the soil.
Reform 10 necessary 10 correct the
omissions ef . Republican Congress and
the errors ef our treatiss, and our diplo.
macy, which hes stripped our fellow.
|ciuzens OF foreiyn birth and kindred
race re-crossing the Atlantic, Of the
shield Of American citizenship, and has
exposed our brethren Of the Pacific coast
to the incursioas Of rsce not sprung
from the Same great parent stock, aad,
In fact, now by law denied citi,ensk1ip.
through naturalization. ~ being un.
accustomed 10 the traditions ofa psp.
gressive civilization, ono exercised n
liberty under equal lave. We de-
nounce the policy which thus discards
the liberty loving Germans, and tolsr.
atcs the revival Of the coolie trade n
Mongolian women imported for immoraI
purposes, and Aongolian men held e
Iperferm servile labor contrasts and de.
msnd such notifications OF the treaty
with the Chinese empire, or such lexis.
lstion by Congress within the constitu.
Itional limitation. ~ shall prevent the
further importation or immigration si
the Mongelian race.
Reform 10 necessary, and can never be
effected, but BY making it the coutroll.
ing issue OF the election, and lining /,
above the two false issues with which
the office-holding Glaze and the party in
power seek TO smother il: The fnlse
issue with which this would enkindle
''sectarian strife in respect 10 the public
schools, Of " which the est xblish ment and
support belong exclusively 10 the several
States, aud which the Democratic party
has cherished from their foundation,
and is resolved 20 maintaiA without Ipar.
ltislity or preference for any claas, ssct
lor creed, and without contribution from
the Treasury to any: the false issus by
which they seek TO light anew the dying
Icmbers of sectional hate between kindred
people, once unnaturally estrsngsd, but
now reunited in enc indivisible republic
and common destiny.
All these abuses. wrong and crimes
the product OF sixteen years ascendancy
Of the Repu ublicaD party, create nscss-
Isity for reform confessed by the Repub.
licans; but their reformeU arc voted
down in their Convention and displaced
iron the Cabinet. The party's mass OF
honest voters are powsrless 10 resist the
eight thousand Office holders, its loadora
and guides. Reform can only be had
by peaceful civic revolution, ard We
demand change Of system, . change
Of administration. and . change of
parties, that We may have . change OF
measures and of men.
Reform 10 necessary in the civil ser-
vice, and experience proves that an
efficient economical conduct OF the
Governmental business, 10 not possible,
! il its civil service be subject to change
at every election, to be . prize feugh,
for at the ballot box, and 10 be Q brisi
reward Of party zeal instead Of pest ol
honor assigned for proved competency
and held for Adslity in the public EN-.
ploy that the dispensing Of patronage
should neither Be tax upon the time el
jail our public men, nor the ipstrumssi
of their ambition. Hero again profss.
sions fAlsited in their perfermapcs
attsst that the party in pswer can work
out no practical or salutory reform. II
10 necsssary, even more In the higher
grades Of public service, such - Presi.
dent, Vice. -Prssidsnt, Judges, 6snstors
lReprescntstivss and Cabinet shicers
These and all others in authority, ar,
the peoples servants, their ollces art
not private perquisite, but they ere I
public trust- when the annals of chi
public show disg,xce and csnsurs Of I
Vice President, . late Speaker Of th,
House of Representatives, marketing hi
,ruIings ~ . presiding officer: thre,