The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1876-06-29

dertake with US This first and most press.
ing patriotic duty. For the Democracy ol
the whole country we do here reafiirm
our faith in the permanency OF the Fed
eral Union; our devotion to the constitu-
tion Of the United States with its amend
ments, universally accepted as final set
tlement OF the controversies that
engendered he.ciyil war; and we do here
record our steadiast confidence in The
perpetuity Of Republican self govern.
ment; in the absolute acquiescence: in The
will Of the majority, the vital principle
OF the Republic; in the supremacy Of the
civil over military authority; in the total
separation OF the church and State for
the sake alike Of civil and religious free
dom; in the equality Of all citizens be-
fore Just laws Of their own enactment; in
the liberty Of individual conduct free
from sumptuary laws; in the faithful edu-
cation Of the rising generations, that they
may preserve, enjoy and transmit these
principles. In the paralysis Of hard times
reform Is necessary 10 establish sound
currency, restore the public credit and
maintain the National honor. We de-
nounce the failure for all these eleven
years to make good the promises Of
the legal tender notes, which are
changing standard Of value in
the hands Of the people and the non.
payment Of which is the disregard Of
the plighted faith Of the nation. We
denounce the improvidence which id
eleven years Of peace has taken from the
people in federal taxes thirteen times
the whole amount Of the legal tender
notes, squandered four times this sum in
useless expense without accumulating
any reserve for their redemption. We
denounce the financial imbecility and
immortality Of that party which dur
ing eleven yearslof peace has made no
advance towards resumption, no prepar-'
alton for resumption, but instead has OBJ
strtcted resumption by wasting our re-
sources and exhausting all our surplus
income, and while annually protesting to
intend a speedy return to specie pay
ments has annually enacted fresh hinder.
ances thereto. We denounce the resunip-
| tim clause Of the act Of 1876 rs such
hinderance, and we here demand its re.
peal. We demand a julicious system Of
preparation by public economy, by Off
cial retrenchments, and by wise finance
which shall enable the nation soon to. as
sure the whole world Of its perfect abili-
ty to meet any OF It's promises at the call Of
the creditor entitled to payment. We be:
lieve such system we'll devised and when
entrusted to competent hands for exc.
cution creating ut no time an artificial
scarcity ofcurrency and at no time alarm
Ing the public mind into withdrawal Of
that vaster machinery Of credit by which
ninety.five per cent OF all business trans
actions are performed. A system open
to the public and inspiring general con-
fdence would from the day OF its adop-
ton bring healing on its wings to all our
harasSed industry and set in motion the
wheels OF commerce, manufacture and
the mechanical arts, restore employment
10 laborers and revive at its natural
source the prosperity OF the people.
Reform is necessary in the sum and mode
OF federal taxation, to the end that capi-
tai may be set freq from distrust and
labor lightly burdened.
We denounce the present tariff levied
upon nearly 1000 articles, as MASTER
piece OF injustice, inequality and false
pretense. Itgiyes dwindling, not year
fy rising, income; it has impoverished
many industries to subsidize few; it
prohibits imports that might purchase
the products Of our own labor; it has de-
graded our commerce from the first to an
Inferior rank on thehigh seas; it has cut
down the rates OF American manntac-
lures at home and abroad, and depleted
the returns Of American agriculture, an
industry followed by half OF our people.
1t costs the people five times more
10 sustain the system than it produces,anu
tho Treasury obstsucts the processes Of;
production and wastes the fruits Of labor
| Il promotes fraud and fosters smuggling
enriches dishonest officials and bank
rupts honest merchants. we demand
that all Custom House taxation shall be
only for revenue. Reform is necessary
| in the scale OF taxation-federal, State and
municipal. Our federal taxation has
tswollen from 60,00O,00O in gold in 1850,
to $450,0O0,000 in gold in 1870. Our
aggregate taxation from $4,000, 900 in
| gold, in 1860, to $3.50, O,o00'in currency
In 1870, or in one decade from less than
$5 per head to the man TO SIS per
head, since peace was restored. We
have paid to the tax.gatherers more than
th,ice the sum Of the national debt, and
more than twice that sum for the Federal
government alone. We demand a vigor-
Gus frugality in every department and
from every officer OF the government. Re-
form is Necessary to put a stop 10 the prof
ligate waste OF public lands and their
diversion from actual settlersby the party
in power, which has sqtiandered two hun
dred' millions OF acres upon railroads
talone and out OF more than thrice
that aggregate has disposed Of less
than'a sixth directly to the tillers OF the
soil. Reform ia necessary to correct the
omissions Of Republican Congress- and
the errors OF our treaties and our diplb-
mary, which have stripped our fellow
citizens Of foreign birth and kindred race,
re.crossing tho Atlantic, Of their
shield Of arms and citizenship, and have
exposed onr brethren OF the Pacific
coast the to incursions Of race
not sprung. from the same great
lparent stock and in iactlnow by law de-
MED citizenship through naturalization,
as being neither accustomed to tradition
Of progressive civilization, nor exer-
cised in liberty under equal laws. We
denounce the policy which thus diseards
the liberty loving Germans and tolerates
the revival OF the Coolie trade IN Mon
golian women imported for immoral
purposes and Mongolian men held TO
perform seryile labor contracts, and de-
mand such modification OF the treaty
with the Chinese empire or legislation
by Congress within constitutional
limitation as shall prevent the
further importation Of or immigration
Of the MonSolian race. Reform Is rieces-
sary and can never be effected but by
making It the controlling issue Of the
elections, and lifting II above the two
false issues into which the Office holding
class and the party in power seek to
smother II with the false issue with which
they would enkindIe sectarian strife In re.
Bpect to the public schools, Of which the
Establishment and support belong ex-
clusively to the several States, and which
the Democratic party has cherished from
their foundation and is resolved
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