The Canton mail. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 18??-1882, 1876-07-08

sumption by wasting every re
source, and exhausted or surplus
iucom", and while it annually makes
profession gt su iuDat,1h - spcrd-
.l.S- retufn to aic.;H paya4t:.:+.5Stlt
has annually enacted fresh Inn
ORANGES thereto. AS such him
drance we dcDounce the rcsulnp-
ton clause OF the act OF 1875, and
we here demand ITS repeal. We de
mand judicious system of prepa-
ration by public economies, by of
fetal rctrenchmont, and by wise
financial policy, which shall enable
the nation TO assure TO the whole
world its perfect ability and its
perfect readiness TO meet any of its
promises at the call of the creditor
entitled to payment; I'VE believe
such Il system will be devised, and
above all. entrusted to competent
hands for execution, creating at no
! time an artificial scarcity o.. curren-
cy, and ut no time alarming the
public mind into Il withdrawal of
that vast machine of credit by which
% per ccut. of all business rans;.c-
tons are performed y system open,
public, and inspiring general con-
| tidcncc, would, the day Of its adop-
| ton, bring healing on its wings to
all our Larrasscd industry, set go
/ ing the wheels of commerce, manu-
| iacturies and mechanical arts, res
store employment to labor and re-
new in all national sources the
prosperity of the people. Reform
is necessary in the sum and mode
| of Federal taxation, 10 the end that
capital may be sent free from dis
trcss, and labor lightly burdened.
| We denounce the present tariff le
We'd on nearly four hundred arti-
, clcs as a master piece of injustice,
inequality and false pretenscs. 1t
yields dwindling in number and
o yearly rising revenue. 1t has
impoverished many industries to
subs,dlze few. 1t prohibits i'm
portant industries that might pur-
chase the products of American Ia
Dor. 1t has degraded American
commerce from the first TO an infc-
rior OF the high seas. 1t has cut
down the sales of American manu-
facturers at homo and abroad, and
depleted the returns of American
agricultural industry, followed by
half our people; it costs the people
five times more than it produces to
the Treasury, obstructs the process
ses of production, and wastes tho
fruits of labor; it promotes fraud and
fosters smuggling, cnrichcs dishon-
est officials and banlrupts honest
merchants. We demand that Gus
tom-house taxation shall be only
tor revenue.
Reform is needed in the scale o f
public expenses, Federal, State and
municipal. Our Federal taxa tionhas
swollen from SIG, 200 900, gold.in 18-
90, to, S450, 000, 0O0Incurrcncyin 1870; |
our aggregate taxation from $751;
000,000 gold in 1860 to. $3.50, 100000
currency in 1870; or, in one decade
from less that 50 per head to more
than SIS per head. Since the peace
the people have paid to their tax
gathererS more than three times the
sum Of the natiowal debt, and more
than twice that sim for the FEEDER
al Government alone. We demand
q rigorous trugality in every de
partment and from every officer Of
the government: Reform necessa-
ry TO put q stop to the proffigate
waste of public lands, and their d.
version from actual settler, by the
the party in power, which has
squsndercd 200, 100000 of acres on
railroads alone, and ont OF moro
than thrice that aggregate has been
disposed of. and less than a sixth
of it directly to the tillcrs of the
soil. Reform Is necessary to cor
rect the omissions OF u Republican
Congress, and the errors OF our
treaties and our diplomacy which
have have stripped our fellow citi
zens of foreign birth and race re-
crossing the Atlantic OF the shield
of American citizenship, and have
exposed our brethren of the Pacific
TO the incursions OF race not
sprung from the same parent stock
i'm fact now denied by law
rs being neither accustomed to the
traditions of a progressive civilian
ton, or excl siscd in liberty under
equal laws. We dcnounce the pol
icy which thus discards the liberty
loving German, while it tolcrates
the revival of the Coolie trade III
Monaghan women imported for i'm
moral purposes, and Monaghan
men hired TO perform servilo labor
contracts, and demand such Ilodiii-
cation of the treaty with the Chi
neso Empire, or such legislation by
Congress, within n constitutional |
limitation, so as to prevent further I
importation of immigrants of the
Mongolian race. The reform is
necessary, and can never be effect
ed but by making controlling is
sue of the elections, and lifting it |
ahead of two faced issues with the
Office holding class and the party in
power seek to smother it. Tho is
sue was false with which they |
would rekindic seetariaD strife in re-
spect to the public schools, of which
the establishment and support be-
longed exclusively to tho several
states, and which thes Democrat
party cherished from their founda-
ton, and resolved to maintain with
out Partially or preference for any
class, sect or creed, and without
contributing from the treasury to
any false issue which they seek to
light anew the dying embers of sec
tional hate between kindred people