Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1876-07-06


from one hundred and ifty-lour
millions gold in 1860 to seven
hundred and thirty millions cur
rency in 1870 or in one decade
from less than SIS per head 10 more
than SIS per head. Since peace
the people have paid their tax
gatherers more than thrice the
sum Of the National debt and more
than twice that sum for the Fed
eral Government alone.
We demand a vigorous frugality
in every department, and from ev
cry officer Of the Government.
Reform is necessary TO correct
the omissions of Republican Con-
gress and errors of our treaties
and our diplomacy, which have
stripped our fellow citizens of for
eign birth and kindred race re-
crossing the Atlantic of the shield
of American citizenship, and have
exposed our brethren of the Pa
cifc coast to the incursions of a
race not sprung from the same
great parent stock, and in TACT,
nOav by law denied citizenship.
Though naturalization, is being
neither accustomed to the tradi
tions of O progressive civilization
nor exercised in liberty under e.
qnal laws, we denounce the policy
which thus discards the liberty
loving German and tolerates the
renewal of the Coolie trade in
Monaghan women imported for
immoral purposes, and Mongolian
men held to perform serviIe labor
contracts, and we demand such
modification of the treaty with the
Chinese EMPEROR such legislation
by Congress, within constitutional
limits, as shall prevent further i'm
portation or immigration Of the
Monaghan race.
Reform is necessary and can
never be effected but by making it
the controlling issue of the cleo
tons and lifting it above the two
false issues with which the Office
holding class and party in power
seek to smother it. The false is
sue with which they would enkin-
die sectariaR strife in respect TO
the public schools, of which the
establishment and support belong
exclusively to the several States
aud which the Democratic party
has cherished from their founda-
ItioD, and is resolved to maintain
without Partially or creed, and
without contributing from the
Treasury to any false issue by
which they seek to light anew the
dying embers of sectional hate be
tween kindred people once unnat-
urally cstranged, but now reunited
in one indiyisibIe republic and a
common destiny.
Reform is necessary in the civil
service. Experience proves that
an efficient and economic con.
duct Of the governmental business
is not possible if its civil service
be subject to change at every e
lection, and be prize fought for
at the ballot-box, be a brief reward
of party zeal instead OF posts Of
honor assigned for proved compe-
tency and held for fidelity in the
public employ ; that the dispen-
sing of patronage should neither
be q tax upon the time of all our
public men, nor the instrument
Of their ambition. Here again
professions falsified in the perfor-
nance attest that the party in
power can work out no practical
or salutary reform.
Reform is necessary even more
in the higher grades Of public ser,
vice. The President, Vice Presi
dent, Judges, Senators, Represen-
tatives, Cabinet officers these
and all others in authority are the
peoples servants; their Offices are
not private pre- requisite, they
are a public trust. When the an
nails Of the public records show
the disgrace and censure of a Vice
President, a late Speaker of the
House of Representatives, is mar
keting his rulings as a presiding
officer. three Senator's nroftinu