The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1876-10-12

diversion from actual settlers By the par
ty in power, which has squsndered Zoo
millions of acres upon railroads Alone
and out of more than thrice that aggre
gate has disposed of less than q sixth d.
rectly to 'tillers of the soil
THE SHIELD OF AMERICAN CITIZEIsHlP.
Reform is necessary to correct the onls-
sioA of Republican Congress ana the
errCfs of our treaties and our diplomacy
which have stripped our fellow-cltlzen5
of foreign birth and kindred race recrosa-
ing the Atlantic, of the shield OF Amerl-
can citizenship, and have exposed our
brethren of the Pacific coast to The incur.
siobs of race not sprung from the same
great parent stock, and in fact now Dy
law denied citizenship through natural
cation as being neither accustomed to the
traditions of progressive civilization nor
exercised in liberty under equal laws.
We denounce the policy which thus
discards the liberty-loving German and
tolerates the revival of the coolie trade IN
Monaghan women imported for immoral
purp oses, and Mongolian men, hired to
perform servile labor contracts, and de-
mand such a modification of the treaty
with the Chinese empire, or such leglsla-
ton by Congress within constitutional
limitations as shall prevent the further
importation or immigration of the Mon
golian race.
sECTARIAN STRIFE AND SECTIONAL HATE
Reform is necessary and can never be
effected but by making it the controlling
issues OF the elections, and lifting 1t above
the two false issues with which the Office
holding class and the party in power seek
to smother it
|. The false issue with which they
would enkindie sectsrian strife in respect
to the public schools, OF which the estab-
llshment and support belong exclusively
10 the several States, and which the Dem
ocratic party has cherished from their
foundation, and is resolved TO maintain
without prejudice or preference for any
class, sect, or creed, and without contrl-
buttons from the treasury to any.
9. The false issue by which hey seek
to light anew the dying embers of sec
tional hate between kindred copies once
estranged, but now reunited in one lndl-
visible republic and common destiny.
CIVIL SERVICE.
Reform, IS necessary in the Civil Ser
vice.
Experience proves that efficient, econ
omical conduct Of the governmental bus
mess is not possible if its civil service DO
subject to change at every election, be
prize fought for at the ballot box, be
brief reward of party zeal, instead OF
posts of honor assigned for proved com
potency, and held for fidelity IN the pub
lie employ; that the dispensing Of patron
age should neither be tax upon the
time of all our public men, nor the In
strument of their ambition. Here again
promises falsitied in the performance, at
test that the party in power can work out
no practical or salutary reform.
OFFICIAL CRIMES AND MIsDEMEANoRs
Reform is necessary even more in the
higher grades of the public service.
President, Vice President, Judges, Sens-
tors, Representatives, Cabinet officers,
these and all others in authority are !. e
peoples servants. Their offices are not
private perquislte; they are public trust
Wien the annals Of this Republic
show the disgrace and censure OF Vice.
President;
A late Speaker OF the House of Repre-
sentatives marketing his rulings as PEE
siding officer;
Three Senators proftlng secretly by
their votes as lawmakers;
Five chairmen of the leading commit
tees of the late House of Representatives
exposed in jobbery;
A late Secretary Of the Treasury fore
ing balances in the public accounts;
A late Attorney. General misappropria-
ting public funds;
A Secretary of the Navy enriched or
enriching friends, by percentages levied
of the profits of contractors with his de-
psrtmeDt;
An Ambassador to England censured
in dishonorable speculation;
The Presidents Private Secretary bare
ly escaping conviction upon trial for
guilty completely in frauds upon the rev.
enue;
A Secretary OF War lmpeached for
high crimes and misdemeanors;
The demonstration is complete that the
first step IN Reform must be the people s
choice of honest men from another party,
lest the disease of one political organlza-
tion infect the body politics, and, lest by
making no change OF measures and no
real Reform.
REPUBLICAN Reform IMPOSSIBLE.
All these abuses, wrongs and crimes,
the product of sixteen years ascendancy
o. the Republican party, create neces-
sity for reform confessed by Republicans
themselves; but their reformers are voted
down IN Convention and displayed from
the Cabinet. The party's mass of honest
voters are powerless to resist the $4,000
Office holders, its leaders and guides.
A CIVIC REVOLUTION NECESSARY.
Reform can only be had by peaceful
civil revolution.
We demand a change OF system, a
change of administration, change OF
parties, that we may have
ACHANGE OF MEASURES AND OF MEN.