The Cairo bulletin. [volume] (Cairo, Ill.) 1872-1878, 1876-06-30

here appeal to our tcllow-citieens of ey-
| cry form of political connection to nm
| dertakc with us this first and most press
ing patriotic duty for the democracy OF
the whole country. We do here rcatiirm
our faith in the pcrmanencc of the fed
cral Union. our devotion to the constiirl-
tion of the United States with it, amend
ments universally accepted rs final set.
Element of the controversy that enjen-
dered IL civil war; aud do here record
our stASiast confidence in the perpetuity
Of Republican selt-government in abso.
lutte acquiescence in the will of the ma.
jority, the vital principle of Republic in
the supremacy of the civil over the
military (; In the two fold separation of
church and State for the sake alike of
civil and religious freedom: in the equal
ity of all citizens before just laws OF their
own enactment; In the liberty of individ
ual conduct unveXed by sumptuary laws;
in the faithful education of the rising
generation, that they may preserve, en-
JOY and transmit these best conditions of
human happiness and hope, we behold
the noblest products Of hundred years
of changeiul history. But while uphold
ing the bond of our Union and great
charter OF these our rights. it bchooves a
free people to practice. also. that eter-
ildi NIStluHCc w HlcH u tH' ViP'bi ilbtIlN .
REFORM GENERAL.
Reform il necessary to rebuild and cS-
tabli-h In the hearts oi the whole people OF
he Union eleven years ago happily res
cued from a secession of States, but now
to he saved from Il corrupt centralisIn.
which, after inllcting upon ten States
the rapacity OF carpet-bag attorneys has
honoy combcd the Offices of the federal
Il, a.
and fraud infected States and munich
paliucs with the contagion of miSsrule.
and locked fast the prosperity of indus.
Gus people in the paralysis OF hard times.
Reform is necessary to establish sound
currency, restore the public credit and
maintain the national honor. We de-
nOuncc the failure for all these eleven
years to make good the promise of the
legal tender notes, which are a changing
standard in the hands Of the people, and
the non-payment of which is the dsre-
gard OF the plighted faith of the nation
TIE FINANCIAL PLANK.
We denounce the improvidence which
III eleven years of peace has tdken from
the people in fedeiat tares thirteen times
the wh9ie amount Of The tegat tender notes
and sguaadered foar ttass HcV sum IN use
serve for their redemption. We denounce
the financial imbecliity and immortality
of that party which. during eleven years
of peace, has made no advance toward
resumption. no preparation toward re-
sumption. but instead has INSTRUCTED re-
sumption by wasting our resources and
eXhausting all our surplus income :,
and while annually protesting to intend
speedy return TO specie payments, has
annually enacted fresh hindrances there
TO. AS such hindrance We denounce
the resumption clause of the act of 1873,
and we here demand its repeal. We de-
mand a judciouS system OF preparation.
We demand a judiciops system OF pre-
para;ion by public economies, by official
retrenchments, and by wise finance
which shall enable the nation soon to as
sure the whole world Of its perfect readi-
to meet any OF its promises at the call Of
a creditor entitled TO payment.
We believe snch system wcll-adviscd,
and above all, entrusted 10 competent
hands for execution, creating at no time
an artificial scarcity of currency, and at
no time alarming the public mind into a
Withdrawal of that vast machinery of
credit by which CO per cent. OF our bust
ness transactions are periormed-a sys-
tenn open and public and inspiring gem
cral confidence would from the day OF its
adoption bring healing on its wings TO
all our harrassed industries, set in motion
the wheels of commerce. manufactures
and the mechanic arts, restore employ
Incnt to labor ana renew III ali IT'S sources
the prosperity OF the people.
TAXATION.
Reform is necessary in the sum aud
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capital may be set free from distress, and
labor lightly burdencd.
We denOunce the present tariff levied
upon nearly four thousand articles as
a masterpiece OF injustice, inequality and
false pretense, which yields n dwin ilng
and not yearly rising revenue, has i'm
pOverished many industries To- subsidilc
q few. 1t prohibits imports that might
purchase the products Of American labor;
IT has degraded American commerce
from the first to an inferior rank upon
the high seas. lt has cut down the walls
OF American manufactures at .home and
abroad. Ii has depleted the returns OF
American agriculture, an industry fol-
lowed by half our people. II costs the
people fee times more than il produces 10
tie treasury; obstructs the process of pro-
ductlon and wastes the fruits of labor. Ii
promotes fraud. fosters smuggling, en-
riches dishonest officials. and bankrupts
honest merchants. We demand that all
taxation shall be only for
revenue.
ECONOMY.
Reform is necessary in the scale of
public expense, federal, State and mu-
nicipal. Our federal taxation has swollen
from sixty millions gold in 1860 to four
hundred and fifty millions currency ia
1870. Our aggregate taxation from one
and iiity-four millions gold in
1850 to seven hundred and thirty mil
lions currency in 1870; all in one decade,
from less than five dollars per head 10
more than eighteen dollars per head.
Since the peace the people have paid to
their taX-gatherers more than thrice the
sum OF the national debt, and more than
twice that sum for the federal govern
ment alone. We demand a rigorous
frugality in every department and from
every officer of the government.
Reform is Necessary to put stop to the
profligatc waste of public LANDS aud their
diversion from actual sotuCrs py the
party in power, which has squandered
two hundred millions of acres upon rail
roads alone; and out Of more than thrice
that aggregate has disposed of less than a
si..h, dii Uvtiy ~ the tillorc of the soil.
reform Is necessary TO correct the
omissions of Republican congress and
the errors of our treaties, and our diplo-
macy, which has stripped our icllow-cit-
liens OF foreign birth aud kindred race,
re-erasin% the Atlantic from the shield OF