The Cairo bulletin. [volume] (Cairo, Ill.) 1872-1878, 1876-07-25

ises at the call of the creditor entitled to
payment.
We believe such system, well devised.
ana, above all. entrusted t. competent
hands for its execution, Great ny at no time
| an artificial scarcity OF currency, and at no
time alarming the public mind INTO with.
drawal OF that vast machinery of credit by
| which 81 per cent. OF all our business trans
| actions are performed; a system open to
the public and inspiring general confidence,
would, from The day OF its adoption, bring
healing on its wings to all our harrassed in
dustries, set in motion the wheels of COM
| merce, manufactures and the me chanical
| arts, restore employ to labor, and re-
new in all its national sources the prosper
ity OF the people.
REFORM OF THE TARIFF-FRRE TRADE.
Reform is necessary In the sum and mode
OF federal taxation, to the end that capital
may be set free from distrust and lab n
| lightly burdened. We denounce the pres
ent tariff levied upon nearly four thousand
articles a. mast piece of injustice, in
equality and false pretense. 1t yields a
dwindling. not yearly rising revenue. 1t
has impoverished many industries to SUBJ
sidiZe few: it prohibits imports that might
purchase me products of American labor ::
il has degraded American commerce from
the first to an inferior rank upon the high
seas; il has cut down the sales of American
pieted the returns of American agriculture,
an industry followed by halt our people. 1t
costs the people i've time more than ii pro-
duces to the treasury; obstructs the process
OF production. and wastes the fruits OF la
Dor: il promotes fraud, fosters smuggling
enriches dishonest officials and bankrupt.
honest merchants. We demand thst all
custom house taxation shall be only for
revenue.
REFORM ECONOMY IN PUBLIC EXPENSE.
Reform is necessary in the scale Of public
expense-federal. State and municipal
our federal taxation has swollen from sixty
millions gold. in 1850, TO tour hundred aud
fifty millions currency, in 1870. our aggre-
gate taxation. from one hundred and nifty
four millions gold in 1850, to seven hundred
ana thirty millions currency 10 1870; or. in
one decade, from les. than five dolsrs per
head 10 more than eighteen dollars per head.
since The peace the people have paid TO
toeir tAx-gatherers more than thrice the
sum OF the Rational debt. aud more than
twice that sum Tor the federal government
alone. We demand vigorous frugalitv in
every department, and from every officer
OF the government.
RHFoRM-PCBLIC LANDS TO ACTUAL SIT.
TLIRS.
R,fa-rs I. pecessary to put a stop TO the
prof gate waste of the public lands and
their alserriGn from setual settlers by the
psrty in power, which has sQuandered
ap,oG,U9 acres upon railroads alone, and
IN amount OF more than thrice that aggre-
gate. has disposed Of less than a sixth di.
rectly TO the tillers OF the soil.
REFoRN-ADoPTED CITIZENS. REJECTED
NONGOLs.
Reform i. necessary to correct the omnis-
sion Of republican congress and the errors
OF our treaties and our diplomacy, which
have stripped our felIow-citzens of foreign
birth and kindred race. recrossing the At
lantic, OF the shield Of American citizen.
sbip, and have exposed our hrethe rn Of the
Pacific coast TO the incursons of a race not
sprung from the same great parent stock,
and, In fact, now by law denied citizenship
through naturalization, as being neither ac-
eustomed - the traditions of a progre ssiye
civilization, nor exercised in liberty under
equal laws. We denounee the policy which
thus discards the liberty.lovipg German
and tolerstes the revival Of the cOolie trade
10 Monaghan women, imported for immoral
purposes, and Monaghan men held to per-
form seryile labor contracts
The FALSE sECTARTAS IssUE-THE FALSE
SECTIONAL ISSUE.
RgferD Is necessary, and can never be ef-
fected only by making it the controlling
issue OF me elections, and lifting it above
holding class and the party in power seek
to smother il.
First the false issue with which they
would enkIndle sectarian strife in respect
TO the public schools, Of which the establish
ment and support belongs exclusively TO
the several States, and which the demo
cratic party has cherished from their ioun-
dation. and l. resolved to maintain, without
any Partially or preference for any class. |
sect or creed, and without contributing |
from the treasury TO any.
Second-The false issue by which they |
In ff,-fra -
sectional bate between kindred people once |
esiranged, but now reunitedk
on one indiyisible republic aud commony
destiny.
REFoRM-7HE CIVIL SERVICE.
R.f1rn is necessary in the civil service;
experience proves that efficient, economic |
al conduct Of the governmental business is |
not possible il its civil service be subject TO |
change at every election, be q prize fought |
for at the ballot box, be brief reward OF |
party zeal, instead Of posts OF honor, as
signed Tor proved competency and held for |
ndellty In the public employ; that the dis |
pensing OF patronage should neither be q |
tax upon the time OF all our public men, |
nor the instrument Of their ambition; here, |
ance, test that the party in power can |
work out no practical or satisfactory |
reform.
REFoRM-CoRRUPTIOS OF HIGH PUBLIC |
OFFICERS.
Reform Is necessary even more in the |
higher grades Of the public service. The |
president, vice president, judges, senators, |
representatives and cabinet officers and ali |
others In authority are the peoples sery-
ants; their offices arc not private perqui- |
site they are public trust.
When the annals Of this republic show
the disgrace and censure OF a vice presi-
dent; a late speaker OF the house of repre-
sentatives marketing his rulings as presid- |
ing ofncer; three senators prOfting secretly
by their vote as lawmakers; five cbarrnen
OF the leading committees of the late house
OF representatives exposed in jobbery; a
late secretary OF the treasury forging bal
ances in public accounts; late attorney
general Incorporating public funds;
secretary OF the navy enriched or enrichjnp
friends by percentages levied of the profits
OF contractors with his department.; an
ambassador to England censured in a dis
honorable speculation; the presidents
non upon trial for guilty completely in |
war impeached for high GRIMES se and misde..
meanors, the demonstration is complete
that the lirst step in reform must be the
peoples choice of honest men from another
party, lest the disease OF one political or.
ganiZation infect the body polite: and lest
by making no change of men or parties we
can get no change Of measures and no real
reform.
REFoRM-REFORM-RE
All these abuses, wrongs and crimes. the
product OF sixteen years of the ascendancy
OF the republican party, create a necessity
ior reform, confessed by republicans them
selves, but their reformers are voted down
In convention and displaced from the
cabinet; the party's mass of honest voters
Is powerless to resist the eighty thousand