The Cairo bulletin. [volume] (Cairo, Ill.) 1872-1878, 1876-09-23

| 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 MOngollan women, imported for immora.
purposes, and Mongolian men held to per-
form serviIe labor contracts.
the FALSE sRCTARIAN IssUE-THE FALSE
SECTIONAL ISSUE.
Reform is necessary, and can never he ei-
fected only by making II the controlling
issue OF the elections, and lifting IL above
| the two false issues with which the Office
holding class and the party in power seek
to smother II.
First- the false issue with which they
would enklndla 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 foun-
dation, and is 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
seek TO light anew the dying embers OF
sectional hate between kindred people once
unnaturally estraDged, but now reunited
on one indivis.ble republic and q common
destiny
RHFORM--1HR CIVIL SERVICE.
Reform 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 10
change at every election, be prize fought
for at the ballot box, be brief reward oil
party zeal, instead of posts of honor, as.
signed for proved competency and held for
fidelity 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
again, professions falsiiied in the preform
ance, n test that the party in power car
| work out no practical or satisfactory
reform.
REFORM-CoRRUPTION 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 al
others in authority are the peoples sery.
ants; their offices are not q private perqui.
site they are public trust.
When the annals of this republic show
the disgrace and censure of vice presi
dent; late speaker OF the house of repre-
sentstives marketing his rulings as q presid
ing officer: three senators proiting secretly
by their vote as lawmakers; five cbairmeI
of the leading committees of the late house
OF representatives exposed In jobbery; 8
late secretary Of the treasury forging bal
ances in public accounts; q late attorney
general misappropriating public funds; .
secretary of the navy enriched or enriching
| friends by percentages levied off the profits
Of contractors with his departments; al
ambassador to England ceDsured in a dis
honorable speculation; the president,
! private secretary barely escaping conyic
| ton upon trial for guilty completely In
frauds upon the revenue; . secretary Of
| war impeached for high crimes and misde
meanors, the demonstration is complete
| that the first 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.
M-REFORM-REFORM.
All these abuses, wrongs and crimes, the
product OF sixteen years OF the ascendancy
OF the republican party, Great a necessity
for 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
ofhceholders, its leaders and guides.
Reform can only he had by peaceful.
civic revolution. We demand 4 change OF
administration, change Of party, that We
may have change Of measures and OF men.