The Cairo bulletin. [volume] (Cairo, Ill.) 1872-1878, 1876-07-23

perfect re sdiness to meet any of its prom.
ises at the call of the creditor entitled 10
payment.
we believe such a system, well devised.
hands for its execution. creating ct no time
an artificial scarcity of currency, and at no
time alarming the public mind into WIN.
drawal OF that vast machinery OF circuit ny
which ~ per cent. OF all our business trans
actions arr performed: q system open 10
the public and inspiring general confidence.
would. rom the day OF its adoption, bring
healing on its wings to all our hsrrassed in
dustries. set in motion the wheels OF COM
meree, manufactures and the mechanical
arts, restore employment to labor, and re-
new in sll its national sources the prosper
ity OF the people.
REFORM OF TIE TARIFF-fREE TRADE.
Hs,crps is necessary in the sum and mode
Of federal taxation, to the end that capital
may be set free from distrust and labor
lightly burdened. We denounce the pres
ent tariff levied upon nearly four thousand
articles a. a mast r piece of injustice, i'll
equality and false pretense. Ii yields q
dwindling, not yearly rising revenue. 1t
has Impoverished many industries 10 SUBJ
sidize few; IT prohibits imports that might
purchase me products Of American libors;
it has degraded American commerce from
the first to an inferior rank upon the high
seas: il has cut down the sales of American
manufactures at home an 4 abroad. and de.
pleted the returns OF American agriculture,
an industry followed by halt our people. 1t
costs the people five times more than 1t pro-
duces to the treasury; obstructs the process
of production, and wastes the fruits OF la
Dor; it promotes fraud. fosters smuggling,
enriches dishonest officials and Dsnkrupts
honest merchants. We demand that all
custom house taxation shall be only tor
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 1860. to four hundred and
fifty millions currency, in 1870 Our aggre-
gate taxation. from oue hundred and nifty
four millions gold in 1850, to seven hundred
and thirty millions currency in 1870; or, in
one decade. from less than five dollars per
he ad to more than eighteen dollars per head.
since the peace the people have paid 10
their tax-gatherers more than thrice the
sum OF the national debt, and more than
twice that sum for the federal governme mt
alone. We demand a vigorous frugality in
every department, and from every officer
OF the government.
| REFoRM-PUBLiC LANDS TO ACTUAL SET.
TLIRs.
Reform T. necessary TO put a stop TO the
profigate waste of the public lands and
their diversion from actual settlers by the
party in power, which has squandered
| 200, 900 200 acres upon railroads alone, and
IN amount OF more than thrice that aggre.
gate, has disposed of less than sixth di
rectly to the tillers Of the soil.
REFoRM-ADOPTHD CITIZENS. REJECTED
MONGOLs.
| Reform is necessary to correct the ommis
sion Of aTepublican congress and the error.
OF our treaties and our diplomacy, which
have stripped our feliow-citizens OF foreign
birth and kindred race, recrossing the AT.
| lantic, OF the shield of American citizen
ship, and have exposed our brethren of the
Pacific coast to the incursions of a race no,
sprung from the same great parent stock
and, in fact, now by law denied citizenship
through nsturaliZ stion, as being neither &C.
custOmed to the traditions of a progre ssive
civilization, nor exercised in liberty under
equal laws. We dcnounce the policy which
thus discards the liberty.loving German
and tolerates the revival OF the coolie trade
in Monaghan women, imported for immoral
purposes, and MoDgolian men held TO per-
| form seryile labor contracts.
| THE FALSE SECTARfAN ISsUE-THE FALSE
SECTIONAL ISSUE.
R.f0rm Ii necessary, and can never be eff.
fected only by making it the controlling
issue OF the elections, and lifting it above
| the two false issues with which the Office.
holding GLASS and the party in power seek
| to smother it.
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.
dalton, 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-Thc false issue by which they
seek 10 light anew the dying embers OF
sectional bate between kindred people once
unnaturslly eslranged, but now reunited
on one indivis!ble republic and common
| destiny.
| REFORM-IHE 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 a prize fought
| tor at the ballot box, be brief reward o.
party zeal, instead of posts Of honor, a..
| signed Tor proved competency and held for
| fidelity in the public employ; that the dis.
| pensiDg Of patronage should neither be a
tax upon the time Of all our public men,
nor the instrument Of their ambition: here
again, profes' ions falsiied in the preform
ance, test that the party in power can
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 ali
others in authority are the peoples sery.
ants; their ofhces are not private perqui-
site. they are public trust
When the annals Of this republic show
dent; late speaker OF the house OF repre-
sentstives marketing his rulings as u presid.
ing omcer; three senators profting secretly
| by their vote a. Lawmakers; five cbairmen
| OF the leading committees of the late house
OF representatives exposed In jobbery; q
late secretary Of the treasury forging bal.
ances in public accounts; a late attorney
general incorporating public funds; q
secretary OF the navy enriched or enriching
friends by percentages levied of the profits
OF contractors wi h his department.; an
| ambassador to England censlired in dis.
honorable speculation; the presidents
private secretary barely escaping conyic-
| ZION upon trial for guilty completely ia
| frauds upon the revenue; a secretary of
| war inpeached for high crimes and INSIDE
| meenors, the ueinvistI s,livu Is uuuIuie !.
that the first step In reform must be the
peoples choice Of honest men from another
party, lest the disease OF one political mr..
ganization infect the body polite; and les,
by making no change of men or parties we
can get no change Of measures and no real
| reform.
REfORM-REFORM-REF
All these abuses, wrongs and crimes, the
prouuct OF sixteen years OF the sscendapcy
OF the republican party, create a necessity
lot reform, confessed by republicans them.
serves, but their refOrmers are voted down
In convention and displaced from the
cabinet; the party's mass OF honest voter,