The Pickens sentinel. [volume] (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, 1876-07-13

fruits of labor IL promotes fraud and
fosters smuggling, enriches dishonest
officials and bankrupts honest merch~
ants. we demand thathll custom house
taxation shall be only for revenue. Re
form: isnecessary in the scale of pnblic
expeonse-Federpl,. State and muhi-
,cipaI. Our Federal taxation has swol>
len from $60,000,o6O in gold in 1860 to
S45O, ,000, 900 in currency in 1870. Our
aggregate taxation from $1s4,O0O,0OO
in gold in 1860 to $730,OOO,OO0 in cur
rency in 1870. fOr in one decade,
from loss than $5 per head, to moro
than SIS por head. sSinco the peace
the people havo paid to their tax gathD
erors s'more than sthrice the aum of the
national debt, and moro than twice
that sum for tho f ederal government
alone.
W,o demand vigorous frugaliLy in
every department and from every Of
ficer Of the government. Reform is
necessary to put stop to the profit
gate waste Of public lands, and their
diversion from actual sottlcrs by the
party in power, which has squandered
$500, 100000 OF acres upon railroads
alone, and, out Of, more than thrice
that aggregate, has disposed of less
than sixth directly to tillers of the
soil. Rcform1is necessary TO correct
tho omissions of tho Republican Con-
gress and the errors OF our treaties and
our diplomacy which havo, stripped
our follow, citizens Of foreign birth and
kindred raco recrossing the Atlantic
of the shield Of American citizenship,
and have exposed our brethren of the
Pacific coast to the incursion of race
not sprung from the same great par>
ont stock, and, in fact, now by law
denied citizenship through naturali>
zatioh, as boing noithor accustomed to
the traditions of progressive civil-
zation nor exercised in liborty under
equal laws We donounco tho policy
which thus disoards the liberty low
ing German and tolcrates the revival
Of the coolio trade in Mongoian wo-
mon, imported for immoral purposes,
and Mongolian mon hired to perform
servile labor contracts, and demand
such modification of tho treaty with
the Chinese Empire, or such logisla-
| tion by Congress within constitu-
tlonal limitation rs shall prevent the
further Importation &C immigration of
tho Mongolian race. Reform is me-
ccssary and can never DO effected but
by making it tho controlling issue of
the elections, lifting it above the two
false issues with which the Office holds
ing class and the party in powcr seek
to smother it. The falso issue with
which they would onliindo sectarian
strife IN respect to the public schools,
OF which tho establishment to support
belonging exclusively to tho several
States, and which the Democratic
party has cherished from their tound~
alton and resolved to maintain with
cut partialHy-or preference for any
class, sect or crccd, and without con-
tributing from tho treasury to any
the false issue by which they seek to
light anew the dying cmbcrs of scc>
tiopal hqto bctmeon>, kindred peoples,
ONCE iu1aturRlly} estraugqd, but now
| reunited in enc indivisiblc republic
and common destiny. Reform is
necessary in the civil service Expe>
rencc proves that efficient, cconomi-
cal conduct Of tho governmental busis
ness is not possible if its civil service
be subject tochange at cvory election,
bo aprizo fought for at the ballot box,
be half reward Of party zeal instead
of posts of honor assigned tor proved
competency and hold fer fidelity in
tho public employ. That the dispens-
ing Of patronage should neither be u
tax upon tho time of all our public
men, nor the instrument Of their am
bition. Here again professions falsi-
iicdin tho performance, attest that
the party in pcwor can work out no
practical or sQlutory reform. Roform
is necessary loVon more1ih the higher
grades Of public service. The PRESS
dent, Vico President, Judges, Scnas
tors, Representatives. and Cabinet Of
ficcrs. These, and all others in au.
thority, are the peoples servants;
their officers arc not private perqui-
Sites they are. public trusts. When
the annals of this republic show the
Disgrace and ccnsure of a.Yicc Pre-
sidcnt, a late Speaker of the House OF
Representatives marketing his ruling
rs n presiding officer; three Senators
profiting secretly by their votes as law
makcrs; five chairmcn OF loading com
mittcos Of tho late House of Repre-
sentativcs exposed in jobbng; n late
Secretary of tho Treasury forcing bal.
anccs in the public accounts; late
Attorney General misappropriating
public funds; n Secretary Of tho Navy
enriched or cnriching friends by per-