The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1876-06-29

OF production. and wastes the fruits of
labor. 1t promotes fraud, fosters Snug.
Cling, enrlches dishonest officials, and
bankrupes honest mefehanta. We de-
maild that all Custom-house taxation
shah be only Gor feveAues fFTs-
Reform rs necesst6rY m the scale of
pubiiciexpense, Federal, State and Mu-
nicipal. Our Federal taxRtien hss, ,sw OF,
len from $60.0OO,000 in gold in 1860 TO
$45Q000, ,0OO III currency in l8l0,rand our
aggregate taxauon from $i54, coo 900 ia
gold IN 1850 toJ$f3V, ,0e0, oo0'ih currency in
1870, or IN one decade rom less than S.
per head'ito more than $IB per Mead.
Since the peace the people have paid TO
Their taxsg gatherers more than thrice the
sum OF Lne National debt, and more than
twice that sum for the Federal Govern
ment aione., We demand a vigorous fru-
gality in every Department and from
every officer OF the Governinent.
Reform is necessary to put u stop to
the pref gate waste OF public lands and
their diversion from actual settlers by
the party in power, whicn has squan-
dered two hundred millions of acres
upon railroads alone, and out Of more
than thrice that aggregate has dispose ed
OF less than sixth directly TO tillers OF
the soil.
Reform is necessary to correct the
omissions OF Republican Congress, and
the errors of our treaties and our drpl04
macy Which have stripped our fellow
cltIzens of foreign birth and kindred
race, recrossiBg the Atlantic, oi the
shield OF American citizenship, and ex-
posed our brethren, of the Pacific Coast
to the incursions OF race not sprung
from the same great parent stock, and in
TACT, now by. law denied citlzensnip
through naturalization, as being neither
accustomed TO the traditions of pro-
gressive civilization nor exercised In
liberty under equal laws. We denounce
the policy which thus discards the lib
erty-loying German, and tolerates tile
renewal oil the Cody trade in Mongoliah
women imported for immoral purposes,
and Mongolian men nired to perform
servile labor. Contracts, and demand
such modification oil the treaty with the
Chinese Empre or such legislation by
Congress witnina Constitutional limits-
tion as shall prevent the further impor-
tation or immigration of the Monaghan
race 4, ,-,r.s-.r,.- z .-..e -sgtA ew1J-E
Reform fs necessary, and can never be
effected, but, by making it the controlling
issue of,the election, aud lifting 1t above
the two alseissues with which the Office
holding class and the party In power
seek to smother it, VIZ; The false issue
with which they would enkindIe Sec
tartan strife In respect to- the Public
Schools, OF which the Establishments and
support belonging exclusively to the
several States, and which the Demo-
cratic party. have cherished from the
foundation, and is resolved'to maintain
without partiality, in preference Tor any
class, sect or creed, and without con-
tributiug rom the treasury to any; the
false issue by which they seek to light
anew the dying embers of sectional hate
between Kindred peoples,>snce unnatur-
ally estranged. but now reualJod in one
ndivlsible Republic and common des-
tiny.
Reform is necessary in the civil sery-
ice. Experience proves that efficient,
economical conduct oil the governmental
business is not possible If its civll serv-
ice be subject to change at every elec-
tion, be prize fought Tor at the ballot
box, be q brief reward Of party zeal,
instead OF posts OF n0nor assigned for
proved competency, and neld for fidelity
in the public employj that the dlspens-
ing of patronage should neither be a tax
upon the time Of all our public men, nor
the instrument of their ambition. Here
again professions talsiied In the per-
formance attest that the party in poweI
can work out no practical or salutary
reform.
Reform is necessary even more In the
higher grades of public service. Presi-
dent, Vice President, Judges, Senators,
Representatives and Cabinet officers.
THESE and all others In authority are
thelpeople's servants. Their offices are
not, private pefquisite, they are pub
Ac trust. When the annals OF this Re-
II t,n Il n @fI
a Eice-President, u late Speaker OF the
House OF Representatives, marketing his
rulings as Y presidng. ofticeE three
Senator'S profitiDg secretly BY their votes
as law.makers, five Chairman OF the
leading Committees of the late House
OF Represen tstiyes exposed in jobbery, |
u late Secretary OF the Treasury forcing |
a balance IN the ,pnblic. accounts, a tste
Attorney General misappropriating pub
lie funds, a Secretary OF The Navy en-
riched or enriching friends by percent |
ages levied off the profits OF contractors |
with his department., an Embassador TO |
censured in a dishOnOrable |
speculation, the President's Private
SecFetary barely escaping eOnvictioni
upon trial tor guilty compiicity IN frauds |
upon the revenue, Secretary OF War
impeached for high crimes and misde.
the demonstration 10 oomplete |
that the first stepin reform must be the |
peoples choice OF honest men from |
another party, lest the disease of one
political organization Inject the body |
polite, and lest, by making no change Of |
meh.or party, we can get no change Of |
measures and no reform.
All these abuses, wrongs and crimes,
the product OF sixteen years. ascendency |
OF the Republican party, create q neoes-
sity Tor reform confessed by Repubii- /
cans themselves; but their reformers are |
voted down in Convention and displaced |
from the Cauinet. The party mass Of |
honest voters is powefIess to resist the |
eighty thousand o1ioerholders, lis lead
ers and guides. .t5 as
Reform can only be had by peaceful, |
civic resolution. We demand a change |
Of system, change Of administration, a
change OF, parties, that We may have a
change OF measures and men.
Animal Reasoning.