The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1876-07-05

without accumaia'ing any reserve for thei
re icmP1ioH.
We deuouuce the financial imbeeiliIv an
immortality al that party which, during eieFf
years 81 peace. has made no advance -
ward resumption. made preparation 10
resumption; bat instead has Instructed re
sumption by wasting our resources ana e
hausfing all our surplus income and. Will
annually protesting to intend speedy return
20 specie payments, has annually ehaeie'
fresh Lindrances thereto As such Mn
draHee denounce the resumption clause
the act OF le95, and We here demand us re-
peal.
We demand judicious system OF prepare
ton By public economies, b. official retrench'
ments. and by wise finance. which shall eha
/ bic he nation soon TO assure the Whole Mortt
OF It's perfect ability and its perfect readiness
/ to meet any OF lis promises al the call OF th'
creditor entitled 10 payment. We b+leFt
5 lch system, we'll advised and above all "a
+ trusted to Competent hands tor execution
creating at no time an artificial scarcity q
+ currency. and at 10 time alarming the pabhc
I mind into withdrawal Of that vast ma
chinery of credit by which ninety-hVe per
cent OF our business transactions Is perform
ed system open and public. and insPi-
ring general confidence would, from the DAY
of its adoption, bring healing on lis wings to
all our harassed industries. set in motion the
wheels of commerce, manufactures anu the
mechanic arts restore employ ment to 10 Dor.
and renew in all its sources the prosperity
of the people.
Reform is necessary in the sum and mode
Of Federal taxation TO the end that capital
may BE- set free from distrust and labor light
ly burlened. We denounce the present tariff
levied upon nearly four thousand articles rs a
masterpiece of injustice, inequality and false
pretense which \ Yields a dwindlirg not yearly
rising revenue; it has Impoverished many in
dgstries TO substitute "a few 1t prohibits i'm
ports that might purchase the products OF
American labor; it has degraded American
commerce from the first TO an inferior rank
mn Ia iOh II has ant do 10 Is
Of American manufactures al home and abroad
it has depleted the returns of American
agriculturc-an industry followed by half our
people II costs the people i've times more than
it produces to the treasury il obstructs The pro-
cess Of production and wastes the luits OF Ia
Dor; ii promotes fraud, fosters nugghng,
enrIches dishonest officials and bankrupts
honest merchants We demand that all Gus
tom house taxation shall be only for revenue.
Reform is necessary in the scale of public
Xpensc-Federal, State and Municipal. Our
Federal taxation has swollen from sixty mil
lion collars in gold in 1860 to four hundred
and fifty million dollars in currency in 1870,
our aggregate taxation fro one hundred and
fifty-four millions in gold in 1860 TO seven
hundred and thirty million dollars in curren-
cy III 1870. or IN one decade from less than hve
dollars per head to more than eighteen dol
lars per head. Since the peace the people have
paid to their taX-gatlcrers more than thrice
the sam OF the national debt, and more than
twice TINT sum for the Federal government
alone. We demand a rigorous frugality in
every department and from every officer Of
the government.
Reform is necessary to put stop TO the
prohIgate waste of public lands and their dI-
version from actual settlers by the party in
power, which has squandered two hundred mil
lions of acres upon railroads alone, and
out of more than thrice that aggregate has
disposed OF less than SIXTH directly to the til
lers OF the soil.
Reform is necessary to correct the omissions
of Republican congress and the errors of
our treaties and our diplomacy, which have
stripped our fellow citizens of foreign birth
ami kindred race, re-erasing the Atlantic
from the shield of American citizenship, and
have exposed our brethren of the Pacific
coast to the incursiOns of race not sprung
from the same great parent stock, and, in fact.
now by law denied citizenship through natu-
ralizatlon, as being unaccustomed to the
traditions OF a progressive civilization, and
in liberty under equal laws.
We denounce he policy WHICH thus discards
the lIberty-loviGg German and tolerates the
revival af the toolie trade in Monaghan wo-
men imported for immoral purposes. and Mon
golian men held to perform servile labor con-
tracts We, therefore, demand such mod-
hcatIons Of the treaty with the Chinese en-
pire, and such Legislation by Congress- within
constitutional limitation shall prevent the |
fus Their Importation or immigration OF the |
Monaghan race.
Reform is necessary and can never be effect |
FL but by making il the controlling issue of |
he election, and lifting it above the two false |
issues with which the office holding class and /
party in power seek to smother it-1st the false !
issues with which they would enkindle secta- |
RAN strife in respect TO the public schools of |
which the establishment and support belong /
exclusively to the several safes and which /
he lemoaratia party Las Fheri-heti flnm their |
foundation and Is resolved 70 maintain with
)ut partIaHty or preference for any class. /
sex or creed, and without contributions /
from the treasury to any. ii. The fa lse issue
oy which they seek to light anew he dying en-
oers of sectional hate between kindred peoples. |
)rce unnaturally estranged, but now re- united |
II one indivisible republic and common des-
iny.
Reform IS necessary in the civil service
Experience proves that efficient and
economical conduct of the government is not
possible il its civil ser vice he subject to change
It every election-if it be prize fought + T
1t the hallot-box--or if il be an approved re-
ward of party zeal instead of posts of honor.
assigned for approved competency and held
.or fidelity in the public employ That the
dispensing of patronage should neither be
"a upon the titEe of orr public ulen,
us rument of their ambition. Here, again,
professions falsted in the performance attest
hat the party in power can work out no prac-
zeal or salutary reform.
Reform IS necessary even more in the higher
grades of The public seryice-President, Vice
President Judges, senators, representatives,
'abInet officers these and all others in au-
hority are the peoples servants. Their
,ttlces arc not private perquisites, they
IRE public trust. When the annals of this
Republic show the disgrace and ceHsure of
Vice President, late Speaker of the House of
representatives marketing his rulings as
presiding Officer, three SeEal4r. ptbfting Sc
'retty by their votes IS lalimakers, hye Chair
men OF leading committees of the late
1ouse of Representatives exposed in jobbery,
late Secretary of the Treasury forcing ball
.lances in the public accounts. late Attor-
iey-General mlsappropriating public funds,
Secretary OF the Navy enriched and enrich
II friends hV ptoU levi off no !
,rohts Of contractors with his department; an
ambassador 10 England eensaIed in dishon-
'ratle SPECULATION; The Presidents Private
Secretary barely escaping conviction upon
rial for guilty completely in frauds upon the
evenue; Secretary of War impeached for
Ugh crimes and misdemeanors. The de-
nonsti alton IS complete that the first step
L reform must lie the peopiek choice or |
honest men from another party lest the dis
,ase of one political organization infect the
'ody polite, and lest by making no change of
mel or party we get no change of measures,
md no real reform
All these abuses wrongs and crimes, the
products Of a sixteen years ascendancy
II the Republican party, create a necessity
or reform, confessed hy the Republicans
Yourselves, but their reformers 6 EeYate4 down
II convention anu displaced FROM the cabinet,
md the partys mass of honest voters is pow
arless TO resist the eighty thousand office
only be had by a peaceful civic revolution.
c demand a change of system, a change of
change of parties, that we
may have change of measures and of men
Mr.. HGrshefmet-4 viii say that at
the end Of the resolution relating to the
matter of Mongolian importations there
were two or three lines of the language
adopted by the committee which were
written in pencil, and which was unable
to read. The Secretary, when I have
ceased, viii supply the omission.
Mr.. Brown, Oregon-We want that
read now, Mr.. President I am on that
and l demand that it be read
in eo9iunetie5a +, With tie QtheE ICFies 9f