The Cairo bulletin. [volume] (Cairo, Ill.) 1872-1878, 1876-07-18

perfect readiness to meet any of it, prom
ises at the call of the creditor entitled TO
payment.
we believe such a system, well devised.
and, above all, entrusted ~ competent
hands for its execution, Great ng NJ no li'he
an artificial scarcity of currency, anu ~ no
time alarming the public mind into Win.
drawal OF that vast machinery OF creuit ~
which ~ per cent. OF all our business trans
actions are performed: system open TO
the public and inspiring general confidence,
would. from the day Of its adoption. bring
healing on its wings to sill our harrsssed in
dustries, set in motion the wheels OF com.
merce, manufactures and the mechanlea'
arts, restore employment to labor, and re-
new in all its national sources the prosper
ity OF the people.
REFORM OF THE TARIFF-fREE TRADE.
Reform is necessary in the sum and mode
Of federal taxation, to the end that capita!
may be set free from distrust AMI lab r
lightly burdened. We denOunce the pres
ent tariff levied upon nearly four thousand
articles as a mast piece of injustice, in
equality and false pretense. III yields u
dwindIing. not yearly rising revenue. 1t
has impoverished many industries to sub.
sidiZe "A few; it prohibits imports that might
purchase .he products of American ltboTs:
it has degraded American commerce from
the first to an interior rank upon the high
manufactures at home an abroad and de.
plcted the returns of American agriculture,
an industry followed by halt our people. II
costs the people five times more than il pro-
duces to the treasury; obstructs the process
of production, and wastes the fruits of Ia
Dor: il promotes fraud. fosters smuggling.
enriches dishonest officials and bankrupt.
honest merchants. We demand that all
custom house taxation shall be only for
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 aud
fifty millions currency, in 1870. Our aggre-
gate taxation. from oUe hundred and fifty-
four millions gold in 1860, to seven hundred
and thirty millions currency in 1870; or. in
one decade, from less than five dollars per
head TO more than eighteen dollars per head
Since the peace the people have paid to
their tax-gatberers more than thrice the
sum of the rational debt. and more than
twice that SUN for the federal governme nj
alone. We demand a vigorous frugality in
every department, and from every officer
oi the government.
REFoRM-rCBLIc LAMBS TO ACTUAL SET
TLERs.
RsfyJy. l. necessary to put "A stop to tn,
| their diversion from actual settlers by thS
party in power, which has squandereC
| 2cu.pD 900 acres upon railroads alone. ant
! IN amount of more than thrice that aggre
gate, has disposed Of less than sixth di
rcctly 10 the tiller- of the soft.
REFORM ADOPTED CITIZENS, KEJECTEI
| NONGoLS.
| Il. fern, IL necessary to correct the ommi.
| sion of a republican congress and the error
1,,f sFa 4 IL. A
have stripped our fellow -itlzens OF foreign
| birth aud kindred race, recrossing the At
| lautic, OF the shield Of American citizen
| ship, and have exposed our brethern Of til,
| Pacific coast to the incursious of a race no
| sprung from the same great parent stock
and, in fact, now by law denied citizenship
through naturalization, a. being neither ac
| eu,tOmed - the traditions OF a progres>iy,
civilization. nor exercised in liberty unde
equal laws. We dcnounce the policy whici
| thus discards the hbeTty-loyipg German
and tOlerates the revival Of the coolie trad,
in Mongolian women, imported for immora
purposes, and Monaghan men held to per
form serSile labor contracts.
THE FALSE sECTARIAN IssUE-THE PAL.l
| SECTIONAL ISSUE.
HeforDi il necessary, and can never be ef
tected only by making il the controllin!
issue OF The elections. and lifting it ahov,
| the two fal-e issues with which the Office
holding elias, and the party in power seei
| to smother il.
First the false issue with which the,
would eukIndle sectsrian strife in respec
10 the public schools, Of which the establish
ment and support belongs exclusively Z
the several States, and which the demo
cratic party has cherished from their foun
dalton, and i, resolved to maintain, without
any Partially or preference for any elias.
sect or creed. and without contributin
from the treasury TO any.
Second-The false issue by which the
seek to light anew the dying ember- O
sectional hate between kindred people one
unnaturally esraDged, but now reunite
on one indivisible republic and a commo
destiny.
RKFORM-1HE CIVIL SERVICE.
R.fgrm is necessary in the civil service
experience proves that efficient, economic
al conduct Of the governmental business
not possible il its civil service be subject I
change at every elestiop, be q prize tough
for at the ballot box, be a brief reward q
party zeal, instead of posts of honor, a
signed for proved competency and held 10
fidelity in the public employ; that the di
pensing OF patronage should neither be
tax upon the time Of all our public mel
nor the instrument OF their ambition: here
anee, test that the party in power ca
work out no practical or sstisfactor
reform.
REFoRM-CORRUPTION OF HIGH PUBL
OFFICERS.
Hef0rm Is necessary even more in III
higher grades Of the public service. Tn
president, vice president, judges, senator
representatives and cabinet officers and q
Others in authority are the peoples SER
ants; their offices are not private perqu
site they are public trust.
When the annals OF this republic sho
the disgrace and censure OF vice pres
dent; late speaker OF the house of repr
sentatives marketing his rulings as IL presi,
ing officer; three senators proiting secret
by their vote as Lawmakers; five cbairme
, OF the leading committees Of the late hou,
OF representatives exposed In jobbery;
late secretary OF the treasury forging bs
. ances IN public accounts; late attorne
general Incorporating public funds;
I, secretary OF the navy enriched or enrjchir
friends by percentages levied of the prof
:, Of contractors with his department.; 9
:, ambassador TO England censured in a di
: honorable spcculation; the presiden,
private secretary barely escaping conyi
, ton upon trial for guilty completely
| war impeached for high crimes and misd
mcanors, the demonstration il connie,
that the first step in reform must be Il
h peoples choice Of honest men from anoth,
/. party lest thc ulsease or one political O
9 ganlza'ion inject the body polite; and lie
y by making no change of men or parties u
: can get no change of measures and no re-
:, | reform.
Il M-REFORM-REFORN
u All these abuses, wrongs and crimes, Il
4" product OF sixteen years of the ascendan,
T. of the republican party, create a necessi,
iof reform, confessed by republicans ther
= selves, but their reforners are voted dow
IN convention and displaced from n
4 CABINET; the party's mass of honest vote