The Cairo bulletin. [volume] (Cairo, Ill.) 1872-1878, 1876-09-10

equal laws. We denounce the policy which
thus discards the liberty lowing asrnaA
and tolentes the revival Of the coolie trade
In Monaghan women, imported for lmmofA
purposes, and Mongolian men held to per.
form seryiIe labor contracts.
TEE FALSE sRcTARIAu fssuH--THF FALSE
f SECTIONAL ISSUE. l1v
Esform Ia necessary, and can never be "a.
fected only by making IL the controlling
issue Of the elections, and lining II above
the two false issues with which the Office.
holding. class and the party In power seek
to smother II.
First the false is;ue with which they
would enkindle sectarlan 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 fouu.
dation, 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-The false issue BY which they
seek to light anew the dying embers Of
sectional hate between kindred people once
unnaturally estrsnged, but now reunited
on one indivisble republic aud common
destiny
REFORM-7HE 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 to
change at every eles ton, be prize fought
for at the ballot box, be brief reward OF
party zeal, instead of posts of honor, as
signed for proved competency and held for
fidelity in the public employ; that the dis
pensipg OF patronage should neither be .
tax upon the time Of all our public men,
nor the instrument of their ambition; here,
again nrofoc .iopo fale;HoA IN ha v,ro farm,
ance, q 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 all
others in authority are the peoples serv-
ants; their offices are not private perqui-
site they are public trust.
When the annals of this republic show
the disgrace and censure Of vice presi.
dent; late speaker OF the house Of repre-.
sentativee marketing his rulings 40 presid.
ing officer; three senators profting secretly
by their vote as lawmakers; five cbairmen
Of the leading committees of the late house
OF representatives exposed In jobbery; .
late secretary Of the treasury forging bal.
ances in public accounts; late attorney
general misappropriating public funds; Q
secretary Of the navy enriched or enrjching
friends by percentages levied of the profits
Of contractors with his department.; an
ambassador to England censured in dis
honorable speculation; the presidents
private secretary barely escaping cOnvic.
ton upon trial for guilty completely In
frauds upon the revenues; . secretary OF
war impeached for high crimes and INSIDE
meanors, the demonstration is complete
that the first step in reform must be the
peoples choice Of honest men from another
party, lest the disease Of one political or.
gsnization infect the body polite; and lest
by making no change of men or parties we
can get no change OF measures and no real
reform.
REfORM-EEFORM-RE
All these abuses, wrongs and crimes, the
product Of sixteen years of the ascendsncy
of the republican party, create necessity
for reform, confessed by republicans them.
selves, but their reiormers are voted down
in convention and displaced from the
cabinet; the party g mass Of honest voters
is powerless to resist the eighty thousand
oficeholders. its leaders and guides.
Reform can only be had by peaceful,
civic revolution. We demand . change OF
administration, a change Of party, that we
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