The Cairo bulletin. [volume] (Cairo, Ill.) 1872-1878, 1876-11-03

equal laws. We denouucc the policy which
thus discards the ltbefty-lovfpg German
and tolerate- the revival Of the cooie trade
In Monaghan women, imported for immora.
purposes. and Mongolian men held TO per.
form servie labor contracts.
THE FALSE sECTARIAN issUE-THE FALSE
SECTIONAL ISSUE.
Reform Is necessary, and can never be ei-
fected only by making 1t the controlling
issue OF The elections, and lifting it above
the two false issues with which the Office
holding class and the party In power seek
to smother 1t.
First the false issue with which they
would enkindle sectarian 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 foun.
dalton, 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
unnaturslly estranged, but now reunited
on one indivisible republic aud q common
destiny
RRFoRM-1TE 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 elestion be prize fought
for at the ballot box, be brief reward o I
party zeal, instead of posts of honor, as
signed for proved competency and held for
fidelity in the public employ; that the dis
pensing OF patronage should neither be q
tax upon the time Of all our public men,
nor the instrument Of their ambition; here
again, profes ions fal,iiied in the preferm
ance. test that the party in power can
work out no practical or satisfactory
reform.
REFoRM-CoRRUPTIoN OF HIGH PUBLIC
OFFICERS.
R5ore1 Is necessary even more In the
higher grades Of the public service. The
president, vice presidcni. judges, senators.
representatives and cabinet officers and all
others in authority are the Peep els sery-
ants; their Offices are not private perqui-
site they arc public trust.
When the annals OF this republic show
the disgrace and censure of q vice presi-
dent; late speaker OF the house of repre-
sentatives marketing his rulings M presid-
ing officer; three senator. profting secretly
by their vote as Lawmakers; five chairmen
OF the leading committees of the late house
OF representatives exposed in jobbery: a
late secretary Of the treasury forging bal
ances in public accounts; late attorney
general incorporating public funds: a
secretary Of the navy enriched or enrjcnlng
friends by percentages levied of the pro tits
of contra tors wi h his department; an
ambassador to England censured in u dis
honorable speculaton; the presidents
private secretary barely escaping convic-
ton upon trial for guilty completely in
frauds upon the revenue; a secretary of
war impeached for high cimes and misde.
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
ganization 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.
EEFORM-REFoRM-REF
All these abuses, wrongs and crimes, the
product OF sixteen years Of the sscendancy
of the republican party, create a nece ssity
for reform. confessed by republicans them
selves, but their reformer- are voted down
in convention and displaced from the
cabinet: the party's mass of honest voters
Is pOwerless TO resist the eighty thousand
ofiiceholders, its leaders and guides.
Reform can only be had by peaceful,
civic revolution. We demand change OF
administration, change Of party, that we
may have a change of me as,lres and OF men.