Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1876-07-07

alone, and out of more than thrice that ag-
gregate has disposed of less than sixth
directly TO the filler Of the soil.
Reform is necessary to correct the omls-
sions of the republican Congress and the
errors of our treaties and our diplomacy,
which have stripped our fellow-citizens OF
foreign birth and kindred race recrosslng
the Atlantic, of the shield of American cit
izenship, and have exposed our brethren
of the Pacific coast TO the incursion OF a
race, not sprung from the same great pa
rent stock, in fact now by law denied citl-
zenship through naturalization, as bolng
neither accustomed to the traditions OF pro-
pressive civilization nor exercised in liber-
ty Under equal laws. We denounce the pol
icy which thus discards the liberty-loving
German, and tolerates the revival of the
Coolie trade in Mongoliau women import
cd for immoral purposes and Mongolian
men hired 10 perform servile labor con-
tracts, and demand such modification of
the treaty with the Chinese empire, or such
legislation by Congress within constitu-
tional limitation, as shall prevent the fur
ther importation of immigration OF the
Mongolian race.
Reform is necessary, and can never be
effected but by making it the controlling
issue of the election, and lifling 1t above
The two false issues with which the Office
holding class and the party now in power
seek TO smother 1.-THE false Issue with
which they would enkiudle sectarian strife
in respect to public schools, of which the
establishment and support belong exclu-
sively to the several States, and which the
democratic party has cherished from their
foundation, and is resolved to maintain
without partiality or preference of any
class, sect or creed, and without contribu-
tion from the treasury to any OF them and
the false issue by which they seek to light
anew the dying enbers of sectional hate
between kindred people once estranged,
but now reunited in one undivided repub-
lie and common destiny.
Reform Is necessary in the civil service.
Experience proves that an efficient and eco
nomical conduct of the government busl-
ness is not possible ii its civil service he
subject TO change at every election, be
prize fought for at the ballot box, be brief
reward of party zeal, instead Of posts OF
honor, assigned for proved competency,
and held for fidelity in the public employ
that the dispensing of patronage should
neither be tax upon the time of all our
public men nor the instrument of their am
bitiol. Here, again, professions falsihed
in the performance attest that the party in
power can work out no practical or saluta-
~ reform.
Reform is necessary even more in the
higher grades of the public service. Pres
ident, vice president, judges, senators, rep
resentatives, cabinet officers, these aud all
others in authority are the peoples SER
wants. Their offices are not private per-
quisite they are public trust. When the
annals of this republic show the disgrace
and censure OF a vice president, late
speaker OF the House of Representatives,
marketing his rulings as a presiding Off
GER; three senators protiting secretly by
their votes as lawmakers; five chairmen
OF the leading committees OF the late House
OF Representatives exposed in jobbery;
late Secretary of the Treasury forcing bal
ances in the public accounts; late Attor-
ney General misappropriating public funds;
Secretary of the Navy encrlched or en-
richng friends by percentages levied of
the profits of contractors with his depart
ment; an ambassador to England censured
for dishonorable speculation; the presi-
dents private secretary barely esca ping
conviction upon trial for guilty completely
in frauds upon the revenue; Secretary of
War impesched for high crimes and con-
fessed misdem sanors-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 poit-
ical organization infest the body polite,
and lest, by making no change of men or
party, we can get no charge Of measures
and no reform. All these abuses, wrongs
and crimes, the product of sixteen years
ascendency of the republican party, create
necessity for reform, confessed by the
republicans themselves, but their REFORM
cIs aIe NOteu uOWn III convention anu uls-
placed from the cabinet. The party's mass
of honest voters are powerless to resist the
eighty thousand Office holders, its leaders
aud guides. Reform can only he had by
peaceful civir revolution. We domand a
change of system, a change OF administra-
tion, change OF parties, that we may have
change of measures and men.
The reading was frequently interrupted
by applause. The denuncialion Of re-
sumption, and the demand for its repeal,
was received with special favor.