The Cairo bulletin. [volume] (Cairo, Ill.) 1872-1878, 1876-08-17

eq,isl laws. We denounee the policy which
thus discards the libefty-lovibg German
and tolerates the revival Of the coolie trade
In Monaghan women, imported for imnora.
purposes, ard Mongolian men held to per-
form servile labor contracts.
THE FALSE sKcTARIAN IssUE-THE FALSE
SECTIONAL ISSUE.
Reforn is necessary, and can never be ef-
fected only by making il the controlling
issue OF the elections. and lifting IL above
the two false issues with which the ofiice
| holding class and the party in power seek
to smother IL.
First the false il tie with which they
| would enkindle sectarian strife In respect
to the public schools, of " hch the establish
ment and support belongs exclusively 10
the several States, and which the demo-
cratic party has cherished from their fOun-
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
unnaturslly esiraDged, but now reunited
on one indiyis.ble republic and q common
desriHy
RRFORM-1HE CIVIL SERVICE.
Rtform is necessary in the civil service,
experience proves that efficient, economic
not possible il its civil service be subject to
change at every elestior, be q prize fought
for at the ballot box, be a brief reward o
party zeal. instead of posts OF honor. As
signed for proved competency and held for
fidelity in the public employ; that the dis
pensiDg OF patronage should neither he q
tax upon the time Of all our public men,
nor the instrument Of their ambition; here,
again, profes ions tal.itied in the preform
ance. II 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 sery-
ants; their offices are not Il 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-
sentstives marketing his rulings rs II presid-
ing officer; three senators prOtting secretly
by their vote As lawmakers five cbairmen
| OF the leading committees OF the late house
OF representatives exposed in jbbbery; a
late secretary Of the treasury forging bal
ances in public accounts; late attorney
| general misappropriating public funds; a
| secretary of the navy enriched or enrching
| friends by percentages levied of the profits
| OF contractors with his department; All
ambassador to England censured in a dis
honorable speculation: the president,
| private secretary barely escaping conyic
ton upon trial for guilty completely il
frauds upon the revenue; secretary o.
war impeached for high crimes and misde
meanors, the demonstration is compile t.
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 les
by making no change of men or parties we
can get no change Of measures and no rca
reform,
| M-REFORM-REFORM.
All these abuses, wrongs and crimes, tn,
product Of sixteen years of the ascendancN
OF the republican party, create q necessit,
for reform, confessed by republicans them
| selves, but their reformers are voted dowi
in convention and displaced from tn,
cabinet; the party's mass of honest voter
Is powerless TO resist the eighty theusan,
ofhcehOlders, its leaders and guides.
Reform can only be had by peaceful
civic revolution. We demand = change o
administration, II change of party, that W,
may have change of me assures and OF men