The Cairo bulletin. [volume] (Cairo, Ill.) 1872-1878, 1876-10-01

customed to the traditions OF a progrs ssive
civilization. nor exercised In liberty under
equal laws. We denounce the policy which
thus discards the liberty-loying German
and tolerates the revival Of the coolie trade
in Mongollan women, imported for immora.
purposes, and Monaghan men held to pc
form scryile labor contracts.
THR FALSE sRCTARIAN IssUR--THE FALSE
SECTIONAL ISSUE.
hcfofm Is necessary. and can never he ca
tcctcd only by making IL the controlling
issue OF tho elections. aud lifting II above
the two false issues with which the Office
holding class AMI the party in power seek
to smother il.
First the false is.ue with which they
would cnklndla scctarian strife in respect
to the public schools. of W hich 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 embors Of
sectional hate between kindred people once
unnaturslly estranged, but now reunited
on one indivis,ble republic and 4 common
destiny
RBFoRM-1HE CIVIL SERVICE.
Reform i necessary in the civil service;
experience proves that efficient. economic
al conduct of the goyernmc business J.
not possible IL its civil service bc subject to
change a; every Clestion, be prize fought
for at the ballot box. be a brief reward O
party zeal. instead OF posts of honor. a.
signed tor proved competency and held for
fidelity in the public employ; that the dis
pensiug OF patronage should neither be
tax upon the time of all our public men,
nor the Instrument of their ambition: here
AK ain, proies ions falsitied in the preform
anee. u test thst the party 10 power can
work ont 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 snd all
others in authority are the peoples sery-
ants: their offices are not private perqui
site they are public trust.
When the annsls of this republic show
the disgrace and ceusure of a vice presi-
dent: a late speaker OF the house OF repre-
sentaflves marketing hi. rulings a. presid-
ing officer: three senators proiitinc secretly
by their vote as lawmakers; five ebairmen
OF the leading committees of the late house
OF representatives exposed in ioboery: 8
late secretary OF the treasury forging bal
duCee IN pubic acc0uGts; late attorney
general misappropriating public funds; a
secretary OF the navy enriched or enriching
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 cenvic-
ton upon trial for guilty completely in
frauds upon the revenue; q secretary of
war impesched for high e-imes 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
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.
REFoRM-REFoRM-R
All these abuses, wrongs anu crimes, the
product of sixteen years OF the sscendancy
OF the republican party, create a necessity
for reform, confessed by republicans them
selves, but their rciormers are voted down
in convention and displaced from the
cabinet; the party's msss OF honest voters
l. poweriess TO resist the eighty tholIs and
offceholdere, its leader. and guides.
Reform can only be had by spesceful,
civic revolution. We demsnd a change OF
administration. change of party. that We
may have = chance Of measures aud ot men