The Pickens sentinel. [volume] (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, 1876-07-27

$3.50 ,000,0 600 currency in 1870. Our
aggregate taxation from $1s4 600, 900
in goldin 1860 to $3.50 900, 900 in.cuts
renoy, in 1870. Or in ono decade,
from 1cssf thaa$5 per head, to more
than $18 per head. Since the peoco
the people havo paid to theirtax Satboi
crors moro than thrice the sum of the
national debt,I apd moro than TWICE
that sum for tho Federal government
alone. !, oiai I ,r.i = fa ~
We demand aHeigoronsofrugality in
overy department and from cvcry Of
floor Of tho government. Reform is
necessary to put a stop to tho profit
gate waste of,public lands, and thor
diversion from actual sottlers by the
party IN power, which has squandered
$500, 100000 of acros upon railroads
alono, and, OUT Of moro than thrice
that aggregate, has disposed of less
than q. sixth directly to tillers of tho
soil. Reform is necessary to correct
tho omissions of the Republican Con-
gross and tho errors OF our treaties and
our diplomacy which have stripped
our fellow citizons of foreign birth and
kindred race renrossipg the Atlantic
of the shield ofAmerican citizenship,
and have exposed our brethron of the
Pacific coast TO the incursion of a raco
not sprung ffom 1.-THE Same groat pat>
ent stock, and, in fact, now by Law
denied, citizenship through naturali>
zation, as boing neither accustomed to
the traditions of q progressive civili-
zation nor exercised in liberty under
equal laws. We denounco tho policy
which thus discards the liberty low
ing German and toloratos the revival
of tho coolio trade in Mongolian wo-
men, imported for immoral purposes,
and Mongolian mon. hired to perform
servilo labor contracts, and demand
such modification Of tho treaty with
the Chinese Empire, or such logisla-
tion by Congress within q constitu-
tional Limitation as shall prev cnt tho
further importation of immigration of
tho Mongoian race. Reform is noh
cessary and can novor bo effected but
by making it tho controlling issue Of
tho elections, lifting it above tho two
false issues with which the Office holds
ing class and the party in power seek
to smotherit. Tho false issue with
which they would cnkindlc scctaran
strife IN respect to tho public schools,
of which tho establishment to support
belonging exclusively to the several
States, and which tho Democratic
party has cherished from their iound-
alton and resolved to maintain with
out partiality or preference for any
class, sect or creed, and without con-
tributing from the treasury to any
tho false issue by which they sock to
light anew the dying cmbcrs of Sec
tional hate between kindred peoples,
onco unaturally ostrangcd, but now
reunited in enc indivisiblo republic
and common destiny. Reform is
necessary in the civil service. Expos
riencc proves that efficient, oconomi-
cal conduct Of tho governmental busis
ness is not possible if its civil sorvico
be subject to change at ovcry election,
be prizo fought for at tho ballot box,
,be half rowprd of fparty zeal instead
ofposts of bonof, assigned for proved
competency and held for fidelity in
tho public employ. That the dispcns-
ing of patronage should neither be q
tax upon tho timo of all our public
men, nor the instrument of their am
bition. Hero again professions falsi-
fled in tho performance, attest that
the party in power can work out no
practical or salutory reform. Reform
is necessary even moro in the higher
grades of public service. Tho Prcsi~
dent, Vice President, Judges, Scna>
tors, Representatives and Cabinet of .
fcors. Those, and all others in au-
thority, are the peoples servants;
thcir officers arc not private perqui-
siLea; they are public trusts. Whom
the annals of this republic show tho
disgmce and ccnsuro of Vico Pre-
sidcnt, a late Speaker of the House of
Representatives marketing his ruling
rs presiding officer; thrco Senators
profiting secretly by their votes as law
makors; five chairmcn OF leading com
mittecs of tho iato House of Repre-
exposed in jobbing; late
Secretary of Tho Treasury forcing bal
apcos in tho public accounts; q late
Attorney Gonoral 'misappropriating
public funds; Secretary Of the Navy
enriched or cnriching friends by poro
ccptals levied off the profits of con-
tractors with his department; an am
bassador TO England ccnsurcd in
dishonorabIc speculation; tho PRESS
dents Private Secretary barely cs-
capcd conviction upon trial for guilty
completely in frauds upon tho Rovcn,
NC; Secretary of War impoachcd for
high crimes and confessed misdemcan.
Ors. Tho demonstration is cnmnlntn