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

equal laws. We denounce the policy which
thus discards the liberty-loving German
and tolerates the revival OF the cOOlie trade
in Monaghan women, imported for immora
purposes, and Monaghan men held to per-
form seryle labor contracts.
THE FALSE sECTARrAN IssUE--THE FALSE
SECTIONAL ISSUE.
Reform, is necessary, and can never he eff
fected only by making II the controlling
issue OF The elections, and lifting IL above
the two false issues with which the Office
holding class and the party III power seek
to smother it.
Fret 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-
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
unnaturaly estranged, but now reunited
on one indivisible republic and q common
destiny
REFORM-1HE CIVIL SERVICE.
Reform is necessary in the civil service;
experience proves that efficient, economic
| al conduct of the governmental business is
not possible ii its civil service be subject to
| change at every elestiop, be prize fought
| for at the ballot box, be a brief reward OF
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 u
tax upon the time Of all our public men,
nor the instrument Of their ambition; here,
| again, profes ions falsitied in the preform.
ance, 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 al
others in authority are the peoples serv
ants; their offices are not private perqui
site they are public trust.
When the annals of this republic show
the disgrace and censure of a vice presi
dent; a late speaker OF the house of repre-
sentatives marketing his rulings as presid
|, ing officer; three senators prOtting secret
! by their vote as lawmakers; five cbairme
! of the leading committees of the late hous
| OF representatives exposed in jobbery;
late secretary of the treasury forging ba
ances in public accounts; late attorne
general misappropriating public funds;
, scCTetdty VI Tie navy enrlcncu OF enT)cnlll
t friends by percentages levied off the prof
!, of contractors with his department.; a
# ambassador to England censured in Iii
t honorable speculatiOn the president
d private secretary barely escaping cOnyi
: ton upon trial for guilty completely
t frauds upon the revenue; a secretary
II war impeached for high crimes and misd
meanors, the demonstration is compile
that the first step in reform must be Il
peoples choice of honest men from anOth
Ia party. lest the disease OF one political O
!, ganiZation infect the body polite: and lie
e by making no change of men or parties "
o can get no change Of measures and no re
J, reform.
Il | ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
II All these abuses, wrongs and crimes. Il
d product of sixteen years of the ascendant
l. of the republican party, create a necessi
s. for reform. confessed by republicans thel
l. selves, but their reformers are voted dow
in convention and displaced from d
cabinet; the party's mass of honest vote
E is powerless TO resist the eighty thousal
officeholders, its leaders and guides.
d Reform can only be had by peacefl
d civic revolution. We demand a change
,e administration. a change of party, that v
% may have change Of measures and OF me