The daily gazette., 1876-06-29

perfect ability, and its perfect readi-
ness to meet any of its promises at the |
call of the creditor entitled to pay
ment.
We believe such a system well de-
vised, and above all intrusted to COM
petent hands for execution, creating at
no time an artificial scarcity of cur
rency, and at no time alarming the
public mind with a withdrawal of that
vaster machinery of credit by which
95 per cent. of all business transactions
are performed; a system open, public
and inspiring general confidence, could
from the day of its adoption, bring
healing on its wings to all our haras-
sed industry. and set in motion the
wheels of our commerce, manufactor-
les aDd the mechanical arts, restore
employment to labor and renew in all
its National source the prosperity of
the people.
Reform is necessary in the sum and
mode of Federal taxation, to the end
that capital my be set free from distrust
and labor lightly burdened.
We denounce the present tariff
levied upon nearly four thousand arti-
cles, a master piece of injustice, in
equality and false pretense, it yields
dwindling not yearly using revenue,
it has impoverished many Industries
to subsidize few, it prohibits imports
that might purchase the products of
American labor. 1t has degraded
American commerce from the first to
an inferior rank upon the high seas, it
has cut down the sales of American
manufacturers at home and abroad, and
depleted the returns of American agri-
culture and industry, followed by half
our people; and it costs the people FIVE
times more than it produces to the
Treasury, obstructs the progression of
production and wastes the fruits of
labors. 1t promotes fraud and fosters
smuggling, enriches dishonest officers,
and bankrupts honest merchants; we
demand that all Custom House taxation
shall be only for Revenue.
| Reform is necessary in the scale of
| public expense, federal, State and num-
cipal, Our Federal taxation has swol-
len from S60, ,000, 900 gold in 1860 to $3.50,
900, 900 currency in 1870; our aggregate
taxation from $154, 600 900 geld in 1860 to
1870, ,OD0,0 900 currency in 1870, or in one
decade from less than five dollars per
head, to more than eighteen dollars per
head since the peace, the people have
paid to their tax gatherers more than
thrice the sum of the National debt and
more than twice that sum for the Fed
eral Government alone.
We demand a vigorous frugality in
every department, and from every officer
of the Government.
Reform is necessary to put a stop to
the prohigate waste Of public lands, and
their division from actual settlers by the
party in power which has squandered
5000, 100000 of acres upon railroads alone,
and out of more than three times that
amount has disposed of less than a sixth
directly to settlers of the soil.
Reform is necessary to correct the
omissions of the Republican Congresses,
and the errors of our treaties and our
diplomacy, which have stripped our fell
low citizens of foreign birth and kindred
race of the privilege of recrossing the
Atlantic under the shield of American
citizenship, and expose our brethren of
the Pacific coast to the incursions Of a
race not sprung from the same great
parent. and in fact now by law denied
citizenship through naturalization as be-
ing neither accustomed to the traditions
of a progressive civilization, for e1er-
cised in liberty under equal laws.
I We denounce the policy which thus
discards the liberty loving Germans, and
tolerate the revival of the Coolie trade
in navigation, women imported for i'm
moral purposes and Mongolian IL en- hired
to perform serviceble-labor contracts, ),
and demand such mod foation of the
treaty with the Chinese Empire or such
legislation by Congress within a consti-
tutional limitatiods as at present, the
further imppftation or iiniaigration of
the Nongolian race ~ ~
l PaFa ,or mn y,f1a 1,o
effected but BY making il the controlling
issue of elections and lifting it above the
two false issues with which the Office
holding class and the party in power
seek to smother it !, the false issue, with
which they would enkindle sectarian
strife in respect TO public schools, of
which the establishment and support be-
long exclusively to the several States,
and which the Democratic party has
cherished from their foundation, and re-
solved to MAINTAIN without partially or,
preference for any class, sect or creed
and without contributing from the treas
ury to any j; the false issue by which
they seek to light anew the dying ember
of sectional hate between kindred people
once unnaturally estranged, but now
reunited in one indivisible republic and
common destiny.
Reform is necessary in the Civil Ser
vice. Experience proves that ehclent,
economical conduct Of the governmental
business is not possible if the Civil Ser.
vice be subject to change at every elec.
ton, to be prize fought for at the bal.
lot box as chief reward of party zeal
instead of posts of honor assigned fol-
proved competency, and held for fidelity
; in the public employ that the dispen.
} ing of patronage should neither be ia,
{ upon the time Of a II our public men, mol
the instrument of their ambition. Here
, aga in, professions falslfe6 in tho perfor
nance attest that the party In power car
work out no practical or salutary reform
Reform is necessary, even in the higher
grades of pubic service. The President
! Vice President, Judges, Senators, Repre-
l sentatives, Cabinet officers and all others
4 in authority are the public servants. The
| offices are not private perquisite; they
r are public trust, When the annals ol
this Republic show the disgrace and cen.
: sure Of Vice President; a late Speaker
= of the House of Representatives, mar.
keting his rulings as a presiding officer
three Senators profting secretly by thei,
4 votes as law makers five chairmen Of
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