Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1876-07-17


honest merchants. We demand that all |
Custom House taxation shall be only for
revenue.
Reform is necessary in the scale of
public expenses, Federal, State and mu-
nicipal. Our Federsl taxation has swell
ed from s60.0O0.000, gold, in 1860. to
S450,O00,000, currency in 1870; or.
in decade, from less than So per head
to more than SIS 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
the sum for the Federal Government
alone, We demand a vigorous frugality
in every department and from every Off
Ger of the Government.
Reform is necessary to put stop to
the prOflgate waste of public lands, and
their diversion from actual settlers by
the party in power, which has squander-
ed 200,000,000 acres upon railroads
alone, and out of more than thrice that
aggregate has disposed of less than
sixth directly to tillers of the soil.
Reform is necessary to correct the
omissions of the Republican Congress
and the errors of our treaties and our
diplomacy which have stripped our fell
low citizens of foreign birth and kindred
race recrossing the Atlantic or the shield
of American citizenship, and have ex-
posed our brethren of the Pacific coast
to the incursions Of race not sprung
from the same great parent stock, and
in fact now by law denied citizenship
through naturalization as being neither
accustomed to the traditions of a pro-
gressive civilization nor exercised in lib
erty under equal laws. We denounce
the policy which thus discards the liber-
ty-loving German and tolerates the reyi-
val OF the coolie trade in Mongolian wo-
men imported for immoral purposes, and
Mongolian men hired to perform servile
labor contracts, and demand such modi-
ication of the treaty with the Chinese
Empire, or such legislation by Congress
within constitutional limitation, as
shall prevent the further importation or
immigration of the Mongolian race.
Reform is necessary, and can never be
effected but by making it the controlling
issue of the elections and lifting it above
the two false issues with which the Of
fce-holding class and the party in pow
er seek to smother 1.-THE false issue
with which they would enkindle section
al strife in respect to the public schools,
of which the establishment and support
belongs exclusively to the several States,
and which the Democratic party has
cherished from their foundation, and re-
solved to maintain without partiality or
preference for any class, sect or creed,
and without contribution from the Trea-
sury to any of them; and the false issue
by which they seek to light anew the
dying embers of sectional hate between
kindred peoples once estranged but now
reunited in one indivisible republic and
a common destiny.
: Reform is necessary in the civil ser.
vice. Experience proves that efficient
, economical conduct of the Governmental
business is not possible if its civil ser,
: vice be subject to change at every elec
| tion, be prize fought for at the ballot
7 box, be brief reward of party zeal, in
D stead of posts of honor assigned for prov
| ed competency, and held for fidelity il
: the public employ; that the dispensing
u Of patronage should neither be tax up
= on the time of all our public men no
: the intrument of their ambition. Her,
C again professions falsi6ed in the perfor
d nance attest that the party in power cal
e work out no practical or salutary reform
f Reform is necessary even more in tn
! higher grades of public service. Presi
e dent, Vice-President Judges, Senators
t. Representatives, Cabinet officers, thes
|, and all others in authority are the pee
It pies servants. Their offices are not
e private perquisite. they are publ
t trust. When the annals of this repub
a. lie show the disgrace and censure Of
IF vice-president, a late Speaker of th
i House of Representatives. marketing hi
5 rulings as presiding officer, three Ser
Il ators profting secretly by their votes a
IS Lawmakers, five chairmen of the leadin
% committees of the late House of Repre-
IN sentatiyes exposed in jobbery, LAT
l. Secretary of the Treasury forcing balaI
re ces in the public accounts. late Alto
Il ney-General Incorporating publ
Of funds. Secretary of the Navy enriche
or enriching friends by percentages le'
"a led off the profits Of contractors with hi
at department. an Ambassador to Englan
ID censured in dishonorable speculation
the Presidents private secretary barrel
ID escaping conviction upon trial for guilt
r completely in frauds upon the reyenu
Sc a Secretary of War inpeached for bic
a crimes and confessed misdemeaDors. Il
T. demonstration is complete that the FIR
". step in reform must be the people
sc choice of honest men from another par
as lest the disease of one political organ
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