Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1876-07-06

free from disrust and labor lightly burdened We
denounce the present tariff le.ies npon nearly 400
aicss AZ a,epee Yields 81 inas,Ie nea no
yearly rising revenue II has impoverish he'd many
industries to sub-idize few. Itprohibits imports
that might purchase 'ns products OF Amef r.,i.
the 6rst TO inferior rank upon the high
seas. II has cut down the sales Of American
manufactures at home and abroad. and depleted
the returns OF American agriculture. an industry
followed by half our people. 1t costs the people
five times more than II produces to the Treasury.
/ obstructs the process OF production and wastes
smuggling enTiches dishonest officials and bank
rupts honest merchants We demand that all Gus
tom House taxation shall be only for revenue.
o. Reform is necessary in the scale of public ex,
taxation has swollen from $60,NUDO in gold IN
1860 TO $500 COCO in currency in 1870; our aggre-
gate taxation ,a from tla0o@o in gold in
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 -ga!herers
more than thrice the sum OF the National debt ana
more than twice that sum for the Federal Govern
ment alone. We demand . rigorous frugaity in
every department and from every officer OF the
Government.
profiigate waste Of the public lands, and their d
version from actual settlers by the party III power
which has squandered a0,0OO,0)0 OF acres upon
railroads alone, and out OF more than thrice tnat
aggregate has disposed Of less than sixth direct
ly TO tllers OF the soil.
II. Reform is necessary TO correct the omis-.
sions OF Republican Congress and the errors OF
our treaties and our diplomacy. which have strip
ped our fellow citizens Of foreign birth and kim
dred race crossing the Atlantic, Of the shield of
American citizenship. and have exposed our
! brethren OF the Pacific Coast to the incur
! sions of not sprung from the same
great parent stock, and in fact, now lately denied
citizenship through naturalization being neither
accustomed to the traditions of progressive civil
cation. nor exercised in liberty under equal laws.
| We denounce the policy which thus discards the
liberty loving German, and tolerates the revival Of
/ the Coolie trade in Mongolian women. imported
| for immoral purposes, and Monaghan men, held to
! perform servie labor contracts, and demand such
modification OF the treaty with the Chinese En-
| pre or sueh legislation by Congress, within Con
sttutional limitations, az shall prevent the further
importation OF imm grafton OF the Monaghan race
II. Reform is necessary, and can be effected
only by making 1t the controlling issue of the cleo
/ tons, and lifting it above the two false issues
with which the otfce-holding class and the party
in power seek to smother it; the false issues with
! which they would enkindle sectaran strife in re-
4 spect to the public schools, of which the estab-
| lishment and support belong exclusively TO the
several States, and which the Democratic party has
cherished from their foundation, and is resolved
to maintain without partiaiity or preference for
any class. sect or creed and without contributions
from the treasury 10 any; and the fase issue by
! which they seek to light anew the diving embers
of sectional hate between kindred peoples.
unnaturally estranged but now reunited in one
| indivisible Republic and a common destiny
ID Reform is necessary in the Civil Service.
/ Experience proves that an efficient and economi-
/ cal conduct of the Governmental business is not
possibe If its Civil Service b. subject To change
at every election; If it b. prize fought for at the
ballot box; il it be brief reward uf party zeal.
I instead of post Of honor assigned tor proved
competency, and held for fidelity in thu public
employ; that the dispensing OF patronage should
! neither be a tax upon the time % all our pn0lic
/ men nor the instrument of their ambition. Here.
I again. professions, Flashed in the performance
attest that the party in power can work out no
! practical or salutaiy reform.
/ a. Reform is necessary more in the higher
| grades of the public service. The President
Vice. President, Judges, Senators, Representa-
tves and Cabinet officers these and all Others in
/ authority are the peoples servants their Offices
not private perquisite; they are public
trust When the annals of this Republic showth
disgrace and censure Of a vice-President, a late
/ Speaker Of the House of Representatives. market
ing his rulings presiding officer: three Sena
tors prohting secretly by their votes a. law max
ers : i've Chairmen Of the leading committees of
the late House of Representatives exposed in Job
berry: late Secretary of the Treasury forcing
balances in the public accounts; late Attorney
General Incorporating the public funds; Sec
retary of the Navy enriched or enrichiug his
friends by percentages levied of the profits Of
contractors with his department; an Ambassador to
England censured in dishonorlble speculation
the Presidents Private Secretary barely escaping
conviction upon his trial for guilty completely in
frauds upon the revenue: n Secretary Of War I'M
peaChcd for high crimes and confessed INSIDE
meanors; the demonstration is complete that the
first step in reform must be the peoples choice OF
honest from another party. lest the disease Of
one political organization infect the body polite,
and lest, by making no change OF men or party. We
can get no change OF measures and no 'eform.
All these abuses. wrongs. and crimes, the
product OF sixteen years ascendeucy Of the Re-
publican party. c cate necessity for reform con-
iessed by the Republicans Themselves: bnt their
reformers are voted down In convention. and dis
placed from the Cabinet. The parfy'S mass of hon
est voters is powerless to resist the 5000 officers,
its leaders and guides Reform car only be had
by peaceful civic revolution, We demand a
change of system, change of administration, a
change of parties, that may have change of
measures and of men.
Your committee have also had referred to
them and recommend the adoption of the
following resolution:
Resolf.d That this Convention, representing
the Democratic party Of the United States. do cor
daily indorse the action Of the present House Of
Representatives in reducing and curaiing the eX-
peuses OF the Federal Government in cutting
down salaries and extravaganza appropriations and
in sbolishng useless offices and places not re-
quired by the public necessity and we shall trust
10 the firmness of the democratic members Of the
House that no COMMITTEE 81 Conference and no
misinterpretation of rules will be allowed TO de-
feat these wholesome measures OF economy de-
handed by the country.
Resoirsd. That the soldiers and sailors OF the
republic, and the widows and orphans OF those
who have fallen in battle. have Just claim upon
the protection and gratitude Of their fellow.
citizens.
Gen. Ewing, of Ohio. then made minority
; report, signed by himself, Voorhees,, of In
diana; Brown, of Tennessee; Hoy, OF Penn
, sylvana; Trumhle, Of Iowa; Davis, OF West
Virginia; Davis, of Kansas, and Hardee, of
Missouri, which report was as follows:
The undersigned members OF the committee
: recommend that tbF following caHse in the reso-
lutions reported b. the committee be stricken out:
) such hindrance We drnounCe the re- umption
, clause Of The a o. Is D. and here demand lis
repeal. And they reCo nEen1 that there he sub
stit1ted for Tint clause the following, = Tn. Inv,
for tn re>umpt n OF specie payments on the lst
u January 1872 having hecu enacted by the Re
! publican party without del heration in Con rress
or discussion before the people, and being hotn
, ineitct4al % secure is object and HI ghly nar-
ous 10 the business OF the country ought 10 Re
forthwith -st,asl.1