The Cairo bulletin. [volume] (Cairo, Ill.) 1872-1878, 1876-09-05

civiliz alton. nor exercised Ia liberty under
equal laws. We denounce the policy which
thus discards the interviewing German
and tolerates the revival Of the cOolie trade
in Monaghan women, imported Tor immols
purposes, and Mong0lian men held TO per-
form servile labor contracts.
THE FALSE sRcTARIAN IssUE-THE FALSE
SECTIONAL ISSUE.
Reform is necessary, and car never be e''
fectcd only by making IL the controlling
issue OF the elections, and lifting II above
the two false issues with which the ONCE.
holding class and the party in power seek
to smother IL.
would eukindle 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 f0un-
dation, and is resolved TO maintain, without
any Partially or preference for any class,
sect or creed, and without contributing
Second---The false issue by which they
seek to light anew the dying embers OF
sectional hate between kindred people once
uunaturally estranged, but now reunited
on one indivisble republic and common
destiny
RKFoRM-1HK CIVIL SERVICE.
Reform is necessary in the civil service;
experience proves that efficient, economic
al conduct of the governmental business is
not possible IL its civil service be subject to
change at every elestiop, be prize fought
for at the ballot box, be 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
pensipg of patronage should neither be
tax upon the time Of all our public men,
nor the instrument of their ambition; here,
again, profes: ions falsified in the preferm.
ance, test that the party in power can
work out no practical or satisfactory
reform.
REroRM-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 all
others in authority are the peoples serv-
| ants: their offices are not private perqui-
site they are a 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 u presid-
ing officer: three senators proiting secretly
| by their vote as lawmakers; i've cbairmen
| of the leading committees of the late house
| of representatives exposed in jobbery; .
| late secretary OF the treasury forging bal
ances In public accounts; late attorney
general mlsapprOpriatlnx pupnc iunus,
secretary of the navy enriched or enrichinl
friends by percentages levied OF the proflt
of contractors with his department.; al
ambassador to England censured in dis
honorable speculat:on; the president
private secretary barely escaping convic
ton upon trial for guilty completely il
frauds upon the revenue; . secretary o
war impeached for high crimes and misde
meanors, the demonstration is complet
that the first step in reform must be tn
peoples choice of honest men from anothe
party. lest the disease OF one political OF
ganization infect the body polite: and les
by making no change of men or parties W
can get no change Of measures and no rea
reform.
REFORM-REPORM-RE
All these abuses. wrongs and crimes, tn
product Of sixteen years of the ascendanc
of the republican party, create a necessit
for reform, confessed by republicans them
selves, but their refOrmers are voted dow
in convention and displaced from tn
cabinet; the party's mass of honest voter
Is powerless TO resist the eighty th0usan'
OfhcehOlders. its leader, and guides.
Reform can only be had by apeaceful
civic revolution. We demand a change O
administration, q change of party. that WI
may have change Of measures and OF men