The Pickens sentinel. [volume] (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, 1876-09-21

oipal. Our Federal taxation has swol.
len from $50 O;O00linigold lin 1860 tt
$3.50, O,OOO,O 600 in currency in 1870. Our
aggregate taxation from $S1s4 600 OOC
in gold in 1860 to $730,O0O, 900 in cur.
rency in 1870 Or, in one decade
from less than IS, per head, TO more
than $l8 per head. Since the peace
the people have paid To- their tax gath
erors more than thricefthe sum of the
national debt, and more than twice
that sum for the. F ederaG govern mont
alone a-.44 r. '..,i .,... IT,. ..,.,.'
We demand vigorous frugaliLy in
overy department and from every Of
1cer Of tho government. Reform is
necessary to put a stop to the profit
gate waste of public lands, and their
diversion, from aotual setslefs by tho
party in power which haslsquahdered
$500, 100000 of acres upon railroads
alone, and, out Of more than thrice
that aggregate, has disposed of less
than sixth directly to tiiers of the
soil. Reform is necessary TO correct
the omissions of the Republican Con-
! gross and tho errors ot.our troaties and
our diplomacy which havo stripped
our fellow citizens Of foreign birth and
kindred race rocrossing the Atlantic
OF the Shield of American citizenship,
and have exposed our brethren of the
Pacific coast to the incursion Of Il race
not sprung from the same great par>
ent stock, and, in fact, now, by Law
denied citizenship, through natnrali,
zation, as boing Mother accustomed to
the tradiHonsY of a progressive civili-
zati0n nor exercised in liberty under
equal laws. We denounoe the policy
which thus disoards tho liberty low
ing German and toierates the revival
of the coolie trade, in Mongolian wo-
men, imported for immoral purposes,
and Mongolian mon hired to perform
servile labor contracts, and demand
such modification Of the treaty with
the Chinese Empire, or such, legislaS
ton by Congress within fconstitu,
tional limitation as shall prov ent the
further importation Of immigration of
tho Mongolian race. Reform is ne
cessary and can never be effected but
by making it the controlling issue OF
the elections, lifting it above the two
false issues with which tho office hold.
ing class and the party in power seek
to smother it. The false issue with
which they would cnkndIo scctariun
strife n respect TO the public schools,
of Which the establishment to support
belonging exclusively to tho several
States, and which tho Democratic
party has cherished from their tound~
alton and resolved to maintain with
out partiality or preference for any
class, sect or creed, and without con-
tTbutIng from The treasury to any
tho false issue by which they seek to
light anew tho dying embcrs Of scc>
tionaI hate bctweon kindred peoples,
once unaturally estrangcd, but now
reunited in emo indivisible republic
and q common destiny. Reform is
necessary in the civil service. Expos
rienco proves that efficient, cconomi-
cal conduct of tho governmental busie
ness is not possible if its civil service
be subject to change at every election,
be a prize fought for at the ballot box,
be half reward Of party zeal instead
of posts of honor, assigned tor proved
competency and held for fidelity IL
the public employ. That the dispcns.
ing of patronage should ncithor be n
tax upon the time of all our public
mon, nor the instrument of their am
bition. Hero again professions falsi-.
fed in the performance, attest that
the party in power can work out no
practical or salutory reform. Reform
is necessary evon more in the higher
grades Of public service. Tie Presi>
dent, Vice President, Judges, Sena>
tors, Representatives and Cabinet of
fcors. These, and oil others in au-
thority, are the peoples servants;
their officers. are not private perqui-
sites; they. are public trusts. When
the annals Of this republic show the
disgrace and oensuro of Vice Pre-
sident,a a late Speaker of the House OF
Representatives. marketing his ruling.
rs presiding officer; three Senators
profiting secretly by their votes as law
makers; five chairmen of leading com
mittees of the late House of Ropre-
senLatives exposed in jobbing; Il late
Secretary of the Treasury forcing bal
ances in the public accounts; a Ia,o
Attorney General misappropliating
public funds; Secretary Of the Navy
enriched or enriching friends by per-,
certaIs levied off the profits of con-
tractors with his department; an am-
bassodor to England censured in q
dishonorabe speculation;" the Presi~
dents Private Secretary barely cs-
capped conviction upon trial for guilty
completely in frauds upon tho Reven.