The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1876-07-06

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in Federal taxes thirteen times the whole
amount of the legal-tenGer notes, and squall-
dered four times this sum i'll useless expense
| without accumulatIng any reserve for their re-
| demption.
| We denounce the financial mbecility and i'm
morality OF the party which, during eleven
| years ofpeace, has made no advance toward re-
! sumption; that, instead, has obstructed re-
| sumption by wasting our resources and eX-
haustng all our surplus income, and, while an
| nualy protesting to intend speedy return to
| specie payments, has annually enacted fresh
hindrances thereto. AS such hindrance, we
denounce the resumption clause Of the act of
| 1915, and we here demand its repeal.
We demand a judicious system of prepara-
ton by public economies, by official retrench-
ments, and by wise finance, which shall enable
the nation soon to assure the whole world Of its
perfect readiness to meet any of its promises at
the call Of the creditor entitled to payment. We
believe such Il system, well devised and above
all entrusted to competent hands for execution,
creating at no time an artificial scarcity of
money, and at no time alarming the public mind
into withdrawal of that vaster machinery of
credit by which % per cent. of al business
transactions are performed a system open,
public, aud inspiring general confidence, would,
from the day of its adoption, bring healing OH
its wings to all our harassed industries and set
IN motion the wheels of commerce, manufac-
tures and the mechanical arts, restore employ
ment to labor, and renew in all its natural force
the prosperity of the people.
Reform is necessary IN the sum and mode of
Federal taxation, to the end that capital may
be set free from dstrust and labor lightly bur
dened. We denounce the present tariff levied
upon nearly 1000 articles. rs masterpiece of
injustice inequality and false pretence. 1t
yields dwindling, not yearly rising reve-
nue.; it has impoverished many industries to
substdize few; it prohibits imports that
might purchase the products of American la-
bOr; it has degraded American commerce from
the FIRST tO inferior rank the hip1
1t has cut down the sale of American manufac
lures at home and abroad, and depleted the re-
turns of American agriculture, az industry i0l-
lowed by half our people; it costs the people
five times more than it produces t, the Treas
ury; Obstructs the processes of production and
wastes the fruits of labor: it promotes fraud
and fosters smuggling; enriches dShOnes, olii-
clal5 and bankrupts honest merchants. We
demand that Custom House taxation shall be
only for revenue.
Reform is necessary in the scale of public eX-
penSrs, Federal, State and municipal. Our
Federal taxation has swollen from $50, 900 000
gold, in 1850, to $50 100000 currency in 1870,
OF in Il decade from less than s. per head to
more than SIS per head. Since the declaration
of peace the people have paid to their taX-gatl-
erers more than thrice the sum Of the National
debt, and more than twice that sum for the
Federal Government alone. We demand II
vigorous frugality in every department and
from every officer of the Government.
Reform is necessary to put II stop TO the pro-
lgatc waste of public lands and their diver
sion from actual settlers by the party in power,
which has squandered two hundred millions of
acres upon railroads alone, and out of more
than thrice that aggregate, has disposed of less
than Il sixth directly to the tlIers 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 teOW-citiZcns. of foreign birth
ard kindred race, recrosSing the Atlantic of
the shield of American citizenship; and have
exposed our brethren Of the Pacific coast to the
mcurSion- OF Il race not sprung from the same
great parent stock, AMI, in fact, now by law de-
MED citizenship through naturalization as being
neither accustomed to the traditions Of Il pro-
greSsive civilization nor exercised in liberty
under equal laws. We denounce the policy
which thus ciisrardS the liberty-loying German
and tolcratcS The revival of tile coolie trade In
MongOiian women, imported for immoral pur-
poses. and Monaghan men, hired to perform
>erViie labor contracts; and demand such mod
itication Of the treaty With the Chinese Empire,
or such Legislation by Congress within const-
tutona limitation as shall prevent the further
importation or immigration OF the Mongoian
race.
Reform is necessary, and can never be effect
cd but by making it the controlling issue of the
elections, and lifting il above the Two false is
sues with which the othce-holding class and the
party III power seek to smother 1t; the false Is
sue with which they would enNindle sectional
strife in respect to the public schools, of which
the establishment and support belong eXclu-
siyeiy to the several States. ana which the
Democratic party has cherished from their
foundation aud resolved to maintain without
pArtiaIiiy or preference for any class, sect or
creed, and without contributions from the
Treasury TO any of them; and the false issue
by which they seek To light ancW the dying
embers Of sectional hate between kindred peo-
pie, once estranged but now reunited in one in
diNlsibie RepubliG jMl 4 common destiny.
Dprirnr4 that efficient economical
duet Of the governmental business is not pos
sibie if its civil service be subject to change at
every election, be prize fought ior at the bal
lot-boN, be- i brief reward of party zeal in
stead Of posts OF honor assigned for proved
competency and held tor fidelity in the public
employ; that the dispensing Of patronage
should neither De a tax upon the time of alt
our public men nor the instrument Of their
ambition. Here again, professions tasihed in
the performance attest that the party in power
can work out 10 practical or salutary reform.
Reform is necessary even more IN the higher
grades Of the puhhc Seryice-Presldent, lee
President, Judges, Senators, Representatives.,
Cabinet Officers, these and all others, in au-
thority, are the peoples servants. Their offices
are not private perquisite--tbey are public
trust. When the annals of this Republic show
the disgrace and cen>urc OF 4 Ice-PrSsldent;
Il late speaker of the House of Representatives
marketing his rulings rs Il presiding officer;
three Senators protitng secretly by their votes
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viction upon trial for guilty completely III frauds
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pea1,i,.s p,, ~, tJ i',,s,rt5n ,nlntn tha,
tho tir.t stan. in rnf,rn mu.t bn thr ,ro,,Ir's
chni'.., nf o,.f n,,.n from nnothcr ,,rty jr-f
the disease of one political organization infect
the body polite, and lest by aklhS no change
of men or party We can get no change OF meas
ures and no reform Al these abuses, wrongs
and crlmeS,itha product ol sixteen years as
cehdancy ol lhe republican party create
th,,,il. I,+ tii. rf,,,,,,,. ,ra ,-ntad
down in Convention and displaced from the
Cabinet The partv's mass of honest voter,
are powerlcss To resist the 10000 otlice-hoderS,