The Cairo bulletin. [volume] (Cairo, Ill.) 1872-1878, 1876-07-26

| whole world OF its perfect ability and its
perfect readiness to meet any OF its prom.
ises at the call Of the creditor entitled to
| payment.
| We believe such a system. well devised.
| and, above all. entrusted - competent
hand. for its execution. Great ng at no time
an artificial scarcity OF currency, ana at no
| time alarming the public mind into with.
| drawal OF that vast machinery Of credit by
which % per cent. of all our business trans
actions are performed; system open to
the public and inspiring general confidence,
would, from he day of its adopt on, bring
healing on its wings to all our harrassed in
dustries, set In motion the wheels Of com
merce, manufactures and the mechanical
arts, restore employment TO labor. and re-
| new in sill it, national sources the prosper
ity o, the people.
REFORM or HE TARlrF-FRKE TRADE.
RcfoFhl is necessary in the sum aud mode
Of federal taxation. TO the end that capital
| may be set Tree from disirust and lab'r
| lightly burdcned. We denounee the pres
eIt tariff eyIed upon nearly TOUR thousand
| articles a. a mast piece of injustice, in
equality and false preteu>e. IL yields
dwindling. not yearly rising revenue. 1t
hiss impoverished many industries TO sub
sidiIe a few; IL prolibis imports that mig ht
purchase me products CT American .5ors;
! it has degraded American sODme.ce nom
the first 10 an interior rank upon the higb
seas; il has cut down the sales of American
manufactures at home an | abroad, aud de-
pcted the returns Of American agriculture,
an industry followed by halt our people. Ii
costs the people five tim more than ii pro-
| duccs to the treasury; obsuucis the process
of production, and wastes the fruits OF Ia.
Dor; ii promotes frIUd. fosters smuggling.
euriches Iii honest official, and bankrupt.
| Ebpe.t merchants. We demand that all
custom house taxation shall be only Tor
revenue.
REFORM ECONOMY IL rCRL,C ENPENsE.
Reforss is nece ssary in the ale OF public
eNpcnse-felcral. STATE and municipal.
our federal taxation ha~ swollen from sixty
m,lliOnl gold, in lSGD. 20 four hundred and
hit! millions currency, in $50. our aggTe-
= ate taxation. from OF hundred aud nity-
four million, gold In 1s6), 10 seven hundred
| and thirty millions currency ia $50; or, in
one decade. from less than five dollars per
head TO more than eighteen dollars per head.
Since the peace the people have paid to
t5eir tax-gatherers more than thrice the
sum of The rational debt. and more than
twice that sum tor the federal governme Mt
| alone. We demand = vigorous irugality IN
every department. and from every officer
| OF the government.
REFORM-PUBLiC LANDS 10 ACTUAL SET.
| 1LER>.
| HsfgyE, l. Necessary to put stop TO the
| prof gate waste OF the public lands anu
| their diversion from actual settler. by the
party in power. which has squandered
10000, 200 acres upon railroads alone, and
| N amount o; more than thrice taat aggre-
gate, has disposed of less than 4 sixth d.
| rectly to the tilers Of the soil.
REFoRY-ADoPTED CITIZENS, REJECTED
| HONGoLs
! Reform i, necessary 10 correct the ommis-
/ sion If a republican congres. and the error.
| nf 1ftr ,ra anil ,lit.lapaa... u,l Iii .h
have stripped our fellow itizens of foreign
| birth and kindred race. recross ny the AT.
lautie, Of The shield OF American cit z.n.
| shi ,, and have exposed our hreth err of the
| Pacific Goa t TO the incursioHs of race rot
| sprung from the same Z eat parent stock,
| and. in fact, now by law denied citizenship
! through turaliZ ,iion, as being neither ac-
,ustumed II tue traditions of progr, ssiye
| civilization. nor exercised in liberty under
| equal laws. We denounce the policy which
| thus discards the hberty-loying Ge man
snd tolerate. the revival # the coolie trade
in Monaghan women, iInpOrted for immoral
purposes. and MoDgolan men he'd to per
form seryie labor contracts.
| THE FALSE sECTARIAN IssUE-THE FALSE
SECTIONAL ISSUE.
| Reform Is necessary, and can never he eff
| tected only by making ii the controlling
issue OF he el .ctions, and lifting il above
| the two false issues with which the office
| iOluiuS tia~s duu tut purity IN DOW yer see h
to smother IL.
First the false is.ue with which thew
would cnkIndle seetarian 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 :ouu-
dation, and i resolved 10 maintain, without
any Partially or preference for any class.
sect or creed, and without contributing
| from the treasury TO any.
Second-The false issue by which they
seek to light anew the dying embers OF
sectional bate between Kindred people once
unnaturally es'raDged, but now reunited
on one indiyis.ble republic and a common
destiny.
RRFORM-THE CIVIL SERVICE
Reform is necessary in the civil service;
experience proves that efficient, economic
al conduct of the government al business is
not possible it its civil service be subject to
change at every ele. ton, be prize fought
tor at the ballot box, be brief reward o.
party zeal, instead of posts of honor, a.
signed for proved competency and held ton
fidelity in the public employ; that the dis.
peDslng OF patronage should neither be a
, tax upon the time Of all our public men,
nor the instrument Of their ambition: here
again, profes ions fal.itied in the preform
ance, test that the party in power can
work out no practical or satisfactory
reform.
REFORM CORRUPTION OF HIGH PUBLIC
OFFICERS.
RQOrA0 Is Necessary even more in the
higher grades of The public service. The
president, vice president, Judges, senator's
) representatives and cabinet officers and al
Others In authority are the peope's serv
ants; their Offices are not private perqui.
site they are public trust.
When the annals OF this republic show
the disgrace and ccnsurc of a vice presi
dent; late speaker OF the house OF repre-
sentatiyes marketing his rulings as presid
Ing Offcer; three senators proitiDg secret
by their vote as lawmakers; five chairmer
OF the leading committees Of the late house
OF representatives. exposed in jobbery;
late secretary OF the treasury forging bal
ances in public accounts; a late attorne,
general Incorporating public funds;
secretary of the navy enriched or enrjchnl
friends by percentages levied of the profit,
Of contractors wi h his department.; al
ambassador to England censlIred in a dis
honorable speculation; the PRESIDENT
private secretary barely escaping conNic
ton dSr "no ria for snilty eomplielty il
war impeached for high crimes and mi sde
meanors, the demonstration Is complet,
That the hrst step in reform must be tn,
b peoples choice of honest men from anothe
!, party, lest the disease OF one political or
Q ganization infect the body polite; and les
q by making no change of men or parties N,
|. can get no change Of measures and no rca
\ reform.
u REfORM-EEfORM-RE
!, All these abuses, wrongs and crimes. TN
product Of sixteen years of the sscendapc
= OF the republican parry, crea ate a necessit
for reform. confessed by republicans then
selves, but their reiormer> are voted dow
In convention ana displaced from tn