The Cairo bulletin. [volume] (Cairo, Ill.) 1872-1878, 1876-08-04

equal laws. We denounce the policy which
thus discards the lberty-loving imam
and tolerates the revival VI the coone trsue
in Monaghan women, imported for MINORS
purposes, and MongOlian men held 10 per
form servie labor contracts.
THE FALSE sRCTARIAN IssuE-THE FALSE
SECTIONAL ISSUE.
Psfor,a Is necessary, and can never ne ell
fected only by making it the controlling
issue OF The elections. and lifting IL anove
the two f,lsc Issues with which the ONCE
holding class and the party in power seek
to smother IL. II,
would enkindle sectarian strife In respect
20 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 foun-
dation, and Is resolved to maintain, without
any Partially or preference for any class,
sect or creed, and without continuing
from the treasury to any,
Sccond-Thc false issue by which they
seek to light anew the dying emoers Of
sectional hate between Kindred people once
unnaturslly esfranged, but now reunited
on one indivis Bile republic aud common
destiny.
RKFORM-7HE CIVIL SERVICE.
Reform is necessary in the civil service;
experience proves that efficient, economic
III
not possible il its civil service be subject to
change at every elestiop, be prize fought
for at the ballot box, be brief reward o!
party zeal, instead of posts Of honor, as
signed for proved competency and held TOR
fidelity in the public employ; that the dis
pensing of patronage should neither be
tax upon the time Of all our public men,
nor the instrument Of their ambition; here,
again, profes ions falsifed in the preform.
| apce, u test that the party in power can
| work out no practical or satisfactory
| reform.
| RrrORM-CoRRrPTIoN 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 al
Others in authority are the peoples sery
ants; their offices are not private perqm
site they are public trust.
When the annals of this republic show
the disgrace and censure Of vice presi
dent: late speaker of the house Of repre-
sentatiyes marketing his rulings rs presid
ing officer; three senators protitinS secretl
by their vote as lawmakers; ilve charmed
OF the leading committees Of the late hous
OF representatives exposed in Jobbery;
late secretary Of the treasury forging bal
ancae in public accounts; hate attorne
|, general Disappointing public funds;
secretary of the navy enriched or enrIchin
t friends by percentages levied of the profit
of contractors with his department; q
( ambassador to England censured in di
t honorable speculation; the president
1 private secretary barely escaping convi
ton upon trial tor guilty completely
{ frauds upon the revenue; secretary
f war impeached for high crimes and misd
meanors, the demonstration is comple'
that the first step in reform must be Il
peoples choice of honest men from anoth
b party. lest the disease OF one political o
/, ganizaton infect the body polite; and lie
e BY making no change of men or parties v
o can get no change Of measures and no re
!, reform.
y REFoRM-REFORM-R
il All thes sc abuses. wrongs and crimes, Il
d product of sixteen years OF the ascendant
l. of the republican party, create necessi
). for reform, confessed by republicans thel
|. selves, but their reformers are voted dow
in convention and displaced from d
:. cabinet; the partv's mass Of honest vote
is powerless to resist the eighty thousal
ofiiceholders its leaders and guides.
q Reform can only be had by peacef,
d civic revolution. We demand q change
e administration, a change of party. that '
o may have o change OF measures and OF me