The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1876-06-29


acted fresh hindrafces thereto. AS such
4 hindrance, we ie,iounce the resumption
clause OF the act of 1876, md we here de-
mand its repeal.
+ 5ss NO ARTIFICIAL SCARCITY.
i We demand a iudicious system OF prepa.
ration by public economies, by official re-
trenchments, and by wise finance, which
shall enable the nation to assure the Whole
world ofits perfect ability and its perfect
readiness to meet any promises at the call OF
the creditor entitled to payment. We be-
lieve such SYSTEM well devised, and above
al entrusted to competent hands for execu-
ton, creating ut no time an artificial scarcity
OF currency, and OF no time alarming the
public mind into withdrawal OF that vaster
machinery OF credit by which ninety-fiTe per
cent. OF all business transactions are per-
formed-a system open, public, ana insplr-
ing general confidence-would, from the day
OF its adoption, bring healing on its wings
to all our harassed industries, and set IN
motion the wheels OF commerce, manufac-
lures, and the mechanical arts, restore en-
ployment to labor, and renew in oil It's ma
tional sources the prosperity OF the people,
FEDERAL TAXATION.
Reform is necessary in the sum and mode
/ Of Federal taxation, to the end that capital
NAV be set free from distrust and labor
lightly burdened. We denounce the pre-
sent tariff, levied upon nearly four thousand
articles, as masterpiece OF injustice, IN
equality, and false pretence. It includes a
dwindling, not a yearly rising, OF the reVe-
nue.; it has Impoverished many Industries
to substitute q few; it prohibits imports
that might purchase the products OF Amerl-
can labor; it has degraded American COM
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upon the high seas it has cut down the
sales of American manufacturers at home
and abroad and depleted the RETURNS OF
American agriculture, or industry; it cost
the people five times more than it produces
to the treasury; it obstructs tile process OF
production and wastes the fruits OF labor !;
it promotes fraud and fosters smuggling,
enriches dishonest officials and bankrupts
honest merchants. We demand that all Gus
toml-house taxation shall be only for reTenue.
TIE SCALE OF PUBLIC EXPENSE.
Reform is necessary in the scale OF public
eXpense-Federal, State, and municipal.
Outer Federal taxation has swollen from
500, OOO, 900 gold in 1860 to $3.50, 1000 900 cur
rencv in 1870, or in one decade from less
than S. per head to more than SIS per head.
Since the peace the people hayc paid to their
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the national debt, and more than twice that
sum for the Federal Government alone.
We demand a vigorous frugality in every
department and from every officer OF the
Government.
! Reform is necessary to put stop TO the
protIigate waste Of public lands and their
diversions from actual settlers by the party
in power, which has squandered 100000, 900
Of acres unon railroads alone, and out OF
more than thrice that aggregate has opposed
OF less than sixth directly to tillers OF the
soil.
ERRORS AND OMISSIONS.
Reform is necessary to correct the omis-
sions OF the Republican Congress and the er-
rors OF our treaties and our diplomacy.
which have stripped our fellow-citizens OF
foreign birth and kindred race, rccrossing
the Atlantic, OF the shield OF American citi-
zenship, and have exposed our brethren OF
the Pacific coast to the incur>ions OF race
not sprung from the same great parent stock,
and, in fact, now by law denied citizenship
through naturalization, rs being neither ac-
customed to the traditions OF progressive
civilization nor exercised in liberty under
equal laws. .r..s $685. Eia
THE CHINESE QUESTION.
We tenounce the policy which thus dis
cards the liberty OF the liberty-loying Ger
man and tolerates the revival OF the coolle
trade in Monaghan women, imported Tor
immoral purposes, and Monaghan men,
hired to perform servile labor contracts, ana
demand such modification OF the treaty win
the Chinese Empire, or such legislation by
Congress within a constitutional limitation,
as shall prevent the further Importation or
immigration Of the Monaghan race.
sEcTARrAN STRIFE AND PUBLIC SCHOOLS.
Reform is necessary, and can never be
effected but by makingit the controlling issue
of the elections; lifting it above the two
false issues with which the ofice-holdlng
class and the party in power seek to smother
it: the false issue with which they would
rekindle sectarian strife in respect to the
public schools, OF which the establishment
and support belongs exclusively to the sew
eral States. and which the Democratic party
has cherished from their foundation, and
resolved to maintain without partially or
preference for any class, sect, or creed, anu
without contributing from the Treasury to
any of the false issues by which they seek to
light anew the dying embers OF sectional
hate between kindred peoples, once unna-
turally estranged, but now rct1nited in one
indiyisible republic and common destiny.
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Reform is necessary in the civil service.
Experiencc proves that efficient, economical
conduct Of the governmental business is not
possible il its civil service be subject to
change at every election; be prize fought
for at the ballot-boX; be brief reward OF
party zeal instead OF posts Of honor assigned
for proved competency, and held for fidelity
in the public employ; that the dispensing
OF patronage should neither be tax upon
the time OF our public men nor the instru-
ment Of their ambition. -t....,.
Here again professions ialsifed in the per-
Torrance test that the party in power can
work out 10 practical or salutaIy reform.
.# s1S IN HIGH PLACES.
Reform is necessary even more IN high
grades OF the public service. President,
Vice President, judges, senator's, represent
atiyes, Cabinet officers-these and all others
in authority are the peoples servants: Their
offices are not a.private perquisite; they are
q public trust. When the annals OF this
Republic show the disgrace to and censure
OF a Vice-President-a late Speaker OF the
House OF Representatiyes-mar his
rulings as q presiding officer; three sena-
tors profting secretly by their votes as law
makers; five chairmen' Of the leading COM
mittees Of the late House OF Representatives
exposed in iobbery; late Secretary OF the
Treasury forcing balances in the pub
lie accounts; q late Acknowledgement
disappointing public funds; Secretary
OF the Navy enriched or enriching his
friends by percentages levied off the profits
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