The Cairo bulletin. [volume] (Cairo, Ill.) 1872-1878, 1876-09-22

| civilization, nor exercised 10 liberty under
| equal laws. We deno,lnce the policy which
thus dscards the liberty.loying German
| and tolerates the revival Of the coolie trade
| in Monaghan women, imported for immora
purposes, and Monaghan men held to per-
form seryiIe labor contracts.
THE FALSE sECTARIAN IssUE--TnE FALsK
SECTIONAL ISSUE.
Reform IL necessary, and can never he ei-
fected only by making 1t the controlling
issue OF he elections, and lifting II above
the two fil.c issues with which the Office
holding class and the party in power seek
to smother il.
Fir.t- the false is tie with which they
would cnklndl. sectarian strifc N respect
To the public schools, of which he establish
ment and support belongs exclusively to
the several states. and which the demo
cratic party has cheri,hed from their iOlin-
dation. and il resolved TO maintain, without
any Partially or preference for any class,
sect or creed, and without contributing
from the treasury TO any
Second--The false | sue by which they
seek to light anew the dying embers Of
sectional hate between kindred people once
unnaturally es,ranged, but now reunited
on one indivs BILE republic and common
destiny
REFORM-1HE CIVIL SERVICE.
R,form is necessary in the civil service;
experience proves that efficient, economic
al conduct of the governmental business L.
not possible IL its civil service be subject to
change ut every cle.tiOp, he a prize fought
for at the ballot box, he "a brief reward o,
party zeal. instead of posts Of honor, as
signed for proved mpetency and held tor
fidelity in the public employ; that the dis
pensi OF patronage shon d neither be a
tax upon the time Of all our public men,
nor the instrument OF their amhition here,
again, profes ions fal itied in the preform.
| ance. atest that the party in power can
work out no practical or satisfactory
| reform.
REfORM-CoRRuPTIoN OF HIGH PUBLIC
OFFICERS.
Reform is necessary even more in the
higher grades of the public service. The
president, vice presiden', judges, senators.
| representatives and cabinet officers and all
| others in authority are the peoples sery-
| ants; their Offices are not a private perqui-
| site they are public trust.
When the annals Of this republic show
| the disgrace and Ceusure of vice presi.
| dent; late speaker OF the house of repre-
sentstives marketing his rulings as presid-
ing officer; three senators prOtiting secretly
| by their vote as lawmakers: five cbairmen
| OF the leading committees Of the late house
of representatives exposed in jobbery; a
late secretary of the treasury forging bal.
| ances in public accounts; late attorney
general misappropriating public funds; a
secretary Of the navy enriched or enrjching
| friends by percentages levied of the profits
Of contra, tors with his department; an
ambassador to England censured in a dis.
honorable speculat,o1; the presidents
private secretary barely escaping convic.
ton upon trial for guilty completely in
frauds upon the revenues; secretary OF
| war impeached for high crimes and misde.
meanors. the demonstration is complete
that the first step in reform must be the
| peoples choice OF honest men from another
party, lest the di.ease OF one political or.
ganiZation infect the body polite; and lest
by making no change of men or parties we
can get no change of measures and no rea
| reform.
| M-REFORM-REFORM.
All these abuses, wrongs and crimes the
product Of sixteen years of the ascendancy
of the republican parry, ere ate a necessity
| for reform. confessed by republicans them
selves, but their reiOrmers are voted down
in convention and displaced from the
cabinet; the partg's mass of honest voters
| is pOwerless 10 resist the eighty thousand
| Officehoders, its leaders and guides.
| Reform can only be had by peaceful,
| civic revolution. We demand change OF
| administration, change of party, that we
may have change OF measures and OF men.