Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1876-06-29

! ing pri vat DUTY.
Z or ths Democrae@ cf the whole coufitry
We do here Teatiirm our faith IL the perIna
nence OF toe Federal Union; our devotion t(
the constitution of the United States, with itl
amend nents universally accepted as a ina
settlsnent OF the controversies that engen.
ders evil war, and do here record our stead.
fast confidence IN the prosperity of republl.
can seH- government; In absolute acquiesenct
IN toe VIZ OF the majority, the vttsl prlnci
pie OF reppblics; in the supremacy of the civil
oyer the military authority; In the total sep.
aration OF church and State, for the sake alike
OF civil aud religious ffeedomi In t. Q equality
OF al eftlaens before Just laws of their own
eGSctIle ent; n the liberty OF tndiyidtsI cffn-
duct, unyexed by sumptuary laws; In the
faithlol edueat1on of the rising generation,
that they may preserve, enjoy and transmit
these best conditions OF human happiness and
hope, We behold the noblest products Of a
hundred years OF changefui history. .-. i
But Whue upholding the bond OF our Union
anu the great charter of these our rights n
behoofes free people 20 practice also that
eternal vigilance which is the price of Hber-
~. Reform is necessary to rebuild and estatJ-
ish in the hearts of the whole people the
Union, sisyen years ago happily rescued
from tns danger OF a sorr1pt centraIisIa
wnien, a.N- indicting upon ten states the "a,
nAclty Of car pet-bsg fyrannies, has honey
combed the offices Of the Feaersl govern
ment itsef 81 III inc apaetty, waste and fraud
States and municipalities With the contagior
OF misrulo, and locked fast the prosperity of
an industrious people in the paralysis of hard
times. - = .5gl18vE - Ff--r . -.r ....--r
AsS<NA-A- ~ HNSSoed1L W oobdRIAoA a hOuuu
Gu rrencyi restore the public credit aud main
tain the national honor. We denouEce the
IalInle g Tor sil tbess eleven Zears to make
goot the promise o. the legal tender notes,
which are a changing standard of value in
the hands OF the people, and the non pay-
ment Of which Is disregard of the pIighted
faith Of the nation. We depounce the i'm
providence which IN eleven years or peace
has taken nom the peorie, IN Federal taxes,
tnlrteen times the whole amount Of the
legal tender notes, and squandeIed four times
TINS sum In useless expe ase without accumu-
lat1ng any reserve 70 their redemption. We
denoCnee the 1nar elsl imbeci1ity and i'm
morality OF that partl which during eleven
years OF peace nas maue- no advance toward
resumption and no preDa ration for resump-
ITO a; but instea. bas Obstructed resumption
by wasting ouE resDufces and exhausting all
our surplus income; and while annually pro-
Tossing to intend speedy return to specie
payments, has annCs-sly enacred fresh hin
ORANGES thereto. As such hind rance we de-
noun the resulu ptlon clsuse of the act of
1915, and we here demand It's repeals
We demand judicious system of prepara.
tion, by public economies, by official re-
trenchments, end by wise finance, which
shall enaUle the nation soon to assure the
whole world OF its perfect ability and its per
iect readiness to meet any 0f its promises at
the call OF the credl or entitled to payment.
We believe such a system, well devised, and,
above all, inLrusted 10 competent hands
f9r execution, creating az no time an artih-
ctal scarcity OF cttrieney, aud at no time
alarming the pub &c mihu Into a withdrawal
OF that yastsr machinery OF credit by which
ninety-five per cent. of a l business transae-
lions Is performed; system open to the
public, and inspiring general confidence,
would, from the usy of its adoption, bring
healing OIL its wings 10 all cur harTassed in
duslries, set in motion the wheels of COM
meTce, manufactures and the mechanical
aris, restore employment to labor, and renew
in all its national sources the prosperity of
the people.
Reform is necessary "a the sum aud mode OF
Fe1eral taxstion, to the end that capital may
re set free from oistrust and labor lightly bur-
\, rTaWrA
upon nearly Iur thouSana articles as a mas
terpieoe of Injustice, inequality aud false pre-
tense. 1t yields dwtudling, not a yearly
rising revenue; IL has Impoverished
many industries to subsidize few; IL
prohibits imports that might purchase the
products of American labor; it has degraded
American commerce from the 1rst to an in
fertor rank upon this high seas; 1t has cut
down the sales of American manufactures at
home 6nd abro3d, and depleted the returns of
American agriculture, 40 industry followed
by halt our people; it costs the people five
times more than it produces t. the treasury,
OostructS processes OF prod uctiOn, and wastes
the fruits Of laror; 1t promotes fraud, fosters
smuggling, enricheS dishonest officials, and
banKIuptS honest merchants. We demand
that sill oustomhouse taxation shall be only
for revenue:
Reform is nece sary in the scale of public
expense, Federal, state and municipal. Our
Federal taxation has swollen from sixty
million dollars in gold in 1860 to four hundred
and fifty million dollars in curr sncy in 1870;
our aggregate taxation from one hundred and
fifty four million dollars in gold in 1860 to
seven hundred and thirty million dollars in
currency in 1870. or 10 one decade from less
than five dc lars per head to more than
eighteen dol ars per head. Since the peace
the people have paid their tex-gatherers
more than thrice the sum OF the national
debt, and more than twice that sum for the
Federal government alone. We demand a
vigorous frugaliy in every department and
from every officer of the government.
Reform Is necessary to put 8 stop TO the
profiigate waste OF public lands and their di-
version from aotnal settlers BY the party in
rover, VINO have squaOdered two hundred
million acres OF land upon railroads alone,
and cut of more than thrice that aggregate
has disposed of less than a sixth directly to
tlieFs of the soil.
Reform is necessary to correct the omissions
of Republican congress and errors of our
treaties and of our diplomacy, which have
stripped our fellow-cittzens or foreign birth
and kindred race, when recroSSing the At
lantic, of the shield of American citizenship,
and have exposed oar brethren of the Pacific
coast to the incuIsions of a race not sprung
from the same great parent stock, and, In
fact, now by law denied citizenship through
because II is neither accus-
toned to tie traditions OF progressive civil
ization, nor eX 5rcissd in liberty under equal
laws, We denounce the policy which mus
dIscards the Hberty-loving German, and tol-
crates the renewal of the COolie trade in Mon.
goha women imp0l ted for immoral purposes
aud MoDgoli an men, held to perform servile
labor contracts. We, therefore, demand such
of the t. eaty wi b the Chinese
empire aud sdcn legislation by Congress,
within constitutional limitation as shall pre-
vent the further importation or immigration
OF the Mong olian race.
Reform is necessary, and can never be ef-
tected but by making II controlling issue
Of the elections and lifting 1t above the two
false issues with which the Ofhce-hOld1ug
class aud party In power seek to smother il,
The false issue with which they would en-
kindls sectRIian ST rife in respect TO the pub
lie schools, of which the establishment and
support belong exclusively TO the several
states, and which the Democratic party has
from their foundation, and is re-
solved ~ maintain without Partially or
creed, and with 9ut contributing ON the
TO any false issue by which they
seek to light anew the dying embers of sec
tiOnsl hste between kindred people once un-
estrsnged but now reunited in one
indiyis' ble Tepuolic and a common destiny.
Reform Is necessary in the civil service, and
proves that an efficient and eco
nomical conduct OF The governmental busi-
ness is not possible II Its civil service be sub
ject to change at every election; If it be a
prize fought for at the ballot-box, or If 1t be a
reward OF party instead of posts of honor as
signed for proved competency and held for
fidelity in the public employ. That the dis
penstng of patronage should neither be tax
upon the time of all our public men, nor the
instrument of their ambition. Here again,
prOfes, ions falsified in the performance attest
tical or sa utary reform, which is necessary
even more in the higher grades
OF the public service-President, judges
senators, representatives and cabinet Off
cers. These and.all Others in authority are
the peoples servants. Their offices are not
private perquis te, they are a public trust.
When the annals OF the public, the disgrace
and censure of Vice-President; a late speak
er of the house of repre- entatives marketing
his rulings as presiding officer; three sena-
tors proftiDg secretly by their votes as law
makers; five chaiTmen of the leading commit
te es of the late house OF representatives eX-
posed in robbery; a late seer etary Of the treas
ury forcing balance in the public accounts, a
late attorney-generAl Incorporating pub
lie funds; a secretary of the navy enriched or
enriching friends by percentages levied on
the profits of con tractors with his department.;
an EN- hassad0r to England censured in a dis
speculation; the Presidents private
secretary barely escaping conviction upon
trial for guilty completely IN frauds upon the
revenue; a secretary of war impeached
for high crimesasnd confessed sm1sdemeanors
The demonstration Is complete that the
first step in reform must be the peoples
choice OF honest men from another party,
lest the disease of one political organizatiOn
lnfest the body polite, and lest by making
no change OF men or party we can get no
change of measures, and no reform in all
these abuses, wrongs and crimes.
The products OF sixteen years aScendancy OF
the Republican party create a necessity for
reform, Comics ed by the Republicans them
selves, but their refornners are voted down in
convention and displaced from the cabinet,
P nd the party's mass OF honest voters is pow
erless TO resist the eighty thousand ofice-hold-
ers, its leaders and guides. reform can only
be had by peaceful civic revolution, We
demand a change OF system, change OF ad
change of parties, that we
may have change OF members and Of men.
Mr.. Dorsheimer-I will cay that st the
end Of the resolution relating to the
matter OF Mongolisn importations there
were two or three lines of the language
a