The Cairo bulletin. [volume] (Cairo, Ill.) 1872-1878, 1876-08-19

equal laws. We denounee the policy which
| thus discsrds the liberty-loying German
| and tolerates the revival VI the cooie II AIDE
| in Monaghan women, imported for immoTa
purposes, and Monaghan men held TO per-
form seryile labor contracts.
THE FALSE sRCTARIAN IssUE-THK FALSE
,skCTIONAL ISSUE.
Reform il necessary, and can never be eff
| fected only by making IL the controlling
issue OF the elections, and lifting II ahove
the two false issues with which the ONCE
holding class and the party in power seek
to smother il.
| First the false issue with which they
would enklndle sectarian strife In respect
to the public schools, OF " hich the establish
mept and support belongs exclusively to
/ the several States. and which the demo-
cratic party has cherished from their ioun-
dation, and is 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 issue by which they
seek To light anew the dying embers of
sectional hate between kindred people once
unnatufally estranged, hut now reunited
on one indiyis.ble republic and a common
destiHy
RRFORM-1HE CIVIL SERVICE.
REFORM l. necessary in the civil service;
experien nee proves that efficient, economic
al conduct of the governmental business Is
not possible il its civil service be subject to
change at every ele ton, be prize fought
Tor at the ballot box, be a brief reward OF
party zeal. instead of posts OF honor, as
signed for proved Jmpetency and held for
fidelity in the public employ; that the dis
pensing OF patronage should neither be a
tax upon the time Of all our public men,
nor the instrument Of their ambition: here,
again, profcs ions fal'ified in the preform
ance, u test that the party in power can
work out no practical or satisfactory
reform.
| REyoRM-CoRRupTIoN or HIGH PUBLIC
OFFICERS.
R,t0ym Is necessary even more in the
| higher grades of the public service. The
president. vice president. Judges, senators.
representatives and cabinet officers and all
others in authority are the peoples SEW
ants: their Offices are not a private peTqui-
| site they are public trust
| When the annals Of this republic show
| the disgrace and censute of vice presi-
dent; a late speaker OF the house of repre-
| sentaiiyes marketing his rulings as presid-
| ing officer; three senators proiiting secretly
| by their vote as lawmakers; five cbairmen
| OF the leading committees of the late house
| OF representatives, exposed In lobbery; a
| late secretary OF the treasury forging bal.
| ances 10 public accounts; late attorney
general Incorporating pubic 1unus;
secretary OF the navy enriched or enriching
friends by percentages levied OF the profit.
of contractors with his departments; an
ambassador TO England censured ia dis
honorable speculatiOn: the president:
private secretary barely escaping cOnyic
ton upon trial for guilty completely il
frauds upon the revenue; q secretary o.
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 auothel
party, lest the disease OF one political or
ganization infect the body politics and les
by making no change of men OF parties ",
can get no change of measures and no rca
reform.
| REFORM-REFORM- REFORM.
All these abuses, wrongs and crimes, tht
product Of sixteen years OF the ascendancy
Of the republican party, create a necessity
for reform, confessed by republicans them
selves, but their retormer. are voted dow
ia convention and displaced from tn,
cabinet: the party's mass Of honest voter
H. pOwerless to resist the eighty thousan,
Office holders, its leaders and guides.
! Reform can only be hal by peaceful
civic revolution. We demand change o
administration, n change of party. that W,
may have . change Of measures aud OF men