The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1876-09-01

! form is necessary 10 rebuild aud establish
4 in the hearts Of the whole people the
Union eleven years ago happily rescued
! from the danger Of a corrupt centralism
which, after INJECTING upon ten States
/ the rapacity OF carpet bag tgrannies, has
/ hone yconlhcd the Offices Al he Federal
/ GovcrnIno raj itself with c4Raeity. waste.
and fraud, infested Ssalss snsf municipal
! tiles with the contagiOn of Tnisrule, and
/ locked fast the prosperity of an industri-
1 Gus people in the paralysis OF hard times.
Reform is necessary to establish
sound currency aud restore the public
/ credit and main lain the national honor
| We denOunce the failure for all these
| eleven years to make good the promise of
| the legal tender notes, whichare chang
/ ing standard of value in hollands of the
/ people, and the non payment Of which IL
/ a disregard of the plghted faith of the
nation. We denounee the improvidence
which, in eleven years of peace, has taken
! from the people in Federal taxes thirteen
| times the Whole amount of the legal-ten-
/ der notes, and squaudered four times THIS
sum in useless expense, without accumu-
lating any revenue for their redemption
! We denounce tho financial imbecility and
immortality of that party which, during
eleven years of peace, has made no ad-
vance toward resumption and no prepar-
| alton for resumption, but instead has Cd
structed resumption by wasting our rev
enues and exhausting all our surplus in
come, and while annually protesting to
intend speedy return to specie payments
has annually enacted fresh hindrances
thereto AS such n hindrance we de
nounce the resumption clause of the act
of 1875, and we hereby demand It's repeal
| We demand a judiciOus system of prepar-
/ alton by public economies, by official re-
trenchments, and by wise financial man
agement, which shall enable the nation
I soon to assure the whole world of its per-
feet ability and its perfect readiness to
/ meet any of its promises at the call OF the
creditor entitled TO payment. We believe
| that such a system, well devised, aud
| above all, entrusted to competent hands
for execution, creating at no time an ar
tihcial scarcity of currency, and at no
time alarming the public mind into a
| withdrawal of that yaster machinery OF
credit by which 95 per cent. of all bust
ness transactions are performed, sys-
! ten open, public, aud inspiring general
confidence, would, from the day of its
adoption, bring healing on its wings to all
| our harassei industries, set in motion the
wheels of commerce, manufactures and
the mechanical arts, restore employ ment
10 labor and renew in all its national
sources the prosperity OF the people.
Reform is necessary in the sum and
mode Of Federal taxation, to the end that
capital may be set free from distrust and
labor lightly burdened- We dcnoUncc the
/ present tariff, levied upon nearly four
/ thousand articles, as masterpiece of in
! justice, inequality and false pretense. 1t
I yields dwindlinT, mott yearly rising
! revenue. ~ l.~.yaa1 sslszlz a any "a
I dustries 10 subsidize 4 few. it z-ohibits
I imports hat might purchase the roduets
OF American labor 1t has degraded
American commerce. from The first TO an
/ inferior rank on the high seas. IL mas
cut down ihc sales Of American manufae-
lures az homc aud abroad, and depleted
tlse returns of American agriculture, an
industry followed by half our people 1t
COSTS tic people Eve times more than it
I produccs 80 the treasury, 0bs'ructs the
/ processes of production aad wastes the
| fruits Of labor. II promotes fraud fosters
smuggling, euriches dishonest officials
and bankrupts honest merchants. We
demand that ALI custom-bousc taxation
shall be only for revenue.
Reform is necessary in the scale of pub
lie expense, Federal, State and municipal
! our Federal taxation has swollen from
! 500. GOO 600 gold in 1850 10 $3.50, 900, uOu
currency in 1870, and our aggregate tax
alton from $l50 100000 gold in 1860 to
s13O 900 900 currency in 1870 or in one
decade Fl ON less than FIVE dollars per head
TO more than eighteen dollars per head
Since the peace, the people have paid in
taxes more than thrice the sum of the
national debt and more than twice that
sum for the Federal Government alone.
We demand rigorous frugalty in every
department, and from every officer of the
Government
Reform is necessary 10 put stop to the
prohigate waste of the public lands and
their diversion from actual settlers by
the party in power. which has squandereo
Two hundred millions of acres upon rail
roads alone, and out of more than thrice
that aggregates has disposed of less thar
a sixth directly 10 tillcrs of-the soil.
Reform IS necessary TO correct thu
omission of a Republican Congress ano
the errors of orr treaties and our diplo
macy which have stripped our fellow
citizens of foreign birth and kindre'
} race recressing the Atlantic, of thu
shield of American citizenship and hav
exposed our brethren of the Pacific coas
to the incursious of race not sprung
from the same great parent stock, and il
fact now by law denied citizenship
though naturalization is being neithc
Accommodated to the traditions of n pro
gressive civilization nor exercised il
liberty under equal laws, We deuounc
policy which thus discards the liberty
loving German AMI tolerates the renewa
OF the Coolie trade in Mongolisn wome
imported for immoral purposes. and Mon
. gOlian men held To perform seryIle labo
contracts. And we demalfd such modi
! ficatien Of the treaty with The Chimes
empire or such Legislation ssSCongres
: within constitutional Limitation sbal
: prevent the further Importation immigra
ton of tho Monaghan race.
| Reform IS necessary and can never h
effected but by making II the Dntrollin
issue of the elections and lifting it abov
the two false issues with which tho Office
holding class and party in poser seek I
= smother it; the false issue with whic
they would enkindle sectarIan strife i
respect TO the public schools, ofwhich Il
establishment aud support belong excIt
sively TO the several States, and whic
the Democratic party has cherished frol
their foundation, aud iSresoived to main
tain without partially or creed an
without contributing from the treasur
to any /; and the false issue BY whiC
!. they seek 10 lift anew the dying embei
= of sectional hate between kindred people
once unnaturalIy estranged, but now r,
united in one indivisible republic and
common destiny.
Refom is necessary in the civil servic
Experience proves that the eihcient &c
nomical conduct of the Government
, business is not possible, if its civil servi
!, be subject to change at every election.
: a prize fought for ut the ballot box, be
brief reward OF party zeal Instead
. pests of honor assigned for proved cor
petcney, and held for fidelity IN the pa
l. lie employ; and that the dispensing
prtronage should neither be tax up
The time Of our public men, nor the i
strument of their ambition. Here aga
professions falsiied in the pertorman
attest that the party in power can wo
i ont no practical or salutary reform. r
: form is necessary, even more In Z
5 higher grades of public seEyice-pre,
i dent, vice president, judges, senator
Y representatives, cabinet others the
' AMI All others in authority are the pc
IF nle = servants Their Offices are not pl
n yate perqnisitc; they arc n pubic tru
when the annals Of public dlsgrace a
censure of a vice president, late spea