The Sunday herald. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1866-1887, 1879-09-14
THE
SUNDAY HERALD.
Established 1865 I.

In lieu of announcing the principles which
will rule the Editorial conduct of this Jour-
nal we might refer our older readers to its
columns throughout the past eight years,
during which it has been under its present
management. Barring the inevitable falling
short of high standard, IL will persevere in
this course TO the end. Politically, it will
advocate tho installation in power of the
Democratic party, both from conviction of its
tcnets and because the periodical revolution
is now greatly needed in our government
from Radical to Conservative control But it
will keep in view the guide posts of right,
and when the party leaders turn aside, or
stop short, or dodge, the journal will en-
dcavor to keep straight on. In other words,
it will dissent freely from any party measure
or platform il cannot approve, and give only
what is after all the most valuable adherence,
that of disntercsted and Independent news
paper.
Since Home Rule has been tardily ac-
corded to all the Southern States they can
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the national brotherhood, and no real Sec
tional issues remain to embitter our politics.
All good citizens can, therefore, turn their
eyes to matters which concern the whole
people alike. Believing that Reform in FL
nance and Taxation is what the country
most needs, The SUNDAY HERALD will feel
justified in treating that as the paramount
issue, and will labor to have the constant
trend of Radical legislation in favor of the
moncyed classes give way to counter
stream of benefit to all, in tho way of the
creation of n modernizea, unvarying, and
universally diffused measure of value, by
the issue of legal tender paper money from
the Treasury, thus perpetuating equal deal
ings between debtors and creditors and Civ
ing the people instead of the banks the I'M
mense profits of the circulation.
We shall urge such changes in the system
of taxation rs will shift its burdens from
toiling producers and needy consumers to
the accumulated wealth which Government
is chiefly called OH to guard and protect. In
short, we shall thus defend the vital and
substantial interests of the working classes
against the overweening power and avarice
of the capitalist.
In pursuance of our ideas of what good
government ought to be we shall favor all
silver, reduced taxation on all subjects ex-
ccpt capital, postal savings banks, the postal
telegraph, and liberal expenditures for all
needed public buildings and Improvements,
continuing until returning prosperity fur
nishes employment for our starving laborers,
normal rates.
Believing that the path to victory in this
struggle of Financial Policy lies through the
agency of the Democratic party, and that it
must maintain prominence while our public
debt remains, we shall give our energies to
stimulating the party into the right attitude
of progress, rather than having recourse to
irregular and desultory warfare outside the
ranks. But if the regular candidates are
plainly unsound on this question we shall
place principles involving the public welfare
above men and parties.
Believing that Jefferson, and not Marcy,
represented the true sense of the party on the
system of the governmental civil service, we
shall continue to insist upon permanent ten
IRE of office for subordinate employees, espe-
cially those in the Executive Departments
hcre--a tenure placed above the mutations
of partisan success and affected only bymerit
and good behavior. We shall continue TO
hammer away at the point that the "spoils -
| system and 'rotation in office" are vicious,
wasteful, and dangerous, and a bar to the
bringing in of civilized methods in our vast
| sphere of public administration, until decent
| people are aroused to the necessity of over
| ruling the hacks and machine " men.
After all, journal must mainly represent
| its readers rather than its writer's, and so
| TnE SUNDAY HERALD is proud to avow u
d'o"tefe of the best classes of the large popu-
| lation of the District, II considerable number
ofculturrd and appreciativc readers in Amer
lea and abroad, and our gallant soldiers and
sailors, with their families and friends wher.
ever dispersed, and il must continue in the
future as in the past to cling to its high tradi
tions of good sense, good taste, and decency
to scour the field for the earliest Social ink
lings, the choicest new Tales and Poems, the
most interesting Miscellany, the brightest and
most readable Correspondence, and the
latest and most trustworthy News at home
and abroad, by reporter or by telegraph.
Being conducted rs and for Il family news
paper these columns, whether of reading or
advertising matter, will he sedulously
guarded against indelicacy, pruriency, and
private scandal. Their place we shall en-
deavor to I'LL w with genuine wit, sprightiy
but never unkind or scandalous criticism
varied comment ON men and things man
ners, art, the stage, and literature, giving
preference always to jottings and paragraphs
over labored reviews, both as more readabl,
and ms enabling Ms to cover more of the ex-
tenSive field presented To us each week.