The Sunday herald. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1866-1887, 1880-09-05
NATIONAL
lATELLIGENCER,
Established 1900.

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 II has been under its present
management. Barring the inevitable falling
short of n high standard, II will persevcre in
| this course to the end. Politically, IL will
advocate the installation in power of the
| Democratic party, both from conviction of its
tcncts and because the periodical revolution
| IL now greatly needed in our government
| from Radical TO Conservative control. But IL
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-
| deavor to keep straight on. In other words,
it will dissent freely from any party measure
or platform it cannot approve and give only
what is after all the most valuable adherence,
| that of disintcrcsted and independent news
paper.
Since Home Rule has been tardily ac-
corded to all tho Southern States they can
be safely left to take care of themselves in
| the national brotherhood, and no real Sec
tional issues remain to embtter 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 tho paramount
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| trend of Radical legislation in favor of the
moneycd classes give way to a counter
stream of benefit to all, in the way of the
creation of a undermined, 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
mcnsc profits of the circulation.
We shall urge such changes in the system
of taxation as will shift its burdens from
toiling producers and needy consumers to
the accumulated wealth which Government
is chiefly called on to guard and protect. In
| short, we shall thus defend the vital and
substantial interests of the working classes
against the overwecning power and avarice
of the capitalist.
| In pursuance of our ideas of what good
| government ought to be we shall favor all
approved plans for the full reconciliation of
| silver, reduced taxation on all subjects ex-
cept 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 laborcrs,
and restores wages and materials to their
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
: ure of Office for subordinate employees, espe,
{ cially those in the Executive Departments
herc--a tenure placed above the mutations
of partisan success and affected only by merit
:, and good behavior. We shall continue tc
hammer away at the point that the " spoils y
= system and "rotation in office" are vicious
wastcful, and dangerous, and a bar TO the
bringing-in of civilized methods in our vast
sphere of public administration, until decen,
people are aroused TO the necessity of over
ruling the hacks and machine" men.
After all, n journal must mainly represen
4 its readers rather than its WRITER'S and Sc
The SUNDAY HERALD is proud to avow
clientele of the best classes of the large popu
lation of the District, considerable humble
ofoultured and appreciative readers in Amer
.. lea and abroad, and our gallant soldiers ant
ny sailors, with their families and friends wher
7. ever dispersed, and it must continue in tn,
b. future ms in the past tn cling to its high tradi
D. tions of good sense, good taste, and decency
II to scour the field for the earliest Social ink
e lings, the choicest new Tales and Poems, tn,
D. most interesting Miscellany, the brightest anC
le most readable Correspondence, and thu
latest and most trustworthy News at HON
he and abroad, by reporter or by telegraph.
Being conducted as and for a family news
paper these columns, whether of reading o
@. advertising matter, will be sedulousl,
guarded against indelicacy, pruriency, an,
private scandal, Their place we shall EN-
deavor to fill up with genuine wit, sprightl,
- but never unkind or scandalous criticism
varied comment on men and things, man
ners, art, the stage, and literature, givn
~ ~ preference always 10 iottings and paragraph
he over laborcd reviews, both as more readabl
We and as enabling us to cover more Of the ex
tensive field presented to us each week.
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