The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1880-05-28
NEW SERIES-..NO. 2S9.
CIVIL SERVICE,

Neither laws, nor the commissions
created under them, will etfectually reform
the many glazing abuses Of civil service.
The former have oeen constantly evaded,
and the latter are powerless for good An
honest executive, bent on real and not
simulated reform has abundant authority
to make it effective everywhere, if he has
capacity to see his duty and courage to
perform IT,
SUBSIDIES.
Experience has demonstrated that sub
sides in any form are sources OF corruption
and ought to be forbidden. Private enter
prises that depend for success upon legsla-
ton procured by venal agencies do not de-
serve public favor.
PUBLIC LANDS.
More than one hundred and fifty million
dollars have been voted by congress to rail-
road corporations. The remaining lands
should be sacredly reserved tor the cultiva-
tors of the soil, so that the laboring man
shall have chance to improve his condition
and to open UP future for his children
away from the great cities.
REvIsIoNs OF THE TARIFF.
|, Tariff practically means taxation not
lequitably adjusted and is odious. While
the interest on IN oppressive debt, the PEN
sions earned by the blood of soldiers and
sailors who fought for the Union, and the
regular expenses of carrying on the goy-
eminent are to be met, the duties on i'm
ports must continue to furnish one source
of reveaue. So long as these duties are
levied manufacturers will be benefited &C
cording to the degree or mode in which the
duties may be distributed The existing
| tariff is regarded as confused mass Of in
congruities, and monopolies created by spc-
cal legislation, and open to constant fraud
on the revenue. 1t taxes consumers heavi
ly on those articles especially that are most
needed by the toiling masses it taxes every
newspaper, every school-book, every bible,
and the salt of working men, with gross in
Justice because the poor pretense of reve-
nue. does not exist to cover the wrong. A
revision, therefore, which shall be at once
searching and fair is demanded and should
be promptly and efficiently made.
THE PUBLIC DEBT.
The debt of the United States in round
numbers is two thousand million dollars,
deducting the boarded coin in the treasury.
The interest last year was one hundred mil
lion dollars. These are appealing figures, and
the rapid extinction of this debt is to be
desired, first, because it diminishes present
burdens, and for the additional reason that
one effect of permanent national debt Is
to create preferred class, to live on in
comes free from taxes under our laws, and
having the protection of the government at
home and abroad, they would contribute
nothing to its support.
| ECONOMY.
II is practicable by cooperation between
the executive and congress, to reduce the
public expenses many millions annually,
without impairing the efficiency of the
public service Retrenchment is needed
for the reduction of taxes, but it is also
needed because, properly administered, it
would become potent factor in reforming
the civil service.
ELECTIONS.
The ballot-box should be the safeguard
of the republic, for it is intended to express
the free will Of the people. Therefore cleo
tons ought to be exempt from the presence
OF any menacing force, and to be free from
the contamination of corrupt returning
boards. No party deserves confidence that
seeks ascendency by striking down honest
suffrage, either by troops by fraud or by III
timidation. 1t would not be proper for me
to express any opinion upon the measures
now pending or proposed in congress. My
votes will speak for themselves at a fitting
time Having thus freely answered your
inquiries, may add in conclusion that my
support will be given cheerfully to any can
didate for a resident who in good faith will
strive to carry out this general line of po-
Icy, which, in my Judgment, is of far more
Importance than the ambition of any man
or the success of any party. As ever your
friend, DAVID DAVIS.
To Hon q RI R-owning Ouincv III