The Hillsdale standard. [volume] (Hillsdale, Mich.) 1851-1909, 1879-06-03

The Mules Address TO The e'm.asses OF
the Sand-Lot.

tion, appeared recently in the San
Francisco Argonaut, aud attracted
great attention in San Francisco and
throughout California. The whole dis.
course is too long for our columns, but
we give the main parts OF IL
My FELLow-AssEs: Owing to the alb
scence Of your long-eared and brazen.
lunged leader and orator, who is now
travelling through the State in the kind
ly endeavor to teach the American peo-
pie ths sort OF laws they ought TO
adopt and the kind OF men they ought
TO elect to administer them, i have
been induced to fill his pulpit for a
Sabbath days discourse. While in
tend to be entirely courteous, and TO
avoid the vile and ribald language
which you are accustomed TO hear,
shall indulge myself in tie use OF plain
talk within the comprehension OF the
most stupid donkey of you all, and
perhaps endeavor to stir your thoughts
with some sharp cuts OF Saxon speech,
which, il you will carefully consider,
will do you no end Of good.
What is il Of which you complaint
What have we as American citizens
done to you that We ought not TO have
done? What act toward you have we
left undone that we ought TO have
done? How is il that you, citizens by
adoption, clothed with the prerogative
Of American nationality. have arrayed
yourselves in opposition to our coun-
try and its laws? Why is il that every
Sabbath day now and for more than a
year, in rain and in sunshine, in heat
and cold, you have come here TO the
sand-lot to hear American citizens and
American institutions abused, yillified,
denounced and threatened.
DO you remember the condition from
which You fled in your native lands?-
Do you forget that in Prussia or Ire
land for the utterance Of your incen-
diary language you would be punished
by Imprisonment and fine? Do you
recognize that while this is land Of
freedom and free speech il is still a
land Of law? IL you had staid at
home, you Germans would have been
compelled in the interests OF the Ger
man empire TO have served in the army.
Do you Irishmen understand that IL
you had staid in your native land you
would have enjoyed no right to make
laws, and no right TO break them ex-
cept at the penalty Of the tread-mill2-
Aud all you foreigners, of whatever
European nationality you may be, have
you forgotten that in your own coun-
try you were but peasants, compelled
to labor for inadequate wages. and on
ly permitted 10 denounce authority at
the perils OF your lives aud liberty
There, you were serfs, landless, proper
tyless, and hopeless OF advancement.
Here, you are freemen, sovereigns,
clothed with political power, and in your
ignorance and base ingratitude you
are shamefully betraying the confidence
that has been placed IN you, and re-
turning with most vile and unprinci-
Piled acts the kind things that have been
done you. You were starving upon in
adequate wages in your native lands,
and we gave you such compensation as
no other country has paid to laborers.
You were ignorant, aud our common
schools were thrown freely open to you
and your children, and in our night
schools we teach your adults; our
schools from our primaries TO our
highest universities OF learning are
open to your children. II you profess
religion, we ask OF you no questions
concerning II. You may worship as
you please, Christ, the God, the sun,
the oaks, the pope, the tablets Of your
ancestors, the white bull, Buddha,
Mohammed, the Grand Lama OF Thib.
ct, or the devil. We put no restraint
upon your conscience II you have any.
We give You the equal protection OF
our laws; we defend you in our courts.
IL sick, We take you TO our free asy-
lums; IL criminal, we welcome You to
our prisons. We have no property en-
tailed from your acquisition. We have
no laws OF primogeniture; no laws that
place traps and spring guns il you
poach for game or fish. We have mil
lions OF free acres Of government do.
main which we invite you to occupy
without payment Our mines are open
to your labor. No vocation is closed
10 you. The highest political honors
are within your reach. When you die
you may transmit your accumulations
TO alien heirs. IL there are any wrongs
in the enactment or execution Of the
laws, we offer you the electoral urn,
and give You equal voice with the ma
tive born to correct and remedy them.
That all this is true you know. Look
about You in our community, you
Catholics. Look 10 your clergy, your
churches, their millions OF accumulat-
ed wealth. Look TO the Jesuit college
on Market street, and the other palace
Of learning and religious worship now
being erected on Van Ness avenue;
your church spires on every side; your
parochial schools and institutions OF
/ higher culture. You Irish aud Ger
mans, look 10 your savings banks with
nearly $50, 900 OF deposits; to the
bankers, bonanza kings, millionaires.
senator's, governors, state officials,
leading merchants, prominent business
men, honored and honorable citizens,
who, under our laws aud the general
hospitality OF our political and socia
system, have attained wealth, honor
and honorable positions. How does il
happen that there are to-day in Sar
Francisco fifty thousand prosperous
wealthy, honorable and respectable
citizens OF foreign birth in the enjoy
ment Of their homes, their churches
their clubs, and their innocent recrea
tions at rural picnics, and you two, ol
three, or four thousand discontented
grumbling, impecunious, political NAL
contents are down here among the flea
upon the sand-lot, cursiDg God, On,
constitution and the American peopl,
that you have had bad luck? | will
answer you, and you may kick bacl
with all the malevolence OF your igno
rant heads and your malicious heels.
You are an idle, drunken, worthless
vagabond lot You drink too mucl
beer. You hang about corner grocer
les, and you play pitch seven mp" 70
whisky. You are worthless ward poll
ticians, You gamble in wildcat stocks
You waste your lives pursuing dema
gogues who are more worthless thai
yourselves, more idle, more ignorant
more selfish, aud more criminal.
you would go 10 work. there IL plent
Of work 10 do. II you will stop drink
ing whisky, give up Chinese cigars
save your money, follow yOur wives
advice, stay at home nights, and go /
church on Sundays. you can save mon
ey, buy a homestead, become indie
pendent, educate your children, an
by sobriety, industry and economy. bs
> come honored and respectable Amer
: can citizens, instead of remaining WIS
, you are-a discontented, worthless 81
Of ignorant foreigners. You ought I
/. be ashamed OF yourselves. There
not a millionaire, nor prosperous bus
ness man ia California, that has nc
Y had his days OF advereity-his days Z