Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1880-02-28
which permits of such chronic alarms and
uprisings is intolerable.

which permits OF such chrome alarms and
uprisings is intolerable
1t IS in fact clear that there can be no
guarantee against an indefinite continuance
of this condition of affairs, and that would
involve the ruin OF San Francisco, and
through San Francisco OF the State No
community can harbor in its midst such
anarchic elements as these, without paying
the penalty. The supineness and pusillan-
unity of San Francisco have already been
terribly punished. The new Constitution,
with all the long train of evils flowing
from it, the decline of business, the loss of
reputation, the importing of every inter
est, ali these great and growing ills are at
tIibutable to the want of judgment which
permitted Kearneyism to take root, and
which regarded its baleful growth with
apathy and Indifference until it mad become
too strong to extirpate.. But it is very
certain that some decided policy must now
be adopted by the people OF San Francisco.
They cannot afford to submit any longer TO
the gross and outrageous pretensiOns OF
Kearney and his followers. It's absolutely
necessary for the prosperity of the com
munity that the disgraceful speeches made
at the sand lots should cease.
that intimidation of every kind
should be stopped, that all menaces
whatever should be prohibited, that the
blackguards should in short be made to
behave themselves as much like civilized
beings as possible, and that law abiding,
decent people should be free to pursue
their legitimate occupations without mo-
lestation from any quarter. 1t is neces-
sary that the community should stand
tirmly up and demand the suppression of
mob manifestations of every kind, and
that the impractIcsbility of giving San
Francisco up to fire and pillage should be
made manifest in the plainest way, by the
deliberate and determined putting down
OF all who threaten to break the laws in
any respect. 1t is necessary that this
should be done, as well for the honor
and safety of San Francisco and the State
as because the present situation tends all
the time to intensity IT'S own worst feat
ures, and because, therefore, the most
AFFECT submission to the mob spirit can
only result in precipitating mob-rule and
ruin. For it is obvious that the longer
the present state of things lasts the more
widespread must be the business depres-
sion. Capital will withdraw itself more
and more, and Labor will find itself in
more serious straits every day. These
menaces and detiances of the law of
course produce the very distress they are
avowedly aimed at. Capital cannot be
bullied into investment, but it can very
easily be frightened out OF it. Kearneyism
is doing thousandfold more to blast the
prospects of California than the Chinese
could ever do. It is inficting injuries
from which the community will not recover
in ten years. To endure this longer is
clearly impossible, unless San Francisco is
DESTROYS of being ruined. There is no
hope of a peaceful adjustment through
passive endurance either, as we have
shown Tho longer the agitation lasts the
worse effects will it produce, not only upon
the public, but upon the agitators them
selves Procrastination is, therefore,
futile policy, aud nothing promises a
change for the better but the adoption OF
a resolute demand for the abandonment of
all the buster and show of turbulence now
being exhibited 1t is very unfortunate for
San Francisco that she has such Mayor as
Kalloch at this juncture. A self-respect-
ing, philosophical, intrepid man is needed
for that position; not time server and
demagogue. The election of Kearneyites
to city offices has already been punished
on the community by the conduct of the
Sheriff and the Auditor at a critical
time. Nothing more shameful than
the action of these men has come
within our observation of late. But bad
as the situation Is, and serious as are the
embarrassments caused the city through
its own apathy in the past, the fact re-
mains that frmness and decision alone can
avail at this time, and that hesitation is in
the very nature of the case worse than
useless. If the American system of gov
eminent is not to be abandoned if society
is not to confess itself mastered by its
ignorant, turbulent. and least homogeneous
elements if menace and brute force are
not to be admitted as equally legitimate
agencies of government with reason and
persuasion; if, in short, republican insti-
tutions are not to be wholly overthrown,
and wretched, barbarous, Bashi- Bazouk !
method instituted for them if the rights
of all the people, the claims of property, |
the interests of taxpayers, the demands of |
commerce, the public veal in all its myriad |
ramiications, are not to be subordinated to |
the insolent and stupid tyranny of paltry |
and disreputable faction then it is time a
stand was made against the advance of Sc
dition and mob-violence, and that issue was
joined, once and for all, between Civiliza-
ton and Barbarism
THE REPUBLICAN PARTY AND THE |
new CoNsrlTU ZION.
During the debate on the Revenue and |
Taxation bills in the Assembly IN Thurs- |
day, a Republican member observed that it |