Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1880-03-10
KALLOCH

kALLOCH
Issues q Proclamation YOuchiny for the San
Francisco WOrkingmen.
SAN FRANCISCO, Cal, March 1O.-Mayor
Kalloch has issued the following proclama-
tion : g deem it my duty to the city over
whose welfare preside, and to the public
at large which is being infamously deceived
by incendiary Misrepresentation as to our
situation, to declare in most emphatic and
public manner that there is not, and never
has been, the slightest reason to appre~
hend any disturbance, riot or lawlessness
whatever from the working classes of San
Francisco. If trouble comes, it will not
csme from them. Most inexcusable
and outrageous means are being
used by designing men to goad
them into riotous demonstrations,
but they will fail. They are, as they have
proved themselves to be under most try
ing provocation, the law-abidins and peace
preserving portion Of our population. l
vOuch to the world for them. But they will
so continue ; and further declare, however
the people abroad may be imposed upon,
the people of this city see through the
transparent humbuggins of military inter
ference, police increase and inflammatOry
circulars, and will wait their constitutional
day of judgment to peaceably, but effect
lively consign their authors to the political
infamy and oblivion which they most rich
ly deserve"
The Citizens Manifesto.
The following, which appeared in the
San Francisco Cau this morning, aroused
KallOch's ire
We declare the objects and purposes of
this organization to be, first, the preserva-
tiOn of public peace; second, protection of
life and property; third. restoration Of
confidence in the security of life and prop
erty from all violence fourth, resuscita-
tiOn of legitimate commerce, industries
and business habits.
All this we intend and expect to accom-
plish within the law and by peaceful meas
ures. This is the organization of conserva-
tive power for the public good. All good
citizens who agree with us and approve
of our objects and purposes are invited to
join themselves to this organization by
signing the roll. There is no middle
ground upon which a man can stand. Neu-
trality in this crisis can only be excused by
extreme age or pitiable cowardice. So long
as agitation was confined to it's original pur-
pose it proceeded without objection, for the
whole people of California recognized the
evils of Chinese emigration, and united to
oppose it by all lawful means. But now,
when it was made the pretext for the
organization of large bodies of armed
men, whose purposes are riot aud possibly
massacre, to be aided by general cGpflagra-
tions and the actors to be rewarded by
liberty of unlimited pillage, the citizens of
this commonwealth have determined to
interpose their power and declare that this
contemplated tragedy shall not be enacted
here, and that public threats of the accom-
plishment of such wicked and inhuman
desigHs cannot, and will not, be longer
tolerated.
No narses are signed to the above mani
festO, but It is understood that it is put
forth by a body representing the wealth
and business interests of the city, includ-
ing some who have been prominent in
times past in measures for the preservation
of the city from the designs Of the disor-
derly and criminal element.