Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1880-03-09

VIGILANCE COMMITTEE.
Manifesto J ssued by the Citizens
Protective Union
PUBLIC PEACE TO BE PRESERVED.
Life and Property to be Protected at
All Hazards.
SAN FRANCISCO AT LAST ASSERTING HERSELF.
Whoever Resorts to Violence. Let Him
First Count the Cost.
PUBLIC PEACE TO BE PRESERVED
SAN FRANCISCO AT LAST ASSERTING HERSELF
ESPECIAL By rEbEeRAru TO THE REooRD-uMos.l

ESPECIAL By TELEGRAPH TO THE REcoRD-uMoN.l
SAN Francisco, March 6th.-The follow
ing manifesto will appear in the Call to-mor-
row morning
MANIFESTO.
To the people of San Francisco and the
State of California That the motive of the
present organization of citizens known as the
Citizens Protective Union may be prop
erly understood and appreciated by thought
full men, the following statement is submit
ted: We declare the objects and purposes
of this organization to be:
First.-The preservation OF the public peace.
Second Protection of life and property.
Third-The restoration of confidence in
the security of life and property from all
violence.
Fourth-The resuscitation of legitimate
commerce, industries and business of the
people.
All this we intend and expect to accom-
plish within the laws by peaceful methods.
This is an organization of conservative power
for the public good. 1t attacks no political
party, and is formed without regard to party
politics. We believe the time has come when
THE MANHOOD OF SAN FRANCISCO
Should be asserted, and it is intended that
the line shall now be distinctly drawn be-
tween those who are in favor of law and or
der, rights of property, safety and liberty of
the citizen and peaceful prosperity, and those
who are for riot, assassination, pillage,
anarchy, unrest and destruction. 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 any man
can stand. Neutrality in this crisis
can only be excused by extreme
age or pitiable cowardice. The agitation
which was begun and carried on for long
time ostensibly for the encouragement of
Chinese immigration, has degenerated into a
carnival of impudent, blasphemous threaten
ings against life and property, and the Wifi
cation of private character, until it has be-
come the scandal of the times, and brought
dishonor upon American civilization. So
longas the agitation was confined to its orig
inal purpose it proceeded without objection,
for the whole people of California recognized
the evils of Chinese immigration and united
to oppose it by all lawful means /; but now,
when it is made a pretext for the organization
of large bodies of armed men, whose declared
purposes are
RIOT AND POSSIBLE MASSACRE,
To be aided by general confiagration, and
the actors to be rewarded by liberty of IN
limited pillage, the citizens of this common
wealth have determined to interpose their
power and declare that this contemplated
tragedy shall not be enacted here, and that
the public threats of the accomplishment of
such wicked and inhuman designs cannot
and will not be longer tolerated. Drills in
secret places, the nightly tramp in the streets
of irregular armed forces, accompanied by
arrogant threats of violence by their leaders,
is an intolerable menace to the peace and
well-beng OF society. If no harm is intended,
there will be no more threats, and the display
of force will be hencefcrth confined to public
parades in the open day.
THE CITY WANTS PEACE,
And it is our purpose to give it that tran
quillity which will assure renewed prosperity
and again place it in the highway of its grand
destiny. We appeal to the reason Of the
men who have been drawn into the vortex of
treason to social order, prepared for them by
vicious, irresponsible and selfish leaders. We
ask them to reflect that this is government
of law by the people for the people; that
there are. legal and peaceful remedies for
public and private wrongs; that neither the
Chinese question nor any other question can
be settled here and now by resort to unlaw-
full force that the Courts of this State and Of
the United States are the arbiters of all these
questions, and that their DEGREES viii be en-
forced by the irresistible power of govern
mental authority; that the threats of de-
struction and desolation by dynamite and
fire, of hangin. and murder, furnish no
remedy for grievances nor relief to the desti-
tute-but rather serve to paralyze all our
industries and business, check enterprise, and
produce that stagnation which ultimately
leaves all laborers out Of employment. For
the vicious and reckless men, few in numbers
but deviish in their designs, who have
ORGANIZED FOR EVIL,
And in their secret halls are planning mis-
chief to the people who have too generously
tolerated their presence in this city, We have
no word either of council or warning. But
let no man be deceived. Whoever would be-
gin riot, violence or confiagration here, let
him first count the cost. The honest, uuem-
ployed and deserving poor have the sympathy
of all just men, and the appeals of those in
want have always been met with generous
response throughout California, and so
and all true men unite for the
restoration of confidence, that enterprise
may again be quickened, our industries put
in motion and business revived, so that all
who labor may find remunerative employ
ment, and want become thing unknown.
Instead of meditating upon the destruction
of the .accumulations of these people, it were
better to unite in the development of the
great resources of this fertile State, ample in
area for us all, and millions more. The
money spent for deadly weapons whose dis
turbing clank is heard upon our pavements
at night, were better spent for bread and
clothing for the children of want. There is
peaceful solution for every question, a peace
full remedy for every evil. Let reason pre-
vail, and the way to permanent tranquility
and general prosperity is easily found.
An opportunity viii be afforded to all good
citizens to join this organization.
By order of the Council.
THE ORGANIZATION.
No names are signed to the above mani
festo, but it is understood that it is put forth
by body representing the wealth and bust
ness interests of the city, including some who
have been prominent in times past in meas
ures for the preservation of the city from the
designs of the disorderly and criminal ele-
ment.