Lyon County times. [volume] (Silver City, Nev.) 1874-1907, 1881-08-20
OUR COUNTRY AS A REFUGE.

ernment. it has been the pride and
boast of our people, that this is
land where the oppressed and down.
trodden of ell nations, can find a
safe refuge from the persecution and
intolerance Of foreign despotism; it
10 sentiment that has grown and
Tourist ed in the minds Of the mass.
90 since the time, when in the very
infancy OF the government, the ques-
sion occupied the attention of those
noble patriots whS stood sponsors
for our young Republic in its first
struggle for liberty, and in the dis
cussien Of which, some of the most
brilliant flashes Of fervent patriotic
sloqusnce, that go richly embelished
the history Of our early existence,
are found.
II 10 an honorable, generous i'm
pulse, that does credit to the heart,
and shows Enthusiastically that the
basis of our institutions are upheld
by 9 prevailing sentiment, as unself'
ish as 1t is sympathetic and just. Our
government has opened wide its
doors. Our people have extended
friendly hands with words of kindcst
welcome, TO those who have come to
share the blessings, political and So
cial, of the most prosperous land on
the globe.
Such a spirit of magnsnimity
ought TO command the highest re-
spect and gratitude of all those whose
good fort, have enabled them to
Gene to ou. ores, and surely such
. disinterested confidence should
never be abused; but it does seem
that of late years our kind liberality
has been the means Of shielding
from justice, class of escaped GRIM
inals from the old world, who are
utterly unworthy of federation, much
less protection. The honest immi-
grant who comes here to make a
home, and better his condition, by
helping to build up the country is a
desirable acquisition, but agitators
and assassins Of the Leo Hartman
class, should not be allowed to find
an abiding place among US; they
are not the kind of men, who by
noble example or just precept, will
lead their associates on in the way
Of contentment and peace, no matter
what kind of form of government
throws around them its protecting
arms; they haye no influence for
good. no personal magnetism or mem
tai culture, that draws to their stand
ard, men having just conceptions of
good government or social account
ability; they are not revolutionists,
their views are not broad enough
their aims are not high enough, and
and their natures are not great
enough to lift then. up to the dignity
of revolution; they are breeders of
discomfort, plotters of murder, and
instigators of crime in it's m ost hid
eous forms, among the lowest, most
ignorant and dangerous classes. But
what renders this class Of immigrsnts
more particularly Objectionable is
the attention bestowed upon them
by we'll meaning people, through
either curiosity or . perverted con-
ception of the deeds that have rem
dered the villains notorious, they are
received with open hospitality, dined,
wined and fatted with such layish
prodigslity as to excite the envy of
vain and weak minded people. Is
1t any wonder that such an individ-
ual as Guitsau 10 represented to be.
should commit the Infamous crime
Of which he is guilty, in order to Sc.
cure the notoriety and laudations
which such crimes have evoked for
othersl Public sentiment 10 chang
ing for the better, and il ought to
change, and continue to change, un-
I'll il crystalizes into laws that will
rspsl from our shores such inveterate
enemies to our future peace and pros
perity.
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