Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1885-12-17

utterly selfish so much so that
it cannot conceive the idea of
possible error in its theories. In Europe
the Socialistic- Revolutionary party has
seeming of defensibleness. There is there
a ruling and ruled class For in
stance, in Russia, there is no liberty
of speech. Freedom of discussion is I'M
known. A free press is not tolerated; even
the expression of an opinion in the most
casual way may subject the utterer to
lifelong Imprisonment and toll in Siberian
mines. Criticisms of Government policies
are made with the gallows in full view. The
sleuth-hounds of despotic ruler are at the
heels of every man who has the courage of
his opinions. Now, in such a state it is
not surprising that there should rise up
body of men and women undertaking to
subvert despotism and substitute for it the
rule that finds its warrant of authority in
the consent of the governed. The settled
declaration of principles in Russian Mill
ism demands the right of the people to
free expression of thought; the right to-a
voice in affairs of state the right to be pro-
tected in person and property from the
caprice of officials; the right of the ruled
to choose their ruler: in short, Nihilism
In Russia Is protest against personal gov
ernment, and demand for representa-
tive system. While no true American
can, for moment, justify the methods to
which Nihilists resort to attain these
ends, none will deny the abstract Justice
Of their demands. But there have at
tached to these, extreme and false ideas
of personal liberty, and rights of posses
sions, not possible of recognition in any
form of government where the better fac
tors of human society enter in. In Ger
many, the Socialistic- Revolutionary party
lacks the honesty and courage of the Nj
hliists of Russia, and has not 1.-THE of
cause for existence. The offscourings of
that party in Germany float to America
with the idea that their infamous doc
trines may be freely promulgated and their
hideous practices safely INDUCED in. With
the cunning Of the vicious, they fasten on
every labor agitation, and seek to turn
honest efforts to better social conditions
into schemes having for their object the
destruction of the successful, the limiting
of personal ambition and ability to earn
the right to possess. In the absence of
despotic rule and grinding tyranny, they
turn their shafts against their neighbors
whose deserving has had due reward, and
by murder, rapine and disorder seek to
subvert representative form of govern
ment to the murderous rule of mob clamor.
Compared to the German destructionist.
the Irish dynamiter is an angel of light
and peace. He at least puts forward the
excuse that he is seeking to give liberty to
a people governed against their will.
For his damnable methods are proposed
in the interests Of representative form
Of government. But the bowling de-
structionists, who night before last
in San Francisco at one of their
meetings hourished scores of pistols. and
howled like pack of hyenas, have not
the shadow Of an excuse, or the vestige of
reason for their acts. They have jumped
upon the anti-Chinese agitation simply as
a present means to aid them in nefarious.
and only partially revealed purposes. We
have been, from the outset, and are. op-
posed to unrestricted Chinese immigra
ton; we believe the presence of the Chi
nese laborer here to be inimical to the best
interests of the country; we favor all
legitimate means to cut off the immi-
grafton and to free ourselves from the
non-assimilative element now here-and
the German destructionists should come
under this head. But we would rather see
the country overrun with Chinese; see the
temples of God flanked by the JOSS
houses; the cottage homes of American
can workmen sandwiched between the
comfortless huts of the coolie, than
to witness the unhappy fate of our
country under the dominance of the scum
that has been spewed out by European
Socialism upon America, and masquerades
here in its name. For it must be kept in
mind that the Socialistic-R evolutionar
party in Europe, bad as it is, does not war
rant the assaults its insane followers in
America indulge in against the American
system. The leading minds of the party
In Europe, and who control it, are those
OF men of no mean intellectually. In
fact, many of them are of the best order of
scholarship, and embrace men of political
sagacity and philosophic acumen These
never have, and are far too wise ever to
attempt or counsel the destruction of the
American Republic They know that this
is not the soil, nor this the civilization for
their doctrine. And this, Notwithstanding
the fact that in more than one of their
councils sympathetic interest has been
manifested for the wretches who claim
to represent them here and utter
ances have there been made con-
temptuous of the American sys-
TEN. The one thing the authorities of
San Francisco should be careful not to do,
is to make martyrs and heroes of the few
cowardly would-be assassins captured
there, who have imagined that they can
coerce Government of 100000 of free
people by killing dozen or so of promi-
nent citizens OF the republic, and burning
one or more of its, cities.
SINCE the cradle of the President has