Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1885-03-09

| we will stand behind you and swear you
| are respectable, and hold II. broad shield
OF the law over you, and thon, I'll you cor
rupt our sons and drive them 10 State
prison and suicide, and bring their p>arents'
gray hairs with sorrow to the grave, the
officers of the law shall not lay the weight
| of finger on you
| Did not q broken-hearted mother plead
| with our Chief of Police for redress upon
the gamblers who had ruined her boy, and
he told her their business was as legal as
| his, and he could not touch them?
All honor to our noble Assemblymen
Davis and Jones, who supported the bill to
make the licensing of crime penal offense
but shame to a city that will sell for gold
the honor of its own children.
| wish the State Government would take
| these nullitierS in hand, as General Jack
son did the tariff nulliiers in 1892 The
States Rights party i'll South Carolina held
i convention and passed an ordinance de-
claring certain tariff enactments null and
void, and the Governor proceeded to lew
troops TO resist The Federal laws When
Old Hickory heard of it he said to Cal
houn, then President and the leader
of the nullifiers, BY the Eternal, the laws
shall be executed, and Mr.. Calhoun. if you
don't submit, I'll hang you for treason and
! Y
hours of Old Hickory" in the executive
chamber yonder in the Capitol-although
the cavalry officer who does sit there is
with us for, like some of the rest of us. he
were the blue once to put down rebellion
against the laws.
Finally, | warn you, citizens of Sacra-
mento that this licensing of gambling is
but the entering wedge. The ex parte
arguments few of our citizens have lent
their names to will yet confront them
when our Trustees proceed to license pros
ttuton, and opium smokers. Every argu-
ment for the present iniquity applies to
these, and what can YOU say who are al
ready on record as favOring the licensing of
crime?
How much our Trustees respect any law
may be seen by their course with regard to
their own ordinance, which provides that
all games shall be carried on on the second
floor of buildings, while, as a matter of fact
games have been in full blast ON three floors
of buildings during the last TWO State fairs.
and will be again. We could hardly ex-
pect them to regard the laws of God, or Of
the State. But it is Il bad showing when
they also trample upon the laws evolved
| by their own superior wisdom.
These are the men, citizens of Sacra-
mentO, whom you crown by your sutiragcS,
and hold up to your sons is representative
men. Is it possible that, right here at the
fountain of law and the seat of Govern
rnent, you will again elect a man to rule
you, who points with pride to his rec
ord as an alder and abettor of crime, and Il
constructive vioator of his oath OF office?
| call upon you, my feilow-citiZens Of this
queen city, to take your stand ON the rock
| Of principle, ard not ON the shifting sands
| of a short-sighted and narrow eXpediency.
i, Rise in your might and your majesty and
blot from our municipal record that in
famous ordinance, which Is injuring the
name of our fair city, and making it a hiss
ing and a by-word all over the Union. Let
us all do our duty in striving to make Sac
ramento as Iaw-abiding and moral as God
and human enterprise have made it pros
porous and beautiful.