Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1886-10-23
NO BETTER LAND.

There is no impossible gulf in this fair
land between poverty and wealth. ignor-
ance and intelligence. Rank, caste and
aristocratic rule set up here nc barriers to
the rise from poverty, the advance from ig-
norance, or the progress toward culture and
the society of the refined. The rule of the
countries where class distinctions are in
flexible, cannot with US obtain. To all
men all doors are here opened.
The foreigner fleeing from oppression,
want, and the rule of ruling class, ought
to realize that in America he finds the
broadcast, best, freest refuge, and the grand
est scheme of Government ON the face of
the earth, blessing, as it does, men with
greater privileges, showering upon them
richer bounties, opening to them broader
opportunities than are known in any land
upon the globe.
A backwoodsman may reach the Presi-
Dental seat, a tinker the Gubernatorial
chair, the toiling tutor University Presi-
dency, the clerk become a prince in COM
merce, the very printers apprentice mold
the policy of a State through the agency
Of the free press.
Let the foreigners who come here and
are led into assaults upon Government
reflect that they assail themselves. For
here each is the governed and the govern
ing. There is no ruler, since every man is
a sovereign. Each ballot is a decree, every
voice the declaration of king. The ma
ton is a stimulant to human energy, the
system of the Republic vitalizing inhu-
ence. The very air of democratic institu-
tions enkindles hopes, awakening honest
desires, and aids to their consummation.
1t is sometimes lost sight of by pes
simistc citizens, that no where in all
the earth is there better government
with least exercise of force, greater
personal freedom and less restraint,
greater security and less restriction, broader
rights, or more sacred ones than are
enjoyed in this Republic, and that under
all trials and in all contention these rights,
privileges and benefits have been preserved
to us and made more precious.
When We hear, as we do, the moan of a
citizen here and there over the "deplora-
bic condition of society" or "of Govern
ment," and listen, as we are sometimes
compelled to do, to the prophecy that we
arerushing on to monarchy, and that it will,
perhaps, be best when that comes" we are
possessed of an uncomfortable desire to pick
up these drab-eyed mourners and drop
them amidst the peasantry of Russia, the
political exiles of Siberia, the swarming
millions of China, the cold exclusiveness
of Germany or Italy, the rigid rule of class
in Austria, and in the labyrinth of
chasms that divide men ard limit their
capacity in any monarchy under the sun.
We entertain for such the ardent wish that
they may dwell for time as subjects I'M
der Gar or an Emperor; feel the grip
of the law of entail; suffer beneath the
absentee landlordism of Ireland, Or know
the hopes and ambitions never to be full
filled that the plebian experiences, and a
titled aristocracy seals with its condemna-
ton
There is no better land, no better sys-
tenn, no broader liberty, no greater help to
humanity, no nearer approach to the
brotherhood of man than is found in
America. To all Anarchists, Socialists
and Communists in the land we would
preach such sermons as these, and illus
trate them with the homes and free insti-
tutions of America and the lives of her
people