Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1886-06-07

spiracy and the strength of the organiza-
ton. We have no doubt that Socialist
societies exist on this coast. We know
perfectly well that their aims are the dis
ruption of society as at present constituted,
and the substitution of their own peculiar
forms. That they constitute a dangerous
element is not to be denied; that they
should be excluded from the country, we
have constantly contended The humblest
life they take by their infamous use of
dynamite is worth more to the republic
than every soul within their organization.
The twenty or thirty thousand of them in
the United States are of no more value to
society than so much carrion. Of the Com
munists there are some 10000 announced
adherents, and Of the milder Socialists
some 5000. If we assume that there are
$4,000 who secretly sympathize with these
and would join them in case of an out
break, and that 100000, or twice that
number, of the criminal element and vicious
would take up with their cause in event of
an open effort to subvert the Government,
still we have not such body of rascals that
the 55,G00,000 people of the United States
need fear them. True, they adopt the pol
icy Of the assassin, strike in the dark and
in the back, and by the use of the bomb
may, and do, terrorize ten times their
number. Herein is their strength. This
people is able to cope with an open foe
twenty times as numerous, but one does
not know how to resist the bomb-thrower,
or the wretch who undermines buildings
and fires in the excavation stores Of dyna-
mite. We dread the secret murderer; we
entertain 4 justifable fear of the reptiles
that make war on women and children.
But even for these we viii find methods of
resistance, punishment and prevention.
One of the first to be applied is to stop the
recruiting OF the conspirators from Europe.
We must put up the bars, and set such
guard that these rascally Anarchists can
not get into the country. With such as
we take here in fragrant outrage, we need
laws that viii visit them with punishment
50 swift and terrible as to restrain all
others. We need, in the meanwhile, to
cultivate the patriotic spirit, and enlarge
the understanding of the rising gen Grafton
concerning the genesis, purposes and sys-
TEN Of our Government; we must see to it
that heresy against the theory and prac-
tice of self-government does not poison the
minds of our children. We need to do our
duties more faithfully as citizens have
larger measure of respect for the rights of
others, and to grant to our neighbor
every right we claim for ourselves. We
need to draw nearer to the charter of our
liberties, and study to better purpose the
substrueture of the Government, the foun-
tain and spring of our rights. In disre-
spect for law, in neglect of political duty
in disregard for the rights of men, lie our
chief dangers. There is too much of carp
ing at Courts, officials, wealth. policies,
party and administrators, with too little of
activity in correcting such evils as do ex-
list. The chatter Of the business highway
is not infrequent that {" the country is
going to the dogs" but the grumblers and
GROWERS are noticeable for their political
activity in the cure of ills mainly by their
absence.
Indeed, in the non-activity of the fault
finding citizen, the Anarchist and Com
munist find fuel for the fame they would
enkindle There is altogether too much
of fault-inding with our system and the
practices under it, by men who deem them
selves too clean and pure to engage in the
patriotic duty of interesting themselves in
the choosing of the administrators of our
affairs. In the mouths of the pessimistie
critics Of our institutions, the Anarchist
and Communist find rich texts for their
assaults upon society. There are heresies
and heresies, but none more worthy of
condemnation than that of the so-called
good citizen, who is forever finding fault
and forever refusing to engage in agitation
to correct abuses. 1t may, perhaps, be
needed that our system shall be openly
struck in the face, and the safeguards of
our liberties rudely assailed, to arouse this
class of people to some sort OF activity,
and bring them to the conviction that
in America they enjoy the broadcast meas
ure of right known to any portion of man
kind, and that in this heritage resides the
hope Of the race If the Anarchists by
their infamous methods shall accomplish
this result, there will come some good out
of much evil. While the Seattle jury is
unduly alarmed, it is fortunate that it has
had the opportunity to speak as it has
done. Possibly its utterances may awaken
the people to sense of the necessity of
preserving the institutions of the country,
and of taking control of public affairs in
a way that shall remove from them all
manner of reproach Such activity will
make the people so strong, and of such
common purpose and mind, that neither
danger from within nor from without will
disturb us.
IT is not surprising that Salisbury and
the English press do not like the remarks
of MIR. Blaine of the Irish home rule bill.
1t viii probably surprise the English press
to learn, as it might, that Mr.. Blaine does
not care picayune what it thinks of him
and his views on the Irish bill. Salisbury
thinks the remedy for the Irish trouble is
for the Irish who don't like English rule
to clear out, go elsewhere-to America or
to the devil, it matters little to him. Mr..
Blaine considers such sentiments in
famously shameful, and Americans will
agree with Mr.. Blaine.
MAXWELL, the Preller murderer, has
been convicted. We followed the details
of the trial as reported verbatim in the St.
Louis papers, and cannot see how the jury
could have reached any other conclusion
than that the case was one of deliberate
murder MaxwePs defense, that he killed