Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1886-07-06
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eeTateS our flag ought 70 be damned. fhse
may be mild forms of FC1rielism and OF Social-
ism which are not in themselves dangerous al
though their adherents are alien from American
ideas and unfit for citizenship But the Euro
pean agitStor who iihpudenty drags hlsylie car
casS mere and IN unintelSibe language attempts
u instruct us i'll cur institutions which he is
! both morally ana mentally incompetent TO I'M
deTstaud. IS not, ana no process Standardization
eiil make iilin an American. He is uIeon-
| Victed. sometimes p convicted feion. who has
abused our hospitality. and whose punishment
| should he his speedy return to the community
whence lie came. The Federal and State Gov
| ernments should cooperate in all legislation
| requisite for this object which might be Sc
cured also BY an amendment 10 the Federal
| Constitution.
| 1here is no wish extant, OF which am aware,
| 70 interfere with religious or non-relisious be
| liefs, although the Government of the United
| states IS neither pagan nor atheistic No war
| OF intolerance in any form is proposed from
any quarter. There is no desire existing among
the American people for the exclusion of the
| respectable clements of population from every
country OF the Caucasian race. But
\ il Is essential TO the substantial growth
OF the nation, in all the elements of solid civ
| ilizetion, that the gospel of Americanism
! be propagated by both the great political
| parties and by the people at large. When our
ideas are crossing the Atlantic and interweay
| ing Themselves with European facts and eondi-
tions, it behooves us not to permit them to be
perverted or lost among ourselves
| We want decent immigrants who are not pau
| pers or criminals, and who are not infected BY
| the filthy virus OF those who would destroy God,
law. government, order, purity the family, ev-
erything except their own debased appetites
| and passions and whose highest conception
OF life is theft and laziness. The attributes of
| GOOD citizenship are moral as well ss intellect
ual. The country at large is net in the condi-
| ton of the model prison OF New YORK. in which,
under the mental standard there adopted. the
smartest forger, the deepest hypocrite, may win
! the honors and most easily secure the opportun-
ity. while he is developing the faculty, to cheat
| the world. Honorable labor is the element of
| true Amercanism, and labor is honorable,
| whether it be musculaTor intellectual oriu that
| happy combination which enables the one to
| dignity the other. III fact, labor is capital All
| property is the result of intelligence and mus
| Gle in Just relation to each other. Therefore
! the true American doctrine is that labor should
protect property and that property should pro-
| tect labor.
Ssill do not hesitate to say here, or anywhere.
| thst there Is something wrong in q social and
! political condition which allows any one man
! 10 accumulate fifty or hundred millions of dol
| lars, and i is q condition, too which education
| law and legislation. aided by time and expert
| ence, viii have to correct The miliiOEaires
| must learn that they cannot spend q lifetime in
tTaInpliug upon al laws divine and human,
| and then buy their peace and a Olissiul in
mortality. Immortality, both 10 man himself
| in his individual capacity, ana in the Teputa-
| tion he leaves behind him, is the gift OF God
! and il cannot be bought with money-somotime
/ somehow, the calculations of the Babel-build-
| ers OF modern times invariably fail and the
| very language through which they seek to per
| pstuate themselves becomes uninteliigible.
/ g
| lahOr, and who aims to crelte an Oligaichy of
/ idleness although born on the soil is not an
American in his heart. lie IS SIMPLY an un-
| constructed Anarchist. fit only to receive the
! lessons which political refugees and dOctrin-
aires are anxious to teach and TO apply.
We have passed through several successive
| phases of hstOry-the period of the Revolution;
| the process of national formation; the epoch OF
constitutional development, and OF the inter-
probation and application of constitutional
| principles; the acquisition of territory; the
| Rebellion, which ended in the acknowledg-
ment Of the perpetual Union of the States: the
| political disturbances which followed the war,
| and which were essential to adjust and restore
our constitutional balance-the question of
| questions now is, Can we withstand Asia on the
| one side and Europe on the other, and at the
| same time preserve ourselves. believe we
| can, and we viii. Macaulay predicted that
| there would be bread riots in New York before
| the end Of this century. Perhaps he was right
| as to the fact, but he was wrong in his deduc-
I lions from the fact The ballot which is the
mode i'll which, under our system the
sovereignty of man declares itself, supplies a
complete remedy for all the evils we have to
| breast and overcome. Healthy Amerieanism
| will use this weapon for the extirpation of law
! lessne.s and the causes of lGwlessness
more efectually than the armies of En-
perors and Kings were even used for the
| same purpose, and physical force viii always
be available for defense, either against internal
| or external foes.
/ suppose there is in this country not only
room for q billion of people, but resources to
| support them in comfort and happiness, if
! properly hushanded: We can endure the
pressure of population, and we can
| settle our affairs after the American fashion.
All we have to do, in addition to policy of dis
| eliminating exclusion, is to adhere ID a few
| simple principles, and to make every man who
! comes here abide by them until he or his chill
dren have been taugh! to comprehend them.
And, thank GOD, the flag waves over the
! schoolhouse as well as the arsenal, and every
child imbibe patriotism aud acquire the
| habits Of an American from the time he leaves
! his mothers breast. As Collector Hager recently
4 D ufT 49,
| while this anniversary is kept green in the
memory OF Americans: "In government like
ours, intelligence is the very life of liberty
| Education, like a neVer-fading garland, should
entwine the supports of political power and fes-
toOn the advance of population"
| And as President Holden, Of the State Uniyer-
sity, on the same occasion expressed il. the OBJ
| ject OF education is complete and utter man
hood" which, it may be added without impro-
priety, ought to he the natural result of perfect
Americanism. lie illustrated his proposition by
a reference t. President Lineo MS Grafton at
Gettysburg, which was written cp a train with
a lead pencil and has bsen repeatedly pro
nounced the most impressive euloey upon the
dead of ancient or modern times. That Grafton
was due to the common schoos of America
And so let us go forward from celebration to
celebration of this auspicious day, without hes
itation and without fear
Let us cherish the domestic virtues the love
OF mother, wife and daughter, the rulers OF
home the homestead trinity. Let the
administration of Justice be ire and firm. Let
the press be Virile, but unstrGined and de-
cent. Let politics be clean. Let the elective
franchise be used uncorruptly and solely
for the good Of the republic. Let our SONS be
the clear-eyed, sound-limbed strong-minded
sweet-heaited men who are fit to become the
torefathers OF coming generations ofAmericans.
Let our daughters be the noble mothers of
noble race, with the exquisite light OF purity in
their eyes and truth ever upon their lips.
Let freedom among us be regulated not merely
by law, bnt by educated conscieuces.
Let our progress be steady but gradual, radical
enough to accept every element o. substantial
enough to preserve all the vital forces that
have accumulated during our eventfrl history.
Let the Stars that cluster in our flag gro5S more
numerous and more bright and let thin re-
fleet that lustre which streams from the Con-
stitulion.
And let the Union be perpetual. eonseerated
in the hearts of the people, and foremost in the
cause of humanity and of civilization.
America was then sung by the quar-
te', the audience standing and joining in
singing.
POEM FOR THE DAY.
Hon. Matt. Clarken, of Benicia, was next
introduced and read the following original
poem:
The nations pulse again beats high,
Its heart aglOw with pride instilled
By all the past, which leads the eye,
To giories grander unfulfllei.
A God had stamped with Master hand
On all the deeds OF might and mind
In every age, His stern command
The rule Of self in human kind
But men denied that power and right,
And man debased, lived on ensiayed,
TIL IN the west, Il signal light,
Announced tina, he, at last, was saved
Our fathers built an empire there
As God its architect designed
And dedicated 1t with prayer
As iTeedcna's 1rIist, to US assigned
And we to-day who seek the past
With pride TO praise the living dead.
But. look beyond as did the last,
Who followed where our fathers led,
Invoking light 10 giIdc our way.
As freemen blessed, We grateful feel,
On TINS our nations natal day
And from The mountain, vale and sea,
70 mai.er where our brothers roam,
With one acclaim. united, free,
We praise, we bless our native home!
Our fathers need no feeble praise
OF pen or tongue to tell anew
Their struggles in those darkest days,
When freedoms sun was vailed from view.
No sculptured stone, nor nodded brass,
Nor granite towering, lost in air,
To tell 10 ages as they pass
How Hope expiring crowned Despair
Their deeds viii live as long rs love
Dictates to ma0 a love Of right
As long as hate from God above
Commands q hate of tyrant might
The truest tribute TO their worth
The sweetest incense to their fame
Is patriot love, which has its birth.
ln hearts that guard nations namei
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