Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1886-05-15
THE VOICE OF PUBLIC OPINION

We have said that the hour will soon
strike ior the Inauguration Of broader
policy of exclusion of dangerous elements.
We are in no sense alarmists we have
great faith in the national heart, but be-
lieve there is a limit at which tolerance
becomes criminal to our own household
lie is poltroon who fears to expcl from
his domestic circle the influence that is
poisoning the minds of his own against
him.
The cowardly and criminal timidity of
Carter Harrison, Mayor of Chicago, was
the direct cause of the socialist riots and
the brutal murders following. Because of
the years of inefectiveness of the author
ties of Cincinnati, the Anarchists and
Socialists have swelled their ranks to
formidable numbers, and now battery
of Gatling guns and three regiments of
infantry stand guard against them in that
one city. Fieldcn, the English Communist
in Haymarket Square, Chicago, shouted to
the bomb-throwers, g Lay hands on the
law; throttle it until it makes its last
kick Kill it! Stop it. Do all you can
to wound it and impede its progress
Herr Most. "a seven times convicted
felon,' fugitive from justice, cried out in
the Frcihcit, "Arm war is declared p On
the murder of policemen he exclaimed in
his paper: 4" 1t is glorious news. Wipe
out the whole lot of blue-coated ruffians.''
Prior to that he exhorted his followers,
in the same paper, to Burn plunder.
lynch p A leading Anarchist of New
York, on receipt of the Chicago news, de-
clared: We are stronger and better
organized than the people have any idea
OF. The Chicago fight is only the first
gun. Our motto is, Neither God nor
master Down with church, state, capital,
Knights of Labor and other kindred
yillainies."
These are but specimen public utter
ances of many. What then must be the
secret teachings of these unhung ruffians
We agree with the New York Times, that
there is law enough to meet the cases of
these fellows; law in every State of the
Union, similar to Section IS of the New
York Penal Code, that makes every person
present or absent, who directly or in
directly counsels, commands, induces, or
procures another to commit a crime, a
principal.
opinion. From among hundred or more
leading journals before us of the same
mind on the subject. with the RECORD
UNION, We quote a sentence or two from
fifteen that are representative exponents
of public opinion, and these, we hold, fairly
express the public demand for the exclu-
sion from the country Of the Socialist and
the Anarchists and the Communists, as
enemies of American institutions.
The New York Herald believes there is
no room here for Socialism" and it adds
America is a hospitable country, but not
hospitable enough to harbor an Anarchist
with bomb in his hand. No people in
the world are more ready than we to right
any wrongs which may exist, but reform
by dynamite is not one of the articles in
our creed.r
The Boston Record excIaims: "The
license OF these lawless creatures has been
tolerated too long"
The New York Commercial BnVetin holds
that the place for these orators is not
in the streets, but behind the bars of the
State prison or penitentiary, and the
government be it local or State-that
has not the courage to send them there, by
vigorous enforcement of the law, is not
deserving the name
The Hartford Posi- saws: "There i.
greater danger than demagogery; it arises
from the hundreds OF Anarchists, Com
munists and Nihilists from across the
water who stir up and arouse the unthink.
ing by their incendiary appeals
The Coarier-Journal, of Louisville, thinks
that " If it is wise to turn away the Asiatie
laborer, it is imperative to keep out the
European criminals and riff-raff who flock
here TO destroy American institutions With
their mouthings of general anarchy and
universal diabolism.'
The Chicago Times says: 1t is the
descendants of mixture of Scythian,
Hun and devil who have invaded the
peaceful shores of this republic. 1t is an