Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1886-04-27
THE CHICAGO OUTBREAKS.

There was no room for the stars and
stripes in the Socialist procession in Chi
cago that desecrated the day of rest, said
yesterdays dispatches. And we are glad
of it. The emblem of free and enlight-
ened people would have been out of place
in the midst of such a gathering of cut
Threats. The marching Chicago Socialist
mob hates the flag; it proposes to tear it
down and blot out its stars. States are to
be crushed and great Socialist family
substituted. All things are to be held in
common, and he takes that wants, as
does his fellow. Property is theft, and
, industry is crime. Saving is miserly and
providence is an offense." There shall be.
division upon division and the industrious,
shall feed the idle. This is to be the re
suit if Socialism, as interpreted in Chicago
becomes dominant There is to be no law
because under law there is crime Society
is to care for all men, but not under forms
of law. In one grand, happy family witt
neither title to possession, or scrip or wal.
let, we are to live at ease, labor when VIC
will and divide whenever asked. By lotI
of hogwash dubbed reason these designs
are vanished. We are told that reward
is to be. merited by deserving, labor given
its due share of production, and equal
ity among men be assured by the
divine rule of right But the reality
would be, under practical socialism, just
what we have depicted And this is what
the Socialists of Chicago wish to bring
about They insult the national flag be-
cause it typifes order, the protection of
the weak, the guarantee of human rights,
the promotion of intelligence, the conser-
walton of industry, the punishment of
crime, the orderly behavior of men, the
sanctity of the family the sacredness Of
marriage, the divinity of the home, the
power Of strong nation, the respect that
united, self-governing people inspire
in all the world. 1t may well be de-
bated whether it does not typify too much
freedom, when four thousand rascally, red
rag Socialists-the scum of the criminal
cutters of Europe-can safely parade the
streets of an American city and faunt ban
ners inscribed with inhammatory and in
cendiary appeals and threats. OF course
there is less danger from these marching,
bowling, beer-guzzling, long haired cranks
and fanatics and criminals, than there
would be if they plotted in secret, and in
secret executed their diabolical designs 1t
Is, therefore, gratifying to find them above
ground, marching and boasting, where
they can be numbered and noted, instead
OF being cellardeep in plots to burn and
destroy and murder Still, have these out
cast aliens right to assemble and advise
the people to arm Under what right
do they act when they mark the doors of
Wabash Avenue houses with chalked
crosses TO signify their desire and intent
to burn or raze them? Under what right
are they guaranteed the use of public
parks in which to advise the overthrow of
the Government They are a cowardly,
be istly lot, and the world would be well
rid of them if they were all blotted out at
the same instant. But so long as they
live and can breed, and are permitted to
beat the walls of the house that shelters
them, they constitute something of me-
mace. They may raise up Guiteaus, and
give birth to assassins and incendiaries
They may lead some poor wretehes to the
placing of bombs and the murder of inpo-
cents. They may wreck some poor fell
lows reason and lead him to FIRE a CITY. or
knife President, or blow up capitol
And SO We doubt whether it is within
the guarantees of personal freedom, to per-
nit these reptiles to gather and hiss and
show their envenomed fangs in the pres
ence of lovers of free institutions, and bv
their parades and their insults to the flag
of the Nation-an act they dare attempt
In no other nation.