San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1886-05-11
GETTING TOO SMALL.

The men OF America can no longer
sing as of old "FOr Uncle Sam is rich
enough to give us all farm" The old
gentleman has been so prOdigal Of his
landed estate that it would hump him
nightly just now to give ''us all" even q
ten-acre garden patch. The public do
main has gone into the hands of large
railroad corporations, and what has not
been squandered that way or taken up
by actual settlers has been stolen by or
ganized gangs of land grabbers until the
people for whose benefit the land should
have been held are left out in the cold.
What is true Of the old song. about the
farm, is equally true Of the old saying
that this land was to be the refuge of the
oppressed and dOwn-trodden of all lands.
Our national doors have been thrown
wide upon their hinges to welcome
everybody, irrespective of worth, wealth,
reputation, character or what not. The
gates Of this Republic, like the gates Of
gospel day, have been opened night and
day, and of the millions whom we have
received to our national arms, with the
assurance that there was room and to
spare, we have made little account flOm
whence or why they came. The conse-
quence has been that while receiving
hundreds Of thousands Of good, honest,
industrious, intelligent citizens, we have
mi thaT of la Of
the ignorant, reckless, improyident, rev.
OlutiOnary classes OF Central Europe.
Men whose hatred of despOtic govern
ment has crystalized into hatred of all
government, and who obey no law in
their hearts but the brutal and destruc-
tive tendencies of their own natures.
We have not room for such people
on these shores. We have received
from them only evil counsel and viii
ating example. They engen der strife,
are the terror of good government, the
bane Of capital and the curse Of labor.
They worm their way into the press and
publish their incendiary documents
broadcast; they smuggle themselves into
labor organizations under the guise Of
wOrkingmen, and then bring the whole
cause of organized labor into disrepute
by cOunselling and executing schemes of
destruction absolutely repudiated by the
societies that they disgrace by their
presence.
The time has come to draw line at
these anarchists and forbid them an ssy-
lun here. Let it be understood that
America has no home nor welcome, no
temporary asylum for the men who can
not leave their foreign prejudioes and
their political revolutionary propaganda
ism behind them. These men who are
too dangerous TO the peace and govern
ment Of their own nation to be tolerated
there outside OF prison walls, are too
dangerous to the peace of this country
to be admitted here. There may be ex-
ceptions to this rule, and there are no
doubt thousands of good citizens among
us who have forfeited their citizenship
in Europe by revolutionary acts. These
men were not dealers In dynamite. hand
grenades and other Internal and hellish
means Of destruction. On coming to
this country they recognized the changed
political conditions, and have done their
duty as peaceful citizens should. The
men who carry the red flag, preach the
crusade Of the Commune, organized
mob resistance to law, and deal in dyna-
mite bombs, are welcome to stay away
from these shores. II they persist in
coming they should be made speedily
welcome to six feet Of mother earth.
For the industrious, honest, intelligent,
law abiding emigrant, America will yet
fad room, but upon the sea wall OF all
her ports should be written plain and
large-This country is the burial ground
Of anarchists.