Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1886-05-07
ONLY ONE FLAG.

red flag was carried in an agitators'
procession last week in Cincinnati. The
red flag has been repeatedly flung to the
breeze of this free land by the Anarchists
OF Chicago. Schwab and Most have
Haunted it many times in New York.
The red flag was displayed in Milwaukee,
and made rallying standard for the VIC
lators of law and the assailants of order and
the peace of society. The red flag was
found cheek by jowl with dynamite bombs
in the office of the Socialist journal of
Chicago, on Tuesday. The red flag is a
menace to free institutions; it is the en-
blem of anarchy and blood it is svnono-
nous in spirit with conspiracy against the
rights of freemen, and with secret murder :;
1t typifies vicious and abhorrent doctrines
1t ought to be an ofiense to have it in noses
sion, crime to display it, and the naunt-
ing of 1t should be deserving of death.
The time has come when 1t should be ont
lawed and its bearers shot on the spot.
The country is too free where it is toIer-
Grated. Liberty is outraged, the banner of
freedom is insulted, and selfgovernment
aSSaIled whenever it is uplifted The
American people have altogether too long
permitted the red-handed Anarchists to
plot against the Republic, and the guaran-
tees to its sons. The Chinaman is a men
ace to our civilization we do not want
HIM In the country; he has no right place
here; his methods tend to degrade labor :;
his sytem is antagonistic to ours in all
things. But he at least does not parade
our streets with the red flag and pike; he
does not murder the officers of the law
and proclaim the act virtue. nor shout
rebellious doctrines upon the highways.
lie is thousand times preferable
to the German and French Anarchists
and all Socialists. Dangerous as he is
to labor interests and the industrial
elements of the country, he is as harmless
as a dove compared to the ravening for
eign outlaws who swarm to this refuge of
the oppressed, for what appears to be the
sole purpose of putting the knife to the
throat of free institutions. We have
temporiZed with the assassin crowd too
long; too long permitted these social con
splrators to trample the emblem of the
republic. The restriction of immigration
needs TO be extended to all who swear allie
glance tothe red flag or thevicious doctrines
itrepresents. Louise Michel, Most. Schwab.
Parsons, Spies and their ilIy must be de-
ciared against as public enemies, and the
landing on our shores of all such vicious
spawn OF European ferment utterly forbid
den For those with Us there are two
remedies when found in arms or force
against the due authority, sheet them
down; taken in plot and conspiracy against
society, try them according to the laws
and If these be not sufficient, make them
so, even if the fundamental Act must needs
be amended to inject collective energy
into 1t. 1t is no Government, in fact. that
lacks the vigor to punish its enemies. stav
the hands of its would-be assassins. and
maintain the guarantees it processes to ex-
tend to its people. Its liberties are too
b'oad when they shield those who stab il
beneath its protecting arm. The Socialist
VINO breaches arson and murder is A public
enemy, to tolerate whom is to warm in our
ooSoms reptile that is certain te turn and
sting US. The issue is Joined to-,ssw H.
not involved, but simple-on Csc side
law, order and the rights Of American cit
liens on the other. arson, murder ass,s-
sination, disorder, and disregard of human
rights and constitutional guarantees. The
loyal sentiment of the country was o,1v,
the other day reused to manifestations Of
honest indignation by the disloyal es-
pressions Of the ex-Rebel chief, JEFF
Davis. The men in blue who Tough,
to preserve the integrity of the !
Union protested, and their cheeks famed |
But the rebels of the South were
soldiers; they made war as such they !
Ought not 10 destroy the substructure of
'ociety or obliterate free government they
'lttled for mistaken principle, in de-
ense of an inherited institution for the
'enesis of which the whole country was
0 blame. They were rebels, but not
ssassins; they were Soldiers, but not muir
erers. In the reunited Union the men
The blue and the gray can be counted