Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1886-07-03
TIE NATIONAL CELEBRATIONS.

1t is very gratifying to know that the
celebration of the anniversary of the birth
OF the nation viii be general throughout
the country, and that more than usual
patriotic interest is manifest This is I'M
questionabIy due to the fact that within
the year the first attempts have been made
to introduce European methods into this
republic for the redress of supposed griey-
ances. Men who have for their single
purpose the overthrow of all orderly regu-
lations for the government of society and
the destruction of personal rights in prop
erty have assailed with the weaponry of
assassination the fundamental principles
underlying our form of government. That
this has been a surprise to the people, and
has awakened them to the need of incul
eating clearer ideas of the purposes of gov
eminent, and the imperative need of
teaching to the oncoming generation pa
triotic lessons, is unquestioned. 1t was
not believed by the masses of the people
that any active results would follow the
long time threatenings of the Communists
and Anarchists who have been hoated from
Europe to our shores upon the surface of
the immigration we have so unreservedly
invited 1t has been rude awakening
from illusory quiescence. but it was well
that it came as it did Later on these
vicious forces might have gathered sufii-
cient strength to have seriously menaced
the peace of the country. No such fear
need be now entertained. The people are
more fully informed than before of the
true nature Of the new social
philosophy that breaches the over
throw of the right of the individual
and its total merger in the State. In
thousands of towns, villages and hamlets
within the next two days, the American
people viii enter such protest against
this infamous doctrine, and accompany it
with such warning Of threatened punish
ment that the advocates of radical social
ism and the disciples of dynamite methods
will not fail to read Alright the will of the
people. 1t is manifest that the citizens Of
the United States are no less patriotic, no
less devoted to the institutions of free
government, no less convinced of the right
and the capability of the people to govern
themselves than in years gone by. In one
part Of the Union it mas been made al
ready an educational regulation, that for
at least one week in each term OF the free
schools, there shall be devoted the entire
time to the teaching of patriotic truths,
the giving of instruction to youth in the
principles of free government, and the in
culcation of clear ideas of the system OF
the republic, and its blessing and the du-
ties it exacts of the citizen. 1t is not i'm
probable that this example will be fol-
lowed throughout the Union. Ifthere are
any who have doubted the faith and trust
of the American people in the perpetuity
of their institutions, and their full appre
citation of the inestimable benefits and
privileges the republic insures to its chill
dren, they will be able to correct their es-
innate Of the patriotic sentiment of the
American people by observation of the
coming celebrations. At no time, unless
we except the centennial year. has there
been more earnest and sincere preparation
for the observance of the natal day of the
nation, and at no time has there been more
open, sincere or unreseryed expression on
the part of the people of loyalty to the
United States or devotion to the forms and
spirit of republican institutions. The ma
tional heart is sound its beats still keep
time to the tread of liberty's progressive
march its pulsations are full and strong,
and the life current of the republic leaps as
vigorously as ever through all the veins
and arteries of the noblest creation of man.