Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1886-05-13
RIGHT EXPRESSION.

The new, recently-organized Assembly
OF Knights Of Labor in Sacramento is the
trst, so far as we can ascertain, to come
out boldly and denounce the schemes and
methods of the assassin Anarchists and
Socialists of the East The Assembly very
properly and spiritedly expressed its alb
horrence Of the schemes and incendiarism
of the Communistic gangs of Chicago and
New York. The members know perfectly
well that labor interests have no greater
enemies than the doctrines and methods
proposed by the Anarchists Labor has its
deepese interest in the conservation of
social order. All disarrangement and fe
verish unrest in society and government is
first felt by labor. Timidity of capital is
indicated in labor ranks soonest. IL is true
that this European Socialistic outlawed
scum, that seeks the destruction of all
government and all recognition of prop
eriv rights, has been augmented and IA
yored greatly by the introduction from
Europe of the lowest elements of society.
the pauper class, the class that Iabors and
lives in a state incompatible with that ex-
pected of the decent, self-respecting Amer
lean workingman. OF him it is demanded
that he shall build up homes to the
strength Of the nation, marry. raise chill
dren and clothe and fit them properly for
the public schools of him is expected
the maintenance of such state or condi
ton as will make him an intelligent. help
full citizen, with ability and taste for public
affairs, knowledge and thought for the
country and its best interests capacity
to intelligently use the ballot and select
Offices and define policies for the govern
ment that he shall feel such an interest
and property right in the nation that
he will on call take up arms in its defense.
1t is precisely for these reasons that the
REcoRD-UNIos has uniformly opposed the
bringing in of elements to compete with
American labor that must degrade it
to level of life from which the nation can
expect neither homes intelligence worthy
citizens, gallant soldiers nor material
strength. 1t is precisely for these reasons
that 1t believes Chinese immigration
should be restricted, and not that alone
but all other, from the timber Of which
We cannot construct good, law-abiding.
ambitious, clearly, self-respecting, intelli-
gent and patriotic citizens. We say put
APP the bars, not only against the nom
asslmlable Chinaman, but the low-order
hungarian or Pole, or Bohemian or
italian, or German, or any other ruffian
class OF any other nationality that is so
debased and pauperized and brutalized as
10 De incapable of regeneration and will
tend to drag the American working man
down to the level of the meanest of mud
sills. Put the bars, moreover, against
all the vicious and corrupting clements
from which the Socialists and Anarchists
draw their recruits. Put up the bars
against every kind and order of man.
black, yellow, white or brown, that comes
to this country for the purpose of tearing
down the fair structure that shelters the
people of this Republic We mistake the
expression Of this new Assembly of the
knights of Labor in Sacramento if il shall
not prove thorn in the side of certain de-
structionists, extremists, impracticables and
communistically-inclined fellows, who have
assumed in California to voice the desires
and sentiments of laboring men. The
truth is, that from among the mechanics,
the laborers, the wage-winners of Califor-
MIA, the State draws chief source of its
strength. Their well-being and social
level must in a great measure determine
the character of the State and the ciyiliza-
ton within it. All good men want to see
these elements AZ intelligent, brave, indie
pendent, home making, well-conditioned
and proud as it is possible for good wages,
free schools, public libraries, rational enter
tainments, hard labor, BODYBUILDING,
mitrimony, parentage, property possession
aad manliness to make them. We will
second all lawful efforts to promote all
these things, but they must have their
tap root and chief hope in social order.
property rights and the respect every man
must have for the liberty and rights of
others which he demands for himself