Los Angeles daily herald., 1886-07-14

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The American party, which was
launched by Hon. L. D. Wigglhtoh
al MERGED, short time ago, ana
which was cordially adopted by Frank
M. Pixley in his Fourth Of July ora
tion. does not seem to shoot up to the
empyrean with all the splendor ana
,mnulse which its father and sponsor
hoped for. II seems, like old father
Marriotts 1Eroplane, to lag in an un-
accountable manner, and to lack that
yolant property which would enable
il TO rise to conspicuous emlnence'
Instead Of being greeted by spon-
taneous burst Of American enthusiasm
the disposition appears to be to en-
counter it with broad gunaw'
Pixley and his associates, instead oil
being hailed as great p'ii'ica,
doctors, are looked upon as io' VI
feeble and vicious cranks, whose only
useful office would be ornanenting
the gloomy corridors oil SOME MAD
house.
The HERALD was the 6rst journal
40 denounee the assinine performances
of this vulgar bloviator. As soon AZ
his indescribably repulsive pate APP
peared above the horizon we took
great deal of pleasure in humping IT,
Notwithstanding the pain which such
a declaration will give our esteemed
contemporary, the Los Angeles imes'
the HERALD has always looked upon
Pixley ~ the prime nuisance o. inc
day ON the Pacific Coast; as a efea-
ture. indeed, who ought to be forced
into private life. 1t were as well To
allow the traditional polecat TO dis
mort itsslf in the sunshine Of our high
WAYS as to permit pixley to ditluse his
offensiveness in the garish radiance
of this sun-kissed State.
That the HERALD's views on TINS
disgusting Fourth OF July Grafton are
well disseminated we propose 10
prove by two extracts of many which
we might reproduce. The first is
from the San Francisco News-Lstttr,
which gets at the kernel OF the matter
very happily, under the heading,
"Pixley, the Clown, as Philosopher
II says:
There is but one step from the sub
lime To the ridiculous. This old
auborism must be recalled to every
Thoughtful PERSONS mind who has
read Pixley's Fourth-oi-July ora
tionn In his endeavor to be excess
lively American this fluent ii some
what ungrammatical tongue'wagger
no exaggerated manifest truths thas
they become laughable absurdities.
When the Irish and the Germans OBJ
trude themselves as body INTO
American politics and demand ''recog-
milton" in the character of their orig
inal nationality. they commit an I'M
pardonable oilense. But those for
eign-born persons who have settled
in our midst, and in good faith as
~ e ~
sumed the responsibilities OF citizen
ship, are surely entitled to exercise
its privileges. Those who say they are
not are simply besotted with ignorant
preiudice. The United States is not
The only country which holds out
the warm hand of welcome to
strangers. An American can settle
down in the British Isles or
any of the British Colonies, become
a British subject with just rs much
ease as a foreigner can become an
American citizen. The narrow lines
which bound nationality have long
since been widened, and it is only
narrow minds which are capable OF Il
wish to 90 back to the old regime.
Pixley. in the course OF his remarks
(which seem, by the way, to have
been written by his deceased jackass)
announced himself in favor OF deprlv-
ing "aliens" Of the right to hold real
property. Practically this is an i'm
possibility; besides it would be turn.
ing back to the illiberal methods OF
the dark ages. II he had announced
himself in favor OF having existing
laws properly enforced, to the end
that syndicates of unnaturalized Tor
eipners should he prevented from
fraudulently acquiring title to large
slices of the public domain, he would
have talked sense. But in this con-
.ection a scrap of history may prove
;nterestino Three wears ago AN Eng
iish firm In this citv was engineering
scheme to fraudulently aquire title
20 on 600 acres of public land. The
49,. ~,.Tstisr exnosed. denounced and
dafeated The scheme. Pixley cham
n;oned # and that, too, with full
tnn,yIaj9e If lis fraudulent character.
There IL M doubt. a very objection
ahia lass of loreigners. hut native
~ ~ go. .'s,,hs of lie p;xlev stamp are
. uon .h;ectionable.
-,:aI..i ,.;o,d ,,bo
our "oVoi"Pi''o'
Yields the stylus ON the Ahaheiii
Gazette. has also very neat way of
,,,,i,n ,he avarage American com.
p"'''e Wv =. ,,.,- -,
noh-sehse leellhs aoou, '''i' 'osu'''
diatrihe OF Pixley 3. we quote from
the issue of that journal of the 10th
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instant ,s, -, -,..,,,
Inc ilsht ol lIee speech S sn1 miei DC
guarahieeu even 10 FRANK , IlNiey,
from our position as an A AZ .i'a,i
cltiAeh, We iiia. li,i ne iau i IN
70 say wna' ne u'H f say as AL in'i va
uua' - ~, p;xIov e 49, nho w.
ma'i.",i e.ae ;n ,n 10 ma" s Tno
no seil-iespe'uis io'e,S,iei sao,i''
stoop 10 KIN AZ 10 o qua'e pos '5 h',
tnat .ae e". .,h;sLn aud tSe oion,,an 10y
patI,o.ism, Mn,sNS la anu he e o, aMn;enoe
Oh the speddAeb, ;s ioJ h,,erarc "' hu,
10 applique o,h '' 70 haIinvo tb ba
we are Io'a ao,lv ' wbat ,ha,
lney , hnGm oSo"t II the rativs
smerican sentiment is as strong az
pnrunt, and his brood represent i 10
ho o' , dor " IL an excellent onportunit,
ogarad NV the election next Noyem
ny iiiC titttiCit hN-Nh -Nc'N