Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1886-03-12
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such policy, but the thoughtful man will be
of the statesmen and people living at the time
on The spot. and who necessarily understood
,.y is,b. bnndred wears the Moors carried on
struggle for possession of the Spanish PENN
sula.
which the soil was drenched with human gore
Ar last Ferdinand aud Isabella of CASTLE ands
Aragon gained decisive victory, and without
waiting for the enemy To recuperate ard renew
the struggle. deported the entire mass OF the
It was for q time money out of pocket, for the
Moors were skilifui artisans ana very ihdustri-
The cheap labor and material prosperity ad-
vo ates think it was mistake, and books have
been written to show the unwis1om OF t.
But was that mistake which made spain
homogeneous; which gave her that which she
had not had for 800 years-peace at home, and
Was Thai n mistake which saved Spain from
heinz today what Bulgaria and Roumeiia are,
and what all European Turkey is? We cannot
think il was.
And In support of this theory within century
of the expulsion Of the Moors, there rose up the
Spanish Empire of Charles V. and Philip H..
the first powers of the globe and which domi-
mated both henisPheres- We admit that his
foTians condemned the policy of sending away
the MooTs. putting it chiefly on industrial
grounds and the loss of wealth.
They may have lost with the Moors the art of
making Cordoyau leather, but they retained
that Of making good steel; Within ility years
carried the name aud power of Spain from Sc
vile IN Sacramento, where we now stand
But Tor the expulsion of the Moors, it is posi-
bic that Cortes, instead of carrying the Spanish
banner TO the Gulf of California. might have
spent his vaor and his life fighting that people
for bis own home in Andalusia. as his own peo-
pie had been doing for eight centuries.
Towards the enc of the seven' eenth century
there occurred what has been called the expul-
sion OF the lIugenots frorH France by Louis XIV.
religions o
what goes in our histories by that name
took refuge n England. But il should not be
forgotten that where Church and State are one,
ana especially in Il religious age, politics and
teal.
In the case of the 6uguenots, like that of the
Moors, historians generally agree in condemn
ing the injustice and folly of the act which led
to that emigration.
o; men in matters of faith, il viii not in this
DAY and age be questioned. But us 10 The sup
posed folly of France losing the Huguenot,
there plainly two sides TO the question
The UuguenOts, while ia many respects ex
cViient people, an IN all respects as good as the
rest Of the people of their time. we're religious
fanatics OF The most eXasperatins type. in an
age OF extreme religious fanatieism. They were
always ready To persecute or he prosecuted. to
suffer or inilict maityrdom. the wheel of for
tune should give to or take from them the
power.
They were dsahected aud sedtious to de-
gree that made them always element Of dan
ger 10 the general peace and safety. They were
constantly corresponding and intriguing and
plotting with every public enemy, and espe-
cIally with England, the most dangerous of
them all.
The position of France. then as now sur
rounded by powerful and aggressive States,
was one of great peril and the Huguenots con-
tributed at all times to materially increase his
danger by their dlsaffeetion and disoyal mach
nations. IN this respect, at least, their depart
ure w9s a distinct benefit 10 France.
- 80 doubt they we're considerable advantage
TO England, and that she was the gamer in
accord with the English on the very point of
their disagreement with the French people
shat OF religion = and they carried over with
them well-established habits of industry and
thrift, considerable skill in the aris and more
or less money.
But France was not the loser, nor in the long
run were the Huguenots They found country
where the people agreed with them, while
France obtained homogeneity and peace which
she soreiy needed and as for the arts she has
ever since held and still holds the first place.
One hundred years after the departure of the
Huguenots, when France making that SUI
prone effort against despotisn that has made
the age memorable, and when the allied mon
archs OF Europe. with great armies, were at her
frontiers, France now became the most homo,
geneous people on the globe-as homogeneous as
thina--rose up as one man, confronted coal
esced tyranny, erect and defiant, and hurled
at its feet gage of battle the head Of king"
and drove them back
No heterogeneous population no nation OF
mongrels that ever existed. could have stood in
the place of France in 1892 and survived as an
independf Mt power.
Had the Huguenots remained in France with
out materially changing their manners, they
must have been an element of weakness ard
might have ruined the country.
One of the first living statesmen of our
time Prince Bismarck, is just at this
time favoring for Germany something of
the same kind which the statesmen of
this country are very ready to condemn,
but which European thinkers are at least will
ing to admit that he on the spot may possibly
understand better than they DO and so are
bismarck n
expelling from Germany disaffscted and
discontented colony of Poles-a most excel
the same general chronological type as the Ger
mans and with what ought 10 be considered the
same religion: in short. case where invariance
and heterogeneity is almost minimum and he
Is doing II ON The sole ground that their pres
ence in Germany is constant peril to the pub
nc safety We must show. says the German
Chancellor. that we stand not upon feet of
clay, but of iron''
The ABSTRACT justice of this proceeding we do
not discuss; and for the policy, we do not
understand enough of the tactsto have an opin-
ion, but, considering the dangers that beset the
German nation on every side, it is question
that must be left to the German people alone
Ii is not for us to decide 1t for them If it is
necessary for the safety of the State, it is just.
On that ground the Germans can safely take
their stand.
We do not refer to the efforts of these people
Tor homogenety and that rest and peace which
at times II alone can bring, either 10 justify or
condemn the act in any particular instance.
Nor are we by any means willing to place the
desire of our people to rid themselves of class
of adult male Chinese, living among in the
abnormal and cOrrupting condition of separa-
ton from their families in the same category
with the Huguenots in their native land, or with
the Noors who with their wives and children
were living in what might after 500 years be
fairly considered their native land or with the
Poles men, women and children, in east Ger
MANY.
To even send away these Chimes, by act of
law, if such law could be obtained from Con-
gress, would be only TO send them back to their
wives and homes and children, where in the in
teIest OF morality and decency they ought 10 he.
The weakness of States with mixed and hon O.
geneous populations, hes had astriking illus,ra-
ton in our time and at very door.
Mexico, country with l000O,000 people part
Enropean pait Indian. part African, with con-
siderable part mongrel, was seized by an expe-
dlilon nom france so contemplate in numbers
that had it been sent against country with TO-
10000 Concessions OF EUROPE or America, il
would have run greet risk of being expelled by
the women with theii broOms
But being Mexico and Mexican people, such
as they are it marched in triumph TO the CAPT
tall set up an Imperial State with an Austrian
Prince on the throne, which FOR anything the
Mexlcans could have done TO prevent would
Empire.
But in twelve month from the fail OF Rich
mond, the Mexican throne was in the dust aud
the Emperor shot to death al QEeretaro.
Buy VIII any man say that result was pro-
Guced by the power OF the mongrels and half
breeds called the Mexican people? No: for
history tells different story
ine lottes oil france were ordered out of
MeAieo by the diplomatic representative
OF nation that itself hsd an organized
army OF $4,000 homo seneous white soldiers.
with pure blooded white general without a
cross IN his Caucasian pedigree in a hundred
generations. His name was Grant
And We warn our coun.ryman both sides
OF tne continent, that if we go on mixing and
m2ngreizing the people OF this nation as we
nave been doing. and rs sentincntalis.s would
nave us continue to do a time will come when
foreign eSpeditionary force viii put Eu-
ropean Emperor III the White House and keen
MN there. We are willing to pass into history
with that prediction charged TO our account
We do not believe in the cessation of wars
or the final triumph of peace congresses and
sroltration OF International disputes
Man Is lighting animal. ana wars will not
cease while he is what he is.
Let II once be seen that we are unable to de-
lend ourselves, and England will have an army
IN the country within year, fighting for mar
ket of English goods.
Our Chauyinists are fond of boasting of our
population and its wonderful increase of our
nifty or sixty millions OF people-words which
we keep rolling of our tongue as if in love
with the sound.
But what avail all our millions of people for
deiense II they are not of the right quality and
Stamina And even they have courage asd
can night, what ayails it if they are inhar,noni-
raa anita -.