The sun., 1894-05-04
This IL No Country for Them.

The remarks Of Mr. HEWITT before the
Society Of Mechanics and Tradesmen on
Wednesday evening expressed the prevail
ing and proper American sentiment. The
demagogues and pestllent social agita-
tors who are now proceeding on the theory
that they can make political capital by OPP
posing to 1t the unreasonable and dostruc-
tive impulses OF human nature. will be
crushed under Its weight whenever It's full
torcs Ia exerted.
It Is u sentiment that Is stronger and
more pervaslve here than In any other
country OF the world. Nowhere else is the
animatlng spirit OF the people so totally
avsrse from such doctrines as socialists are
striving to disseminate. This country was
first conquered from barbarism by civilized
men who came here 10 better their for
tunes, and from their day 10 the present
time the same struggle has continued un-
cessingiy.
Foreign critics OF our society havo de-
scribed the population Of the United States
as made up OF adventursrs. as forming q
sort OF mining camp. with no permanently
established social institutions. and absorbed
most Of all In tho mere pursuit Of material
wealth. This. undoubtedly. 10 o true de-
scription, 80 far as concerns the dominant
motive Of tho immigrants from whom this
cou5try has obtained Its population. Those
people camo oyer hero solely to better
their condition. aud their sagerness In
the quest was manifested by their making
it at the expense of llis-long tics and
In the face OF tho psrlls inscparablo from
the adventure. They were poor and hum
bic. and they endured tho hardshIps and
took the risks OF coming TO q strange land
under substantially tho samo Incentives
e. kindlsd tho gold fover that populated
California SO rapidly more than forty years
ago They were aGyentursrs aftOr wealth.
and thalr number has Increased o- Gimiu-
ishad from year to year. ns the prosperity
Of this country has Tlssn or fallen.
Ia that sense. therefore. this Is q
mining camp. ana tho social development
here Is In Its early stages. THIS Is still q
country OF pioneers struggling to got
ahead In the world. and attracted hlther by
that ambition as their controlling motive;
but the consequence Of such a social eondi-
lion is that tho popular respect for the
rights OF property Is stronger here than
elsewhere. 90 that In that regard this is
the most conservative community in
the world. The gains the people have
struggled SO hard to make are accumula-
tons which they will defend with cor
responding enduraAee. The prosperity Of
ths prosperous serves ia stimulate In those
who have not yet attained such good for
tune both the effort TO reach 1t and the
spirit 10 resist the destruction OF the goal
for which they are striving. That is all
tasre 10 In the old reproaeh that the " al
mighty dollar" Is the god Of the Americans
alteration. II Is that the American Is deter
mined TO maintain the rights OF the property
for which he 10 seeking. and that the spirit
OF sOcialistle proletarlanisIn 10 foreign and
hostile 90 the animus Of a society whose
FIRST ambition Is the accumulation OF indi-
yldual property. and In which the respect for
success is general and profound.
The despondency which In older coun-
tries, with fixed social lelsssifeations. accepts
degradation as a permanent condition un-
alterahIe except by blowing up the founda-
tlOns OF the social organization. has no
place In a country like this. Here. practl-
eallY, everybody began at the bottom Of
the social ladder. aud there Is no social
condition so low that men have not risen
from it and may not rise from 1t. With
very few exceptions. the private wealth has
been accumulated solely by those who pos
sess 1t. aud who began poor aud humble. Mr..
HEWITT himself had to travel that hard road
20 get where he Il. and the same road Is still
OpeH AZ freely ss when he began the ascent.
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