The record-union., 1894-07-13
REBUKE DIsLoYALTY.

We have perfect confidence, unshaken
faith in the National heart. 1t is stead
fast and true to American principles. We
have faith in the people of Sacramento;
though for time cowed and browbeaten
and put upon the rack by self-appointed
inquisitors, they are loyal, in the mass,
to the American Government, which can
exist only in an atmosphere of law and
order,
But there are some in our midst-here
and there groups-whose actions and
every patriotic nerve tingle with exquisite
shame and anger. 1t is Of these we
speak. the few blind and senseless people
who have either never had any right
conception of what true liberty is, have
forgotten the teachings of their youth, or
have become indoctrinated with the virus
of radical socialism and the venom of
anarchy-albeit many of them are una
ware of the sea upon which they launch
themselves.
There is, likewise, that other class in
cluded in this consideration, which en-
braces the open and avowed enemies of
the Government, who pronounce it fail
urs. demand its overthrow aud preach
upon the street corners the doctrines of
disorder.
1t is simply infamous that in the Capi-
tai City of the State of California men
and women, in any number whatever,
should, unrebuked and unchecked,
preach destruction of the Republic and
glorify murder, treason and all manner
of lawlessness.
Yet this preaching and defiance actually
takes place in the MONDAY glare of the
sun that shines upon people whose lib
critics are the envy of all the races of men.
Damn the GovernmentP has been
heard shouted on the street. "Stab the
law" was the chorus of the Haymarket
anarchists Of Chicago. and it is echoed in
the streets of Sacramento and Oakland
and Los Angeles, and here, especially,
with freedom and license that is amaz-
ing. Labor is shamed by these unsought
allies, and its cause crippled by their
sympathy.
This is in brief the essence of the logic
of the disloyalty referred to: Down with
order and up with passion, sslfishness
and blind hate; exalt the red flag and
down with old glory;' make the law of
the mob the rule in this the fairest, freest
land on earth; glory in the untimely
death of the soldiers of the Union, and
shout for victory when assassination
strikes blow"
The pstroleuse of Paris and the Gem
munards of her wine cellars never were
bolder or more contemptuous and defiant
of law than these men, women and CAL
low youths who are preaching and doing
treason, advising rebellion, inviting the
penalties of the law and actually contrib
uting to sentiment that would cut from
under their feet every privilege and all
liberty.
They are not strikers-only q few, at
least; for the former have the quality of
courage and the capacity to be decent,
with sprinkling unhsppily of men who
are violent and unconcealedly propose to
carry on guerrilla warfare against the
law.
No. the classes to which we refer are
in the one instance treason mongers, who
scent battle feast SIS vultures do a car
caas; and in the other case, foolish, loud
mouthed, unappreciative people who it is
now discovered have no true conception
of social order and obligation. There are
women among them, too, quite the most
lurid of all in their disloyalty, who like
one of some prominence we could name,
run through the street on receipt of the
news of assassination of Union soldiers
and sxclaim, Another victory" women
who disgrace the sex by olapping their
palms when murder is done. and in gos~
sipy chatter send greetings of hope that
the Government forces resisting lawless-
ness will be undone.
Beside these people the Copperheads of
the troublous "sixties' would shine as
angels of blssssdness. These are they