The record-union., 1894-07-12
LOYALTY TO AMERICAN INST1-
TUTIONS.

IUI1ONS.
There is lack of strength in the patri
otic pulse beat of portion of the inhabit-
ants, thanks to the dangerous teachings
of foreign emissaries and home agitators
of reasonable propensities.
But we have faith in the honest, self
respecting workmen, artisans, craftsmen
and workers of the land that they will not
be party to the apparently set scheme to
make war upon American institutions.
The second thought is going to prevent
American workers from becoming Ameri-
ean rebels.
It cannot be too eften preached, nor too
smphatically or loudly, that the Govern
ment of the United States does not as
sault any human rights. but is the true
fountain of their sustenance, beside
which no other is to be placed as equal in
purity and volume. The sole purpose
and aim of the Government handed down
to US by the fathers, is to execute the
people the guarantees of the Constitution
that make them each one and all sover-
eigns.
But he is blind who has not discovered
that there has been growing under the
broad shelter of our good nature and en-
during patience an alarming apathy of
patriotism that some have feared may re-
suit in paralysis of the experiment of
democratic institutions. We are not of
those, but feel mingled anger and sorrow
that so large part of the people of this
day have become cold and apparently in
sensible to the liberties they enjoy and
the value of the government of their
creation. It is due to introduction of for
sign ideas, false doctrines regarding law,
the specious teachings of cranky theo-
rists, the unlimited patience of the Ameri-
can people, and the extreme breadth of
liberty we have allowed in speech and
press, and which we would in no wise
limit, save to the prevention of treason
able teaching, and the promulgation Of
doctrines abhorrent to good order and
free government.
1t would seem that there is failure in
not a few directions in recent times to
comprehend what free government
means, what the duty of the citizen to
his country is and what are the obligs-
tions of the loyal man to maintain the in
stitutions that insure US our liberties and
prevent men becoming the victims of
either the tyranny of party or the tyranny
of organizations unknown to the law.
The law and the Government have no
war to make upon labor, but the damna-
bly, vicious doctrine has been insidiously
preached by designing demagogues pos
ing as labor leaders, wild-eyed social
and political economists, se-called re-
formers and incendiary agitators. that
the United States Government is the en-
envy of the masses; that it is force an
tagonistic to the people. opposed to their
highest best interest and set upon crush
ing them down into slavish submission,
10 unholy ambition to dominate through
aggregation OF wealth.
Treasonable teaching is heard upon
our streets to-day and men who would
not in other lands dare to open their lips
to the secret of their hearts are demand
Ino the overthrow of the Coyernment
and denouneing the laws that protect
them and secure them in life, while they
hold in check their passionate designs
These men who go about seeking to in
flame workers desire the overthrow of the
republic that there may be erected upon
its ruins system of fanciful ideas and
vain theories born of the fallacies of radi-
cal socialism and open enmity to Amerf-
can institutions.
These imported theories and dangerous
doctrines are born of conditions abroad
and foreign to our civilization, and are
never advocated by men familiar with
our national history and the scheme of
the Constitution, and imbued with love
for their country. But these falIacies have
been cunningly injected into the minds
of large body of the people; seasons of
financial stringency and industrial ac-
ti~;tv have been seized upon TO give