The herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1893-1900, 1895-10-17
STIRRING up STRIFE AGAIN

In a recent procession in the streets OF
Los Angeles bloodcolored flags were
carried. These flags were in the hands Of
the society of anarchists or radical So
cialists.
The aim of this society is understood
to be the destruction of law and ord err.
The color of their flag is believed to be
typical of the human blood which they
are ready to shed by bombs, dynamite
or assassination to achieve their end.
The Express would probably consider the
citation OF this bloody flag carrying i'll
cident by the New Orleans Picayune to
prove that Los Angeles was com
munity of anarchists ready to plunge IN
to blood to overthrow social security as
inoonsequent and impertinent. The Ex-
press itself has not even such fact to
justify its attri buting to the whole S outh
the Intention of deliberately depriving
its cnlored population of any education.
The Express supports its bitter partisan
charge with nothing. With absolutely
nothing. The acts OF the south in great
sacrifices for the education OF all its peo-
pie, inclu1ing the colored race, co ntradict
fatty the assumption of the Express.
Impartial observers unite in stating that
the educational work of the south. both
as to amount and race fairness, has been
remarkable, especially so when the
financial means at ITS command are con-
sidered.
At the end OF the civil war the resour-
ces uf the south were more completely ex
hausted than those of any civilized COM
munity have been, since the thirty years
war. The south had had four years of
absolute protection by the union land
and sea blockade. and four years of cheap
currency, and it was bankrupt, sans
shoes, sans clothes. sans money, sans
everything; railroads unsafe or gone.
commerce nil, industries dead, produc-
tion at a standstill. That April day at
Appomattox swept away the last prop of
its cheap currency and ended its protec.
tive blockade.
In its day OF dirs distress the south
was deprived of the Express two pros
perity makers, complete protection
against the world and as cheap a currency
as even the Express could wish. The
arbitrament OF war was accepted,
slavery was abolished, its sun set
forever in sea of white Amer
leans blood. the union was maintained
and the south went to work. What the
results nave been may be seen today in
the grand exhibition at A tlanta. There
is today no section with a more thorough
ly American born population than the
south, nowhere is devotion to the union,
the flag and the constitution truer than
in the south. This happy ending of the
tragedy of civil war fills every patriots
heart with Joy. He who tears open the
old wounds now to set section against
section, state against state, brother
against brother and American against
American, commits folly that crowds
close on the heels of treason. The splen-
did union feeling of the American people
today is due to the patience, kindness
and patriotism Of the whole people.
There has never been helping hand
given it by our reckless partisan politi-
clans. These have blocked our peoples
heart impulses, they have done their
utmost to stir up strife, to blow up new
fires out of the old EN- bers and piled folly
on folly with their force laws, carpet
baggers and the whole array of patron
age, Offices and public plumber. The
whole miserable business is ready for
the eternity of the grave. Let us give it
decsnt and hasty burial and start on
something for the benefit rather than
the destruction of our common country.