Year: 1879

In the present deveiopments ol
politics Ia California one may be ex'
cused for being little at sea. The
position of any man who belongs
to either Of the old parties is decid-
edly peculiar. An American Of
from twenty to three generations
Of American blood can reasonably
be excused, by men who take into
account the lessons of history and
the ideal of politics, from at olce
realizing that he is necessarily,
and by due logical sequence-by an
Irresistible syllogism Of the sand
lots-an Gimp of help and a "hell-
born villain" When some newly
naturalized citizen or non-natural-
lied foreigner assures him that he is
such, he is to be condened for TAX
Ing little time before he surrenders
himself as self.confessed miscreant
Of variegated dyes and unspeakable
depths Of villainy. The editor of
the HERALD has been so often re.
ferred to in the pleasing and emol-
llent discussions of the Los Ange-
leo substitute for the "Sand Lots'
that 1t is perhaps pardonable if q
slight reference is made to our own
sensations in 'going to school" to
the new set of political schoolmas-
ters. We have always taken O pride
In our Irish blood, which is almost
the undiluted Galway article, with
such deteriorations as would result
from residence of three genera
atiOns on the American continent,
As we are on the confessional stool,
we will extend cur confessions. We
are as loyal to our Irish blood as
ever, but we confess that we are
not as proud Of 1t as We once were
that Is, of its manifestations in
California. We are too new q STU
dent Of the boisterous, blackguard
and curse.ridden dispensation of
Kearney to have warmed up to our
new alphabet, as yet. RI, some
time or other, after they have had
their little strut, played their ex-
tremes to the end. and set down
suddenly on the ground, the element
represented by Kearney find that
they hav'A't as many friends and
champions as they once had, we
don't mslign them by supposing
that they will have intelligence
enough to understand the reason,
but ''all the world and the rest of
mankind" will comprehend it per-
fectly.


The fact is that the Kearney
schools have been run on too high
pressure principle. The orators
and howlers of that school have
not given American citizens time
enough to become accustomed to
the new dispensation. People of
parts are getting off the boat which
is run by them, because the be-
nighted Americans have sense
: enough to know that the boilers
are going to burst presently. In
that event there will be a great
many sorely scalded people and
there may not be enough lint and
linseed oil at hand to relieve the
situation from a decided physical
agony accompanying political
death.


The truth is that the schooling
should have been more gradual.
It takes the average native born
citizen some time to learn that he
is the natural ard political inferior
OF an individual who has perhaps
spent four or five weeks or four or
five years, as the case may be, on
American soil. He is apt to have
E an old fashioned idea that the new
conner should be a little modest,
and that the American pupil
should not be hauled up for the rat
tan at the first calling of the classes,
The American, with his old ideas
Es:y have some sort of confused
notion that his pretentious pro
fessor Is reveling in FOOLS Para
disc, and that the awakening may
not be altogether pleasant. 1t only
takes few weeks for the foreigner
Of any nationality lately LANDED
on our soil to throw away con
temptueusly the cordial protecto
rate which the Democratic part,
has exercised over his kind fo
nearly a hundred years. but If th,
Democracy should choose to ge
huffed at what 1t might regard a,
ingratitude, what is to take III
place? We speak with extrem
diffidence; but, If it were not TO
the knowledge of the fact tha
some one just landed from som
European country, with hi
foot hardly planted on ou
soil. would convict us of gros
ignorance Of American politics, w
should be tempted TO say that tn
Democratic party has gained devil
ish nearly oil the ill-will whicl
now rests upon its ancient and de
voted head through IL,
knightly aud never intermit
ting devotion to the doctrine frs
announced by its founder, Thomas
Jefferson, that "the foreigner should