Weekly Trinity journal., 1879-04-05
From The Argonaut"
AN INCENDIARY SERMON.
|The Mules Address to Themasses OF
the Sand-EOt.

Il My fellow-asses Owing to the alb
sence Of your long>eared and brazen.
Il lunged leader and orator, who is now
*traveing through the State in the kindly
b endeavor to teach the American people
the sort Of laws they ought to adopt, and
the kind of men they ought to elect to
q &ndminister them, have been induced to
n Fill his pulpit tor a Sabbath days dis
kcourse. If / do not baspheme God, nor
abuse the Constitution, nor denounce ms
~ hell-born and hell bound " the bloat.
led aristocrats and lecherous bond
q holders" nor sympathize with him or
a you in his or your cowardly threats to
ward the class OF foreigners whom you
II Irish and Germans have undertaken to
idrive out of the country, in violation Of
laws made before your arrival and inter
y national treaties entered into before you
came to the country, you must excuse
me. Being of American birth, I can not
4 be expected to fully enter into prejudices
4 that result from Institutions with which
i am not familiar.
Il Being well born and educated, having
served my country as any army mule,
and bearing upon my shoulders the brand
~ U. s." well burned in, you will excuse
me if 1 entertain prejudices which you
nsses from Germany and Ireland do nol
81 entirely sympathize with, and entertain
opinions which in your ignorance you
can not fully understand. While in
tend to be entirely courteous, and to avoid
the vile and ribald language which you
are accustomed to hear, l shall indulge
myself in the use ofplain talk within the
comprehension of the most stupid donkey
of you all, and perhaps endeavor to stil
your thoughts with some sharp cuts Of
Saxon speech, which if you will carefully
consider will do you no end Of good.
And now. my dear, adopted fellow
citizens, let us drop the simils of the ass
Let me, for the purpose of this discourse
forget that you are unreaso enable, neon
sistent, thistle-eatng donkeys, led by
one Of your own kind bat treat you al
American citizens, upon whom-unex'
pectedly TO you-has fallen the duties
and responsibilities of government
through the exercise Of privileges denied
you in the countries of your birth, and
unwlsely accorded you by ours. What i.
1t of which you complain ? What have
we as American citizens done to you tha
we ought not to have done ? What ac
toward you have we left undone that VIZ
ought to have done ? How 10 it that you
citizens by adoption, clothed with all the
prerogatives of American nationality
have arraysd yourselves in opposition tc
our country and its laws Why is it that
every Sabbath day now for more than 9
year. in rain and sunshine, in heat and
cold, you have come here to the sand LOT
to hear American born citizens ano
American Institutions abused, villified
denounced, and threatened ? How is n
that you, the meanest and most ignorant
part of our foreign population, have or
ganized yourselves into distinct polti'
cal party, threatening to burn property
and destroy lives, to carry out your pc
cullar ideas DO you remember the
conditions from which you fed in yodl
native lands ? Do you forget that ir
Prussia or Ireland for the utteraRce O
your incendiary language you would be
punished by impriso and fine Dc
you recognize that while this is land o
freedom and free speech it is still land
ef law?
Ifyou had stayed at home, you Ger
mans would have been compelled in the
interests of the German Empire to have
served in the army. Do you Irishmer
understand that if you had stayed in youI
native laad you would have enjoyed nc
night to make laws, and no right 10 break
Them except at the penalty of the tread
mill? And all of you foreigners, Of what
ever European nationality you may be
have you forgotten that in your owl
country you were but peasants, compell
ed to labor for inadequate wages, anC
only permitted to deneunce authority a
the peril of your lives and liberties
Here you are freemen, sovereigns
clothed with political power, and in you
Ignorance and base ingrati,ude you arr
shamefully betray ing the confidence tha
has been placed in you, and returning