The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-12-01

America and to have seen the Andes and the
Popocatepet will be deemed as important as
to have seen the Pyreneean and Balkan ranges.
So there will be fewer people spoilt by foreign
travel and in our midst less poor imitation of
the French shrug and the intentional hesitancy
of the brainless swell The TACT is, that there
are more people made fools of by European
travel than any other way, and, though sensible
when they embark they return with collar,
and a cravat, and SHOE and a coat, and pro
nuhciation and a contempt for American lnstltu-
tons, and bend Of the elbow that makes one
believe in evolution backward, from man to ape.
OF the thirty thousand Americans who now cross
the sea annually, there will be thousands who
on pleasure and business visit the tropics, and
tourist and merchant and scientist and CAPT
talist will all help in this national developments
A NATIONAL ADVERTISEMENT.
wish that somehow our next Congress might
take the 500, 600 of surplus in the United
States Treasury which the Republicans did not
steal, and before the Democrats get a chance to
steal it and in some way expend it in establish
ing new lines of shipping between the ports of
North and South America, and in dredging their
harbors, and in building Geographic wires, and
in quickening all that glorious contamination
which is sure to come. Go on, gentlemen dis
cussing your high tariff and low tariff, and hor-
izontal tariff, and no tariff at all until the ques-
ton is as maladorous as the moss bunkers that
the Long lsa d fishermen throw on the fields to
enrich the farms. But meanwhile God is going
to prepare for the of the millions Of hard
working men aud women of this country who
have been hungry and cold long enough, and
this door of the South open is going to let in on
them a summer of bright, warm pros
perity. In anticipation, | nail on
the front door of this Nation an advertisement:
WANTED-One hundred thousand men to build
South American railways, long as from here to San
Francisco
i.
Wanted, twenty million dollars worth of dry goods
and hardware from New York
Wanted, all the clocks you make at New Haven,
and all the shoes you can manufacture at Natick and
all the brains YOU spare from Boston, and all the
bells you can mold at Troy. and all the Mccormick
reaping machines you fashion at Chicago and all
the hams you furnish from Cincinnati and all the
railroad iron you can send from Boonton and Pitts
burg.
Wanted right awayl
Wanted by express wanted by rail train, wanted by
steamer
Wanted lawyers to plead our cases
Wanted doctors to sick!
Wanted ministers to evangelize our population!
Wanted, professors to establish our universities!
Another door toward the south. On the
south three gates Lift up your heads, ye ever
lasting gates, and let The North come South and
the South come North. Corrected forever the
geographical blunder of the centuries, which
says there are five continents when there are
only four-Europe, Asia, Africa and America.
Our arctic and antarctic only the crystal latches
on front and back gate of the palace yard.
Aye, the continent is one living queen of beauty
and power. Though the continent be narrow at
the waist if you grdle it at Aspinwall it is still
one living queen upon whom God hath put the
richest dadem of all the world. On this Thanks
giving Day thought would tell you of your in
heritance. Henceforth put this into your prayers,
tune it into your doxoogies and let capitalists
and statesmen lift 1T into their plans. What is
the use of gathering whole fleet ofladen steam
els at the mouth of a small river, trying to pile
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this great, wide southern with room for
largest merchantmen to spread sail or dropanchor!
Without that opening prospect this day would be
very dark for those of who are interested in the
laboring classes. To-day one million people in
the country are out of work Ten per cent. of
the laboring classes with nothing to do but suf
fer. and another 20 per cent toiling on half
wages. ! shall not take my seat at the Thanks
giving table to-day until | look at the bare
plates of those mutitudes and at their empty
wardrobes and invoke upon them the mercy of
God and the generous consideration of those in
comfortable circumstances. Congress assemblies
next week and let it waste no time in abstrac
tons, but by some swift enactment open this
door south, and all the other legitimate doors
for the relief of men who can get
work. and who stand in this Novem
Der cold, wringng their numb fingers,
with their helpless families at their
back. Hungry men and women never have been
quiet, and never will be quiet and never ought
to be quiet. Bread they ought to have, and
Dfeau lney must ndYe, ana Ofeau Uuey Will nave.
With tins, the fifth, plentiful harvest if there be
any one, man, woman or child, without food and
without comfortable apparel, and without shell
ter, there must be something awfully wrong.
May the suffering Christ, who had no.
where to lay his head, champion the cause Of the
helpless, and smash the great monopolies that
built out of the bones andcemented with the
blood Of the poor workmen, and send a supply
this day from every full pantry to every desti
tute home, and so change the condition of
those hardly bestead that when another
Thanks giving Day arrives the poorest
man in America shall have upon his
table twenty pound turkey, royalty Drowned
and basted and stuffed, put upon his plates
dashed with cranberry, and emptied only 10
make way for pumpkin pies, such as New Eng
land matrons baked, or the more classic and
juicy mince pie such as our dear old mother
made with her hands, before those hands
folded in the last sleep, just before they
entered upon the long Thanksgiving Day of
heaven, where we shall yet throw our arms
around them and the other departed ones
who used to be with us these holidays, and
give them a rapturous hug and kiss, all the
heartier for the present painful separation l
believe no more in the brotherhood of God than
] do in the brotherhood of man. For all the
world may there be plenty to wear and plenty to
cot AD,an and ar,nn AmeD and ofOan