The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1884-12-18
GATES OF THE SOUTH.
The Tide Of Immigration and Bust
ness Changes It's Course.

ness Changes Its Course.
NEW FIELD OF COMMERCIAL CONQUEs
TO BE SHOWN BY WORLDS ExPosI
rIoNETHAKsGIvING SERMON O.
THE REV. T. DEWITT TALMAGI
PREACHED IN THE BROOKLYN ia
| BERNACLE.
At the annual Thanksgiving ser
vice at the Brooklyn Tabernacle
Brooklyn, n. Y, reports a CORES
pondent of the Times-Demecrat, th'
church was profusely adorned will
corn from the west, sugar cane from
Louisiana, wheat from the nortt
and cotton from Georgia.
The subject of the sermon by DR.
Talmage was, Thanksgiving Day,
1884, the texts were: Ezekiel
KILL, "Another door toward the
SOUTH" and Revelations xxi:I3,
"On the south three gates"
DIR. Talmage said, in part: In
the graceful and splendid decora-
tion of this churrh today with
the grain and fruits of all sections
we have an American congress of
national products. Delegates from
north, south, cast and west. Here
are delegations with white hair, the
cotton fields of the south. Here
are those with auburn boards and
locks from the golden wheatfields Of
the north. Here are fruits that
have in their round cheeks the
blush of the setting sun of The
west. Behold this moss from south
ern woods, the bridal veil of the
forest. Behold these plumes OF
pampas from the far west. Behold
this rice from the Carolinas, and
these grapes aud pears from Cali
fornia. Behold these apples from
Connecticut, the land of steady hab-
its. Behold these great banana
trees, standing sentinel at either
end Of the platform, by last steam
CT from Florida, but the fruit this
moment growing and one of them
in blossom of resplendent orb. Be-
hold this coal from Pennsylvania,
and.this iron ore from Idaho, and
this silver from Nevada and this
lead from Colorado, and this cop
per from Lake Superior, and these
great blossoms of New York and
New Jersey and Long Island cereal
.Harvests of 1884
looking down upon all their prede-
cessors. The wave of temporal
blessing has dashed to the top of
The nations corn bin. Aye
THE PROSPERITY OF THIS NATION
nas rolled up until the crest of the
waye has broken and recoiled upon
tself. More corn and wheat and
cotton and rice than we can find
market for. More manu-
'actured goods than we can dispose
IF. The grain markets are glutted
md the factories by the hundreds
stopped or run with only half the
,pindles harncssed, and wages are
;ut down because the supply has
,wamped the demand. Nothing is
he matter to-day with this country
out over production and Ender-con-
Where there is work
or ten there are twenty who offer
heir services, and the hundred |
wheels of American in
iustry are slowing up, not because
here is too little, but because |
here is too much. God has showed |
lpon the track of the nation such
Tast accumulation of prosperity |
hat the engine which draws the |
rain cannot plow any further
through. The American nation Is
1eIng choked to death with sur
plus of production and manufac
,ure. Too much wheat, too much
corn, too much cotton, too much |
'ruit, too much coal and iron, too
much hardware, too many dry |
goods, too many shoes, too many |
too many philosophical in
too many cattle, too
many sheep, too many artisans, too
many merchants, too many lawyers,
100 many doctors and from the
arge numbers of excellent men in
NY own profession without settle
nent, some might think too many
ministers.
No president, though he com
,ined the patriotism of Washing
on, and the broad views of Jeffer-
ION, and the suavity of Madison,
md the courage ofan Andrew Jack
ION, and the old old fashioned hon
,sty of an Abraham Lincoln, could
'egulate the inexoTable law of sup
,ly and demand. "Well," some
ay, "let us pack our trunks and
move east, or north, or west" Co.
ng east toward Europe would be
,e exodus into starvation. The aV-
.lanche of population from Europe
ssures US that that country is al
eady overcrowded. We all know
hat this is the best country to live
n. Shall we move West?
THERE is NO WEST.
The emigrants chased it across
be Ohio, across the Mississippi,
cross the LaPlatte, and Fremont's
expedition put their
pnrs into their horses flanks and
hased the west from the Rocky
to the Sierra Nevadas,
7hile the forty miners from Califor-
ia, landing from their ships on
be Pacific beach, took the west in
he rear. And the workmen of the
Jnion Pacific and Northern Pacific
nd Southern Pacific came upon it
nth their spades, and the giant
rest has ceased.
But jim the words of my text,
Iow declare smother door toward
he SOUTH and when 1 say south
10 not mean the southern states of
he nation, but / mean magnif-
ent infnity of opportunity beyond
the fifteen
'panish-American republics and
he islands of the South Pacific.