St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1885-12-14
tie to the Romans. which says: "How shall

tie to the Romans. which says: "How shall
they hear without preacher?"
My object this morning is to set before
you the need of ministers for the moral,
political and religious welfare of the coun-
try, especially those interior states. and the
way in which such ministry should be
secured, said the speaker, after suitable
introduction. There is considerable moral
and political need of preachers. There are
two great problems with which we are con-
fronted. One we share with all the civilized
world, the other is local to America. One
problem is that of great cities, the
other that of immigration. Go where
you will in America, England OIL
on the continent, you mark the
same tendency of modern times, the cOun-
America, according to the last census,
one-fourth of the population of the
United States Preside in cities of 10000
or over. Young people are not salts
fled with farms and the activity of smaller
towns They join the great throng who
are seeking their livelihood in the marts of
trade. Multitudes must go to the wall and
fail where but few succeed, and fall into
the line of disconnected classes. In this is
AN ELEMENT OF CRIME AND DANGER.
Men of every land are coming to our
shores. They are coming right on to
our interior state. They are settling in
Chicago until to-day it is the first Bohe-
milan. the first Danish, the first Norwegian,
the first Swedish and the second German
city i'll the United States. Forty per cent.
OF the population is foreign born, or, in
GLIDING their children, so to 80 per cent. of
its population is in sense foreign born. 1t
contains city of Bohemians numbering
about 10000, part of which is known as
PilSen. 1t has three Roman Catholic
churches and several clubs, some of which
are lnhdel. 1t has one atheistic daily
paper, which publishes a Sunday
edition with blasphemous carica-
lures of the Bible, and which
industriously reprints Paine's Age of Kea-
son aid all of IngersolPs latest utterances.
1t also has Communist paper. The b.
hemians are clannish, although peabeable
and well-dsposed people. Rut what is to
become of the terrible seed sowing? What
is to be left between these sheaves of super
stition in one hand and unbeleif in the
other?
The Germans in Chicago, as I have said,
are second in American cities. l do not
know the character of their press. but their
political papers. are, with one excep-
ton, unbelieving. There are besides
three papers, two others, the Ar
bitter Zeitung. workingman's
paper and the fackel or torch, the letters
of whose name are encircled with flame.
What is their creed? No God, no capital,
no family. What is their gospel? Fire,
dynamite, the dagger; the dissolution of the
state; the dissolution of the family. What
are the banners of their army? The red
flag of blood and the black flag of hunger.
What is their millennium? He'll OIL earth
and the arch-fend enthroned.
The great mass of Germans are
not socialists, and have not
the slightest sympathy with them
yet there can be no doubt that coming from
the fatherland they are subjected to great
temptation in Chicago, not to speak of
other cities in the interior. The people
who come from the other side of the ocean
nave much of solid worth. hence the lost is
all the greater if they are not enlisted on
the right side. The composition of at least
twelve of the interior states and territories
are more or less like that OF Chicago.
1t is delicate subject to speak of for
eign-born population lest we should be
misunderstood comparing them I'M
favorable with themselves, but even
reckoning them as better, are there not
manifold moral and political dangers in this
state of things have mentioned?
The danger is from those who do not
speak our language: who do not under
stand our institutions. Some of them bring
cOmmunistic ideas from the continent,
where they may have suffered, to land
where an industrious man may surely earn
living.