Milford chronicle. [volume] (Milford, Del.) 1878-1974, 1885-06-12

l WiNSc uldllHlco VIZ are 10 ne ldIktll
instrumental in shaping, and to the
end that we may measure up to the re-
quirements ,ahd responsibilities of
MISUNDERSTANDING, iG is well for us
to take in, to some extent, at least. the
magnitude of our resources aud their
possibilities.
God has given us country of mar
vellCus resources. A country, whose
history in IT'S record Of growth aud
prosperity, reads more like Il romance
than faithful saying. Let me first of
all give you few cold facts supported
by still colder figures Let IKE ask you
to consider the great natural wealth of
this land and see, If with me, You are
not impressed with the idea that God
| intended America not on vas the store
house from which to feed the world,
| but as the vast treasure house from
whose eXhaustless supplies were to
come all the sinews of commerce, Of
/ education, of exploration, aud of uni
YeTsal evangelization. Think Of the
vast supply of coal which He has hid
den in the earth, there being 40, 600, 900
tons dug annually out of the State of
I Pennsylvania alone, 5000, 600 from
Ohio, 100000 from Illinois, 900 900
each from the States of Maryland,
Iowa, Indiana and Kentucky, and the
mind is amazed at such stupendOus
/ figures.
Think of theL Gicultural products
Alexander EarietsomnildaiIL su''l- H.
First Brigade, n. G: $: n. Z p Br iigS,E1rl-
ance Of abundance that the nation of
States seems like a loaded table of good
things, stretching from Maine to Ore
gOn and from the lakes to the Rio
| Grande. And to give you an illustra-
ton of the dependence of other na-
! lions of the world upon our home pro-
duets we exported in the year 1888 to
/ Great Britain alone 55 ,000,O 600 hundred
weight of " heat and wheat -four, while
to Great Britain and all the rest Ofthe
world we sent Z, 100000 barrels OF flour,
$50, 600, COO bushels of wheat, llOCOO,OOO
bushels of corn, 2,0OO,00O bushels of
rye, aud 100000 bushels of barley.
And then lie has locked up in the hard
mountain. rock untold mineral wealth;
for in the fiscal year, ending June 1882,
the bullion products of the United
States were ISL GOO. 900, and of these
1874, 900, 600 were gold, S4l 900 600 were
silver and 5000, 900 lead, exceeding
every other country in the world in
the amount of precious metals.
Then in growth Of population, our
history is so wonderful that the imag
inatiOn does not dare to paint what
the future will be, since the widest
enthusiasm never conceived of such
past / am painfully aware of the fee
bleness of cold figures to bring the
amazing picture before your minds,
but they may serve to give you an out
line of that progress on which the
statesmen Of the old world gaze in
wonder, for their States have grown,
like the oak, slowly with the passage
of the centuries, while ours have leaped
from strength with every year, l had
almost said, with every day. In l7Ol,
F the entire population Of this country
was 262, 900 less than One-fourth that
of the present city of New York. In
1900. we numbered 5 900 900; in 1907, =
0OO, 900; in 1850 % 600 coo; in 1850, 81 800
r OGO: in 1870, SO 500 GOO and in 1885,, so, 600
600. Where on the page of history
2 can YOU find a story like that? And
then connect with this marvellous
, growth that other, and as marvellous
fact, the immense immigration to
p these shores of the older and saddeT
nations of the world. Our fathers
threw wide open the National doors.
They wrote their invitation to the OPP
pressed and dOwn-trOdden of earth in
2 letters so large, and blazing with the
fire of liberty, that all might read; fol
they believed that they had found here
the grandest national home, and the
freest, purest national life, and they
longed TO have others who were weary
{ and heavy-laden under the despotism
of the Old World come and enjoy with
them the blessings of freedom and
peace. From 1870 to 1880, there landed
on our shores 100000 foreigners who
2 came to stay, and whose coming was ia
{ digest all of the differences of race, OF
education and of faith, and out of them
, all to produce unity which would in
sure the existence and glory of our ma
tiOnal future. And where have these
= strangers come from ? Is it some one
r Ian d of despOtic rule which has thus
? been depopulated by an almost fabulous exodus
, of IL 900 900 souls! Nj! they have come from
Ireland, oppressed and yet Green Erin, from
, Germany from Denmark from Norway and Swe
den, from England, Scotland and Wales, from
j., ala Belle France" from Sunny Italy," from
the plains Of Bohemia, and from the SHOWS OF
Poland and Russia, in iact, the whole wide world
hiss been represented in this acceptance Of om
generous invitation. And have they been any
benefit to US as people? Yes,they have added
I to our nett wealth over billion Of dollars; they
] have cultivated vast tracts of land, they have
} been tue bone and sinew Of labor and enter
prise, aud they are to-day she advance corps Of
, that great national army, overcoming by per
ssteut. brave industry, the forests and the noun
tains, and making the whole vast continent fruit
iul and rich for the generations yet to come
And IN this connection cannot refrain from
, expressing my deep sorrow at the action Of Ou
two Houses of Congress in closing the doors Of
our hospitality, which have stood wide open tOl
! , a century, against the visitors from the odes
civilized nation on the globe; an action not only
unchristian but unamerlcan, for it antagonize'
all of our traditional policy, also the sentiment Of
the people, and cannot but be the sowing Of the
seed Of bitter harvest bye and bye. But it i,
said "they are immoral, and their coming in
large numbers viii corrupt our people," But
is America to throw the first stone az the immOr
] al Chnaman! What land Of a long antiquity
can show no depths Of deprayiy deeper than gre
to be found to-day in the streets Of New York
and Chicago. And then this sudden moral sen
alAANeAi1aa WI Atts EtAh VI wi fetAtNt't 80 ~
the least Of it, surprising. "But they are
= heathens. and they bring their idols with them.'
We'll, what Of it, in free country heathenism
has as many rights as atheism, and the former is
no more Of an enemy to Christianity than the
latter, and besides, II Christianity is afraid Of
meeting heathensm IN a conflict face to face on
our own soil, and under the very sunlight OF the
gospel, then we had better cease glorying in
the cross and pull dowRgling upp'ners Of eyange-
lizaiion.- Tied bottle, containi'segan ms con
lict in the very heart OF Paganism 1890 years
ago, and she has never retreated, never lost a
stronghold once gained ard to-day the trampine
Of the army Of her King is heard around the
world. Shame on the cowardice which trembles
at the approach Of such conflict aud seeks the in
terventon OF the national to close the portals
OF orr very sanctnaries to those who crying for
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