The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1889-03-13

the mountain ranges, 1T will take our
world and shake it lifeless, as easily as
rat terrier rat. | have as much fear
that the porpoises in the Atlantic ocean
will multiply until they stop the shipping
as | have fear that this country will ever
be too much crowded BY the addition of
"a foreign population to our native pOpu-
latiOn and the intermingling OF races on
this continent there is going after a while
to be race in America % per cent. better,
stronger, mightier than any race now on
the earth, on either side of the Atlantic.
lntermarriage of families, intermarriage
OF nations Is depressing, crippling. Mar
riage outside of ones nationality, and
especially marriage into a style of nation
atty entirely different from your own Is
mighty gain. What makes the ScOth-
Irish blood second in pedigree to none
because of its brain and stamina of char
acter2 II is because the two most unlike
people in the world are q ScOtchman and
an Irishman. These natiOnalities inter
mingle and have the Scotch-Irish blood,
and then they 90 right up to the supreme
court bench and right To the front of all
merchandise and all jurisprudence. Moth
ing so accelerates the human race as the
mingling OF races. And in this country
we are going TO have all the opposite ma
tionalities intermingled. 1t is the inter
mingling of the races in America
that is going TO destroy the
last vestige OF race prejudice.
How heaven feels about it YOU may
conclude from the fact that Christ, Jew,
and born of a Jewess, promulgated q re-
ligion for all races, and that Paul, a Jew,
became the chief apostle to the Gentiles,
and that Christ has allowed to burst upon
t1G N Gr,lnnhnr in th1a the
charity OF Mr.. Hirsch, the Jew who, after
giving Sl0O00,000 to Christian charities
and hospitals in January, gave S4O,OO0,OOO
for schools to educate the Jews in France,
Germany and Russia and, as he says, to
eXtingUish race prejudice. Those S3O,-
100000 given to the Christians and the
Jews for alleviating and educational pur-
poses, not bestowed in last will and tes-
lament when a man must give up his
money anyhow, but at fifty-five years of
age and in good health-a magnificence of
benevOlence never equaled since the
world was created. l confess that | used
to have some race prejudices, but, thank
God. they have all gone. and if / sat to-
day in this church. and on one side of me
sat a black man, and on the other side of
me sat an Indian, and before me sat
Chinaman, and behind me sat Turk, /
would be just as happy as am now stand
ing in the presence of this brilliant assem-
blage, and am about as happy now as
can be and live. Oh, it will be healthy
for this American atmosphere, healthy
for American life, when we can take this
miserable corpse of race prejudice and
bury it. Bring all your spades now and
let us dig a grave. Dig II deep down,
deeper down, deeper down until we
come to the very heart OF the earth, half
way across China, but no further lest the
poison get out on the other side of the
world. Then let down this accursed car
cass OF race prejudice into this deep grave.
Then put on top of it all the mean things
that have ever been said about Jew and
Gentle. between Turk and Russian, be-
tween English and French, between Mon
golian and anti-AIongoian. Then let US
have for 4 tombstone a scorched and
Jagged chunk of scoria spit out by some
volcanic eruption. and chisel on it this
epitaph: "Here lies one who cursed the
centuries, aged nearly six thousand years.
Departed this life for the perdition from
whence it came. No peace to its ashes"