The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1889-03-04


small room at tie end of the hall; George,
come down out of the garnet; Mary, come
up from the cellar; Fannie, come out oil
the kitchen, and 60 into the parlcr or any
where you choose; and, Phlllo, for your
greediness and unbrothCrly behavior, put
you for two hours in the dark closet under
the stairs God is the Father Of the
human race He has at least five sons,
North American, a South American, a
Furopean, an Asiatic and an African. Inc
North American shifts the breeze and he
saws to his four brothers and sisters: Let
the South American stay in nth America,
let the European stay in Europe, let the
Asiatic stay in Asia, let the African stay IN
Africa: but America is for me. l think 1t
is the paror Of the W ole earth. l Ike It's
Garnet of grass and its upholstery of the
front window, namely the American sun
rise. and the upholstery of the back win
dow namely the American sunset.
Now | want YOU all to stay out and
keep to your places" | am sure the father
of the whole human race would hear Of II
and chastisement would come, and, whether
by earthquake or food or drought, or
heaven darkening swarms of locust and
grasshopper, or destroying angel of pestil-
ence, God would rebuke our selfishness a a
nation, and say to the four winds OF heaven:
"This world is my house, and the North
American is no more my child than IS the
South American and the European aud the
Asiatic and the African And | built
this world for all the children, and the
parlor is theirs and all is theirs" For, let
me say, whether we will or not, the ponua-
ton of other lands will come here. There
are harbors all the wav from Battin's bay
TO Galveston, and if you shut fifty gates
there will be other gates unguarded And
if you forbid foreigners from coming on tho
steamers they will take sailing vessels. And
they will come ia boats And if you will
not let them come in boats tGey
will come on RATS. And if you will
not allow whar age to the raft
they will leave it outside Sandy Hook and
swim for free America. Stop themi You
might as well pass law fO' bidding a swarm
of summer bees from lighting on the clover
top, or pass law forbidding the tides Of
the Atlantic to rise when the moon puts
under it silver graphing hooks or a law
that the monday sun should not lrradiate
the atmosphere. They have come. They
are coming now. They will come. A ID if
l had voice loud enough
to be heard across the seas
would put it to the utmost tension and
cry, Let them come! You stingy, selfish,
shriveled up, blasted souls who sit before
your silver dinner plate piled up with
breast of roast turkey incarnadined with
cranberry, your fork full and your mouth
full and examining down the superabun-
dance till your digestive organs are terror
lied. let the millions of your fellow men
have at least the wishing bone.
But some of this cry, America for
Americans, may arise from an honest fear
lest this land be overcrowded. Such per
sons had better take the Northern Pacific
or Union Pacific or Southern Pacific or
Atlantic and Charlotte Air Line or Texas
and Santa Fe, and go long journey aud
find out that no mure than tenth part of
this continent is fully cultivated. II man
with a hundred acres of farm land should
put all his cultivation on one acre he would
be cultivating larger ratio of his farm
than our nation is now occupying of the
national farm. Pour the whole human
race, Europe, Asia, Africa and ell the
islands of the sea, into America ana there
would be room to spare. All the Rocky
mountain barrenness and all the other
American deserts are to be fortified, and
as Salt Lake City and much of Utah once
yielded not blade of grass now by artih-
cial irrigation have become gardens, SO a
large part Of this continent that now is too
poor to grow even a mullen stalk or a
Canada thistle, will through artificial irri-
CATION like an Illinois prairie wave with
wheat, or like Wisconsin farm rustic with
corn tasSels Besides that, after perhaps
century or two more, when this continent
is quite well occupied, the tides
of immigration will turn the other
way. Politics and governmental affairs
being corrected on the other side of the
waters, Ireland under different regulation
turned into garden will invite back an
other generation of Irishmen. and the wide
wastes of Russia brought from under despot-
ism will with her own green fields invite
back another generation of Russians.
And there will b. hundreds of thous-
ards OF Americans every year set
ting on the other continents Aud
after number of centuries all the earth
full and crowded, what then9 Well, at that
time some night panther meteor wander
ing through the heavens will put its paw on
our world and stop it, and putting i S
panther tooth into the neck of its m unJain
range will shake it lifeless as the rat terrier
a rat. SO have no more fear of America
being overcrowded than that the porpoises
in the Atlantic ocean will become so num-
erous as to stop shipping.
1t is through mighty addition of foreign
population to our native population that |
think God is going to fill this land with a
race of people 95 per cent. superior t. "
thing the wori ID has ever seen. lntermar-
riage of families and intermarriage of ma
tions is depressing and Gripping. Marriage
outside of ones own nationality and with
another style of nationality is mighty
gam. W hat makes the Scotch-lrlsh Seco d
to no pedigree for brain and stamina of
character, so that blood goes right up to
supreme court bench and 10 the
front rank in Jurisprudence and
merchandise and art 2 Because moth
ing under heaven can be more unlike
than a Scotchman and an Irishman, and
the descendants Of these two COMBINED
nauonalities, unless rum filings them, go
right to the tip top in everything All
nationalities coming to this laad the oppo-
sites will all the while lie affianced, and
French and German will unite and that
will stop all the quarrel between them.
and one child they will call Alsace
and the other Lorraine. And hot-blooded
Spaniard will unite with cool-olooded 4
Poiander, and romantic Italian with
matter-of-fact Norwegian, and hun
dred and fifty yeas from now the race
occupying this land will be in stature. in
purity of complexion, in liquidity of eye, in
gracefulness of poise, in dome-like brow, in
taste, in intelligence a y morals so far
ahead Of anything now known on either
side the seas that this last quarter of the
Nineteenth century will seem to them like
the Dark Ages. Ga, then, how they will
leglslate and bargain and pray and preach
and govern! This is the land whore by the
mingling of races the race prejudice is to get
It's death blow. How heaven feels about
1t we may CO clude from the fact that
Christ, tue Je s, and descended from a
Jewess, nevcItn LESS provided a religion for
all races, and That Paul, { ough Jew, be-
came the chief apostle OF the Gent los. and
that recently God has aIloXya1 20 n,,rgt