Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1889-03-22

| saw whether we will or not the population
| of other lands Will come here. There ar,
| harbors all the way from Baffin's bay te
| Galveston, and if you shut fifty gates Their
| will be other gates unguarded And il yoi
forbid foreigners from coming on tn,
steamers they will take sailing vessels
| And if you forbid them coming on sailing
vessels they will come in boats. And If yol
viii not let them come in boats the,
viii come on RATS And if you vii
not allow wharfage TO the raj
they will leave it outside Sand,
Hook and swim for free America Stol
themS You might as well pass law for
bidding swarm of summer bees from
lighting on the clover top or pass law for
bidding the tides of the Atlantic TO riss
when the moon puts under it silver crap
ping hooks, or law that the MONDAY SUI
should not irradiate the atmosphere
They have come. They are coming
now. They will come. And if I ha(
4 voice loud enough to be heard across
the seas / would put it to the utrnos
tension, and cry: Let them come! Yor
stingy, selfish, shriveIed-up, blasted soul
who sit before your silver dinner plate
piled up with breast of roast turkey in
carnadined with cranberry, your fork full
and your mouth full and examining dow1
the superabundance till your digestive or
gans are terrorized, let the millions of YOU
fellow have at least the wishing bone
But some of this cry, America for Amer
leans, may rise from an honest fear lest this
land be overcrowded Such persons haG
better take the Northern Pacific or Unior
Pacific or Southern Pacific or Atlantic &
Charlotte airline or Texas & Santa Fe anC
go long journey and find out that no more
IL Il,
cultivated If a man with one hundred
acres of farm land should put all his cult
yation on one acre he would be
cultivating a larger ratio of his farm than
our Nation is now occupying of the
National farm Pour the whole human race.
Europe, Asia, Africa and all the islands OF
the sea into America and there would be
room to spare. All the Rocky Mountain
barrennesses and all the other American
deserts are to be fortified, and as Salt Lake
City and much of Utah once yielded not a
blade of grass now by artificial irrigation
have become gardens, SO q large part
of this continent that now is too
poor to grow even mullen stalk
or a Canada thistle, will through arti-
fetal irrigation 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 af-
fairs being corrected on the other side
of the waters, Ireland under differ
emit regulation turned into q garden,
will invite back another generation of Irish
men, and the wide wastes of Russia brought
from under despotism will with her own
green fields invite back another generation
of Russians. And there will be hundreds OF
thousands OF Americans every year settling
on the other continents And after 4 num-
Der of centuries Iall the earth full and crowd
ed, what then! Well, at that time some night
a panther meteor wandering through the
heavens will put its paw on our world and
stop it, and putting its panther tooth into the
neck of its mountain range will shake it
hfeless as the rat terrier rat So have no
more fear of America being overcrowded
than that the porpoises in the Atlantic
ocean will become SO numerous as to stop
shipping.
1t is through mighty addition of foreign
population to our native population that l
think God is going to fill this land with a
race of people ninety-tive per cent superior
to any thing the world has ever seen In
termarriage of families and inter marriage of
nations is depressing and Gripping. Mar
rage outside of ones own nationality and
with another style of nationality is a
mighty gain. What makes the Scotch
Irish second to no pedigree for brain
and stamina of character, SO that blood
goes right up to the Supreme Court
bench and to the front rank in jurispru-
dence and merchandise and art? Because
nothing under Heaven can be more unlike
than Scotchman and an Irishman and the
descendants of these two conjoined nation
alities unless rum filings them, go right to
the tip top in every thing. All nationalities
coming TO this land the opposites will all
the while be atfianced and French and Ger
man will unite and that will stop all the
quarrel between them, and one child they
will call Alsace and the other Lor-
aine. And hot-blooded Spaniard will
unite with cool-blooded Polander and TO
mantle Italian with matter-of-fact Nor
wegian, and one hundred and fifty years
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-iike brow, in taste, in intelligence,
and in morals so far ahead of any thing now
known on either side the seas that this last
quarter of the nineteenth century will
seem to them like the dark ages. Oh, then
how they will legislate and bargain and
pray and preach and govern! This is
the land where by the mingling of races the
race question is to get It's death blow. How
Heaven feels about it we may conclude
from the fact that Christ, the Jew, and de-
scended from a Jewess, nevertheless pro-
vided religion for all races, and that Paul.
though a Jew, became the chief apostle of
the Gentle, and that recently God has al
lowed to burst in splendor upon the atten-
ton of the world Hirsch, the Jew, who.
after giving ten million dollars to Christian
churches and hospitals, has called n com
mittee of nations and furnished it with
forty million dollars for schools to elevate
his race in France and Germany and Russia
to higher intelligence and abolish, as he
says, the prejudices against their race, these
fifty million dollars not given in last will
and testament and at a time when Il man
must leave his money anyhow, but by dona-
ton at hfty-fye years of age and in good
health, utterly eclipsing all benevolence
since the world was created l must con-
TESS there was a time when / enter
tanned race prejudice, but, thanks to
God, that prejudice has gone, and if
sat III church and on one side of me there
was black man and on the other side of
me was an Indian and before me was a
Chinaman and behind me Turk | would
be as happy as | am now standing in the
presence of this brilliant audience, and l am
as happy now as l can be and live The
sooner we get this corpse of race prejudice
buried the healthier will be our American
atmosphere. Let each one fetch a spade
and let us dig its grave clear on down
deeper and deeper till we get as far down
as the center of the earth and half way to
China, but no further lest it poison those
living on the other side the earth
Then into this grave let down the
accursed carcass of race prejudice and
throw on it all the mean things that have
ever been said and written between Jew
and Gentle, between Turk and Russian,
between English and French, between
Monaghan and anti-Mongolian, between
black and white, and put up over that grave
for tombstone some scorched and Jagged
chunk of scorie spit out by some volcanic
eruption and chisel on it for epitaph: Here
lies the carcass of one who cursed the
world Aged near 5000 years Departed
this Life for the perdition from whence it
came. No peace to its ashes"
Now. IN view of this subject, have two
point-blank words to utter, one suggesting
what foreigners ought to do for us and the
other what we ought to do for foreigners
First, TO foreigners: Lay aside all apologize
air and realize you have as much right as
any man who was not only himself born
here but his father and his grandfather and
his great grandfather before him. Are you an
Englishman? Though during the revolution
airy war your fathers treated our fathers
roughly, England has more than atoned for
that by giving to this country at least two
4 So L,