Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1889-03-16

SHOULD see us coming up at tle last shoul
say: 60 back' Hoaven ior the Heaven
ians!'
.Ofcourse we do well not to al 'ow FOR
elgn ation to make this country a con
Wet colony. We would have a wall pul
AS nigh as heaven and as deep as hel
against foreign thieves, pickpockets anc
anarchists. We would not let them Wild,
their ieet on the map Of the outside doc
OF Castle Garden. If England or Russia
or Germany or France send here theiI
desperadoes to get clear of them, We
would have these desperadoes sent back
IN chains to the places where they came
from. We will not nave America become
the dumping place for foreign vagabond
ISM. But you build up a wall at the Nsr
rows before New York harbor, or at the
Golden Gate before San Francisco, and
forbid the coming Of the Industrious and
hard working and honest populations OF
other lands who want to breathe the ali
OF our free institutions and get opportu-
nifty for better livelihood, and ii is only a
question: OF time when God will tumble
that wall flat on our own heads with the
red not thunderbolts of his omuipotent
Indignation. You are a father and you
have five children. The parlor is the
best room in your house. Your son Phil
up says to the other four children.
Now, John, you live in the small room
in the end Of the hall and stay there:
George, you live in the garnet and stay
there; Mary, you live in the cellar end
stay there; Fannie. you live in the
Kitchen and stay there. /, Philip, will
take the parlor. 1t suits me exactly. /
like the pictures on the wall. like the
lambrequins at the windows.
l like the Administer on the
floor. Now, l, Philip, propose to
occupy this parlor and 1 command
you to stay out. The parlor only for
Philippians" You, the father, hear of
this arrangement, and what will you do?
You will get red in the face and say:
John, come out Of that small room at
the end of the ball; George, come down
out Of the garnet; Mary, come up from
the cellar; Fannie, come out of the
kitchen, and go into the parlor or any
where you choose; and, Philip, for your
greediness and u%nbrotherly 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, a North American, q South Ameri-
can, a European, an Asiatic and an Afri-
can. The North American shifts the
breeze and he says to his four brothers
and sisters: Let the South American
stay in South A erica, Let the European
stay in Europe, let the Asiatic stay in
Asia, let the African stay in Africa; but
America is for me. | think it is the par
Tor Of the whole earth. | like its carpets
OF grass and its upholstery of the front
window, namely the American sunrise,
and the upholstery of the back window.
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 it, and
chastisement would come and, whether
by earthquake or flood or drought or
heaven darkening swGrms of locust and
%grasshopper or destroying angel of pes.
thence, God would rebuke our s|elfishness
as a nation and say 10 the four winds Of
heaven: This world is my house aud the
North American is no more my child
than is the South American andt The Euro
pCan II the Asiatic and the African.
And | built this world for ali the chill
dren, and the parlor is theirs and all is
theirs" For, let me- say, whether he
viii or not, the population of all oIher
lands will come here. There are labor
ers all the way from Baffl,n's bay TO Gal |
weston, and if you shut fifty gates there
will be other gates %unguarded Ana if
you forbid foreigners from coming on the
steamers they will take sailing vessels.
And if you forbid them coming on sailing
vessels they will come in boats. And if
you will not let them come in boats they
will come on RATS. And if you will not
allow wharfage TO the raft
fhnu will lnaun ~, n,tcfIn Ga.I., !
Hook and swim for free America Stop
them? You might as well pass a law for
bidding a swarm of summer bees from
forbidding the tides of the Atlantic to
graphing hooks, or a law that the noon
day sun should not irradiate the atmos-
phere. They have come. They are com
ing now. They will come. And if | had
a voice loud enough to be heard across
the seas | would put it to the utmost ten
Zion 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 in
c%arnadined with cranberry, your fork
full and your mouth full and examining
down the superabundance till your di-
SNoiNC oiSdho VI ALIu, lCt luC
millions Of your fellow men have at least
the wishing bone.
But some Of this cry, America for
Americans, may rise from an honest fear
lest this land be overcrowdcd. 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 q long journey and
find out that no more thar a tenth part of
this continent is fully cultivated. If a
with a hundred acres of farm land
should put all his cultivation on one acre
he would be cultivating q larger ratio Of
his farm than our nation is now occupy
ing 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 fer
tilted, and as Salt Lake City and much
of Utah once yielded not a blade Of grass
now by artificial irrigation have become
gardens, 50 a large part Of this continent
that 10Y is too poor to grow even a null
lein stalk or a Canada thistle, will
through artificial irrigation like an Hi
nois prairie wave with wheat or like a
Wisconsin farm rustic with corn ~tassels. |