Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1889-03-14

| OF heaven: This world is my house and the
| North American is no more my child than i
the South American and the Europsali,
and the Asiatic AMI the African ana
! butt this world for all the children, ana
the parlor is tn sirs and all is theirs rot,
/ let me say, whether We will or not, inc
| population of othes lands viii come
| here There ara harOors all the way from
Baffins Bay to Galveston, and II You shu'
fifty gates there will be other gates un-
guarded And If you forbid for
eigners from coming on the steamer.
they will take sailing vessels. Ane
if you forbid them coming. on saiiine
vessels they will come in boats Aho
il you will not let them come in boats tnef
will come ON RATS And if you viii not al
low wharfage to the raft they VIII leave u
outside Sandy Hook and swim Tor Iree
America Stop thems You might as wen pas
a law forbidding a swarm or summer pees
from lighting on the clover top. or pass ia"
forbiddng the tides of the Atlantic TO rise
when the moon puts under it silver crap
ping hooks or a law that the MONDAY sun
should not irradate the atmosphere. lnet
have come. They are coming now. lne1
will come. And if l had voice loue
enough to be hoard across the seas
would put it to the utmost tension and cry:
Let them come You stingv, selfish, shrive.ed
up, blasted souls who sit before your silver
dinner plate piled up with breast OF roast
turkey incarnadinei with cranberry, your
fork full and your mouth full and examining
down the superabundance till your digestive
organs are terrorized, let the millions of your
iellow-men have at least the wishing bone.
But some OF this cry, America for Ameri-
cans, may arise from an honest fear lest this
land be overcro wded. Such persons had better
take the Northern Pacific or Union Pacific
or Southern Pacific or Atlantic and Char
lotte air line or Texas and Santa te,
aud go long journey aud find out that nc
more than a zenith part of this continent
fully cultivated. IL man with hundred
acres of farm land should put all his cultiva
ton on one acre he would be cultivating
larger ratio of his farm than our ma
ton Is now occupying of the national farm
Pour the whole human race, Europe, Asia.
Africa and all the islands OF the sea, int
America and there would be room to spare
All the Rocky Mountain barrennesses anc
all the other American deserts are TO be Ter
tilted. and as Salt Lake City and much OF
Utah ones yielded not blade of grass, now
by artificial irrigation have become gardens.
so large part of this continent that
now is too poor TO grow even
mullen stalk or Canada thistle
will through artificial irrigation like ar
Illinois prairie wave with wheat or like
tasses. Beside that, after perhaps a
century or two more when this continent
is quite well occupied. the tides OF inn
migration will turn the other
way. Politics and governmental affairs be-
ing corrected ON the other side Of the waters
Ireland under different regulation turned int
a garden will invite back another generation
Of lrishmen, and the wide wastes Of
Russia brought from under despotisn
VIII with her own green fields lnvlti
hack another generation of Russians. And
there will be hundreds of thousands oil
Americans every year settling on the other
continents. And after number of cen
turtles, all the earta full aud crowded what
theni Well at that time some night
panther meteor wandering through the
heavens will put its paw GA our world
and stop it, and putting its panther tooth in
10 the neck OF its mountain range will shake
It llfeless ms the rat terrier a rat So | have
no more fear of America being overcrowdej
than that the proposes in the Atlantic Ocean
viii become so numerous as 70 stop shipping.
IL is through mighty addition of foreigl |
population TO oar native population that |
think Gcd is going to fill this land with a
race OF people - per cent. superior to any |
thing the world has ever seen. Inter
OF families and intermarriage Of /
nations is depressing and crippling. Marriage |
outside OF ones own nationality and wits 1
another style OF nationality is a mighty gain |
What makes the Scotch-Irish second 20 no |
pedigree for brain and stamina of character |
% that blood goes right up 70 supreme /
court bench and 10 the front rank in juris |
prudence and merchandise and arti Because 4
nothing under heaven can be more unlike 4
han "a ScOtchman aud an Irishman aud thu 4
descendants Of these two con ioinst nation.
llities, unless rum filings them. 20 right e
he tip top IN everything. All nationalitie;
coming to this land the opposites viii /
Ill the while be afiianced and French
md German will unite and that will stop all
l..sN a
viii call Alsace and the ether Lorraine
And hot.blooded Spaniard will unite with
ool-hloodad Po'ander and rom9ntic Italian
With mater o. fact Norwe slsn. aud 8
hundred and fifty years from now the race
this land will ba in stature
n purity of complexion. in liquidlty OF
We, in gracefuluess OF pose. ia dome like
row, in taste. IN intelligence AMI in morals
. far ahead f anything now known on either
Ide the seas that tbs last quarser of rha
century will seam to them
Ike the Dark Ages. Ga. thea how
hey viii legislate and bargain and pray and
reach and governl This is the land whsre
y the mingling OF races the race prejudice
, to get its death bow. How Heaven feels
bout It we may colclude from the fact that
'hrist, the jew. aud descended from a
ewess, nevertheless provided a religlol for
Il races. and that Paul, though jew, be-
anne the chief apostle OF the 6entiles AMI
pendor upon the attention OF the world
iirsch, the jew who after giving tsn millio
ollars u Christian churches and hospitals.
as called committee of nations and fur
ishei them with forty million dollars for
,hools TO elevate his race in Franco and Ger
lany and Russia TO higher intelligence aud
bolish, as he says, the prejuiicss againse
leir race, these fifty million dollars not
.yen in las. viii and testament and NJ 2
me when man must leave his money
nyhow. but by donation at fifty-five years
age and in good health, utterly eclipsing
L benevolence since the world was created.
must confess there was time when
entertained race prejudice, but thanks
} God, that eiudice has gone. ana If SAL
church aud on one side OF ms there was n
lack man and on the other side of me was
4 Indian and before me was a Ciinaman
nj behind me Turk, would be as happy a
am now standing in the presence of this
-illiant audience. aud am as happy now as
can be and live. The sooner we get this I
'rpss Of race prejudice buried, the healthier
III be our American atmosphere. Let each
he fetch spade and let us dig its grave clear ,
/ down deeper and deeper Till we get as far
,wn as the center of the earth and half way
China, but no further lest it poison those ,
ring on the othe- side the earth. Then into
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