The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1889-03-15

Il
ica, 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 parlor of the
whole earth. like the 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 race |
would hear of it, and chastisement would /
come, and, whether by earthquake or |
flood, or drouth, or Heaven darkening i
swarms of locust and grasshopper or de- /
stroying angel of pestilence, God would |
rebuke our selfishness as a nation and |
say to the four winds of Heaven: "This |
worlds my house, and the North Amer
lean is no more my child than is the South |
American, and the European, and the |
Asiatic, and the African. And built this |
world for all the children, and the FUrlor |
is theirs and all il theirs" For, lot me
say, whether7we win or not, the popula- !
tion of other lands will come here. There |
are harbOrs all the way from BaffiI4s bay
to Galveston, and If you shut fifty gates /
there viii be other gates unguarded. And
if you forbid foreigners from coming on
the steamers they win take sailing ves-
sells. 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 they will
leave it outside Sandy Hook and swim for
free America. Stop them! You might as
well pass law forbidding a swarm of
| summer bees from lighting on the clover
| top,or pass a law fOrbidding the tides of the
/ Atlantic to rise when the moon puts under
| it silver graphing hooks, or law that
/ the MONDAY sun should not irradiate the
] afF l,axy haxr fTbau ro
/ coming now. They will come. And if
| had voice loud enough to be heard
| across the seas would put it to the ut
/ most tension and cry: 'fLet them come?
! You stingy, selfish, shriveled up, blasted
] souls who sit before your silver dinner
i plate piled up with breast of roast turkey
/ incarnadined with. cranberry, your fork
| full and your mouth full, and cramming
i down the superabundance till your diges-
| tive organs are terror1zed, let the millions
of your fellow men have at least the wish
[ ing 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 Atlantic and Char
4 lotte air line, or Texas and Santa Fe, and
4 go a long journey and find out that no
more than tenth part of this continent
is fully cultivated. If q man with one
hundred acres of farm land should put
all his cultivation 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 fertil-
| lied, and as Salt Lake City and much of
/ L, 4 4
now by artificial irrigation have become
gardens, so a large part of this continent
| that now is too poor to grow even null
len stalk or Canada thistle, will, through
artificial irrigation, like an Illinois praIrIe,
wave with wheat, or like a Wisconsin farm
rustic with corn tassels. Besides that,
| after perhaps a century or two more,
when this continent is quite well occu-
pied, the tides of immigration will turn
the other way. Politics and govern
mental affairs being corrected the
| other side of the waters; Ireland,
under different regulations, turned into
a garden, will invite back another gem
, Grafton of Irishmen; 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 number
!; of centuries, all the earth full and
crowded, what then? Well, at that time
/, some night 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 mount
ain range, will shake it lifeless as the rat
terrier rat. SO 1 have no more fear Of
America being overcrowded than that the
porpoises in the Atlantic ocean will be-
come so numerous 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 ninety-hve per cent. SUI
periOr to any thing the world has ever
seen. Intermarraige Of families and in
termarriage of nations is depressing and
crippling. Marriage outside of ones own
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? Be-
cause nothing under Heaven can be more
unlike than a Scotchman and an Irish :
J man, and the descendants Of Elese two
| conioined uatioualities, unless rum
ffngs them,' go right to the tip top
, in every thing. All nationalities COM
. ing to this land the opposites will all
/ the while be affianCed, and French and
German will unite, and that will stop all
the quarrel between them, and one child
, they will call Aisace and the other LOr-
. raine. And hot -blooded Spaniard will
unite with cool blooded Polander and
romantic Italian with matter of fact
Norwegian, and hundred and fifty years
! from now the race occupying this land
will be in stature, in purity OF COM
plexion, in hquidity Of eye, in graceful
, ness of poise, in dome-like brow, in
brow, in taste, 10 intelligence and in
morals 50 far ahead Of any thing now
7 known on either side Of the seas that this
, last quarter of the nineteenth century
. will seem TO them like the Dark Ages.
, Oh, then, how they viii legislate aud bar
, gain and pray and preach and govern I
This is the land where by the mingling OF
races the race prejudice is 70 get its death
r blow.
How Heaven feels about it we may con-
cIude from the fact that Christ, the Jew,
and descended from a Jewess, neverthe-
} less provided a religion for oil races, and
] that Paul, though a jew, became the chief
apostle of the GentiIes aud that recently
/ God has allowed to burst in splendoH
5 upon the attention of the world Hirscb,
= the jew, who, after giving ten million
r I dollars TO the Christian churches and hos
s pitfalls, has called a committee of nations
a and furnished them with forty million
j. dollars for schools 70 elevate his race in
q France and Germany and Russia q
, higher intelligence, and abolish, as hs
/; says, the prejudices against their
z; race, these fifty million dollars, not
? given ia a last will and testament
{ and at a time when a man must
d leave his money anyhow, but by donation
e at hfty-fiye years Of age and in good
e health, utterly eclipsing all benevOlenct
: since the world was created. must con-
a fess there was q time when I entertained
r race prejudice, but, thanks 20 God, that