The Brookhaven leader., 1889-03-14

american, B0utn AmoF1CAhi huA
an Asiatic and an African. The Nortn
American shifts the breeze and ne say
his four brothefs and sisters: Les tno
South American stay In South Amer
lea, let the European stay IN buVRo'
let the Asiatic stay In Asia. Ies vac
/ African stay in Africa; but America Is
for me. I think il Is the Parior OF ths
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
| ali 10 stay out and keep to your places"
/ am sure the Father of the wholesrace
would hear Of 1t, and chastisement would
come, and, whether by earthquake, or
flood, or drouth, or Heaven darkening
swarms OF locust and grasshopper or de-
stroying angel Of pestilence, God would
rebuke- our selfishuess as q nation and
say to the four winds of Heaven: This
world Is 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. Aud built this
world for all the children, and the parlor
is theirs and all IL theirs" For, let me
say, whether we will or not, the popula-
ton of other lands will come here. There
ore harbors all the way from Baftin's bay
20 Galveston, and If you shut fifty gates
there viii be other gates unguarded. And
if you forbid foreigners from coming on
the steamers they will 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 swarm or
summer bees from lighting on the clover
top. or pass q law forbidding the tides Of the
Atlantic to rise when the moon puts under
1t silver graphing hooks, or law that
the MONDAY sun should not irradiate the
atmosphere. They have come. They are
coming now. They will come. And if l
had O voice lOud enough to be heard
across the seas | would put it to the ut
most tension and cry: LET them Gomez
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 superabundance till your diges-
tive organs are terrorlzed, 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 overcrow ded. Such per-
sons had better take the Northern Pacific
or Union Pacific. or Atlantic and Char
lotte air line, or Texas and Santa Fe, and
go long journey and find out that no
more than tenth part OF this continent
is fully cultivated. If man with one
hundred acres of farm land should put
all his cultivation on one acre he would
be culti.ating 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 az Salt Lake City and much of
Utah once Yielded not blade OF grass,
now by artificial irrigation have become
gardens, so "A large part of this continent
that now is too poor to grow even "A null
| len stalk or Canada thistle, will, through
artificial irrigation like an Illinois praIrle,
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 on the
other side OF the waters; Ireland,
under different regulations, turned into
a garden, will invite back another gem
Grafton OF 1rishmen; 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 a number
Of centuries, all the earth full and
crowded, what then9 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 have no more fear of
America being oyercrowded 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-five per cent. SUI
periOr to any thing the world has ever
seen. Intermarraige of families ana in =
termarriage of nations is depressing and
Gripping. Marriage outside of ones own
nationality is mighty gain. What makes
the ScOtcf-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
man, and the descendants of these two
conjoined natioualities, unless rum
filings them, go right to the tip toy
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 Alsace and the other Lor-
raine. And hot hlOoled Spaniard will
unite with cOol-bluuded POlander and
romantic Italian with matter Of ct
Norwegian, and hundred and fifty years
from now the race occupying this land
1 will be in stature, in purity OF conf
plexion, i'll liquidity of eye, in graceful
ness o. poise, in doms-like brow, il
brow, in taste, in intelligence and in
morals so far ahead Of any thing now
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 will legislate and bar
gain and pray and preach and govern
This is the land where by the mingling Of
races the race prelude &c is TO get its death.
blow.
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