The intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1887-1891, 1889-03-09

AMY hdNo OlIA NV
are coming now. They will come. And
II l had a voice loud enough to be heard
across the seas would put it to the utmost
tension and cry, let them comel You
stingy, selfish, shriveled up, blasted souls
VINO 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 down
the superabundance till your digestive
organs are terrorized, let the millions of
your fellow men have at least the wishing
bone.
But some of this cry, America for Amer
leans, may arise from an honest fear lest
this land be overcrowded. Such persons
had better take the Northern Pacific or
Union Pacific or Southern Pacific or At
lantic & Charlotte air line or Texas g.
Santa Fe, and go a long journey and find
out that no more than a tenth part of this
continent is fully cultivated. If. a. man
with 100 acres of land should put all his
cultivation on one acre he would be culti-
waiting 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 stands of the sea,
into America and there would be room to
spare. All the Rocky mountain barren
esses and all the other American deserts
are to be fertilized, and as Salt Lake City
and much of Utah once yielded not a 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 mullGl1 stalk or a ana thistle,
will, through artificial irrigation, like an
Illinois prairie wave with wheat or
like a Wisconsin farm rustic with
corn tassels. Besides that, after
narhana n capturu or fvun mona uyban
this continent is quite we'll occupied, the
tides of immigration will then turn the
other way. Politics and governmental
affairs being corrected on the other side
of the waters. Ireland turned into a gar
den will invite back another generation of
Irishmen, n 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 other continents.
And after a number of centuries, all the
earth full and crowded, what then? Well,
at that time some night a panther meteor
wandering through the eaven will put
its paw on our world and stop 1t, and put
ting its panther tooth into the neck of its
mountain range will shake it lifeless as a
rat terrier a rat. So I have no more fear
OF AnSrlCd DeinB OVeTCTOWOeu Judu Uue
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 l
think God is going to fill this land with a
race of people 95 per cent. superior to any
thing the world has ever seen. Inter-
! marriage of families and intermarriage 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 Supreme Court bench and to
the front ank Of jurisprudence and mer-
chandise and artp Because nothing un-
der Heaven can be more unlike than q
Scotchman and an Irishsnan and the de-
scendants of these two conjoined nation
alities, unless rum f'ngs them, go right to
the tip top in every thing. All national
tiles coming 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 blooded Spaniard will
unite with cold blooded Polander and
romantic Italian with matter of fact
Norwegian, and a hundred and fifty
neors srom now tho rocs o~ccunvi,a tb;s
iamd .;n ha In .to,ure in nnr;ty nfcorno
nIa~;on in Iioniditv of ave n eracefuInas,
r. noisa in doma i;ra how in tas+a in
int diligence n in morals so far ahead of
any thing now known on either side the
seas that this last quarter of the nine
teenth century will seem to them like the
lark ages.
Unjust confess there was a time when !
entertained race prejudice, but, thanks to
God, tina prejudice has gone, and if l sat
in church and on the other side of me
there was a black man and on the other
side of me there was an Indian and be-
fore me was a Chinaman and behind me a
Turk, 1 would be as happy as 1 am now
standing in the presence of this brilliant
audience, and l am as happy now as 1 can
be aud live. The sooner we get this
corpse of race prejudice buried, the
healthier will be our American atmos-
nj ere.
Now, in view of this subject, l have two
point blank words 10 utter, one suggest
ing what foreigners ought to do for us,
the other what we ought to do for foreign
ers. First to foreigners. Lay aside all
apologetic air and realize you have as
much right as any man Who was not only
himself born here, but his father n his
grandfather and greatgrandfather before
him. Are you an Englishmanf Though
during the Revolutionary war your fathers
treated our fathers roughly, England has
more than atoned for that by giving to
this country at least two denominations
NJ Cbrisrians the Church of England and
the Methodist Church. Witness the mag
nihcent liturgy of the one and the Wes-
levan balleluiabs of the other. And who
sbaII ever nav ENGLAND for what Shakes
naara and Jobn Milton and Wordsworth
and a Thousand other ,utbors bave done
for AmericaP Are Won a Scotchmani
Thanks for John KNOBS Presbyterianism
the balance wheel of all other denomina
tions. And how sball Americans aver nav
your native land for what Thomas Chai.
mers and Macintosh and Robert Burns
and Christopber North and Robert Nc.
Cheyne and Chandlisb and Guthrie have
done for Americana
Are you a Frenchman? We cnn not for.
get your Lafayette, who in the most des.
perate time of our American revolution
New York urrendere and our armies hy.
ing In retreat, espoused our cause and a
Brandywine and and York,
town nut all America nnder eternal oblips.
ton. And we can not forget coming t.
the rescue of our fathers Rochambeau anC
bis French feet with $500 armed men
Are YOU a German? We have not forgot
! ten the eleven wounds through which
YOUR BARON De Kalb poured out his lf
blood at the head of the Maryland ant
3 Delaware troops in the disastrous battl
at Camden, and after we have named on
streets and our cities and our c~ountie