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

1 than that the porpoises in the Atltnti
+ ocean will become SO nlr3eTous as tos,o
shipping.
ii is through mighty addition Of for
eign population to our native populatloI
| that think God is going to ill This lla,
! with q race of people 95 per cent. superio
: TO anything the world has ever seen. In
: termarriage of families and intermarriaq,
of nations is depressing and crippling
|. Marriage outside of ones own rationale,
and with another style of nationality is
mighty gain. What makes the Scotch
Irish second to 10 pedigree for brain ant
stamina Of character, SO that blood goes
right mp to supreme court bench and tc
the front rank in Jurisprudence and mer
chandise and art? Because nothing
under heaven can be more unlike than 8
Scotchman and an lrishman and the de.
%scendants of these two c~onjoined nation
%alities, unless run fings them. 90 right
to the tip-tOp in everything. All nation
a!ities coming to this land the opposites
will all the while be affianced. and French
aud German will unite and that will stop
oil the quarrel between them, and one
child they will call Alsace and the
other Lorraine. And hot blooded
Spaniard will unite with cool blooded
Polander and romantic Italian with mat
ter OF fact Norwegian, and a hundred
and fifty years from now the race occu-
plying this land will be in stature, in pur-
ity of complexion, in liquidi,y of eye, in
gracefulness Of pOise, in dome like brow,
in taste, in intelligence and in morals so
far ahead OF anything now known on
either side 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 bargain and pray
and preach and govern! This is the LAID
where by the mingling of races the race
prejudice is to get its death blow. How
heaven feels about it we may conclude
from the fact that Christ, the Jew, and
descended from a Jewess, nevertheless
provided a religion for all races, and that
Paul, though a Jew, became the chief
apostle Of the Gentiles, and that recently
God has allowed to burst in splenGOr
upon the attention Of the world Hirsch,
the Jew, who after giving $40, 600, 600 to
Christian churches and hospitals, has
called a committee Of nations and fur
nished them with $40, 600, 600 for schools
to elevate his race In France and Ger
many and Russia to higher intelligence
hhh dpoiiSp, 40 hC say > TIC DttJulltts
against their race, these $50, 600. 600 not
given in a last will and testament and at
a time when a man must leave his money
anyhow, but by donation at health, ut
terly eclipsing all ~bcnevolence since the
world was created. | must confess there
was a time when | entertained race pref
ndice, but, thanks to God, that prejudice
has gone, and if | sat in church and on
ono etHa nf ma thara Wuc q hlucY ~
and on the other side of me was an In
dian and before me was a Chinaman and
behind me a Turk. | would be as happy
IS | am now standing in the presence of
this brilliant audience. and | am as happy
now as can be and live. The sooner
we get this corpse Of race prejudice
buried the healthier will be our
American atmosphere. Let each one
fetch a spade and let us dig its grave
clear on down deeper and deeper till we
get as far down as the center of
earth and half way TO Cniaa,
hut no further lest it poison
those living IN the other side the earth.
Then into this grave let down the &C
cursed carcass Of race prejudice and
throw on it all the mean things that have
ever been said and written between Jew
and Gentle, between Turk and Russian,
between English and French, between
Monaghan and anti Mongolian, between
black and white, and put up over that
grave for tombstone some scorched and
jagged chunk of scoriR spit out by some
volcanic eruption, and chisel on il for
epitaph, Here lies the carcass of one
who cursed the world. Aged, near six
thousand years. Departed this life for
the perdition from whence it came. No
peace 10 Its ashes"
Now, in view of this subject, | have
two point blank words TO utter, one sug.
costing what foreigners ought to do for
us, anu the other what we ought TO do
for foreigners. First, to foreigners. Lay
aside all apologize air and realize you
have as much right as any man who was
not only himself born here, but his father
and his grandfather and great grand
father before him. Are you an English
man? Though during the revolutionary
war your fathers treated our fathers
roughly, England has more han atoned
for that by giving TO this country at least
two denominations Of Christians, the
Church Of England and the Methodist
church. Witness the magnificent liturgy |
Of the one and the Wesleyan hallelujahs
VI lIc OlncT. anu WHO SDdll ever pay
England for what Shakespeare ard John
Milton and Wordsworth and a thousand
other authors have done for American
Are you a ScOtchman? Thanks for John
KnoX's Presbyterianism; the balance
heel of all other denominations. And
how shall Americans ever pay your ma
tive land for what Thomas Chalmers and
Macintosh and Robert Burns and Christie
pher North and Robert McCheyne and
Candlish and Guthrie have done for
Americans? Are you a Frenchman3 We
INT forget your Lafayette, who in the
most desperate time of our American
revolution, New York surrendered and
our armies flying in retreat, espoused our
cause and at BrGndywine and Monmouth
and Yorktown put all America under
eternal obligation. And we clnnot for
get the coming to the rescue Of our
fathers Rochambesu and his French fleet
with 6,OOC armed men. Are you q Ger
man? W. have not forgotten the eleven
wounds through which your Baron De
Kalb poured out his life blood at the head
of the Maryland and Delaware troops in
the disastrous battle at Camden, and
after we have named our streets and our
cities and counties after him we have not
paid a 1.-THE of what we owe Germany
for his valor and self sacrifice. And what
about Martin Luther, the giant German