The enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 188?-1899, 1889-03-06

auulence, ana am as happy now as can
be and live. The sooner we get this corpse
OF race prejudice buried, the healthier viii
DO our American atmosphere. Let each one
fetch spade and let us dig its grave clear on
down deeper and deeper until we get as far
down as the center Of the earth and half
way TO China, but no further lest II poison
those living ON the other side the earth.
Then into this grave let down the accursed
carcass Of race prejudice and throw on IL
all the mean things that have ever been
SAID and written between Jew and Gentle,
between Turk and Russian, between En-
glish and French, between, Mongolian and
anti -Mongolian, between black and white
and put up over that grave for q tombstone
some scorched and jag Sed chunk of scorm
spit out by some volcanic eruption and
chisel on II for epitaph; "Here lies the car
cass OF one who cursed tho world. Aged,
near ., 6,WO years. Departed this life for the
perdition from whence 1t came. No peace
TO its ashesln
Now, in view of this subject, have two
point blank words to utter, one suggesting
what foreigners ought 10 do for US, and the
other what we ought to do for Foreigners.
First, to foreigners. Lay aside all apoiogetio
air and realize you have as much right as
any man who was not only himself
born here but his father and grand
father and great-grandfather before him.
Arc you an Englishmanl 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
OF Christians, the Church Of England
and the Methodist church. Witness the mag
nihcent liturgy Of the one and the Wesleyan
hallelujahs OF the other. And who shall
ever pay England for what Shakespeare
and John Milton and Wordsworth and a
thousand other authors have done for
Americaf Are you a Scotchmani Thanks
for John Knox's Presbyterianism; the
balance wheel OF all other denominations.
And how shall Americans ever pay your
native land for what Thomas Chalmers
and Maekintosh aud Robert Burns and
Christopher North and Robert McCheyne
and Candlish and Guthrie have done for
Amerlcansf Are you Frenchmani We
cannot forget your Lafayette, who, in the
most desperate time Of our American Revo-
Iutlon, New York surrendered and our
armies lying In retreat, espoused our cause,
and ~ Brandywine and Monmouth and
yorktown put all Americans under eternal
obligation. Aud We can not forget the COM
Ing 10 the rescue Of our fathers Roohamoeau
and his French feet with six thousand
armed men. Arc you a GermanY We 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 VIC have named our
streets and our cities and counties after
him we have not paid 1.-THE OF what we
owe Germany for her valor and self-sacri-
nee. And what about Martin Luther, the
giant German who made way for religious
liberty for all lands and agesl Are you
Polander! How can we forget your bril-
liant Count Pulaski, whose bones were laid
in Savannah river after mortal wound
gotten while Ia the stirrups OF one of the
fiercest cavalry charges Of the American
Reyoluti0nf But with no time 10 sparticu-
lariZe, i say: "All hail To the men and
women OF other lands who come here with
honest purposep Renounce all obligation
70 foreign despots. Take the oath OF Ameri-
can allegiance. Get out your naturalization
papers. Don't talk against our institutions,
for the fact that You came hero and stay,
shows that you like ours better than any
other. II you don't like them there are
steamers going out Of our ports almost every
day, and the fare is cheap, and, lest you
should be detained for parting civnities, |
bid you goodbye now, But II you like IL
here, then charge you, at the ballot box,
In legislative hall, In churches, and every
where be out and out Americans. Do not
try TO establish here the loose foreign Sab.
baths or transcendentalism spun into q re-
ligion OF mush and moonshine, or foreign
or that condensation Of all
scoundrelism, lust murder, and
perdition which In Russia is called Nihilis m
and 10 France called Communism and In
America called Anarchism. Unite with US
In making by the grace Of God the fifteen
million square miles OF America on both
sides the lsthmus OF Panama the paradise
Of virtue and religion.
My other word suggests what Americans
ought 10 do for foreigners. BY all possible
means explain 70 them our institutions.
Coming here. the vast majority Of them
know about as much concerning republi-
can or democratic form OF government as
you in the United States know about poll
Tics Of Denmark, or France, or Italy,
Or Switzerland, namely, nothing. Ex-
plain 10 them that liberty In this
country means liberty 70 do right but
not liberty 10 do wrong Never In
their presence say anything against their
native land, for, no matter how much
they may have been oppressed there, in that
native land there arc sacred places, cabins
DR. mansions around whose doors they
played, and perhaps somewhere is grave
INTO which they would like, when llfe's tolls
are over, 70 be let down, for il is mothers
grave, aud 10 would be like going again into
tho loving arms that first held them aud
against the bosom that first pillowed them.
Myi myl how low down man must have
descended 10 have no regard for the place
where his cradle was rocked. Don't mock
heir brogue or their stumbling attempts at
The hardest Of all languages 10 learn, namely
he English language. warrant that they
,peak English as well us you could talk
Treat them In America
IS you would like 10 be treated II for the
,ake OF your honest principles or better
livelihood for yourself or your family you
had moved under the shadow Of Jungfrau,
" the Rigi, or the Giants Causeway, or the
Bohemia Forest or the FrancoDian Jura.
II they get homeslck, as some Of them are,
mggest TO them that God Is rs Doar to help
hem here as He was near them before they
crossed the Atlantic, and that tho souls
inal flight In less than q second whether
rom the beach Of the Caspian Sea or the
Danks OF Lake Erie. EvangeliIe their adults
through tho churches and their children
through tho schools and let homo missions
md tract societies and the Bible translated
n all the languages Of these foreign people
have full swing.
Rejoice as Christian patriots that instead
II being an element OF weakness the foreign
,eople thoroughly evangelical will be our
nlEhtiest defense against all the world.
rhe Congress OF the United States recently
ordered built new forts all up and down our
ime rican coasts, and new navy Is about
o be projected. But let me say that
hree hundred million dollars expended
n coast defense will not DO 90
mighty ~ q vast foreign population
living In America. With hundreds Of
thousands Of Germans IN New York, Ger
many would as soon think Of bombshelling
3eriln as attacking Us. With hundreds OF
thousands OF Frenchmen in New York,
France would as soon think Of firing on
,aris With hundreds OF Thousands Of En-
Ilishmen In New York, England would AZ
oon think Of destroying London. The
defense against European nations