West Virginia argus. [volume] (Kingwood, W. Va.) 1877-1946, 1889-03-14

torbidding tho tides OF tho atlantic 10 rise
when the moon puts under II silver crap
phng books, or a law that the MONDAY sun
should not irradiate the atrnosphere. They
nave come They are coming now. They
VIII come. And n l had voice loud
enough 20 DO heard across the seas 1
| wouia put 10 70 the utmost tension aud cry.
Let them GOMEZ You stinxy selfish, shriveled
up, blasted souls who sit before your silver
Inner plate piled up with breast OF roast
surkey incarnadined with cranberry. your
tork fuil and your mouth full aud examining
| down The superabundance tall your digestive
/ organs are terrorized. let the millions OF your
teiow-men have at least the wishing bone
bus some OF this cry America for Ameri-
cans. may arise from an honest fear lest this
land pe overcrowded Such persons had better
take the Northern Pacific or Union Pacific
or Southern Pacific or Atlantic and Char
lotte air line or Texas and santa Fe.
and go long journey and find out that no
more than a tenth part OF this continent,
fully cultivated. IL man with n hundred
acres OF farm land should put all his cultiva-
ton on one acre he would be cultivating a
larger ratio OF his farm than our ma
ton Is now occupying OF the national farm.
| Iour the whole human race Europe Asia
Africa and all the islands OF the sea, into
America and there would be room 70 spare
All the Rocky Mountain barrennesses and
All The other American deserts are TO be fer
tilted, and as Salt Lake City aud much of
Utah once yielded not blade OF grass, now
by artificial irrigation have become gardens.
so large part u this continent that
now Is too poor TO grow even a
mullen stalk or a Canada thistle,
will through artificial irrigation like an
Illinois prairie wave with wheat or like a
Wisconsin farm rustic with corn
tassels. Beside that after perhaps a
century or two more, when this continent
quite well occupied, the tides OF inn
way. Politics and governmental affairs be-
ing corrected on the other side of the waters
Ireland under different regulation turned into
garden will invite back another generation
OF 1rishmen, and the wide wastes OF
Russia brought from under despotism
VIII with her own green fields invite
back another generation OF Russians And
there viii be hundreds OF thousands of
Americans every year settling on the other
continents. And after a number of cen.
turies, all the earth full and crowded. what
theni Well, at that time some night
Pantner meteor wandering through the
heavens will put its paw ON our world
and stop it, and putting it's panther tooth in
20 the neck of its mountain range will shake
1t lfeless as the rat terrier a rat So I have
no more fear Of America being overcrowded
than that the porpoises in the Atlantic Ocean
VIII become so numerous as to stop shipping.
IL Is through mighty addition OF foreign
population TO our native population that
think God is going TO fill this land with n
race OF people % per cent. superior to any
tnng the world has ever seen. Inter
marriage of families and intermarriage of
nations Is depressing and Gripping. Marriage
outside OF ones own nationality aud with
announcer style OF nationality is mighty gain.
w hat 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 rank In iuris-
prudence and merchandise and artl Because
nothing under heaven can be more unlike
than Scotchman and an Irishman and thu
descendants OF these two con Joined nation
ahties, unless rum filings them, 70 right to
the tip top in everything. All patfonnlities
coming To this land ha I'm
all the while be affianced, and French
and German will unite aud that will stop all
the quarrel between them, and one child they
Will call Alsace and the other Lorraine
And hot FLOODED Spaniard will unite with
cool-piooded Polander and romantic Italian
with matter OF fact Norwegian, and
hundred and fifty years from now the race
occupying this land will be in sta ture
IN purity OF complexion, in liquidity OF
eye, In gracefulness of poise, In dome like
brow, in taste, in intelligence and in morals
so Tar ahead OF anything now known on either
SIDE tho seas that this last quarter of the
h iEs thn nS century will seem to them
they will legislate and bargain and pray and
preach and governl This Is the land where
by the mingling of races the race prejudice
Is 10 get lts death blow. How Heaven feels
about it we may conclude from the fact that
Christ, the Jew, and descended from
Jewess, nevertheless provided religion for
all races, and that Paul, though Jew, be.
NtAihc VIC CuAol apostle OF Bne NT0ntllea, and
that recently God has allowed to burst in
splendor upon the attention Of the world
Hirsch, the Jew, who after giving ten million
dollars TO Christian churches and hospitals,
mas called committee OF nations and fur.
nished them with forty million dollars for
schools to elevate his race in France and Ger.
many and Russia to higher intelligence and
abolish, as he says, the prejudices against
their race, these fifty million dollars not
given in a last viii and testament and at a
time when q man must leave his money
anyhow, but by donation at ffty-five wears
OF age and in good health, utterly eclipsing
All beneYolence since the world was created
l must confess there was a time when
entertained race prejudice, but thanks
TO God, that prejudice has gone and il I sat
IN church and on one side OF me there was
black man and on the other side Of me WINS
an Indian and before me was n Chinaman
and behind me Turk would be as happy as
l am now standing In the presence OF this
brilliant audience. and aTn as happy now as
can be and live. The sooner we get this
corpse Of race prejudice buried the healthier
viii be our American atmosphere Let each
one fetch spade and let US dig its grave clear
ON down deeper and deeper till We get as far
down as the center of the earth aud half way
70 China, but no further lest it poison those
living on the other side the earth. Then into
this grave let down. the accurssd carcass Of
race prejudice and throw ON 10 all the mean
things that have ever been said ana writer,
between Jew and Gentle, between Turk
French, between Mongolian and anti
Monaghan, between black and white. and
put up over that grave for tombstone some
scorched and Jagged chunk OF scoriB spit
out by some volcanic eruption and chissl on
It for epitaph: Here lies the carcass OF ono
who cursed the world Aged near six
thousand years Departed this life for the
perdition from whence IL came No peace 60
ite aahazi7
Now, in view Of this subject, have two
Toint blank words 20 utter, one suggesting
what foreigners ought 70 do for us, and tho
other what we ought 60 do for foreigners.
First, 70 foreigners. Lay aside all Apologize
arr and realize you have IS much right as any
man who was not only himself born
here but bis father and his grandfather
aud Rreatgrandfather before him Are
you an Engiishmnni Though during
the Revolutionary war your fathers treated
our fathers roughly. England has more
than atoned for that by giving 70 this coun.
try ~ least two denominations OF Chris
tHug, tho Church of England and the
MethOdiat Church. Witness tho magnificent
liturgy Of the one and the Wesleyan halleiu-
lahs OF the other. And who shall ever nav
England for what Shakespeare and John
Milton and WOodsworth and n fhouqaud
other authors have done for America
Are you Bc0tchman7 Thanks for
John KNOBS PresbYterianism: The bal
onca wheel of all other denominaeions.
ana how shan Americans ever pay your ma
I've land for what Thomas Chalh1ors and
Aiacing2sh and Robert Burns and Christo-