The Brookhaven leader., 1889-03-14

~ streating forehead and large lip, ana
the Monaghan the fat face Of olive hue,
and the American Indian the copper
colo1ed complexion, but the blood Is the
same, and indicates that they all had one
origin, and that Adam and Eve were their
ancestor and ancestress.
think God built this American con-
tineIlt and organized this United States
Republic to demonstrate the stupendous
idea Of the text. A man in Persia will al
ways remain Persian, man in Swltzer-
land will always remain Swiss, man
in Austria will always remain an Aus
trian, but all foreign nationalities coming
to America we're intended 10 be Amer
leans. This land is the chemical labora-
tory where all foreign bloods are to be
inea tricably mixed up and race prejudices
and race antipathies are to perish, and
this sermon is an axe by which hope to
kill them. It is not hard for me 10 preach
such a sermon, because, although my
ancestors came to this country about 25O
years ago, some of them came from
Wales and some from Scotland and some
from Holland and some from other lands,
and am mixture Of SO many national
tiles that feel at home with people from
under every sky and have o right to call
them blood relations. There are mad
caps and patriotic lunatics in this country
who IRE ever and anon crying out, "Amer-
lea for Americans" Down with the Ger
mansi Down with the Irish! Down with
Jews! Down with the Chinese! are in
some directions the popular cries, all of
which NOTIFICATIONS would drown out by
the full organ of my text, while pull out
the stops and put my foot on the pedal
that will open the loudest pipes, and run
my fingers over all the four banks of ivory
keys. playing the chant, God hath made
of one blood all nations"
There are not FIVE men in this audience,
nor five men IN any audience to-day in
America, except it be on an Indian re SER
walton, who were not descended from
foreigners If you go far enough back.
The only native Americans are the Mo-
docs. the Shawnees, the Chippewas, the
-Cherokecs, the Chickasaws, the Semi
noles and such like. II the principle,
America only for Americans, be carried
out, then you and l have no right to be
here, and we. had better charter all the
steamers and clippers and men -of-war
and yachts and sloops and get out Of this
country as quick as possible. The pill
grim fathers were all immigrants, the
Huguenots all immigrants. The cradle Of
almost every one Of our families was
rocked on the bank of the Clyde, or the
Rhine, or the Shannon, or the Seine, or
s TIE Tiber. Had the watchword america
for Americans" been an early and sue
cessfHl cry, where now stand our cities
would have stood wigwams, and canoes
instead of steamers would have tracked
the Hudson and the Connecticut; and in
stead of the Mississippi being the main
III terry of the continent, it would have
been only trough for deer and antelope
aud wild pigeons to drink out of. What
makes the cry "America for Americans"
the MOI absurd and the more inhuman
is that some in this country who them
selves arrived here in their boyhood or
arrived here only one or two generations
back are joining in the cry. Escaped from
foreign despotism themselves, they say:
"Shut the door of escape for others"
Getting themselves on our shore in a life.
boat from the shipwreck, saying: Haul
the boat on the beach and let the rest of
the passengers go to the bottomw Men
who have yet on them a Scotch or Ger
man or. English or Irish brogue crying
out: america for Americansw What
if the native inhabitants Of Heaven,
mean the angels, the cherubim, the sera-
phim born there, should stand in the gate
and when they see us coming up at the
last should say: "Go back! Heaven for
the Heavenians
OF course We do well not to allow for
eign nations to make this country con-
Wet colony. We would have wall built
as high as Heaven and as deep as he'll
against foreign thieves, pickpockets and
Anarchists. We would not let them wipe
their feet on the mat of the outside door
of Castle Garden. II England, or Russia,
or Germany, or France, send here their
desperadoes to get clear of them, we
would have these desperadoes sent back
in chains TO the places where they came
from. We will not have America become
The dumping place for foreign vagabond-
ism. But you build up wall at the Mar
rows before New York harbor, or
at the Golden Gate before San Fran
cisco and forbid the coming of the in
dustrious and Woodworking and hon.
est population Of other lands who want to
br sathe the air Of our free institutions and
get opportunity for better livelihood, and
II is only question of time when God
will tumble that wall hat on our own heads
with the red-hot thundsrboits of bis ON
pipotent indignation. You are father
and you have five children. The parlor is
the best room in your house. Your son
Philip says to the other four children.
'sSow, John, you live in the small room in
the end OF the hall and stay there; George,
you live in the garnet and stay there
Mary. youlise in the cellar and stay there;
! Fannie, yon live in the kitchen and stay
there. !, Philip, viii take the parlor. 1t
suits me exactly. I like the pictures on
the wall. I like the lambrequins at the
windows. I like the Administer. on the
t.oor. Now, l. Philip, propose TO oe-
cipy the parlor, and command
you l. stay out. The parlor only for
Philippians. You, the father, hear Of this
arrangement, and what will you dor
You will get red in ths faee and say:
''JoAn. come out of that small rsom at
theepd OF The hall; George. come down
ont " The gsrreii Mary, come up from
osiius fsanie, come out OF the kitenen,
pni - iuto the paripr or anywhere you
che'so and, Philip, for your greediness
and ulbroEherly behavior, ] pat yoa for
tRo doISs ID ibe dark closet lsLer the