The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1889-05-09

there will be other gates unguarded. And
if you forbid foreigners from coming on
the steamers they will take sailing yes
sells. And if you forbid them coming on
sailing vessels they will come in boats. |
And if you will not LET them come IN boats
they will come on RATS. And If you will
not allow wharfage to the raft they will
have it outside Sandy Hook and swim for
free America. Stop them? You might as
well pass law forbidding a swarm of
summer bees from lighting on the clover
top or pass law forbidding the tides of the
Atlantic to rise when the moon puts under
it silver graphing hooks, or a law that
the MONDAY sun should not irradiate the
atmosphere. They have come. They are
coming now. They will come. And if [
had voice loud enough to be heard
across the seas 1 would put it to the ut
most tension and cry: LET them come?
You stingy, selfish shriveled up, blasted
souls who sit before your silver dinner
plate piled up with breast of roast turkey
incarnadined with cranberry. your fork
full and your mouth full, and examining
down the superabundance till your diges-
tive organs are terrorlzed, let the millions
of your fellow men have at least the wish
ing bone"
But some of this cry, America for
Americans, may arise from an honest fear
/ lest this land be overcrowded. Such per-
sons had better take the Northern Pacific
or Union Pacific, or Atlantic and Char
| lotte air line, or Texas and Santa Fe, and
go long journey and find out that no
more than tenth part of this continent
is fully cultivated. If man with one
hundred acres of farm land should put
! oil a,v14i ho
be cultivating 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
islands of the sea, into America and
there would be room to spare. All the
4 Rocky Mountain barrennesses and all the
other American deserts are to be fertil
lied, and as Salt Lake City and much of
Utah once yielded not blade of grass,
now by artificial irrigation have become
gardens, SO large part of this continent
that now is too poor to grow even null
len stalk or a Canada thistle, will, through
artificial irrigation, like an Illinois pralrle,
wave with wheat, or like a Wisconsin farm
rustic with corn tassels. Besides that,
after perhaps a century or two more,
when this continent is quite well occu-
pied, the tides of immigration will turn
the other way. Politics and govern
mental affairs being corrected on the
other side of the waters; Ireland,
under different regulations, turned into
garden, will invite back another gen.
Grafton of Irishmen; and 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 the
} other continents. And, after number
, of centuries, all the earth full and
, crowded, what then? Well, at that time
some night panther meteor wandering
: through the heavens will put its paw on
4 our world and stop it; and, putting its
I panther tooth into the neck of it's mount
: ain range, will shake it lifeless as the raj
Y terrier rat. SO | have no more fear of
: America being overcrowded than that the
: porpoises in the Atlantic ocean will be-
4 come so numerous as to stop shipping.
u 1t is through mighty addition of foreign
f population to our native population that
Y think God is going to fill this land with
It race of people ninety-five per cent su
i perior to any thing the world has evcl
n seen. Intermarraige of families and in
Y termarriage of nations is depressing and
e Gripping. Marriage outside of ones OWL
nationality is a mighty gain. What makes
= the Scotch-Irish second to no pedigree fo
: brain and stamina of character, so tina
1t blood goes right up to the Supreme Cour
II bench and to the front rank i'll jurispru.
d dence, and merchandise and art? Be.
g cause nothing under Heaven can be NOR,
n unlike than ScOtchman and an Irish
/, man. and the descendants of these tw,
II conjoined natioualities, unless run
e filings them, go right to the tip to-
k in every thing. All nationalities com
e ing to this land the opposites will al
e the while be afianced, and French anC
/ German will unite, and that will stop al
: the quarrel between them, and Que cail(
n they will call Alsace and the other Lor
l. raine. And hot-blooded Spaniard will
l. unite with cool blooded Polander an
l. romantic Italian with matter fac
to Norwegian, and hundred and fifty year
ID from now the race occupying this Ian
I'd will be in stature, in purity OF com
ID plexion, in lquidity of eye, in graceful
Is ness of poise, in dome-like brow, i
a. brow, in taste, in intelligence and i
er morals so far ahead of any thing no.
is known on either side of the seas that thi
IN last quarter of the nineteenth centur
n. will seem to them like the Dark Ages
in Oh, then, how they will legislate and ban
e, gain and pray and preach and govern
e; This is the land where by the mingling
g; races the race prejudice is to getits deatl
" blow.
1t How Heaven feels about it we may cor
IN clude from the fact that Christ, the Jew
lie and descended from Jewess, nevertht
ne less provided religion for all races, an
c. that Paul, though Jew, became the chic
I'd apostle of the Gentiles, and that recent
or God has allowed to burst in splendt
is upon the attention of the world Hirsc
0? the Jew, who, after giving ten millio
Y: dollars to the Christian churches and ho
at pitfalls, has called committee of nation
vn and furnished them with forty milliC
m dollars for schools to elevate his race
n, France and Germany and Russia
on higher intelligence, and abolish, as |
IS says, the prejudices against the
or race, these fifty million dollars, n
he given in last will and testamen
an and at time when q man mu
tn leave his money anyhow, but by donatio
n, at fifty-five years OF age and in GOO
til health, utterly eclipsing all benevolent
to since the world was created. must col
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