The Penn's Grove record., 1889-03-23

HOW, Uub ny uULdsioh oe hAsIh'S 49,"
of age, and in good health, utterly
eclipsing all h~enevoleuce since the
world was created. l must confess
there was a time when 1 entertained
race prejudice, but, thanks to God that
prejudice has gone; and If l sat In
church. and on one side of me there
was a black man, and on the other side
of me was an Indian, and before me
was a Chinaman, and behind me a
Turk, l would be as happy as l 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 centre Of the
earth and halfway to China. but no
further lest 1t poison those living OH
the other side the earth. Then into
this grave let down the accursed carcass
of race prejudice, and throw on 1t all
the meal things that have ever been
said and written between jew and Cen
tile, between Turk and Russian, be-
tween English and French, between
Monaghan and anti-Mongolian, be-
tween black and white, and put up over
that grave for tombstone some scorched
and Jagged chunk of scori@ spit out by
some volcanic eruption, and chisel on
1t for epitaph: .'Here lies the carcass of
n who cursed the world. Aged near
six thousand years. Departed this life
for the perdition from whence it came.
No peace to its ashesl"
A WORD TO FOREIGNERS.
Get out your naturalization papers.
Don't talk against our institutions, for
the fact that you came here, and stay,
shows that you like ours better than
any other. If 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 civilities, l bid you good
bye now. But If you like it here, then
/ charge you, at the bailot-box, in leg
islative hall. in churches, and every
where, be out-and-out Americans. Do
not try to establish here the loose
foreign Sabbaths, or transcendentalism
spun into a religion of mush and moon-
shine, or foreign libertinism, or that
condensation of all thievery, scoundrel'
ism, lust. murder, and perdition, which
in Russia is called Nihllism, and in
France called Communism, and in
America called A~narchism. Unite with
us in making, by the grace Of God. the
fifteen million square miles Of America,
on both sides the Isthmus of Panama,
the paradise Of virtue and religion.
My other word suggests what
Americans ought to do for foreigners.
BY all possible means explain to them
our institutions. Coming here, the vast
majority Of them know about as much
concerning republican OF democratic
form of government as you in the
United States know about the politics
of Denmark or France or Italy or
Switzerland, namely, nothing. Ex-
plain to them that liberty in this coun-
try means liberty TO do right, but
NOT LIBERTY TO DO WRONG.
Never in tLeir presence say anything
against their native land, for, no matter
how much they may have been oppress-
ed there, in that native land there are
sacred places, cabins or mansions
around whose doors they played and
pei haps there is a grave into which
they would like. when life's tolls are
over, to be let down, for 1t is mothers
grave, and it would be like going again
into the loving arms that first held them,
and against the bosom that first pillow
ed them. MyI myI how low down a
man must have descended to have no
regard for the place where his cradle
was rocked. Don't mock their brogue
or their stumbling attempts at the
hardest Of alllaDguages to learn. namely,
the English language. Treat them i'll
America
AS YOU WOULD LIKE TO BE TREATED.
If for the sake Of your honest principles
or a better livelihood for yourself or
your family, you have moved under the
shadow of Jungfrau, or the Rigi, or the
Giants Causeway. or the Bohemian
Forest, or the Franconian Jura. II they
get homesick, as some OF them are, sug-
gest to them that God Is as neal to help
them here as He was near them before
they crossed the Atlantic, and that the
SOULS final flight is less than a second,
whether from the bench Of the Caspian
Sea or the banke Of Lake Erie. Evan
gellze their adults through the churches
and their children through the schools,
and let home missions and tract socie-
ties, and the Bible translated in all the
languages of these foreign people, have
full swing.
Rejoice as Christian patriots that, in
stead of being an element of weakness,
the foreign people, thoroughly evangel-
lied, Will be
OUR MIGnTIEST DEFENCE
against all the world. The Congress of
the United States recently ordered built
new forts all up and down our American
coasts, and q new navy is about to be
projected. But let me say that three
hundred million dollars expended In
coast defence will not be * mighty as a
vast foreign population living in
America. With hundreds of thousands
of Germans living in New York, Ger
many would as soon think of bomb
Smelling Berlin as attacking us. With
hundreds Of thousands of Frenchmen
in New York, France would as soon
think Of firing on Paris. With hun
dreds of thousands of Englishmen in
New York, England would as soon
think of destroying London. The
mightiest defence against European
nations is a wall of Europeans reaching
all up and down the continent-a wall
of heads and hearts consecrated TO free
government.
A BULwARK OF FOREIGN HUMANITY
heaved up all along our shores, REIN
forced by the Atlantic Ocean, armed as
it Is with ,tempests and Caribbean
w~hirlwinds and giant pillows ready to
fling mountains from their catapult, we
need as a nation fear no one in the uni.
verse but God; and, II found in His SER
vice, we need not fear Him. AS six
hundred million people will yet sit
down at our national table, let God pre-.
side. To Him be dedicated the metal
OF our mines, the sheaves of our harvest
fields. the fruits of our orchards, the
fabrics Of our manufactures, the tele-
scopes OF our observatories, tho volumes
OF our libraries, the songs of our