The Memphis appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1886-1890, 1889-03-04

peradoes TO get clear of them, wo would
have these desperadoes sent back in chains
to the place where they came from. We
will not have America become the dump
ing place for foreign vagabondism. But
you build up wall at the Mario ws before
New York Harbor, or at tho Golden Gate
before San Francisco, and forbid the COM
ing OF the industrious and hard working
and honest populations OF other lands who
want TO breathe the air OF our free institu-
tions and get opportunity for better liveli-
hood, and it is only question of time
when God will tumble that wall flat ON
our own heads with the rod hot thunder
bolts OF his olnnipotcnt indignation. You
are father aud you have five children.
The parlor Is the best room in your house.
Your son Philip saws to tho other four
children, "Now, John. YOU live in the small
room in the end Of the hall and stay there;
George, you live in the garret and
stay there; Mary, you live in the cellar
and stay there; Fannie, you live In the
kitchen and stay there. /, Philip, will
take the parlor II suits me exactly. |
like the pictures on the wall. like the
lnmbrequins at the windows. | like tho
Administer on the floor. Now, |, Philip,
propose TO occupy this paror and | com.
mand you 10 stay out The parlor only for
Philippians" You, the father, hear Of
this arrangement aud what will you do?
You will get red in the face aud say
John, come out OF that small room at the
end OF the hall; George, come down out OF
the garret; Mary come up from the eel
lar; Fannie come out of the kitchen, and
go into the pdrlor or anywhere you choose;
and, Philip, for your greediness aud un-
brotherly behavior, | put you for two
hours in the dark closet under the stairs. "
God Is the Father OF the human race. lie
has at least five sons, n North American,
South American, n European, an Asiatic
and an African. The North American
snills the breeze and he says 10 his four
brothers and sisters "Let the South
American stay in South America; let the
European stay in Europe; let the Asiatic
stay in Asia; let the African stay in
Africa; but America is for me.
think II Is tho parlor of the whole
earth. | like It's carpets OF grass
and its upholstery Of the front window,
namely the American sunrise, and tho up
holstery OF the back window. namely the
American sunset Now want YOU all 10
stay out and keep TO your places" am
sure the Father OF the whole human race
would hear OF Il aud chastisoment would
come, and, whether by earthquake or food
or drOulh or heaven darkening swarms OF
locust and grasshopper or destroying angel
OF pestilenco, God would rcbuke our sell
iishncss M nation, and say 10 the four
winds Of heayem "Ihis world Is my house
aud the North American II no moro my
child than the South American aud the
European aud the Asatic aud the African.
And built this world for all the children,
aud tho parlor Is theirs and all Is thcirs."
For, let me say, whether We will or not,
the population OF other lands will come
here. There are harbos all the way from
Bailin's lay to Galveston, and II you shut
fifty gates there will be other gates un.
guarded. And II YOU forbid foreigners
from coming on the steamers they
will tako sailing vessels. And II you
forbid them coming ON sailing ves-
sells they will come In boats. Aud "
you will not let them come In boats
they will come on rats. And II you will
not allow wharfage 70 the raft they will
leave Il outside Sandy Hook and swim for
free America. Stop ihem7 You might ~
we'll pass law forbidding n swarm Of
summer bees from lighting ON the clover
top, OF pass law iorbIddng the tides OF
the Atlantic TO rise when the moon puts
under Il silver grnpnling hooks, or n Law
that the MONDAY sun should not irradiale
the atmosphere. They have come. They
are coming now. They will come. And
u had voice loud enough 10 be heard
across the seas ! would put Il 10 the Mt
most tension and cry, lat them comel
You siingy, selfish, shdyclcd up, blasted
souls who sit before your silver dinner
plate piled up with breast Of roast turkey
incarnadined with cranberry, your fork
full aud your mouth full aud examining
down the snpcnbundince till your digcs-
tive organs arc terr0rkcl, let the millions
Of your fellow men have at least the wish
ing bone.
But some Of this cry. America for Amer.
leans, may arise from an honest fear lest
this land may be- ovcrcrowdcd Such per-
sons had better take the Northern Pacific
or Union Pacific. or Southern Pacific or
Atlantic 4 Charlotte Air Line, or Texas 4
Santa fc, and 40 long journey aud find
out that no more than tenth part Of this
continent Is fully cultivated. II man
with hundred acres Of farm land should
put all his cultivation cn one aero he
would be oulliyating q larger ratio Of his
farm than our nation Is now occupying Of
the national farm. Pour the whole hu-
man race, Europe, Asia, Africa. and all
the Islands Of the yea, into America, aud
there would be room 10 spare. All tho
Rocky Mountain bafrcnnossos and all
the other American deserts are 10 DO fertil.
izcd, aud n Salt Lake City aud much Of
Utah onco yielded not a blade Of grass
now, by artificial irrigation, have become
gardens, 10 n large part Of this continent
that now is too poor 20 grow even a null
lein stalk or n Canada thistle, will, through
artificial irrigation, like an Illinois prai-
ric, wave with wheat, Or like u Wisconsin
farm, rustic with corn tasscla. Beside
that, after perhaps century or more, when
this continent IL quito well occupied, the
tides Of immigration will turn the other
way. Politics aud governmental affairs be-
Ing connected on the other side OF tho wat.
cn, Ireland under different regulations
turned into a garden, will invite back an.
other generation Of lrshmcn, aud the wide
waste OF Russia, brought from under dos.
potism. with her own green fields, invite
back another generation Oi Russians. Aud
thcro will be hundreds Of Thousands Of
Americans every year settling on the
other continents. And after a number Of
centuries, all the earth full aud crowded,
what thcn2 Well, at that time some night
a panther meteor wandering through the
heavens will put lts paw on our world and
stop II, aud putting IN panther tooth into
the neck Oi iis mountain range, will shake
II liiclcss, as the mt.terncr a rat 80 have
no more fear u America being over.
crowded than the porpoiscs In the Atlantic
ocean will become W numerous as " stop
shipping.
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