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

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this life for the perdition from whence it |
came. No peace to its ashes"
Now, in view of this subject, have two
point blank words to utter, one suggest
ing what foreigners ought to do for US,
and the other what we ought to do for
foreigners. First, to foreigners: Lay aside
all apologize air and rcalize you have as
much right as any man who was not only
himself born here, but his father and his
grandfather and great-grandfather before
him. Are you an Englishman? Though
during the revolutionary war your fathers
treated our fathers roughly, England
has more than atoned for that by
giving to this country at least two
denominations of Christians, the Church
of England and the Methodist Church.
| Witness the magnificent liturgy of the one
and the Wesleyan hallelujahs of the 9TH
er. And who shall ever pay England for
what Shakespeare and John Milton and
Wadsworth and thousand others have
! done for America? Are you ScOtchman?
Thanks for John Kuox's Presbyterianism;
! the balance wheel of all other denomina-
tions. And how shall Americans ever
pay your native land for what Thomas
! Chalmers and Mcintosh and Robert
Burns and Christopher North and Robert
! MCCQ6y06 anu CduUIISu anu 0utllI 10 uuF0
done for Americans?
Are you a Frenchman? We can not
forget your Lafayette, who, in the most
desperate time of our American revolu-
ton, New York surrendered and our ar
mics flying in retreat, espoused our cause,
and at Brandywine and Monmouth, and
Yorktown put all America under eternal
obligation. And we can not forget the
coming to the rescue Of our fathers
Rochambeau and his French feet with
six thousand armed men. Are you
German? We have not forgotten the
eleven wounds through which your Baron
de Kalb poured out his life blood at the
head of the Maryland and Delaware troops
in the disastrous battle at Camden, and
after we have named our streets and our
cities and counties after him we have
not paid 1.-THE of what we owe Ger
many for his valor and self-sacrifce.
And what about Martin Luther, the giant
German who made way for religious lib
erty for all lands and ages? Are you
Polander: How can we forget your brill
liant Count Pulaski, whose bones were laid
in Savannah river after a mortal wound
gotten while in the stirrups of one of the
tiercest cavalry charges of the American
revolution? But with no time to particu
/, larize l say: ''All hail to the men and
women of other lands who come here with
, honest purposew Renounee all obliga-
ton to foreign despots. Take the oath of
, American allegiance. Get out your nat
! uralization papers. Don't talk against
, our institutions, for the fact that you
came here and stay shows that you
5 like ours better than any other.
. If you don't like them there are
Ictaa Of oil Of
! every day, and the fare is cheap, and, lest
E you should be detained for parting civil
, ties, bid you goodbye now. But if you
! like 1t here, then charge you, at the bal
ot-box, in legislative hail. in churches
and everywhere be out-and-ou Ameri-
t cans. Do not try to establish here the
/ loose foreign Sabbaths or transcendent-
e alism spun into religion of mush and
: moonshine, or foreign hbertinism or that
condensation of all thievery, scoundrel~
!, ism, lust, murder and perdition, which in
/ Russia is called Nihilism, and in France
a called Communism, and in America
called Anarchism. Unite with us in maxi
r ing by the grace of God the fifteen million
square miles of America on both sides the
4 Isthmus of Panama the paradise of virtue
! and religion.
: Ny other word suggests what Amer
r leans ought to do for foreigners. BY all
+ possible means explain to them our in
+ situations. Coming here, the vast ma
jority Of them know about as much con.
corning Republican or Democratic form
O of government as you in the United States
know about politics in Denmark, or France
. or Italy, or Switzerland, namely, nothing
N Explain to them that liberty in this coun.
N try means liberty to do right, but not lib
o1.t1r To Il boj4
II ence say any thing against their natiV,
4 land, for, no matter how much they may
II have been oppressed there, in that native
4 land there are sacred places, cabins o.
:. mansions, around whose doors they
II played, and perhaps somewhere there is
Il grave into which they would like whe1
= life's tolls are over. to be let down, for j
g is mothers grave, and it would be lik
"A going again into the loving arms that frs
: held them and againstthe bosom that frs
/. pillowed them. Myi my! how low down
in a human must have descended to have NJ
n regard for the place where his cradle wa
~, rocked. Don't mock their brogue or thei
e stumbling attempts at the hardest of al
- languages to learn, namely, the Englis
: language. l warrant that they speak En-
=. glish as well as you could talk Scandina
, Wan.
of REJOICE as Christian patriots that in
h. stead of being an element of weakness
the foreign people, thoroughly evan
gelized, will be our mightiest defens
= against all the world. The Congress O
~ the United States recently ordered bull
~ new forts all up and down our America
~ ~ coasts, and new navy is about to be pro
y, jected. But let me say that $500, 000, 90
~ expended in coast defense will not be S
u mighty as a vast foreign population liv
~ ing in America. With hundreds of thou
- sands of Germans in New York. Ger
- many would as soon think of bomt
80 Smelling Berlin as attacking us. Wit
- hundreds of thousands of French
~ ~ men in New York, France would a
~, W soon think of firing on Paris. With hun
- dreds Of thousands of Englishmen in Ne
- York, England would as soon think of dc
- stroying London. The mightiest defens
80 ~ against European nations is a wall
- Europeans reaching up and down th
~ American Continent-a wall of heads an
~ hearts consecrated to free government
y A bulwark of foreign humanity heave
- up all along our Shores reinforced b