The Russellville Democrat., 1889-03-14

ADertCan smltfS the breeze and he says 70
 his four brothers .Qnd sisters: "Bet the
 South American May in South Amer | lea, let the European stay in Europe,
 let the Asiatic stay in Asia, let the African stay in Africa; but America is for me- l think it is the parlor of the whole earth. l like the carpets of grass and it's upholstery of the front window, namely, the American sunrise, and the upholstery of the back window, namely, the American sunset. Now want you all to stay out and keep to your places." l am sure the Father of the whole race l would hear of it, and reinstatement would | come, and, whether by earthquake, or | flood, or drouth, or Heaven darkening ! sworms of locust and grasshopper or de- | stroying angel of pestilence, God would rebuke our selfshness as a nation and l say Co the four winds of Heaven: "This ! world is my house, and the North Amer i ican is no more my child than is the South ] American, and the European, and the ! Asiatic, and the African. And built this ! world for all the children, and the parlor ! is theirs and all is theirs." For, let me say, whether eve will or not, the popula- | tion of other lands will come here. There 1 are harbors all the way from Baffin's bay l to Galveston, and if you shut fifty gates l there will be other gates unguarded. And | If yOu forbid foreigners from coming on l the steamers they will take sailing ves- | sels. And if you forbid them coming on l sailing vessels they will come in boats. 1 And if you will not let them come in boats ] they will come on rafts. And if you will 1 not allow wharfage to the raft they will i leave it outside Sandy Hook and swim for 1 free America. Stop them2 You might as
 well pass a law forbidding a swarm of summer bees from lighting on the clover l top, or pass a law forbidding the tides of the 1 Atlantic to rise when the moon puts under l it silver grappling hooks, or a law that
 the monday sun should not irradiate the
 atmos sphere. They have come. They are 1 coming now. They will come. And if
 had a voice loud enough to be heard l across the seas I would put it to the ut most tension and cry: Let them come? 1 You stingy, selfish, shriveled up, blasted 1 souls who sit before your silver dinner 1 plate piled up with breast of roast turkey
 incarnadined with cranberry, your fork full and your mouth full, and cramming 2 down the superabuudance till your diges- l tive organs are terrorized, let the millions l 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 a tenth part of this continent
 is fully cultivated. If man with one hundred acres of farm land should put 1 all his cultivation on one acre he would 1 ha Cuit ivotiuo "a 1arppr 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 Rocky Mountain barrennesses and all the 1 other American deserts are to be fertil- | ized, and as Salt Lake City and much of i Utah once yielded not a blade of grass,
 now by artificial irrigation have become
 gardens, so q large part of this continent
 that now is too poor to grow even null
 len stalk or 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
 a garden, will invite back another gen. eration of lrishmen; 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 l other continents. And, after Q number 1 of centuries, all the earth full and | crowded, what then? We'll, at that time some night panther meteor wandering through the heavens will put its paw on
 our world and stop it; and, putting it's panther tooth into the neck of its mount
 ain range, will shake it lifeless as the rat l terrier rat. So 1 have no more fear of | America being overcrowded than that the porpoises in the Atlantic ocean will be- come so numerous as to stop shipping.
 It is through mighty addition of foreign population to our native population that
 think God is going to fill this land with a
 race of people ninety-five per cent. su-
 perior to any thing the world has ever seen. Intermarraige of families and in- | termaTriage of nations is depressing and | crippling. Marriage outside of one's own
 nationality is a mighty gain. What makes l the Scotch Irish second to no pedigree for | brain and stamina of character so that | blood goes right up to the Supreme Court | bench and to the front rank in jurispru- dence, and merchandise and art: Be- cause nothing under Heaven eau be more unlike than a Scotchman and an Irish man, and the descendants of elese two conjoined natioualities, unless rum filings them, go right to the tip top | in every thing. All nationalities com 1 ing to this land the opposites will all | the while be aftiauced, and French and l German will unite, and that will stop all | the quarrel between them, and one child | they will call Alsace aud the other LOT raine. And blooded Spaniard will unite with cool blooded Polander and romantic Italian with matter of fact l Norwegian, and a hundred and fifty years from now the race occupying this land will be in stature, in purity of com plexion, in liquidity of eye in graceful ness of pOise, in dome-like brow, in brow, in taste, in intelligence and in morals so far ahead of any thing now known on either side of the seas that this l last quarter of the nineteenth century will seem to them like the Dark Ages. l Oh, then, how they will legislate and bar gain and pray and preach and governl 1 ms io ho AalIu "ieIt ny tuc hihBlluB VL
 races the race prejudice is to get its death blow.
 How Heaven feels abont 1t we may con- clude from the fact that Christ, the Jew, and descended from Jewess, neverthe- ] less provided a religion for all races, and that Paul, though a Jew, became the chief apostle of the Gentiles, and that recently God has allowed to burst in splendor ! lfnon fhe attention of the world Hirsch. the Jew, who, after giving ten million dollars to the Christian chuvches and hos l pitfalls, has called a committee of nations { and furnished them with forty million ! dollars for schools Co elevate his race in