West Virginia argus. [volume] (Kingwood, W. Va.) 1877-1946, 1889-03-14

you don't like them thore are steamers oinr
out OF our ports almost every day, and the
fare u cheap and, lest you should be detained
Tor parting civiltiss, bid you good-by
now. But II you like it here, then fcharee
you, at the ballot box, In leoisIative
nan, IN churches and everywhere be
out and out Americans Do not try
20 establish here the loose foreign Sab.
Datos or transcendentalism spun into a ne
ligion OF mush and moonshine. or foreion
noertinism or that condemnation OF ALI thisv-
cry, Scoundr0sm, lust, murder and porif
ton which In Russia Is called Nihilism and
In France called Communism and in America
called Anarchism- Unite with us In makino
by the grace OF God the fifteen million soiiare
miles OF America on both sides the Isthm,,a
OF Panama the paradise OF virtue and re-
Ny other word suggests what Amerioans
ought 20 do for foreigners. BY all posvi-
Die means explain TO them our institutions
coming here, the vast majority OF them know
ABOUT as much concerning Republican or
DemocraEc form OF government as you In
the United States know about politics OF
denmark or France or Italy or Swift
zeriand, namely nothing. Explain TO them
Lnat hoerty In this country means liberty to
do right, but not liberty 20 do wrong.
Never In their presence say anything against
their native land, for no matter how much
they may have been oppressed there In
that native land there are sacred plnces,
cabins or mansions around whose doors thew
played, and perhaps somewhere there is a
grave into which they would like. when lifeis
tolls are over, TO be let down, for Re IA
mothers grave, aud It would be like
going again into the loving arms
that first held them, and against
the bosom that first pillowed them. Myl
my now low down man must have de-
scended TO have no regard for the place
where his cradle was rocked. Don't nook
tempts at the hardest of all
languages TO learn. namely the
English language. 1 warrant that they
SPEAK English as well as you could talk
scandinavian Treat them in America as
You would like to be treated IL for the sake
OF your honest principles or better liveli-
hood for yourself or your family you had
moved under the shadow OF Jungfrau,
or the Rigi, or the Giants Causeway,
or the bohemian Forest, or the Fran
CONAN Jura. IL they get homesick, as some
OF Them are, suggest to them that God is as
near to help them here as He was near them
before they crossed the Atlantic, and that the
souls final flight is less than second whether
from the beach OF the Caspian Sea OF the
banks Of Lake Erie Evangelize their adults
through tho churches and their chill
dren through the schools and let home
missions and tract societies and the Bible
translated in all the languages of these for
eign people have full swing.
heloice as Christian patriots that instead
or being an element OF weakness the foreign
people thoroughly evangelical will be our
mlghtieSt defence against all the world The
Congress OF the United States recently ordered
built new forts all up and down our Ameri-
can coasts, and a new navy is about to be
projected. But let me say that three hum
dred million dollars expended in coast de-
tense will not DO so mighty as a vast foreign
population living IN America. With hun
dreds OF thousands OF Germans in New
YORK, Germany would az soon think of
bomhshelling osrlin as atkacsing ms with
hundreds OF thousands OK Frenchmen In New
York, France would as soon think OF frino,
on Paris. With hundreds of thousands OF
EnRlishmen in New YORK, England would
rs soon think of destroying London
penn nations is wall of Europeans
reaching all up and down the American con-
tlnent wall OF heads and hearts conse-
Grated to free government A bulwar6 OF
foreign humanity heavei up all along our
shores, REINFORCED by the Atlantic Ocean.
armed as it is with temptests and Caribbean
whirlwinds and giant pillows ready to fling.
mountains from their catapault, we need az n
nation fear no one in the universe but Cod, /
and II found in His service we need not fear
Him; AS six hundred million people will vet
sit down at our national table, let Col
preside 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 telescopes Of observa.
tories, the volumes OF our libraries the SONGS
OF our churches. tho affections OF our he trts
and all our lakes become bapJismal
fonts and all our mountains affairs of praise
and all our valleys amphitheatres OF wor.
snip, and our country, having become fifty
nations consolidated into one may its every
heart throb be a pulsation OF gratitude TO
Him who made 'of one blood all nations
and ransomed that hood by the payment o.
tho last drou of His own.