Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-03-04

sailing vessels And il you forbid them COM
| ing on sailing vessels they will come in boats
And if you will not let them come in boats
| they will come on RATS.
WILL SWIM ACROSS.
And if you will not allow wharfage to the
raft they will leave it outside Sandy Hook and
swim for free America. Stop them? You
might as well pass a law forbidding swarm of
summer bees from lighting on the clover top.
or pass law forbidding the tides of the At
lantic to rise when the moon puts under it
silver graphing hooks, or a law that the noon
day sun should not Irradiate the atmosphere.
They have come. They are coming now They
will come. And if had a voice loud enough
to be heard across the seas would put it to
the utmost tension and cry Let them come!
You sttngy, selfish, shriveled up, blasted souls
who sit before your silver dinner plate piled up
with breast of roast turkey incarnadlned with
cranberry, your fork full and your mouth full
and cramming down the superabundance till
your digestive organs are terrorized, let the
millions of your fellow men have at least the
wishing bone.
But some of this cry, America for Americans,
may arise from an honest fear lest this land be
overcrowded. Such persons had better take
the Northern Pacific or Union Pacific or
Southern Pacific or Atlantic and Charlotte air
line or Texas and Santa Fe, and go long jour
ney and find out that no more than tenth
part of this continent is cultivated. If man
with 100 acres of farm land should put all his
cultivation on one acre he would be cultivating
larger 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 other Ameri-
can deserts are to be fertilized and as Salt Lake
City and much of Utah once yielded not blade
of grass now by artificial irrigation have be-
come gardens, so large part OF this continent
that now is too poor to grow even mullen
stalk or Canada thistle, will through artificial
icraf il-n oiriQ way
wheat or like Wisconsin farm rustic with
corn tassels. Beside that, after perhaps cen
tury or two more, when this continent is quite
well occupied, the tides of immigration will
turn the other way.
Politics and Governmental affairs being cor
rected on the other side of the waters, ireland
under different regulation turned INTO gar
den viii invite back another generation OF
lrishmen, and the wide wastes of Russia
brought from under despotism will with her
own green fields invite back another genera
tion of Russians. And there will be hundreds
of thousands of Americans every year settling
on the other continents. And after number
OF centuries, what then? Well, at that time
some night a panther meteor wandering
through the heavens will put its paw on our
world and stop it, and putting its panther tooth
into the neck of its mountain range will shake
it lifeless as the rat terrier rat. So have no
more fear of America being overcrowded than
that the porpoises in the Atlantic ocean will
become so numerous as to stop shipping.
A REAL BENEFIT.
1t is through mighty addition of foreign pop
ulation to our native population that think
God is going to fill this land with race of peo-
pie 90 per cent superior to anything the world
has ever seen. Intermarriage of families and
intermarriage of nations is depressing and
Gripping Marriage outside of ones own ma
tionality and with another style of nationality
is a mighty gain. What makes the Scotch
Irish second to no pedigree for brain and
cfn nir1a afa oh hail And inhf
up to Supreme Court bench and to the front
rank in Jurisprudence and merchandise and
art? Because nothing under heaven can be
more unlike than Scotchman and an Irish
man and the descendants of these two con-
Joined naJionalities, unless rum filings them, go
right to the tip top in everything.
All nationalltles coming to this land the OPP
posites will all the while be aff1anced, and
French and German will unite and that will
stop all the quarrel between them, and one
child they will call Alsace and the other Lor-
raine. And hot-blooded Spaniards will unite
with cool-blooded Polander and romantic Ital-
ian with matter-of-fact Norwegian, and $50
wears from now the race occupying this land
will be in stature, in purity Of complexion, in
nquldIty OF eye, in gracefulness of poise, in
dome-iike brow in taste, in intelligence and in
morals so far ahead of anything now known on
either side the seas, that this last quarter of
the nineteenth century will seem to them like
the dark ages oh, then how they will legislate
and bargain and pray and preach and govern!
This is the land where by the mIngling of races
the race prejudice is to get its death blow.
How heaven feels about it we may conclude
from the fact that Christ, the Jew, and de-
scended from Jewess. nevertheless provided
reli for all races, and that Paul,
though Jew, became the chief apostle of the
Gentiles and that recently God has allowed to
burst in splendor upon the attention of the
world Hirsch, the Jew, who after giving ten
million dollars to Christian churches and hos
pitals, has called committee of nations and
furnished them with forty million dollars for
schools to elevate his race in France and Ger
many and Russia to higher intelligence and
abolish, as he says, the prejudices against their
race: these fifty million dollars not given in a
last will and testament and at a time when a
man must leave his money anyhow but by
donation at 55 years of age and in good health
utterly eclipsing all benevolence since the
world was created. must confess there was a
time when entertained race prejudice, but
thanks to God, that prejudice has gone and if
sat in church and on one side of me there was
black man and on the other side of me was
an Indian and before me was Chinaman and
behind me Turk, 1 would be as happy as am
now standing in the presence of this brilliant
audience, and am as happy now as can be
and live.
RACE PREJUDICE.
The sooner we get this corpse of race preiu-
dice buried, the healthier Sill 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 center of
the earth and half way to China, but no further
lest it poison those living on the other side the
earth. Then into this grave let down the ac-
cursed carcass of race prejudice and throw on
it all the mean things that have ever been said
and written between Jew and Gentle, between
Turk and Russian, between English and French
between Monolian and anti-Mongolian, be-
tween black and white, and put up over that
grave for tombstone some scorched and Jagged
chunk of scori9 spit out by some volcanic
eruption and chisel on it for epitaph: Here
lies the carcass of one who cursed the world
DPnarfnf for
the perdition from whence it came. No peace
to its ashesr'
Now, in view of this subject, Ihave two point
blank words to utter, one suggesting what
foreigners ought to do for Us, and the other
what we ought to do for foreigners First to
foreigners Lay aside all apologetic air and
realize you have as much right as any man who
was not only himself born here but his father
and his grandfather and great-grandfather be-
fore 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 other And
who shall ever pay England fer what Shakes
peare and John Milton and Wordsworth and
thousand other authors have done for America?
Are you Scotchman? Thanks for John
Knox's Presbyterianism: the balance wheel of
all other denominations. And how shall Amer
leans ever pay your native land for what
11OmaS OnalIners anu hdclnIosn ana hODerE
Burns and Christopher North and Robert Nc
Cheyne and Candlish and Guthrie have done
for Americans?
Are YOU Frenchman? We cannot forget
your Lafayette, who in the most desperate
time of our American revolution, New York
surrendered and our armies flying iii retreat,
espoused our cause aud at Brandywine and
Monmouth and Yorktown put all America
under eternal obligation. And we cannot for
get the coming to the rescue of our fathers
Rochambeau and his French feet with 5000
armed men. Are you a German? We have
not forgotten the eleven wounds through which
Baron DeKalb poured out his life blood at the