Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1889-03-22

while in the stirrups Of one OF the fercest
cavalry charges Of the American revolutions
But with no time to parrieuiarize l say: "An
hail TO the men and women of other lands
who come here with honest purposei" Re
nounce all obligation TO foreign despous
Take the oath of American allegiance Get
out your naturalization papers Don't talk
against our institutions for the fact that you
came here and stay shows that you like
ours better than any other. If you don't
like them there are steamers going out OF
our ports almost every day and the fare is
cheap and, lest you should be detained for
parting civilities, I bid you goodbye now
Ny other word suggests what Americans
ought to do for foreigners. By all possible
means explain to them our institutions.
Coming here, the vast majority OF them
know about as much concerning Repub-
ncan or Democratic form of government as
you In the United States know about poll
tics OF Denmark or France or Italy or
Switzerland, namely, nothing. Explain to
them that liberty in this country means lib
erty to do right but not liberty to do wrong
Never in their presence say any thing
against their native land, for, no matter
how much they may have been oppressed
there, in that native land there are sacred
places, cabins or mansions, around whose
doors they played, and perhaps somewhere
there is grave into which they would like,
when LIES tolls are over TO be let down
for it Is mothers grave, and it would be like
going again into the loving arms that first
held them and against the bosom that first
plllowed them. My! my! how low down
man must have descended to have no regard
for the place where his cradle was rocked
Don't mock their brogue or their stumbling
attempts at the hardest of all languages to
learn, namely, the English language. | war
rant that they speak English as well as YOU
could talk Scandinavian Treat them in
America as you would like to be treated if
for the sake of your honest principles or a
better livelihood for yourself or your fam
lily you had moved under the shadow of
Jungfrau or the Rhigi or the Giants
causeway or the Bohemian forest or
the Franconian Jura. If 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 Cas-
plan sea or the banks of Lake Erie. Evan
gelize their adults through the churches
and their children through the schools, and
let home missions and tract societies and
the Bible translated in all the languages of
these foreign people have full swing.
Rejoice as Christian patriots that instead
of being an element of weakness the foreign
people thoroughly evangelical Will be our
mtghtiest defense against all the world
The Congress of the United States recently
ordered built new forts all up and down our
American coasts and new navy is
about to be projected. But let ME say
that three hundred million dollars ex-
pended in coast defense will not be SO
mighty as vast foreign population Iiv-
ing in America With hundreds of thou
sands of Germans in New York Germany
would as soon think of bombshelling Berlin
rs attacking us. With hundreds of thou
sands of Frenchruen in New York France
would as soon think of firing on Paris With
hundreds of thousands of Englishmen in
New York England would as soon think of
destroying London. The mightiest de-
Tense against European nations is a wall
OF Europeans reaching all up and
down the American continent a wall of
heads and hearts consecrated to free gov
eminent. A bulwark of foreign humanity
heaved up all along our shores, reinforced
by the Atlantic Ocean, armed as it is with
tempests and Caribbean whirlwinds and
giant pillows ready to fling mountains from
their catapult, we need as Nation fear no
one in the universe but God and if found
IN His service we need not fear