The Penn's Grove record., 1889-03-23

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Mary, you live in the cellar, and stay
there; Fannie, you live in the kitchen;
and stay there. ], Philip, will take
the parlor. 1t suits me exactly. l like
the pictures on the wall. l like the
lambrequins at the windows. | like
the Administer on the floor. Now, |
Philip, propose to occupy this parlor,
and l command you to stay out. The
parlOr only for Philippians"
You, the father, hear of this arrange
ment. and what Will you do? You
will get red in tile face and say, "John,
come out of that small room at the end
of the hall; George, come down out of
the garret; Mary, come up from tile
cellar; Fannie, come out of the kitchen,
and go into the parlor, or anywhere
you choose; and, Philip, for your
greediness and un~brotherly behavior, l
put you for two hours in the dark closet
under the stairs.n God is the Father
five sons; a North American, Il South
American. a European. an Asiatic and
an African. The North American
shifts the breeze, and he says to his
four brothers and sisters: LET the
South American stay i'll South Amer
lea; let the European stay in Europe;
let the Aslatic stay in ASA; let the
African stay in Africa; but America IS
for me. l think it is the parlor Of the
whole earth. 1 like its carpets of
grass, and its upholstery of the front
window, namely, the American sun
rise; and the upholstery of the back
window, namely, the American sunset.
Now, l want you all to stay out, and
keep to your places" l am sure the
Father of the whole human race would
hear of 1t, and chastlsement would
come; and, whether by earthquake or
food or drought or heayen-darkening
| swarms of locust and grasshopper, or
destroying angel Of pestilence.
| GOD WOULD REBUKE OUR SELFISH
NESS
as a nation, and say to the four winds
of heaven: ''Thls world is my house,
and the North American is no more
my child than is the Soutf. American
and the European and the Asiatic and
the African. And 1 built this world
for all the children, and the parlor is
theirs, and all is theirs" For, let me
say, whether we will or not, the popu-
lation of other lands will come here.
There are harborS all the way from
Bafin's Bay to Galveston, and if you
shut fifty gates, there will be other
gates unguarded. And If you forbid
ers, they will take sailing vessels. And
if you forbid them coming OH sailing
vessels, they will come in boats. And
If you will not let them come in Goats,
they will come on RATS. AndL.f you
will not allow wharfage to the raft,
they will leave 1t outside Sandy Hook
and SWIM for free America. Stop
themp You might as well pass a law
forbidding a swarm of summer bees
from lighting on the clover-top. or pass
a law forbidding the tides of the At
lantic to rise when the moon put under
it silver grappling-hooks, or a law that
the MONDAY sun should not irr;diate
the atmosphere. They have come.
They are coming now. They will
come. And If | had a voice loud en-
ough to be heard across the seas, l
would put it 10 the utmost tension,
and cry:
LET THEM GOMEZ
You stingy, selfish, shriveled up, blast
ed souls who sit before your silver din
ner-plate piled up with breast of roast
turkey incarnadiued with cranberry,
your fork full and your mouth full,
and examining down the supernatural
ance till your digestive organs are ter
rOrlzed, let the millions of your fellow
men have at least the Westinghouse!
But some of this cry, America for
Americans! may arise from an homes.
fear lest this land be overcrowded.
Such persons had better take the North
ern Pacific, or Union Pacific, or South
ern Pacific, or Atlantic and Charlotte
| air line, or Texas and Santa Fe, and
20 a long journey and find out that no
more than a tenth part of this contin-
ent is fully cultivated. ia man with
a hundred acres Of farm land should
put all his cultivation OIL one acre, he
would be cultivating u larger ratio OF
his farm than our nation is
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 Noun
tain barrenDess and all the other Amer
lean deserts are TO lie fortified; and as
Salt Lake City and much of Utah once
( yielded not a blade OF grass, now by
artificial irrigation have become gar
dens, so a large part of this continent
that now Is too poor to grow sven a
mullen stalk or a Canada thistle, Will
through artificial irrigation like an
Illinois prairie wave with wheat, or
like a Wisconsin farm rustic with corn
tassels. Besides that, after perhaps a
century or two more, when this contin-
ent is quite well occupied, the tides OF
immigration will turn the other way.
Politics and governmental affairs being
corrected on the other side of the
waters, Ireland, under different reguia-
ton turned into a garden, will invite
back another generation OF freshmen,
and the wide wastes of Russia brought
from under despotism will with his own
green fields invite back another gener-
alton of Russians. And there will be
hundreds Of thousands OF Americans
every year settling on the other contin-
ents. And after a number OF CEN
turtles, all the earth full and crowded,
what then? We'll, at that time, some
night, a 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
mountain range will shake 1t lifeless, as
the rat-terrier a rat. So ] have no
more fear Of America being oyercrowd-
ed than that the PROPOSES in the At
lantic Ocean will become so numerous
as to stop shipping. -
1t is through mighty addition Of for
eIgn population to II native popula.
ton that 1 think God is going to fill
this land with a race Of people ninety
five per cent, superior to anything the
world has ever seen.
HOW HEAVEN FEELS ABOUT 1T
we may conclude from the fact that
Christ, the Jew, and descended from
a Jewess, nevertheless provided a re-
ligion for all races, n that faui,
though a Jew, became the chief apostle
of the Gentiles, and that recently God
has allowed to burst in splendor upon