The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1889-03-15

American, q European, an Asistic
and an African. The North American
shifts the breeze and he says to his four
brothers and sisters: LET the South
American stay In South America, let the
European stay in Europe, let the Asiatic
stay in Asia, let the African stay in
| Africa; but America il for me. think it
is the parlor of the whole earth. like its
carpets Of grass and its upholstery of the
front window, namely the American sun.
rise, and the upholstery Of the back win
dow, namely the American sunset Now
want you all to stay out and keep to
your places"
l am sure the Father Of the whole human
race would hear of it and chastisement
would come AMI, whether by earthquake
or flood or drought or heaven darkening
swarms Of locust and grasshopper or de-
stroying angel Of pestilence, God would
! rebuke our selfishness as Nation and say
| to the four winds of heaven: This
world is my house and the North Ameri-
can 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 10 theirs" For, let me
say. whether we will or not, the popula-
ton Of other lands will come here. There
are harbors all the way from Baffin's
bay to Galveston, and if you shut
| fifty gates there will be other gates I'M
guarded. And il you forbid foreigners
from coming on the steamers they will take
sailing vessels. And il you forbid them
coming on sailing vessels they will come
In boats. And il you will not let them
come in boats they will come on RATS.
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 law forbidding a
swarm of bees from lighting on the clover
top or passing law forbidding the tides
of the Atlantic to rise when the moon puts
| under it silver graphing hooks, or a law
| that the monday 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 Iwould put it to the utmost
| tension and cry, let them come! You
stingy, selfish, shriveled up. blasted souls
who sit before your silver dinner plate
piled up with breast Of roast turkey in
carnadined with cranberry, your fork full
and your mouth full and examining 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 Amer
leans, 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 At
| laniic & Charlotte air line or Texas g.
Santa Fe, and go long journey and find
out that no more than tenth part of this
continent is fully cultivated. If a man
with 100 acres of land should put all his
cultivation on one acre he would be culti-
waiting 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 barren
esses and all the other American deserts
are to be fertilizsd, and as Salt Lake City
and much of U .ah once yielded not a blade
of grass now by artificial irrigation have
become gardens, SO large part of this
continent that now is too poor to grow
even a MULLEN stalk or 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 century or two more, when
this continent is quite well occupied, the
tides of immigration will then turn the
other way. Politics and governmental
affairs being corrected on the other side
of the waters. Ireland turned into a gar
den will invite back another generation of
Irishmen. 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 other continents.
And after a number of centuries, all the
earth full and crowded, 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 put
ting its panther tooth into the neck of its
mountain range will shake it lifeIess as a
rat terrier a rat. So have no more fear
of America being overcrowded than the
porpoises in the Atlantic ocean will be-
come so numerous as to stop shipping.
1t 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 IS per cent superior to any
thing the world has ever seen. Inter-
marriage of families and intermarriage Of
nations is depressing and Gripping. Mar
riage outside of ones own nationa ity and
with another style of nationality is a
mighty gain. What makes the Scotch
Irish second to no pedigree for brain and
stamina of character, so that blood goes
right up to Supreme Court bench and to
the front rank of jurisprudence and mer-
chandise and art! Because nothing I'M
der Heaven can be more unlike than a
Scotchman and an Irishman and the de-
scendants of these two conjoined nation.
alities, unless rum fl ngs them, go right to
the tip top in every thing. All NATIONAL
tiles coming to this land the opposites will
all the while be affianced, anu 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 Spaniard will
unite with cold blooded Polander and
romantic Italian with matter of fact
Norwegian, and q hundred and fifty
years from now the race occupying this
land will be in stature, in purity of COM
piexion, in liquidity Of eye, in gracefulness
of poise, in dome like brow, in taste, in
ntelligence and in morals so far ahead of
any thing now known on either side the
seas that this last quarter of the nine
tenth century will seem to them like the
dark ages. o, then, how they will egis-
late and bargain and pray and preach and
govern! This is the land where by the
mingling of the races the race prejudice
is to get its death blow. How Heaven
feels about it may we conclude from the
fact that Christ, the Jew, and descended
from a Jewess, nevertheless provided
religion for all races, and at Paul,
though a jew, became the chief apostle
haf Co h.,.