Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1889-03-14
AMERICA FOR ALL.
DR.. Talmage on the Greatness of
Our Republic.
This Country Welcomes ALI Good Men
No Foreign Convicts or Anarchists
Wanted-Good Results From the
Union of Races Predicted.

! Americans!" Rev. I. De Witt Talmage
took his text from Acts xvii %: ''And
hath made of one blood all nations" He
said:
That is, il for some reason general phle-
botomy were ordered and standing in row
were an American, an Englishman, a
Scotchman and an Irishman, French
man. a German, a Norwegian, an Ice
lander. a Spaniard, an Italian, Russian
and representatives of ali other nationali-
ties barred their right arm and lancet
were struck into it, the blood let out would
have the same characteristics. for it would
be red, complex, fibrine, globuline, chlorine
and containing sulphuric acid, potassium,
phosphate of magnesia and SO on. and
Harvey and Sir Ashley Cooper and Rich
ardson and Zimmerman and Brown
Seuuard and all the scientific doctors, allo-
pathic, homeopathic, hydropathic and
eclectic, would agree with Paul, as, stand
| ing on Mars hill, his pulpit ridge of
limestone rock fifty feet high and
among the proudest and most exclusive and
undemocratic people OF the earth, he
crashed into all their prejudices by de-
claring in the words of my text that God
| had made "of one blood all nations" The
countenance of the five races Of the human
| family may be different as a result of
climate or education or habits, and the
Malay will have the projecting jaw and
the Caucasian the oval face and small
mouth and the Ethiopian the retreating
forehead and large lip and the Mongolian
the fat face OF olive hue and the Ameri-
can Indian the copper colored complexion,
but the blood is the same, and indicates
that they all had one origin and that
Adam and Eve were their ancestor and
ancestress.
l think God built this American con-
tinent and organized this United States
Republic to demonstrate the stupendous
idea of the text A man in Persia will al
ways remain Persian, q man in SwitZer-
land will always remain Swiss, a man
in Austria will always remain an Aus
trian, but all foreign nationalities coming
to America were intended to be Ameri
cans. This land is the chemical labora-
tory where foreign bloods are to be inextri-
cably mixed up and race preiudices and
race antipathies are to perish, and this
sermon is an axe by which hope to help
kill them. 1t is not hard for one to preach
such a sermon, because, although my an
cestors camo to this country about two
hundred and fifty years ago, some of them
came from Wales and some from Scotland
and some from Holland and some from
other lands, and l am a mixture of so many
nationalities chat feel at home with peo-
pie from under every sky and have right
to call them blood relations. There are
madcaps and patriotic lunatics in this
country who are ever and anon crying
out, America for Americans" Down
with the Germans! Down with the Irish!
Down with the Jews! Down with the
Chinese! are in some directions the popu-
lar cries, all of which vociferations l
would drown out by the full organ of my
text, while 1 pull out the stops and put
NV foot on the pedal that will open the
loudest pipes, and run my fingers over all
the four banks of ivory keys, playing the
chant, God hath made of one blood all
nations"
There are not five men in this audience,
not five men in any audience to- day in
America except it be on an Indian reser-
walton, who were not descended from for
eigners if you go far enough back. The
only native Americans are the Modocs,
the Shawnees, the Chippewas, the Chero-
KEGS, the Chickasaws, the Seminoles and
such like. If the principle America only
and have no right TO be here and we had
better charter all the steamers and clippers
and men-of-war and yachts and sloops
and get out of this country as quick as
possible. The Pilgrim fathers were all
immigrants the Huguenots all immigrants.
The cradle of most every one of our FAM
lilies was rocked on the banks of the Clyde
or the Rhine or the Shannon or the Seine
or the Tiber. Had the watchword Am
erica for Americans" been an early and
successful cry, where now stand our cities
would have stood Indian wigwams and
canoes instead of steamers would
have tracked the Hudson and
f, he Connecticut; and instead of
the Mississippi being the main artery of
the continent, it would have been only a
trough for deer and antelope and wild
pigeon to drink out of. What makes the
cry of America for Americans" the more
absurd and the more inhuman is that some
in this country who themselves arrived
here in their boyhood or only one or two
generations back are joining the cry.
Escaped from foreign despotism them
selves they say, 'Shut the door of escape
for Others" Getting themselves on our
shores in lifeboat from the shipwreck,
saying, Haul the boat on the beach and
let the rest of the passengers go to the bot
tom!" Men who have yet on them a
Scotch or German or English or Irish
brogue crying out, America for Ameri-
can ~ What if the the native inhabitants
of Heaven-I mean the angels, the cherub-
i'm, the seraphim born there-should
stand in the gate and when they see US
coming up at the last should say, go
back! Heaven for the Heaveniansw
OF course we do not allow foreign ma
tions to make this country a convict col
ony. We would have wall built as high
as Heaven and as deep as hell against
foreign thieves, pickpockets and anar-
chists We would not let them wipe their
feet on the mat of the outside door of
Castle Garden. If England or Russia or
Germany or France send here their des-
peradoes to get clear of them, we would
have these desperadoes sent back in chains
to the places where they came from. We
will not have America becoms the dump
ing place for foreign vagabondism. But
you build up wall at the Narrows before
New York harbor. or at the Golden Gate
before San Francisco, and forbid the COM
ing of the industrious and hard working
and honest population of other lands who
want to breath the air of our free insti-
tutions and get opportunity for better
livelihood and it is only a question of time
when God will tumble that wall fat on our
own heads with the red hot thunderbolts of |
omnipotent indignation. You are father
and you have five children. The parlor is |
the best room in your house. Your son |
Philip says to the other four children,
NOW, John, you live in the small room in |
the end OF the hall and stay there; George,
you live in the garret and stay there: |
Mary, YOU live in the cellar and stay
there; Fanny, you live in the kitchen and |
stay there. l, Philip. will ltake the parlor.