The united opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1881-1970, 1889-03-08
"Cao baatl Heaven for the Heaven

built as high as heaven and as deep as
hell against foreign thieves, pickpock-
cts and anarchists. We would not
let them wipe their feet on the map
of the outside door of Castle Garden.
If England or Russia or Germany or
France send here their desperadoes 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 become the
dumping place for foreign vagabond-
ism. But you build up wall at the
Narrows before New York harbor, or
at the Golden Gate before San Fran
cisco, and forbid the coming of
the Industrious and hard work.
ing and honest populations OF
other lands who want to breathe
the air of our free institutions and get
opportunity for better livelihood, and
it is only a question of time when
God will tumble that wall flat on our
own heads with the red hot thunder
bolts of his 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 Gel
lar and stay there; Fannie, you live
in the kitchen and stay there. /,
Philip, will take the parlor. It suits
me exactly. / like the pictures on the
wall. like the lambrequins at the
windows. I like the Administer on
the floor. Now, I, Philip, propose to
occupy this parlor and l command
you to stay out. The parlor only for
Philippians" You, the father, hear
of this arrangement and what will you
do9 You will get red in the face and
say: "John, come out of that small
room at the end of the hall; George,
come down out of the garnet; Mary,
come up from the 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 Tor two
hours in the dark closet under the
stairs" God is the Father of the
human race. He has at least five
sons, North American, South
American, 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 in South America,
let the European stay in Europe, let
the Asiatic stay in Asia, let the Afri-
can stay in Africa; but America is for
me. I think it is the parlor Of the
whole earth. I like its carpets of grass
and it's upholstery of the front win
dow, namely the American sunrise,
and the upholstery of the back win
dow, 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 it and chastisement would
come and, whether by earthquake or
flood or drought or heaven darkening
swarms of locust and grasshopper or
destroying angel Of pestilence, God
would rebuke our selfishness as a
nation and say to the four winds
of heaven: This world is my
house and the North American 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 is theirs" For,
let me say, whether we will or not, the
population 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 unguarded. And if you forbid
foreigners from coming on the steam
ers they will take sailing vessels. And
if you forbid them coming on sailing
vessels they will come in boats. And
if 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
them9 You might as well pass law
fOrbidding swarm of summer bees
from lighting on the clover top, or
pass law forbidding the tides of the
Atlantic to rise when the moon puts
under.it silver graphing hooks, or
law that the monday sun should not
irradiate the atmosphere. They have
come. They are coming now. They
will come. And if had voice loud
enough to be heard across the seas ]
would 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
incarnadined 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.
AMERICA HAS ENOUGH ROOM FOR ALL
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 Char
lotte air line or Texas and Santa Fe,
and go long journey and find out
that no more than a tenth part of this
continent is fully cultivated. If a
man with hundred acres of farm
land should put all his cultivation on
one acre he would be cultivating a
larger ratio of his farm than our ma
ton is now occupying of the national
farm POur tho whole human racn