The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1889-03-27

! race He has at least FIVE sons, Nortl
! American, South American. European
! an Asiatic, and an African. The Nortl
! American sniffs the breeze and he says to hi
! four brothers and sisters: LET the Soutl
American stay in South America, let thu
European stay in Europe, let the Asiati
stay in Asia. let the African stay in Africa
but America is for me. l think it IS tn,
parlor of the whole earth. Ilikeits carpet
( Of grass and its upholstery of the front win
| dow, namely the American sunrise, and th'
; upholstery Of the back window, namely
the American sunset. Now I want yol
all to stay out and keep to your places
! am sure the Father of the whole
human race would hear OF it and chastisc
ment would come and. whether by earth
| quake or food or drought or heaven darkcn
ing swarms Of locust and grasshopper o,
destroying angel of pestilence. God would
rebuke our selfshress as nation and say
to the four winds Of heaven: This worlt
is my house and the North American is n!
more my child than is the South American
and the European and Asiatic and the AT
rican 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 Bafin's bay to Galveston. and if you
shut fifty gates there will be other gates
ungrarded. And if you forbid foreigners
from coming on the steamers they will take
sailing vessels. And if you forbid them
coming in 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 out
side Sandy Hook and swim for tree Ameri-
ca. Stop them? You might Us we'll pass a
law forbidding a swarm Of summer bees
from lighting on the clover top, or pass a
law forbidding the tides of the Atlantic to
rise when the moon puts under it silver
graphing hooks, or law that the roonday
sun should not irradiate the atmosphere.
They lave come. They are coming now.
They will come. And il had a 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 incarpadined with cranberry, your
fork full and your mouth full and cramniag e
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 AneIi-
cans, may arise from an honest fear lest this
land be overcrowded. Such persons had bet
ter take the Northern Pacific or Union Pa
cifc or Southern Pacific or Atlantic and
Charlotte Air Line or Texas Sante Fe, and
go long journey, and find out that 10 more
than tenth part CT this continent is fully
cultivated. If man with hundred acres Of
farm land should put ell his cultivation on
one acre he would be cultivating larger
ratio OF his farm than our nation is now occ;,-
pying of the national farm. Pour the whole
human race, Europe. Asia. Africa. and a. The
h-:.2
would be room to spare. All the Rocky
Mountain barrenness and all other Ameri-
can deserts are to be fertilized, and as Salt
Lake City and much of Utah which once
yielded not blade Of grass now by art;i!-
cial irrigation have become gardens, so Z
large part of this continent that now IS too
Door to grow even q mullen stalk or
Canada thistle, will, through artificial irri-
CATION, like an Illinois prairie wave with
wheat or like . Wisconsin farm rustic with
corn tassels. Beside that, after perhaps
century or two more, when this continent
is quite well occupied, the tides OF imni.
grafton will turn the other way. Politics and
governmental affairs being corrected on the
other side of the waters, Ireland under
different regulation turned into garden
will invite back another generation of
Irishmen, and the wide wastes of Russia
4 yI-,fh
own green fields invite back auother gener-
ton Of Russians. And there will be hun
dreGs OF thousands Of Americans every year
settling on the other continents. And
after number Of centuries, al the earth
full and crowded, what then. Well. at
that time GONE nighta panther meteor wan
dering through the heavens will put its paw
on our world and stop it, and putting its
panther tooth into the neck Of its mountain
range will shake it lfelesS as q rat terrier
rat So l have no more fear of America
being overcrowded than that the porpoises
in the Atlantic Ocean will become so nu-
merous as to stop shipping.
1t is through mighty additions of foreign
population to our native population that l
think God is going to fll this land with q
race OF people ninety-tive per cent superior
to any thing the world has ever seen. ln-
termarriage Of families and intermarriase
Of nations is depressing and gripping.
Marriage outside OF ones own nationality
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 10
the front rank OF Jurisprudence and
merchandise and art! Because nothing ua-
der heaven can be more unlike than a
Scotchman and an Irishman. and the de-
scendants Of these two corjoined nation
alities. unless rum f7incs them, go right to
the tiptop Of every thing. All na,ioralitics
coming to this land, the oppositeS will all the
while be afianced and French and Germnn
will unite and that will stop all the quar-
rel between them, and one child they will
call Alsace and the other Lorraine. And
hot blooded SpaniardS viii unite with cold
blooded Polander, aud romantic Italians
with matter Of fact Norwegians, and hun
dred and fifty years from now the race oc-
cupying this land will bc in stature, i'll
purity Of complexion, in liquidity Of eye, in
gracefuiness of poise, in domc-.ike brow,
in taste, in intelligence and in morals so
far ahead Of any thing now known cn either
side the seas that this last quarter of the
nineteenth century will seem to them like
the Dark Ages. o, then how they will legis
late and bargain and pray and preach and
govern. This is the land where by the min.
Cling Of races the race prciudice is to get its
death blow How Heaven feels about it we
may conclude from the fact that Christ the
Jew and descended from a JcWcSS. negcrthe-
less provided a religion for all races, and
! that Paul. though Jew, became the chief
apostle to the GcnticS, and that recently God