The enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 188?-1899, 1889-03-06
OPEN THE GATES.
Sermon by Rev. T. Dewitt Tai
mage, D. D.
He Makes Plea for the Admission oil
tho Immigrant-How to Make the For
eigners Good American Citizens
A Human Wall OF Defense.

reason general phlebotomy were ordered,
and standing in row were an American,
an Englishman, Scotchman and an Irish
man, Frenchman, o German, O Norwegian,
an lcelander, Spaniard, an Italian a Rus.
sian and representatives Of other nationali-
ties barred their right arm and lancet were
struck into 1t, the blood let out would have
the same characteristics, for IL would be
red, complex, fbrine, globuline, chlorine, and
containing sulphuric acid, potassium, phos-
phate Of magnesia and so on, and Harvey and
Sir Ashley Cooper, and Richardson and Zim-
norman, and Brown-Sequard, and oil the sci
entific doctors, allopathic, homeopathic, hy-
dropathic, and electic, would agree with
Paul as, standing on Mars Hill, his pulpit q
ridge Of limestone rock fifty feet high and
among the proudest and most exclusive and
undemocratic people Of the earth hecrashed
into all their prejudices by declaring In the
words Of my text that God had made ''of
one blood all nations" The countenance Of
the Eve races Of the human family may be
different as result OF climate or education,
or habits, and the Malay will have the pro-
jecting upper jaw, and the Caucasian the
oval face and small mouth, and the Ethio-
plan the retreating forehead and large lip,
and the Mongolian the fat face Of olive hue,
and the American the copper colored COM
plexion, but the blood is the same and indi-
Gates that they all had one origin and that
Adam and Eve were their ancestor and an
cestress.
think God built this American continent
and organized this United States republic
to demonstrate the stupendous idea Of the
text. man In Persia will always remain
Persian, man In Switzerland will always
remain Swiss, man In Austria will always
remain an Austrian but all foreign natlonali-
ties coming to America wvro intended To be
Americans. This land Is tho chemical lab
oratory where the foreign bloods are to be
inextricably mixed up and race prejudces
and race antipathies are TO perish, and this
sermon is an axe by which l hope to
help kill them. 1t is not hard for me
to preach such sermon, because, although
my ancestors came 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 am mixture OF 80
many nationslit'es that | feel at home with
people from under every sky and havo a
right TO call them blood relations. There
are maccaps and patriotic lunatics In this
country who are ever and anon crying out,
america Tor Americans" Down with the
9ermansI Down with the lrishl Down
with tho Jews Down with the Chinese
arc In some directions the popular cries, all
OF which vociferations l would drown out
by the full organ Of my text, while pull
out the stops and put my foot on the pedal
that VIII open the loudest pipes, and run my
fingers over all the four banks Of ivory keys,
playing the chant "God hath made OF one
'iood oil nations."
There Is not i've men In this audience, nor
fivc men In any audience to-day in America
except II be on an Indian reservation, who
were not descended from foreigners II you
go Tar enough back. The only native
Americans are the Modocs, the Shawnees,
the Chippewas, the Cherokees, the Chicka-
saws, the Beminoles, and such like. II tho
principle, America only for Americans be
carried out, then You and have no right 10
be here and we had better charter all the
steamers, and clippers, and men-of-war, and
yachts and sloopa and get out OF this coun-
try as quick as possible. The Pilgrim
Bethers were oil immigrants, the Huguenots
all Immigrants. The cradle Of most every
one OF our families was rocked on tho bank
OF the Clyde. or the Rhine, or the Shan
non, or the Seine, or the Tiber.
Had the watchword "America for Ameri.
cans" beon 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 tho Connecticut; and, instead OF the
Nwx0Ns k..f. H. ~