Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1889-03-22

/ Spaniard, an Italian, Russian and repre-
sentatives of all other nationalities barred
I 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, phos-
! phate of magnesia, and SO on, and
/ Harvey and Sir Ashley Cooper and
| Richardson and Zimmerman and
| Brown-Sequard and all the scientific
! DOCTORS allopathic, homeopathic, hydro
| pathic and eclectic, would agree with Paul
as, standing on Mars hill, his pulpit ridge
| of limestone rock fifty feet high, and among
! the proudest and most exclusive and un-
| democratic people of the earth he crashed
into all their prejudices by declaring in the
| words of my text that God had
! made 'of one blood all nations" The
| cOuntenances of the five races of the
| human family may be different as result
| of climate or education or habits, and the
Malay will have the projecting upper jaw,
! and the Caucasian the oval face and small
mouth and the Ethiopian the retreating
forehead and large lip, and the Monaghan
the fiat face of olive hue, and the American
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 ancestresa.
1 think God built this American con-
tinent and organized this United States
republic to demonstrate the stupendous
idea of the text. man in Persia will
always remain Persian, a man in Switzer-
land will always remain n Swiss, a man in
Austria will always remain an Austrian, but
ali foreign nationalities coming to America
were intended to be Americans This land
is the chemical laboratory where foreign
bloods are to be inextrfcably mixed
up and race prejudlces and race antipathies
are to perish, and this sermon is an
axe by which hope to help kill them. 1t is
not hard for me to preach such a ser
mon, 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 so many nationalities
that feel at home with people 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 Chinesel
are in some directions the popular cries, all
of which yOciferatiOns / would drown out
by the full organ of my text, while / pull
out the stops and put my 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,
nor five men in any audience to-day in
America except it be on an Indian reserva-
ton, who were not descended from foreign
ers If you go far enough back. The only
native Americans are the ModoCs the Shaw
nees, the Chippewas, the Cherokees, the
Chickasaws, the Seminoles and such like.
If the principle America only for Ameri-
cans, be carried out, then you and have no
right to be here and we had better charter
all the steamers 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 i'm
migrants The cradle of most every one of
our families was rocked on the bank of the
Clyde or the Rhine or the shannon or the
Seine or the Tiber. Had the watchword
America for Americans" been an early
and successful cry where now stand cities
would have stood Indian wigwams and
canoes instead of steamers would have
tracked the Hudson and the Connecticut;
and instead of the Mississippi being the
main artery of the continent it would have
been onlya trough for deer and antelope and
Wild pigeons to drink out of. What makes
tho cry of America for the Americans the
more absurd and the more inhuman is that
some in this country who themselves ar
rived here in their boyhood or arrived here
only one or two generations back are join
ing in the cry. Escaped from foreign des-
potisms themselves they say: shut the door
OF escape for others" Getting themselves
on our shores in a life boat from the ship
wreck saying: Haul the boat on the beach
and let the rest of the passengers go to the
bottom,' Men who have yet on them u
Scotch or German, or English, or Irish
brocue CRYING out America for Ameri-
cans" What if the native inhabitants of
Heaven, | mean the angels the cherubim,
the seraphim born there should stand in
the gate and when they see us coming up
NJ the last should say: Go back Heaven
for the Heavenians!"
or course we do we'll not to allow foreign
nations to make this country a convict
colony We would have wall built as high
rs Heaven and as deep as hell against foreign
thieves pickpockets and anarchists. We
would not let them wipe their feet on the
mat of the outside door of Castle Garden. Ii
England, or Russia, or Germany, or France
p
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 vagabondism But you build
up wall ut the narrows before New York
harbor, or at the Golden Gate before San
Francisco, and forbid the coming of the in
,lustrious and hard working and honest
populations of other lands who want to
breathe the air of our free institutions and
get opportunity for better livelihood, and
il is only a question of time when God will
tumble that wall fiat on our own heads
with the red-hot thunderbolts of his omnip-
otent indignation You are father and
YOU have five children The parlor is the
best room in the 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 garnet and stay there; Mary, you live
In the cellar and stay there; Fannie, you
hive in the kitchen and stay there. L
Philip, will take the parlor. 1t suits me
exactly. / like the pictures on the wall.
like the lambrequins at the windows
like the Administer on the floor Now, L
Philip, propose to occupy this par
lor, and l command you to stay out
The parlor only for Philippians" You, the
lalHSE, neI OF TINS arrangement ana what
will You dog 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 garrett; Mary, come up from
the cellar; Fannie, come up from the kitchen
and so into the parlor or anywhere you
choose; and Philip, for your greediness and
unhrotherly behavior, / put you for two
hours in the dark closet under the stairs"
God Is the father of the human race. He
has at least five sons North Amer
lean, South American, European,
an Asiatic and an African The North
American shifts the breeze and says 10 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 is for me. i think it is the par
Tor of the whole earth like its carpets of
grass and its upholstery OF the front win
dow, namely, the American sunrise, and
the upholstery OF 1.-THE back window,
namely, the American sunset Now
want you to all stay out and keep
co your places / sure the Father
/ Of the whole human race would hear of il
and chastissment would come and, whether
by earthquake or food or drought or
Heayen-darkening swarms of locust and
grasshopper or destroying angel of pesti-
lence God would rehuke our selfshness as a
Nation and say TO the four winds of Heaven:
This world is my house and the North