Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-03-04

My other word suggests what Americans
ought TO do for foreigners. BY all possible
means explain to them our institutions. Com
ing here, the vast majority of them know about
as much concerning republican or democratic
form of government as you in the United
States know about politics of Denmark or
France or Italy or Switzerland, namely
nothing Explain to them that liberty in this
country means liberty to do right. but not lib
erty to do wrong.
Never in their presence say anything against
their native land, for, no matter how much they
may have been oppressed there, in that native
land there are sacred places, cabins OF man
sions around whose doors they played, and per-
haps somewhere there is grave into which
they would like, when life's tolls are over to
be let down, for it is mothers grave, and 1t
would be like going again into the loving arms
that first held them and against the bosom that
first pillowed them. Myi myi how low down
man must have descended to have no regard
for the place where his cradle was rocked.
Don't mock their brogue or their stunt bling at
tempts at the hardest of all languages to learn,
namely, the English language. / warrant that
they speak English as well as you could talk
Scandinavian. Treat them In America as you
would like to be treated if for the sake of your
yourself or your family you had moved under
the shadow of Jungfrau, or the Rigi, or the
Giants Causeway, or the Bohemia Forest, or
the FranconIan Jura.
GOD EVERYWHERE.
If they get homesick, as some of them are
suggest to them that God is as near to help
them here as he was near them before they
crossed the Atlantic, and that the souPs final
fight is less than q second whether from the
beach of the aspian sea or the banks of Lake
Erie Evangelize their adults through the
churches and their children through the
schools, and let home missions and tract So
cieties and the Bible translated in all the Ian
guages of these foreign people have full swing:
Rejoice as Christian patriots that instead OF
n
people thoroughly evangelical will be our
mightiest defense against all the world. The
Congress of the United States recently ordered
built new forts all up and down our American
coasts. and new navy is about to be projected.
But let me say that S300.0000n0 expended in
coast defense will not be SO mighty as vast
foreign population living in America: With
hundreds of thousands of Germans in New
York, Germany would as soon think of bomb
shelling Berlin as attacking us. With hun
dreds of thousands of Frenchmen in New
York, France would as soon think of firing on
Paris. With hundreds of thousands of En-
glshmen in New York, England would as soon
think of destroying London. The mightiest
defense against European nations is wall OF
Europeans reaching all up and down the Amer
lean continent. a wall of heads and hearts con-
secrated to free government. A bulwark OF
foreign humanity heaved up all along our
shores, REINFORCED by the Atlantic ocean,
armed as it is with tempests and Caribbean
whirlwinds and giant pillows ready TO fling
mountains from their catapult, we need as a
nation fear no one in the universe but God,
and if found in his service we need not fear
him.
AS six hundred million people will yet sit
down at our national table, let God preside.
To Him be dedicated the metal of our mines.
the sheaves of our harvest fields, the fruits of
our orchards, the fabrics of our manufactures,
the telescopes of our observatories, the volumes
of our libraries, the songs of our churches, the
affections of our hearts, and all our lakes be-
come baptsmal fonts, and all our mountains
altars of praise, and all our valleys amphithea-
tiers of worship, and our country having be-
come so nations consolidated in one, may its
every .heartthrob be pulsation of gratitude to
Him who made ''of one blood all nations" )" and
ransomed that blood by the payment of the last
drop of his own.