The national leader., 1889-03-23


France seRd 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 be-
come the dumping place for foreign
vagabondlsm. But you build up wall
at the Narrows before New York HAr-
Dor, or at the Golden Gate before San
Francisco, and forbid the coming of
the industrious and hard working and
honest populations of other lands who
want to breathe the air of our free in
sttutions, and get opportunity for bet
ter livelihood, and it is only question
of time when God will tumble that wall
fiat on our own heads vii h the red-hot
thunderbolts of His omnipotent indig-
nation.
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, Snow, 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 cellar, and stay
there; Fannie, you live in the kitchen,
and stay there. /, Philip. Will take
the parlor. 1t suits me exactly. like
the pictures on the wall. | like the
lambrequins at the windows. l like
the Administer on the floor. Now, l
Philip, propose to occupy this parlor,
and l command you to stay out. The
parlor only for Philippians.
You, the father, hear of this arrange
ment. and what will you do? 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 garret; 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 unbrotherly behavior, l
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 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 Amer
ica; let the European stay in Europe;
let the Aslatic stay in Asia; let the
African stay in Africa; but America IS
for me. think it is the parlor of the
whole earth. like its carpets of
grass, and its upholstery of the front
window, namely, the American sum
rise; and the upholstery of the back
window, namely, the American sunset.
Now, 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 chastlsement would
come; and, whether by earthquake or
flood or drought or heaYen-darkenlng
swarms of locust and grasshopper, or
destroying angel of peStilence.
GOD WOULD REBUKE OUR SELFISH
NESS
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 1 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 popu-
lation of other lands will come here.
There are harbors all the way from
Batfin'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
themp You might as we'll pass law
forbidding a swarm of summer bees
from lighting on the clover-top. or pass
law forbidding the tides of the At
lantic to rise when the moon put under
it silver grappling-hooks, or law that
the MONDAY sun should not irridlate
the atmosphere. They have come.
They are coming now. They will
come. And If had a voice loud en-
ough to be heard across the seas, |
would put it to the utmost tension,
and cry:
LET THEM COME!
You stingy, sellisn, shriveled up, blast
ed souls who sit before your silver din
ner-plate piled up with breast of roast
turkey incarnadined with cranberry,
your fork full and your mouth full,
and cramming down the superabund-
ance till your digestive organs are ter
rorIZed, let the millions of your fellow
men have at least the Westinghouse
But some of this cry, America for
Americana may arise from an honest
fear lest this land be overcrowded.
Such persons had better take the North
ern Pacific, or Union Pacific, or South
ern Pacific. or Atlantic and Charlotte
air line, or Texas and Santa Fe, and
go long journey and find out that no
more than tenth part of this contin-
ent is fully cultivated. If a man with
hundred acres of farm land should
mt q III his cultivation IN nnp Qnrp hA