The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1889-03-04

throw on 1t all the mean things that have
ever been said and written between jew
and Gentle, between Turk and Russian,
between L glish and French, between Mon
golian and anti Monaghan, between black
and white and put up over that grave for
tombstone some scorched and jagged chunk
of scorip pit out by some volcanic erup-
ton and chisel on it for cpl aph: Here
lies the carcass of one who cursed the world.
Aged, near six thousand year. Departed
this life for tie perdition fro whence 1t
came. No peace to his ashes"
Now, in view OF this subject, l have two
point blank words to utter, one suggesting
what foreigners ought TO do for US. aud the
other what we ought to do for Foreigners.
First, to foreigners. Lay aside all apollo
getic air and realize you have as much right
as any man who was not only himself born
here but his father and his grandfather and
great-grandfather before him. Are you an
Englishmanf Though during the revolu
tionary war your fathers treated our father
roughly, England has more than atoned for
that by giving to this country at least
two denominations of christians, the
Church of England and the Methodist
church. Witness the magnificent liturgy
of the one and the Wesleyan hallelujahS of
TIE other. And who shall ever pay En-
gland for what Shakespeare aud 10 n Mil
ton and Wordsworth aud a thousand otuer
=
Scotchma Ihank3 for John Knox's
Prcsbyteranism the balance wheel Of all
other deuomi ma ions. Aud no " shall Amer
leans ever pay your native land for what
Thomas Chalmers and VI ,cint)sh and
Robert Burns and CHRISTOPHER North
aud Robert McChevne and Card
lish andEy Gu hrio have doue for
Americana Are you Frehchm tng We
cannot forget your l. fayette, VINO in the
most desperate time Of our American revo-
ton, New York surrendered and our armies
flying in retreat, espOused our cans @, and at
Braudywine and Monmouth and Yorktown
ut all America under eternal obligation.
Aud we cannot forget the coming to the
rescue If our fathers r chambeau and his
French fleet with SIX thousand armed meu.
Are you a German? We have not for
gotten the eleven wounds through
which your Baron do Kalb poured out his
life blood at the head Of the Maryland and
Delaware troops in the disastrous battle at
Camden, and after we have named our
streets and our cities and counties after him
we have not paid 1.-THE of what we owe
Germany for his vaior ard selt-sacrltice.
And what about Martin Luther, the giant
German who made way for religious liberty
for ali lands d ages3 Are you Polander?
How can we forget your brilliant Count
Pulaski, whose bones were LAID IN Savan-
nah river after mortal wound gotten
while in the stirrups of one of the tiercest
cavalry charges of the American revolu-
ton! But with no time to particuariZe
say: Gan hail to the men and women of
other lands who come here with honest pur-
poser Renounce all obligation to foreign
deSpOts. Take the oath of American allie
glance. Get out your naturalization papers.
Don't talk against our institutions S, for the
fact that you came here and stay shows
that you like ours better than any other
If you don't like them there are steamers
going out of our ports almost every day,
and the fare is cheap and, lest you should be
detained for parting civllities, | bid you
good-by low. But if you iiae it here, then
charge you at the ballot box, in legislative
hall, in churches and everywhere be out
and out Americans. Do not try to esta blsh
here the loose foreign SabbahS or trans
cendentalsm spun into religion Of mush
and moonshice, or foreign libertiliSm or
that condensation of all thieyery, SC lund-
relism, lust, murder and Sperditiou which
in Russia is called Nihilism and in France
called Communism and in America called
Anarchism. Unite with us in making by
the grace of God the $1,000 900 square
miles of Ameri on both sides the Isthmus
of Panama the paradise Of virtue and re-
hgion.
NV other word suggests what Americans
ought to do for foreigners. By all possible
meaos explain to them our institutions.
Coming 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 Fra"ce or Italy or Switzer-
land, namely nothing Explain to them
that lib 4rty in this country means lib
erty to do right, but not libe ty t.
do wrong. Never in their presence
say anything against their native land,
have been oppressed there, IN that
native land there are sacred places, cabins
or mansions around whose doors they
played and perhaps somewhere there is a
grave into which they would like, when
life's tolls are over to be let down, for it is
mothers grave and it would be like going
again into the loving arms that first held
them and against the b )som that first pill
lowed them. My my how low down a
man must have desce ded to have no re-
gard for the place where his cradle was
rookie i. Don't mock their brogue or their
attempts at the hardest of
all languages to learn, namely the
English language. l warrant that they
speak English as well as you could talk
Treat them IN America as
you would like to be treated if for the sake
of your honest principles or better live
hood for yourself or your family you had
moved under the shadow of Jungfrau, Or
the Rigi, or the Giants Cause way, or the
Forest, or the Franconian Jura
If they get homesck, 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 souls final tlighU
is less than a second whether from the
beach OF the Caspian sea or the banks of
Lac 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
languages of these foreign people have full
swing.
Rejoice as christian patriots that instead
eign people thoroughly evangelical will be
our mightest defense against al the world.
The congress of the United States recently
ordered built new forts ali up and down our
American coasts, aud new navy is about
TO be projected. b II let me say that three
hundred million dollars expended iD coast
defense win not be so mighty as a vast for
eign population living in America. With !
of thousands of Germans in New
y ork, Germany would as soon think |
Of bombsnelling Berlin as attacking us.
With hundreds Of thousands OF Frenchmen
in New York, France voIld as soon think
Of firing on Paris With hundreds of thou
sands of T. lgllshmen in New York, England |
would as soon think of destroying Lol ion. |
The mlghtiOst defense against Euro |
pean natious is a wall OF Europeans regcl-
ing all up and down the American
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