Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1889-03-13

What makes the cry of "America for Ameri
cans" the more absurd and the more inhu
man is that some in this country who them
selves arrived here in their boyhood OF ar
lived here only one or two generations bael
4re joining in the CRY. Escaped from for
lgn despntisms themselves they say, 'Shu
The door of escape for others" Getting
themselves on our shores in life boat frou
| The ship wreck saving, Haul the boat on ths
neach ard let the rest of the passengers &C
20 the bottom Men who have yet on then
y Scotch or German or English or Irish
brogue crying out. America for Americans
What if the native inhabitants of heaven
[ mean the angels, the cberubIm, the sera
phim born there, should stand in the gate
md when they see US coming up at the last
honld say: $50 back! Heaven for the
lHeavenians
Uf C urse we do we'll not to allow foreign
uations to make this country a convict col
onv. We would have a wall built as high
as heaven and as deep as hell against for
aign thieves, pickpockets and Anarchists
j We would not let them wipe their feet on
sbe mat of the outside door of Castle Gar.
den. If England or Russi. OF Germany or
France send here their desperadoes to get
clear of them, we would have these despe
radoes sent back in chains to the pl cas
where they came from. We will not have
America become the dumping place for for
eign vagab,ndism. But Won build up a wall
At the Narro~s before New York harbor,
ar at the Golden Gate betore San Francisco,
aud forbid the ,nirg of the industrious
'ul ha danrt ing and nest populations of
..ther lands who want to breathe iha air of
our free ins iluriofs and ger opportunity flr
better livelihood, and IL ia Ooly question
Iof time when God will tumble that wall fat
on our own heads with The red hos thurdsr
bolts of his osunip0tent Indignation. You
are father and you have five children. The
parlor is the best room in your house.
YoIr son Philip says to ths other four
lchildren, "Now, John, you live in the
small room III the end of tbs hall and stay
there; George, you live in tee garrett and
stay Their; Mlry, you 1--we IN The cellar and
stay there; Fsnuie, ynu live in the kitchen
and stay there. | Philip, will taka the
parlor. 1t suits me exactly. l like the pic.
lures on the WALL like the lambre9uins
at the windows. like the Administer on
the floor. Now. l, Philip, propose to oc-
cupy this parlor, aud l command you to
stay out. The parlor only for Philippians.
| You, the father, hear of this arrangement
aud what will you do? You will get red in
he face aud say: J..hn, c. me out Of that
-na,l room at the ebd of the hall; Ge rge,
come down out of the garret; Mary,
come up from the cellar; Fannie, come out
of the kitchen, and go into the parlor or
auywhers you choose; and Philip, for your
greediness aud uubrotherly behavior, I put
| YOU for two bOura in the dark closet under
the STAIRS" God is the father of the human
| ace. He has at least five sons, a North
Americans Sou h American. a European, an
Asiatic aud an African. The North Amer
team soiffs the breeZa and he says to his four
brothers aud sisters: "Lat the South
American Stay IL South America, let thu
European stay in Europe, let the Asiaro
stay in Asia, let the African stay in Africa;
bat America ,s for me. think it ia the
| parlor of the whole earth. like it's carpets
of grass and its upholstery nf the front win
dow, namely the American sunrise and the
upholstery of the back window, namely the
American sunset. Now l want you all to
stay ouL ard keep to your places - / am
sure TIE Father of the whole human racs
would hear of IT aud cbsssisenent would
me and, whether bs aarttqaake or food
or dcrMight or heaven darkenIug swarn,s nf
locust and gIasshopper or destroying angel
! of pestleoce, Gnd would rebnke our selfish
| Hess as a naE-On aud say to the four winds
| OF heaven: "Tnis world Is my house and
| the No: tn AmericAD is no more my child
| than is toe Suu b American and the Euro
peaa AID the Asagic aud the Afnctu. AID
| bllI5 this wolid for all the Guild .en. aud
the parlor Is ti,eirs and all is theirs" For
lst nie say, wueGner ae will or MT, the pop
utatloD of other lands will come here.-|
fhere are har rbors ali the way from Baffi ,'s
bay to Gasveston. and if you shut fifty
gates there will ba other gates ungu Arded
Aud If you foroid foreigners from Coming
on tue steamers they will take sailing YES
sells. Aud If you forbid them coming on
saiing vessels they will con,e in boats. Aud
it you will not let Jhem come boats theg
will come on RATS Aud If son will not al
low wharfage 60 the rafG they will leave it
outside Sandy Hook aud SWIM far free
America Stop them? Yon might as well
pass a law torbidding a swarm of summer
bees from Lighting On the clover fop, ct pass
u law fol- bid ling the tides of the Atan ie to
riss when the moan puts uajec lG SILVER
graphing hooks, OR d law thar the MONDAY
snn should not irfada1s the atmosphere
| They have come. Tnsy are coming nos.
| They will come And If had voice loud
enough to Oa heard ACROSS the seas | would
| put IL to the uJmus5 tension aad cry: LIST
tnsn cDme! You stingy, se' e IA, safiyelei
nA, b;,sstod 'uis sno sit peforA your sjger
dluue. pate p,iet ny with beast of roast
turkey lncaruadined With cranberry, yo1r
| tofk fuli aad year tnausa tnll aud cam
mi0g do1n the supefabnnda1ce till yunr
digestive organs are tsrrorised. let the NIL
lious of your felloW men have at least TIE
| wishing bone.
But some of this cry, America for Amer
ic4Ds, may arise from an honest fear lest
snls land be ovsrcro wded. Snch par.ous
had better take toe Northern P.c dc or
Un,oa Pacifi, oc Souansrn p ,c,tic or Aslan.
nc and Cuarlotte air liue or rsxas and
SsDta Fe, and go loug j 'usney ana hnd
out that no more thau y tenth part of ihys
continent is fully cultivated. If man
with hunured acres of farm land should
put all hls cultivation on ore ac;e he would
be ul.iya5iHg a large. ratio of his farm
than our n,ti0. is GOV occupying of the ns
tional farm Palr ths Wh ,ie human race,
Europe. Asia, Africa aud al the islands of
the sea, iuto Amer,ca aud there eou d be
room to spare AL Cue R ,cky NJ ,usra,n
bai1enDesses and ali che Other A nerican
deserts are to b. fart'l;zed, aud as s III l. AXE
city aud much of Utah once yielded nos y
blade OF grass, now, by artIficia irriga' ioo /,
have bea 'ms gardrn-, SD large past of this
continent that now is 20 p'or to grow even
a mu iain stalk or "a Canada THISTLE wIIi
shIougn art fic;ai irrlg .tsou, ike an illinois
sia farm, ru3tle VI5h cora taSseis. B sides
that, after perhaps century or two more,
wneu this C ,ntIteus Is Qnite we'll ocoup,ed
the tides of immlgratiou val turn the O5her
Ray P ,ll5ics aud governmental affairs be
lug C ,rfected on the Ohsr side of the
waters, Ireland under different reguatiou
lurDed into ga'den will invite back an
othar generation at Ifishmen, and the wide
wastes of Russia br ught tro u under dss.
20 ism Will with hsr sn green fields IN.
vi back another generation of Russians.
ADd thtrs will bo huodTeds of thousands of
Americas every year Sc ting on the other
cuutiusuts. Aad after a Dumbar of can
turies, ali the earth fall and crowded, what
tnse? We'll, AZ that TINA some ght n
panther meJecr wsnderiog through the
hssvens viii put its paw o. our word and
stop 1t, aud putting lss panther tooth into
Ihe aecS OF It's N ~ uataia range will shake