The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1889-03-20

when the r,oon puts under it silver grap-
pling hooks, or a law that the monday sun
should not irradiate the atmosphere. Ihey
have come They are coming now. They
will come. And if 1 had voice loud
,nough to, be, heard across the seas s,. !
Let them GOMEZ You stingv, selfish, ,shrlveled
up, blasted souls who sit before your silver
dinner plate piled up with breast OF roast
turkey incarnadinei with cranberry, your
fork full and your mouth full and crammlng
down the superabundance till your digestive
organs are terrorized, let the millions of your
fellow-msn have at least the wishing bone.
But some of this cry. America for Amerl-
cans, may arise from an honest fear lest this
land be eovercrowded. Such persons had better
take the Northern Pacific or Union Pacific
or Southern Pacific or Atlantic and Char
lotte air line or Texas and Santa Fe,
and 20 long journey and find out that no
more than tenth part of this continent
fully cultivated II a man with a hundred
acres of farm land should put all his cultiva-
tion on one acre he would be cutlVatlng
larger ratio of his farm than our ma
tion is now occupying of the national farm
Pour the whole human race. Europe, ASIA,
Africa and all the islands Of the sea, into
America and there would be room to spare;
All the Rocky Mountain barrennesses and
all the other American deserts are to be fer-
tilized, and as Salt Lake City and much OF
Utah once yielded not blade Of grass, now
by artificial irrigation have become gardens.
80 a large mart of this continent that
now is TOO poor to grow even
viii through artificial irrigation like an
illinois prairie wave with wheat or like a
Wisconsin farm rustic with corn
tassels. Beside that, after. perhaps
century or two more, when this continent
is quite we'll occupied, the tides Of inn
migration will turn the other
way. Politics and governmental affairs be-
ing corrected on the other side of the waters,
Ireland under different regulation turned into
g garden will invite back another general! IN
of Irishmen, and the wide wastes of
Russia brought from under despotsm
will with her own green fields invite
back another generation OF Russians. And
there will be hundreds of thousands OF
Americans every year settling on the other
continents. And after number Of cen
turies, all the earth full and crowded, what
thens Well, at that time some night a
panther meteor wandering through the
heavens will put its paw On our world
and stop it, and putting its panther tooth IN
to the neck of its mountain range will shake
it lifeless as the rat terrier rat So have
no more fear Of America being overcrowded
than that the porpoises i'll the Atlantic ocean
will become so numerous as to stop shipping.
1t is through mighty addition of foreign
population to our native population that
think God is going to fill this land with
race of people 95 per cent superior TO any
thing the world has ever seen. Inter.
marriage of families and intermarriage OF
nations is depressing and crippliug. Marriage
outside Of ones own nationality and with
another style of nationality is mighty gain
What makes the Scotch-Irish second to no
pedigree for brain and stamina Of character,
so that blood goes right up to supreme
court bench and to the front rank IN JuriS'
prudence and merchandise and art! Because
nothing under heaven can be more unlike
than a Scotchman and an Irishman and tn,
aities, unless rum filings them. 60 right to
the tip top in everything. Ali nationalities
coming to this land the. opposites VIII
all the while be affianced, and French
and German will unite and that will stop oil
the quarrel between them, and one child they
will call Alsace and tue other Lorraine
And hot.blooded Spaniard will unite with
cool.blooded Polander and romantic Italian
with matter of fact Norwegian, and a
hundred and fifty years from now the race
occupying this land will be i'll sta ture
in purity of complexion, in lIquldity, >. OF
eye, in gracefuluess Of poiso, i'll dome like
brow, in taste, in intelligence and in morals
so far ahead Of anything now known on either
side the seas that this last quarter Of the
nineteenth century will seem to them
like the Dark Ages. Oh, then how
they will legislate and bargain and pray and
preach and govern! This is the land where
by the minglng of races the race prejudice
is to get its death bow. How Heaven feels
about it We may conclude from the fact that
Christ, the Jew, and descended from a
Jewess, nevertheless provided religion for
all races, and that Paul, though Jew, b..
came the chief apostle Of tho Gentiles, and
that recently God has allowed to burst in
splendor upon the attention of the world
Hirsch, the Jew, who after giving ten million
dollars to Christian churches and hospitals,
has called a committee Of nations and fur-
nished them with forty million dollars for
schools to elevate his race in France and Ger.
many and Russia to higher intelligence and
abolish, as he says, the prejudices against
their race, these fifty million dollars not
given in last will and testament and at
time when O man must leave his money
anyhow, but by donation at tifty-hve years
of age and in good health, utterly eclipSing
all beneyolence since the world was created.
I must confess there was time when
I entertained race prejudice, but thanks
to God. that prejudice has gone, and II sat
in church and on one side Of me there was a
an Indian and before me was Chinaman
and behind me Turk, would be as happy rs
I am now standing in the presence OF this
brilliant audience. and am as happy now as
| can be and live. The sooner we get this
corpse OF race prejudice buried, the healthier
will be our American atmosphere. Let each
one fetch a spade and let US dig its grave clear
on down deeper and deeper till we get as far
down as the center Of the earth and half way
to China, but no further lest it poison those
living on the other side the earth Then into
this grave let down the accurssd carcass OF
race prejudice and throw on it all the mean
things that have ever been said and written
between Jew and Gentle, between Turk
and Russian, between English and
French, between Mongolian and anti
Mongolian, between black and white, and
put up over that grave for tombstone some
scorched and Jagged chunk OF scorie spit
out by some volcanic eruption and chisel on
it for epitaph: Here lies the carcass of one
thousand years. Departed this life for the
perdition from whence it came. Nopeace to
its ashssl"
Now, in view OF this subject, have two
point blank words to utter, one suggesting
what foreigners ought to do for US, and the
other what we ought to do for foreigners.
First, to foreigners. Lay aside all apologetic
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 greatgrandtather before him. Are
you an Englishman! Though during
the Revolutionary war Your fathers treated
our fathers roughly. England has more
than atoned for that by giving to this coun
try at least two denominations Of Chris.
tians, the Church of England and the
Methodist Church. Witness the magnificent
liturgy Of the one and the Wesleyan ha!le;u.
jahs Of the other. And who shall ever pay
England for what Shakespeare and Johu
Milton and Wordsworth and a Thousand
other authors have done for America
Are you Scotchman! Thanks for
John Knox's Presbyterisnism: the bal.
ance wheel OF all other denominations.