The San Saba news. [volume] (San Saba, Tex.) 1873-1966, 1889-05-17

Now, in view of this subject 1 have two
I 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 apologize
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 Englishmanl 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 hallelu-
jahs of the other And who shall ever pay
England for what Shakespeare and John
Milton and Wordsworth and a thousand
other authors have done for America
Are you a Scotchmanl Thanks for
John Knox's Presbyterianism: the bal.
ance wheel of all other denominations.
And how shall Americans ever pay your ma
tive land for what Thomas Chalmers and
Macintosh and Robert Burns and Christie
pher North and Robert McCheyne and
Candlish and Guthrie have done for
Americana Are you a Frenchmanl We
cannot forget your Lafayette, who in the
most desperate time of our American revolu-
ton, New York surrendered and our armies
Brandywine and Monmouth and Yorktown
put all America under eternal obliga-
uion And we cannot forget the coming to
the rescue OF our fathers Rochambeau and
bis French feet with six thousand armed
men Are you a Germanl We have not
forgotten the eleven wounds through which
your Baron De Kalb poured out his life blood
at the head of the Maryland and Delaware
troops in the disastrous battle at Camden. and
and counties after him we have not paid a
1.-THE Of what we owe Germany for his valor
and self sacrifice. And what about Martin
Luther, the giant German who made way for
zeIjszzus liberty for all lands and ages Are
you Polanderl How can we forget your
brilliant Count Pulaski, whose bones
were laid in Savannah River after a
mortal wound gotten while in the
stirrups of one Of the fercest cavalry
charges Of the American revolutionl But
with no time to particularize l say: "Al
hail to the men and women of other lands
who come here with honest purposeln Re-
nounce all obligation to foreign despots
Take the oath of American allegiance. Get
out your naturalization papers Don't talk
against our institutions, for the fact
that you came here and stay shows
that You like ours better than any other II
you don t IKE them there are steamers going
put Of our ports almost every day, and the
ARE IS cheap and, lest you should be detained
Tor parting civilties, l bid you good-by
now. But if you like it here, then / charge
you, at the ballot box, in legislative !
nall, in churches and everywhere be |
,ut and out Americans Do not try |
o establish here the loose foreign Sab |
laths or transcendentalism spun into a re-
igion OF mush and moonshine, or foreign |
fbertlnism or that condensation Of all thiev-
ny, scoundrelism, lust, murder and perdi. !
ion which in Russia is called Nihilism and |
n France called Communism aud in America
allied Anarchism. Unite with us in making
" the grace of God the fifteen million square
piles of America on both sides the Isthmus
I Panama the paradise of virtue and re-
gion.
Ny other word suggests what Americans
ught. to do for foreigners By all poss
le means explain to them our institutions
oming here, the vast ma jority of them know
bout as much concerning Republican or
'emocratic form of government as you in
le United States know about politics Of
enm1rk or France or Italy or Swift
lat liberty in this country means liberty to
0 right. but not liberty to do wrong.
ever in their presence say anything against
leir native land, for, no matter how much
icy may have been oppressed there, in
lat native land there are sacred places,
Ibins or mansions around whose doors they
aged, and perhaps somewhere there is
ave into which they would like, when LIES
ills are over, to be let down, for it is
others grave, aud it would be ike
ling again into the loving arms
at first held them, and against