The united opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1881-1970, 1889-03-08

Americansa Are you o Frenchmani
We cannot forget your Lafayette, who
in the most desperate time Of our
American revolution, New York sur
rendered and our armies flying in re-
treat, espoused our cause and at Bran
dywine and Monmouth and Yorktown
put all America under eternal obliga-
ton. And we cannot forget the COM
ing to the rescue Of our fathers
Rochambeau and his French fleet
with six thousand armed men. Are
you German2 We have not forgot
ten 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 after we have
named our streets and our cities 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 Ger
man who made way for religious lib
erty for all lands and agesi Are you
Polander2 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 fiercest cavalry
charges OF the American revolutiona
But with no time to particularize l say,
"All hail to the men and women OF
other lands who come here with hon
est purposew Renounce 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. 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 part
ing civilities, l bid you good.by now.
But if you like it here, then l charge
you, at the ballot box, in legislative
hall, in churches and everywhere be
out and out Americans. Do not try
to establish here the loose foreign Sab
baths or transcendentalism spun into
religion of mush and moonshine, or
foreign libertinism or that condensa-
ton Of all thievery, scoundrelism, lust,
murder and perdition 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 fifteen million
square miles of America on both sides
the Isthmus of Panama the paradise
Of virtue and religion.
GIVE THE FOREIGNERS INFORMATION
ABOUT AMERICA.
Ny other word suggests what Ameri-
cans ought to do for foreigners. By
all possible means 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 France or Italy or Swift
zerland, namely nothing. Explain to
them that liberty in this country means
liberty to do right, but not liberty to
do wrong. Never in their presence
say anything against their native land,
for, no matter how much they may
have been oppressed there, in that
native land there are sacred places,
cabins or mansions around whose
doors they played and perhaps some
where 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 bosom that first pillowed them.
Myl myl how low down man must
have descended to have no regard for
the place where his cradle was rocked.
Don't mock their brogue or their
stumbling 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 Scandinavian. Treat them
in America as you would like to be
treated if for the sake Of your honest
principles or a better livelihood for
yourself or your ia. lilly you had
moved under the shadow Of Jungfrau,
or the Rigi, or the Giants Causeway,
or the Bohemia Forest, or the Fran
CONAN Jura. If they get homesick,
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 fight is less
than second whether from the
beach of the Caspian sea or the banks
of Lake Erie. Evangelize their adults
the churches and their chill
dren through the schools and let home
missions and tract societies and the
Bible translated in all the languages OF
these foreign people have full swing.
Rejoice as Christian patriots that IN
stead of being an element OF weakness
the foreign people thoroughly evan
gelized will be our mightiest defense
against all the world. The congress
Of the United States recently ordered
built new forts all up and down our
coasts, and new navy IS
about to be projected. But let me say
that three hundred million dollars ex-
pended in coast defense will not be so
mighty as vast foreign population
living in America. With hundreds
Of thousands of Germans in New
York, Germany would as soon think
Of bombshelling Berlin as attack