Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1889-03-14


stay in Asia, let the African stay in
Africa; but America is for me- think il
is the parlor Of the whole earth. 1 like its
carpets of grass and its upholstery of the
front window. namely the American sun.
rise, and the upholstery of the back win.
dow, namely the American sunset Now
/ want you all to stay out and keep to
your places"
am sure the Father of the whole human
race would hear of it and chastisement
would come and, whether by earthquake
or flood or drought or heaven darkening
swarms of locust and grasshopper or de.
stroying angel of pestilence, God would
rebuke our selfishness as Nation and say
to the four winds of heaven: This
world is my house and the North Ameri-
can is no more my child than is the South
American and the European and the
Asatic and the African. And built this
world for all the children, and the parlor
is theirs and all is theirs" For, let me
say. whether we will or not, the popula-
tion of other lands will come here There
are harbors all the way from Bafin's
bay to Galveston, and if you shut
fifty gates there will be other gates un-
guarded. And if you forbid foreigners
from coming on the steamers they will take
sailing vessels. And if you forbid them
coming on sailing vessels they will come
In boats. And if you will not let them
come in boats they will come on RATS.
And if you will not allow wharfage to the
raft they will leave it outside Sandy Hook
and swim for free America. Stop them?
You might as well pass law forbidding a
swarm Of bees from lighting on the clover
top or passing a law forbidding the tides
of the Atlantic to rise when the moon puts
under it silver graphing hooks, or law
that the MONDAY sun should not irradiate
the atmosphere. They have come. They
are coming now. They will come. And
if had a voice loud enough to be heard
across the seas would put it to the utmost
tension and cry, let them comel You
stingy, selfish, shriveled up, blasted souls
who sit before your silver dinner plate
piled up with breast of roast turkey in
carnadined with cranberry, your fork full
and your mouth full and cramming down
the superabundance till your digestive
organs are terrorized, let the millions of
your fellow men have at least the wishing
bone.
But some of this cry, America for Amer
leans, may arise from an honest fear lest
this land be overcrowded. Such persons
had better take the Northern Pacific or
Union Pacific or Southern Pacific or At
lantic & Charlotte air line or Texas &
Santa Fe, and go long journey and find
out that no more than tenth part of this
continent is fully cultivated. If a man
with 100 acres of land should put all his
on one acre he would be culti-
waiting a larger ratio of his farm than our
Nation 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 he room to
spare. All the Rocky mountain barren
esses and all the other American deserts
are to be fertilizsd, and as Salt Lake City
and much of U ah once vie ded not blade
of grass now by artificial irrigation have
become gardens, SO large part of this
continent that now is too poor to grow
even a MULLEN stalk or a Canada thistle,
Illinois prairie wave with wheat CT
like a Wisconsin farm rustic with
corn tassels. Besides that, after
perhaps a century or two more, when
this continent is quite well occupied, the
tides of immigration will then turn the
other way. Politics and governmental
affairs being corrected on the other side
Of the waters. Ireland turned into gar
den will invite back another generation of
lrishmen, and the wide wastes of Russia
brought from under despotism 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 other continents.
And after a number of centuries, all the
sarth full and crowded, what then? Well,
1t that time some night panther meteor
wandering through the heavens will put
It's paw on our world and stop it, and put
ing its panther tooth into the neck of its
range will shake it lifeless as a
rat terrier a rat. So have no more fear
,f America being overcrowded than the
oorpoises in the Atlantic ocean will be-
come so numerous as to stop shipping.
1t is through mighty addition of foreign
population to our native population that 1
.hink God is going to fill this land with
-ace of people 50 per cent superior to any
hing the world has ever seen. Inter-
of families and intermarriage of
nations is depressing and Gripping. Mar
,iage 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
light up to Supreme Court bench and to
,he front rank of jurisprudence and mer-
,handise and art! Because nothing un-
der Heaven can be more unlike than
Scotchman and an Irishman and the de-
1f har &,r-o 80, ,,l
alites, unless rum filngs them, go right to
he tip top in every thing. All national
ties coming to this land the opposites will
Ill the while be affianced, and French and
German will unite and that will stop all
he quarrel between them, and one child
hey will call Alsace and the other Lor-
,aine. And hot blooded Spaniard will
mite with cold blooded Polander and
'omantic Italian with matter of fact
Norwegian, and a hundred and fifty
years from now the race occupying this
and will be in stature, in purity of COM
,lexion, in liquidity of eye, in gracefulness
If poise, in dome like brow in taste, in
mt ntelligence and in morals so far ahead of
my thing now known on either side the
eas that this last quarter of the nine
eenth century will seem to them like the
lark ages. o, then, how they will legis-
ate and bargain and pray and preach and
govern! This is the land where by the
ningling of the races the race prejudice
S to get its death blow. How Heaven
eels about it may we conclude from the
act that Christ, the Jew, and descended
rom Jewess, nevertheless provided
eligion for all races, and t at Paul,
hough a Jew, became the chief apostle
Of the Gentiles, and thatrecently God has
allowed to burst in splendor upon the at
ention of the world Hirsch, the Jew, who
after giving Sl0OO0,OOO to Christian
churches and hospitals, has called a COM
nittee of nations and furnished them with
&c, ,000, coo for schools to elevate his race in