Mower County transcript., 1890-12-03
Thanksgiving Day.

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E Last Thursday, the day set apart as q
national day Of thanksgiving, was gener.
ally observed in Austin. At 1880, the
time set for union Thanksgiving services,
q large audience assembled at the Con.
gregati0nal church and listened to an
able and eloquent sermon by Rev. L. II:
SAumate. He gave q general review OF
our country's history, setting forth the
many blessings We had received, Tor
which we should be truly thankful. Rev.
Shumate touched upon manv points OF
vital importance, whic h will soon be
demanding our attention. We can no
better report that part of his sermon set
ting forth the duties of the hour than
by quoting from him. In concluding his
sermon he said:
IT my time and your patience would
permit, I would attract direct attention
to the duty Of the hour, which is daily
becoming more imperative because of the
perlls which beset us as nation. can
simply mention some of them. Such as,
l. The improper use of the money
power to control our Legislatures, and to
thwart the ends Of justice.
3. The tendency to unamericanize
our American institutions by loreign
immigration. We want the Germans
here, but we do not want Germany! We
navian. but we have no room for Scandi-
navia. We will make necessity virtue
and manage In some way to tolerate the
few Cinnamon who force themselves upon
US, but China we will not have. It should
be understood, that America is to be no
longer the dumping ground for the
nations of earth. If Canada and the
United States see fit to exchange de-
faulters, cashiers and bank presidents,
occasionally, it should not be construed
as an invitation to all Europe to dump
upon our shores their refuse and rubbish
in the shape of paupers, organ grinders,
and red mouthed Anarchists. America
is not an Orphanage, nor refOrmatOry,
but great country needing men of brain
and of Drawn to develop our resources,
and to build up and strengthen rather
| than tear down all law and order, and If
men cannot obey our law, then they
should return TO the despotisms of the
old world; they should be given TO un-
derstand that if they stay, they must obey
the law. 'Twere better that we be q
thousand years longer IN reclaiming the
! wilderness than see it seized by brutality,
beastiness and crime. AS nation we
have always been to lenient upon some
matters. The man who knows nothing
of our polity; whose high ambition is to
march in Sunday professions under red
flag, to hurl dynamite at everything that
is contrary to his theory; who spends
dollars in the saloon. where he had not
dimes for all purposes in his native land;
then goes upon the street to prate upon
the oppression of capital, which robs his
wife and children, and keeps starvation
at his door-notwithstandin the fact
that the saloon fattens upon the results
of his labor. This man, who sells his
five yeaxs.~fromz the time he lands upon
our shores, march to the polls, ballot in
hand, the peer Of anv in the land, and
exercise the right and privilege of an
American citizen, while your boy and
mine is deprived of that privilege until
he shall have lived under the flag twenty
one years. There is q needed reform
here. Another peril is, the American
saloon! Merciless as an hyena, ravenous
as the half starved wolves of Taygeus
The inspiration of crimes dark and loath
some as the midnight of perdition! The
! American saloon, conscienceless as hell
entrenched behind its millions of wealth,
is already debating the policy of this
government. For this purpose they are
organized. The introduction to the consti
tuition of the brewers association, organ
lied in 1852, says: The owners. OF
breweries separately are unable to exer
else proper influence in the interests OF
the craft in the legislature and public
administration The New York Times
says: The great underlying erie which
paralizes every effort to get good laws
and to secure the enforcement of such
as we haye, is the system of politics
which gives the saloonkeepers more
bower over government than is possessed
| bY all the religious and educational
institutions in the city, The peril
increases. If the saloon element is tc
dominated! Then law and order will
become obsolete. The situation is be.
coming more and more precari0us, anC
the watchword of every lover of thu
American union should be war agalns
rum, and eternal death to alcohol:
| Another peril is to be found IN thl
lied institution whose aim is first. tt
divide the funds, and finally overthrow
the free school system of America. Ihav'
not time to dwell upon this. Its mer'
mention may be sufficient. The issue
will be upon US ere long. There is NJ
power upon earth by which will enable
us to avoid it. ,.
In conclusion, government which il
every line of its charter presuposes th,
intelligence, patriotism and virtue of it
subjects is the strongest of all govern
ments when the character of the people
answer these requirements. And if ou
foundations are ever destroyed, and tn,
government itself ruined. that verl
decadence would be confession of pub
lie ,profligacy, so great that virtue ant
patriotism must seek elsewhere for
more congenial habitatlon. The glor,
of our institutions is the civil and relig
ious liberty which they guarantee to al
These repose upon the sense of religion
obligation. and loyalty to the govern
, ment "A their foundation. Destr0v tha