Smyrna times., 1891-07-08

sense OF JuSLlCe W IA4~ wv. 'AH6 SNO'NO - |
things cannot long impose any suih-
cient moral restraint on simple vlo-
lence. 1t is vain to suppose that the
selfshness of the few will not in due j
time be met by the selfshness and vio-
lence of the many. For more than
1000 years it has been distinctly IN
derstOod that in ali free or approxim- I
ately free governments the great strug-
ole lies between the rich and the poor.
So to reconcile and to organize these
two extremes that the inner forces OF
society shall be attractive and not
divisive, organic and not distinctive,
is the gre at problem of social life.
Another source of great peril to the
country is to be found in excessive lm-
migration. While it is in accordance
with the genius Of our institutions to
welcome to these shores those who are
oppressed with the tyrannies of foreign
lands and the cruel jealOusies when
grow out of social and pecunlary irreg-
ularities, while we may hope to nave
it ever the land of the free and the
home of the brave, yet it would not De
consistent with our self-preservatlon or
perpetuity that there should be no
| restrictions upon this vast tide OF
strangers. The nation must preserve
its identity. If we are afraid OF che
Asiatics we have equal reason to Dc
afraid of manV who come from South
ern and Central Europe. The life OF
tile national body is dependent upon
the condition of heaIthful assimilation,
and the same law may be applied TO
the body polite. 1t is to be hopeu
that we shall never lose our identity as
descendants of the AnglO-Saxon race,
and that we shall perpetuate the glor-
ious inheritance of blood and charac-
ter, of faith and self-gOvernment when
we have received from our fathers.
America is for Americans and for those
who are willing to become. Americans,
identifying themselves with our laws
and customs and religion.
"Still another danger to the nation
lies in dissOcating religion from learn
ing. We are Christian people. In
onr courts of Justice the Bible is ack-
nowledged as the standard of morality
and truth. Upon it the President and
the Chief Justice of the United States
Law their hands to attest their fidelity
to Office. By it every witness is sworn
in the courts of Justice. On its cover
was drafted, on the May Flower, the
first outline of American constitutional
liberty, which is permeated Oy lts
/ spirit. All of our leading universities
, such as Harvard, Yale and Princeton
were founded for the promotion OF our
, | religion. and more directly for the sup
} plying of its pulpits and schools. WI,
| the constitution of the UOtS,sai--S -Sta8e
/ guarantees libS.syai' conscience i
would 5e1i great error to suppose tina
81 il could live will out religion OF th'
5 Bible, or, because we are a free people
e we are free to do whatever we choose
e While we have liberty we must haV
h law regulating that liberty, and tn
d only law which can commend itself t.
e the conscience and reason of this en-
@ lightened nation is that whose root Il
! to be found in the DecalQgue. Th
If church and the school house mus
a stand side by side. The schOOlmaste
i and evangelist must both be aOrOaC
G "A great peril is the almost unlim
ted liberty of franchise. 1t seems III
e reasonable that our sons should B
a deprived of that privilege until the
,e are twenty-One years of age, while IA
N eigners after a brief period of residenc
il are clothed with the full prerOgative
y. citizenship. Surely the issues involve
% in our public elections are of too gray
Il IL character to be left to the mercy
IN the prejudiced and the ignorant,
III those who have little or no interest
81 the government, or hold private Lheo
les or traditional creeds at war vii
ed the conservative principles of Amel
re can liberty. The social conscience
n we'll as the ballOt-bOx needs to
he purged, and in order to do this
he must forever discard that horrible Sc
u timent to the victor belong the spOili
al .Of the nations perils one OF Il
)le greatest lies in the saloon, by which '
IN mean the licensed manufacture al
re sale of Intoxicating liquors. Whatev
RS, moneys the State and municipal a
We thOrities receive from this source
revenue, there is involved in it a co
Ito sequent expenditure four times
at great for the punishment Of crime al
ed the relief of pauperism.
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