The Press., 1891-01-22
". T.u. pEPARTMENT.
SHALL GOD OR THE SALOON RULE THIS
 COUNTRY

SHALL GOD OR THE SALOON RULE THIS
 COUNTRY
 There are several exceedingly weighty suggestions presented by existing facts in the moral and political life of our nation to-day. Foreigners and children of the first generation compose about one-third of the whole population This number is increased each year at an average of half a million, 5,246, ,013 having come from 1880 to l89O There is scarcely northern city that has not over 50 per cent foreign pop ulation; Cincinnati 65, Boston 75, New York 8o, Chicago 91, and all ranging about or between these figures. The municipal elf ctions are almost entirely controlled by them. The cities control the states and the states decide the nations fate. The | foreigners form the strength and bulwark of the liquor powar. Eighty-seven per cent of the saloon keepers are aliens; their tendencies are toward this side by birth and training. We know all this, we in vite them to come, we open our gates, we deprecate the danger, we see it increase | from year to year, we prophecy terrible future for our nation if this goes on, and yet we are doing nothing to counteract it. In sixteen states men vote before they are natural'zed, vote simply by filing their intention to become citizens. They land in New York ill two days they can reach their destination in six months they can | file their intentions to become citizens and vote the next day. Vote away temperance, sobriety, Sabbath observance, the Bible in the public schools, the morality, the purity. the integrity of the nation before they can ask for the ballot in English, Before they know as much of our institutions or the principles of our government as our child rem of twelve years of age do. Why simply because coming ignorant of all oul laws and customs as they do, we turn them over to the saloons to train them for citi- zenship It is our only school of politics All they know of the issues of the day comes to them u rough the interpretatio, of the saloon. Fully half of the people that land on ouI shores, possibly more, do not speak oui language. Our press, our platforms, ou : pulpits are closed to them by strangeness F of tongue. The saloon Is the only oper door, There only do they hear their moth CT tongue; all that they know of politica life, all that is to prepare them for citizen ship, comes to them, through it's warping degrading tendencies. Cau we expect an, | other than just the results we have?
 ,l We spend all our money, tina auC HI 4COtuI1LS5s lCc1SlllIS5 duu pAShCA ing to our owu people ou temperate, ant let these people control the balIo'- box Oh, unwise generation How shall W remedy this /? How shall these mil|1ol b secured for Christ and His kingdom W must get hold of them before the saloon does. We must teach them the obligation that pertain to American citiz ,nship, evel } before they set foot on our soil. We mus r take possession of the high seas aud dis tribute ln their own tongue, Ill simple 1 plain language that they c.n comprehend t what we feel they ought to kLow befor they ct as our leaders ill power and init ence.
 !, Tie foreign department of the w. C. I , U. proposes 10 establish bureaus of distr button at all points of authorization in El rope, to distribute among steerage passer gers, tracts and leaflets in all tongues, E1
 glish included, (for the Irish and Scotct on temperance, against anarchy, warning : against the dangerous tendencies of th
 saloon, and as plain and simply as. can.
 -xpressed, the principles that ought to ol
 tain in our government. Let this com
 line upon line and prec-pt upon prece pt
 let them have time to read, ponder an
 talk th s over as they cross the deep.
 Then tis thought advisable to establis
 missionary for temperance at New Yorl
 to meet as many as possible of the se san
 people, and in connection with the mi
 sioDaries already established there by Il
 churches, to look after and care for tt
 girls, so many or whom are enticed int
 dens of infainy. We wish to follow thes
 foreigners up from Castle Garden to tt
 Golden Gate with instructions, with syn
 pathy and help. We wish to meet thel
 as the people of Christian nation shou]
 meet those whom God sends to our door
 and whom we invite to come. We belie1
 in no other way can we avert the dange
 that lies in their coming. Mrs. s.
 G1ubb, Ma3eri1atendentForeigaa Agepcie