Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-07-05

| tent? We have so much to be proud of and
rejoice at that any defect in our national
affairs especially on this glori4ns day day
| its eagle and its stars rising and falling on
| the breeze like benediction; the hum of in.
dustry: commercial prosperity; orchard and
| field bending with fruit and gra1n and white
robed Peace piping her songs of triumph
| over smiling land, constitute thrilling
and beautiful picture, and at its contempia-
| tion we toss our hats in the air and join IN
the acclaim that this is the grandest country
| in all the world. And it is, 1t is.
We are consistent in making this boast, al
| though we may feel away down deep in our
hearts that some blotches mar the picture.
that this mighty Republic has some weak
| spots vulnerable to the shafts of an ever
watchful rival. Broad domains, fertile ' SOIL
| while they are great blessings, and blessings
| which excite our pride and gratitude, are
not enough in themselves to round out IN
| all its completeness the full measure of q
| people, u free people who possess as we pos
sess the grandest empire on the globe. Some
thing more is needed, and that something Is
| race superiority
The people OF the grandest nation should
| themselves be the grandest race. We nave
! q superior government; are We a superior
race? Indeed it is a question of whether or
we are q nation without nationallty,-that
we lack that Characteristic, that homogenity
which stamps itself on the people OF nation
race of people. That, while there is an ltal-
| ian race a French race, Irish race, and so on
through the nations Of Europe, there is no
American race.
Americans for America.
This charge is largely true, and as a truth
we should give it heed for it is pregnant
with influence over the fate of this country.
No other race but home-born and home
bred race, with large preponderance OF
native blood, can ever love and care for this
country. We must have a nationality for
our nation, or the nation must perish. We
not only want America for Americans, put
we want Americans for America: we want
home-born, home-bred race, with at least
a preponderance of native blood mixed with
the best blood Of foreign races.
As things are now drifting, with the dis
proportionate influx of foreign blood, under
QUA present system of unrestricted 1mmlgra-
tiou the old native American stock is being
bred out of existence. Foreign races come
here faster than they can be assimilated
and our race is lost in them. We invite to
our shores foreign prejudice, ignorance,
superstition, politics, manners and customs,
and foreign flags; and worst of all, we invite
all races, and some of them very bad races
TO come here and mix with our race, ana
then we stupidity and shamelessly endure
blood of all races commingling in our veins
History is repeating itself; the Indian went
down before the tidal wave of European
invasion, and the old native American stock
is slowly and sadly but surely following
toward the same inevitable destiny. II un-
restricted immigration continues, in less than
half century the pure native american
will be as scarce as the wild Indian who
once roamed over these hills their lord ana
master.
Suffering From Too Much immigration.
We have heard the cry, perhaps applauded
it, that this country is the asylum for the
oppressed Of all lands. This saying and its
twin brother, viz: all men are equal, has
done more to injure the United States than
all other causes combined. This country
the asylum for the oppressed of all lands!
However wise may have been the policy In
the past the time has come when unre-
stricted immigration should be branded as
crime, dangerous to our Government, de-
structive to our home institutions and fatal
to the development and establishment of a
native American race. We must make immi-
grafton elective, and America herself must
cast the vote.
Nations take advantage of this our mnudlin
philanthropy, by dumping on our snores the
offscourings of Europe, Asia and Africa.
The asylum for the oppressed of ali landsl
How about the oppressed in our own land?
How about the American mechanic and
laborer, driven from their toll by imported
cheap labor hired at starvation wages by
that Unsuitable bondmaster, the corporation
list? Organized Capital and Contract Labor
twin partners, born in crime and nursed in
despair! Wealth and Poverty-the toads
and lice which menace a land fairer than the
Ali my countrymen, it won't do, We pos
sess fair country we have built a fair ma
tion, we maintain il, and hope to perpetuate
1t, for what? Not for our poSterity, but tor
the vagabonds and lazzaroni of Europe.
Much attention has been paid in this
country to the breeding of fine horses,
with the result that the American trot-
ter is noted and priced the world over for
his beauty, his speed, his endurance and his
lion-hearted courage. The dumb horse shows
what the American environment may do to-
wards building race of animals. Suppose
that our hOrse-breeders were to proclaim
that this country is the asylum for the
broken-down hacks OF Europe; suppose that
these breeders were to initiate our Govern
nient-were to do with horse-flesh as our
Government does with human beings, meet
the rag tag and bob-tails as they land at our
seaports, welcome them and pilot them to
the green pastures where Craze and romp
the thoroughbreds and the American trot-
ter-how long would it be until our breed of
horses would become scrubs?
Fellow citizens, our Government is DUR
suing that very line of policy today, and
the result is inevita ble-our race must be
scrubs.
Let Us Better Our Own Race.
Love of race, like charity, should begin at |
home. Let us pay little regard to our race
as we have to our nation. Let us better our
own race at whatever cost, at any sacrifice,
and let other races take care of themselves.
1t was the practice of this policy that made
ancient Greece what she was-that bred
men and women SO strong and fair that they
walked the earth like gods and goddesses;
it was by ignoring the policy that she lost |
her nationality and her grand race: To-day |
high Olympus is .tenantless, the dust |
of the priestess lies prone on the |
crumbling shrine, hostile armies trample |
her sacred soil, and the modern Greek is |
her system of caring for her own race that |
made Rome the mistress of the world and |
that Ted her eagles and her cross into every |
land and sea. 1t was by crossing her patri |
aia nleD9ian-that of
slaves and that of the Goth and Vandal- |
that she lost her supremacy and gave the |
world the Dark Ages. The superiority of |
the AngloSaxon race was from the admix- |
ture of the best blood of three grand races |
the Saxon, the Norman and the Briton-bred |
in and in for generations, until the English |
people and their descendants are among the |
leaders of the world. |
The United States flag floats over every |
public school house in this Commonwealth. |
That is one object lesson. and a commenda- |
But while our flag like men, |
ory and a mentor, floats over the roof let |
there be another lesson taught in the rooms |
below; let there be written on the walls of |
of this Republic-Amerlca for Americans, |
and Americans for America.
The band played selection from the |
"Beggar Student" and Mr. Burleigh intro
duced S. U. Trent as follows:
We will now hear a lawyer, which reminds
me of q story concerning them. There were |
two Irishmen walking along a country road |
one time, and they came to a cemetery They |
small tombstone, on which was |
the inscription: Here lies a lawyer and an |
honest man. One OF the lrishmen said: |
"Be COB, they have put two men into that |
hole" With this story present s. U. Trent,
Esq.
Mr. Trent's speech was as follows:
The Story of q Sacred Day.
ssTI,a dow of our nation g birth ia otiu co