Los Angeles herald., 1892-07-04
HIS POLITICAL IDEAS.
DIR. THOMPSON breaches ON MA.
TIONAL DANGERS.
What He Thinks About Several SOCIAL
ProbIems-Anarcbist and Boycott
ter Not Wanted.

The Church of the Unity was hand
somely decorated with flowers yesterday
in commemoration of the patriotic cele-
bration of today. Designs in red, white
and blue ornamented the platform and
an American flag worked in flowers was
the most conspicuous and tasteful en-
blem exhibited. DIR. Thompson's ser
mon was a patriotic address in which
he called attention in his usual forcible
way to many of the dangers that beset
the body polite and to the proper way
OF treating the same.
He dealt in succession with the Chi
nese problem, and the poor Indian and
the colored brother from the south.
pointing out that the Chinese have
been we'll treated in this country taking
into account the radical difference that
exists in the races.
They look to the past, we look to the
future: they initiate, we originate. We
should import the blood that is like our
own-men who will say "We will live
and die with you" There can never be
commingling of the Mongolian and
Caucasian races. As for the Indian,
he has not been we'll treated. He is a
difficult subject to handle, but we
should cease treating them as children.
They should be taught and equipped,
and then given a chance to do well--to
mingle with the rest and to sink or rise,
as the case may be. The colored man is
child of nature, religious and supersti-
tious. He can live in a hot climate,
where the white man would degenerate,
and in this element the colored man is
the survival of the fttest--degeneracy
won't come to- him there. Every col
ored child deserves a grammar school
education. He can't. take the high
school unless he has little white blood
in him. There is a craving for educa-
ton in the south that should be salts"
fed. The colored people should not be
Disseminated against.
The wholesale immigration OF the
social refuse of Europe into this country
should be stopped. The anarchist and
boycotter are imported evils. The an
archist is not criminal. He is politl-
cally insane, and should be put in a
mad house and not in jail, As an an
tidote to the work of these men who
have nothing to lose, and perhaps some
thing to gain, by the destruction of So
ciety, every poor and honest man should
be encouraged to have home OF his
own. There is nothing like an owner
ship in the soil, however small, to re-
strain the spread of such ideas. Boycott
| ting is bad business all round. 1t is
brutal, unfair, injurious and tyrannical.
There ia danger of the idea of pater-
nalism spreading in regard to our gov
ernment. 1t is a fine-looking theory,
that of the government doing everything
for the people; but the Russians are
starving today because Of paternal
government. The duty OF the govern
ment is to look after our lives and
property, and it has big enough job
on hand to do that. 1t has no business
| to pry into private affairs, 1t has moth
| ing to do with the social life of the peo-
pie. Let ua have individuality. Com
petition is the secret OF progress, and
| the idea Of paternalism is a fight
against God, nature and destiny.
The millionaire who leaves his money
| to his children leaves them curse.
The bag of gold will sink the man, de-
stroying his development Of character.
A rich man should administer bic own
estate in his lifetime: let him leave his
girls well off, but not the boys.
The political boodler and the man
who sells his vote for dollar were next
handled without gloves. Manhood
suffrage is fine thing when you have
the manhood, but the time is coming
when men Will have to show qualifica-
tions, love of country and visible means
of support before they csn be entrusted
with the franchise"
The public schools were treated OF al
some length. Politics should be siren.
uously kept out of their management
but the religious opinions OF teachers
should be no bar to theil employment,
unless they should try to influence theil
scholars in such matters. Sectarianism
should be kept out of the schools. Nc
sect or gathering of sects should be al
lowed to exercise any interference IN the
name of religion. History should be
studied. The American stretches his
roots away back into the history O
European. civilization. 1t is lesson tc
trace it out and see how American life
| is the flower of efforts of thousands o
years. History makes man a lover O
his country. The course of lectures or
history to be delivered here by PROBES
sor Moses, this week, will be highly
| valuable.
The speaker closed by forcible ano
eloquent review of the position OF oul
state. The star of empire has gone west
ward until the Pacific ocean has beer
reached, and the rebound will be east
ward. Here with our resources we car
build up the paradise of the continent
Applied science is requisite for the proper
development of things. Millions are
coming. Let us live strong, pure, patri
otic lives and send forth the noblest in
fluences in the cause of righteousness.
The sermon next Sunday morning will