The Wadsworth dispatch. [volume] (Wadsworth, Nev.) 1892-1899, 1893-06-28
AMERICA FOR AMERICANS.
8 NJ.

JESSE NJ. wHITED.
1t is evident to the most casual obser-
yer that the last year has dealt gener-
ously with the United States. To-day
peace reigns throughout our vast
domain. No foreign foe invades our
shores. How superior our condition by
way of contrast to Central and South
America, the home OF misrule and ana
chy and if we turn our eyes over the
great deep to the most favored nations
beyond the Atlantic, the contrast in
spires greatefnl emotions. The most
venerable nations in Europe, countries
that have lived through a thousand
years, are to-day shaking by internal
disturbances. The institutions which
have come down from the hoary past,
now topple to their fall. Uneasy lies
the head that wears the crown" wheth-
er man or woman; and no government
in Europe is in a state OF peaceful secu-
rity. Alarm dwells in the palace.
"Fear like a bloody phantom haunts the
thrones" and the vast nations of Europe,
with all their commerce and law, are
maintained in peace by not less than
twenty million of men armed to the
teeth.
The time was when we welcomed
every one that might immigrate to this
country when we threw the gates wide
open, and in our Fourth OF July orations,
we proclaimed this to be the asylum OF
the oppressed, the home of the down
trodden but in the course of time this
great opportunity Afforded to the nations
is now making o1r fair America the
dumping ground for their criminals and
paupers. We are low bound to call a
halt along the line of immigration, to
say to those natior s that this is not a
new Africa or Asia. That it is not a
brothel for the M ormon or a country
for the ticket-of-lcave-man; not a place
for the criminals or paupers of Europe,
but for MAMMAL in his intelligence,
man in his love of liberty, whoever he
may be. AS Washington and his col
leagues were called to break down the
legal rampant that defended chartered
wrongs, 30 may tllis generation of Amer
leans be called VI on to do the same if
they would save our nation.
The foreigner t ireatens the prosperity
of all our Amer can laborers he is an
open enemy of their wives and children.
brighter future. Is it not singular that
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better and sweeter life for him and his,
should hate the unfortunate foreigner,
who blocks his way to that legitimate
gates of Castle Garden always swing in
ward; they never swing outward to an
American laborer seeking a better coun-
try than. this. A person who has worked
here knows the land of good wages as
k1o arolI0xx. In N, tho 1and ~ otarnaI
summer.
My friends would that we had some
of the spirit of 1875 with which to resist
| 1875 that inspired Warren to say: "Put
me where the battle is the hottest - the
spirit of 1875 that moved Putnam to
shout on the eve of battle: Powder,
powder, We go1s, give us powder - the
spirit of 1875 IL at caused that noble pa
triot, Nathan Hale, to reply ever with
the fatal rope encircling his neck; 81
only regret that l have but one life to
give to my countr y" With this spirit
the time has come for us to call a halt
and if we do not close the gates We
| should at most leave them but ajar. Let
us declare that this country is for Amer
| leans.
We maintain our free institutions by
moral force. Our twenty thousand
soldiers scattered here and there,
wherever they can find an Indian to
shoot, are hard a respectable police
force. The fou ,ders OF this republic
knew that freeman are soldiers in the
guise of citizen, the custodians OF the
nations life. Out of such citizenship
comes the, the sentiment which is
greater than standi G armies or floating
navies. Let the tocsin of war be sound
ed, let a foreign foe invade our shores,
| let an instruction arise in our
midst, and a million OF free men
armed to the teeth will "rally around
the flag boys, rally once again."
1t is difficult for immigrants to realize
this. They pass through the land and
see no gensdarmes, no standing armies,
rarely a policeman. In America we
have exalted the individual. Whether
we have fifty millions or ten millions, or
a million, whatever may be the ratio OF
our population, the government recog-
nizes the individuality of the citizen as
paramount. As God is the center OF the
universe, and Christ of the church, so
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