Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1893-11-30
MENACES TO THE REPUBLIC.
isr. Butler Speaks of the Chtnese
Question and Other Tonnes.

Our blessings and Our Perils were the
two thoughts of Rev. Dr. j. G. RutIer n,
the Luther Place Memorial Church. sue-
sestea by two texts, Happy is the people
whose God is the Lord" and For the
spelling of the poor and the signing of the
heedy now VIII L arise with the Lord &"
Our President in appointing a day of ma
tional thanksgiving. he said. but voices the
heart of all good people. The House of God
is vocal with alteration and praise as We
bring our hearts and offerings TO the ALL
GiVer the God of our fathers and our God
No land is so free as ours, knowledge is
nowhere SO generally diffused and no peo-
pie are more prospered of heaven. The
cloud under which we rest today by eason
of disturbed finances and depressed indus
tries, with great army OF unemployed
filling many hearts and homes with care
and sorrow, will be only temporary: with
abundant harvests there is no reason why
the mines and mills should not yield their
rich abundance. The mistaken ballot, which
is responsible for the depression, will re-
verse its verdict, and bring blessing again
to both labor and capital for they are
mutually dependent Nowhere will you find
labor so richly rewarded, nor so many
happy homes, with hearts ready to share
rich abundance, under our flag Every
city and hamlet is filled with tender hearts
and trained hands giving relief to human
Woe in its multifarious appeals. The land
is full OF helpfulneSs, the rich fruitage of
our growing Christian civilization. We
need but study our map side by side with
the maps of Africa, or Asia, or even Eu-
rope or Great Britain, to know how God
has exalted Us among the nations The
peoples of the Orient and of the Occident
flow to us in great multitudes instinctively,
finding here the larger freedom and oppor-
tunities for which oppressed humanity
pants. Lcng live America,
Our psrils lie side by side with our mer-
c,es. The fullness of our liberty opens the
doors to laWieSSnesS of license, endangering
the freedom of the citizens of the very life
of the republic. In our vast domain there
will always be welcome for the God-fear-
ing, law-ah:ding. Industrious and sober from
all lands. But our gates must be closed
against the anarchistic and lawless and
NcloGs-the lepers of society. Our free ball
LOT ard our growing cities menace the peace
and good order and life of the republic.
We are in no danger from Chinese immi-
grafton. No people are more inoffensiye
Industrious and self reliant than they. Our
aI,ti-Chinese legislation in response to the
howlings of the hoodlums is a blot upon
our Civilizations national disgrace-whilst
the wrongs and expressions and lyncfings
of the Afro-Americans cry to heaven for
vengeance. Bossism in politics is being re-
buked and with il the saloon, its focal Doint
must go. The sober-minded will throttle
il in self-defense. DIR. Butler spoke or papal
interference with our public schools and
with the ballots of our citizens The bull
warks of the republic, he said, are the God
fearing, Sabbath-keeping,. law-abidng sober
Industrious and self-respecting people Our
Sanctuarles. our Sunday schools, our edu-
catioaal agencies, free from all entangling
alliances with foreign ard alien power,
the greatness of the land. secular and re-
ligious. the best in the world. and becom-
ing better every day. are under God. the
glory and hope of America-the hope OF
the world