The Dalles times-mountaineer. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1882-1904, 1893-07-22
OAHENLEYISM-ITS DANGERS TC
AMERICA.

a OAHENLEYISM-ITS DANGERS TC
|, AMERICA.
' Graduating or tion delivered by Thomas NJ
Roberts, and awarded the Beckman prize Of STOOL
We publish the following oratiUn of Mr..
Roberts, who is resident of The Dalles
and well known to our citizens, by request
of many readers;
Across the Atlantic, in Prussia, beyond
the touch of our laws, lives an eccleslastic
and politician by the name of Cahensley.
Jealous tor the promotion of his Roman
faith, he has become actively interested in
European migration, and Is endeavoring to
shape the course and kind of that vast horde
that is coming to our shores. Two years
ago, from convention at Luzerne, he was
sent to the Vatican, with a memorial, urg.
ing that foreigners in America, be relig-
iously dealt with on separate national lines;
that ''everv different group of emigrants be
organized into distinct parish with priest
| of Its own nationality;" and that their chill
| dren should receive every kind of lnstruc-
ton In the language peculiar to each.
Under the guidance of this un Ame merican
| scheme, Germans, Russians, or aliens from
| any country, upon landing at our seaports,
are to be colonlzed into separate communi
! es, with German TEACHERS for the Teuton,
] Russian pastors for the Russ, and italian
priests for the Latin. Each organized body
is to retain its native speech, and be pre-
vented from learning the anguage In which
| our laws are written.
Although, this movement, known as
/ toS
| Rnme, it is still silently aid secretly gain
| ing strength IN our midst; and unless
speedily counteracted by American infiu.
ences, 1t will certainly have b4neful effect
| upon our civ Gzation. For Cahensleyism
| in It's political phase means Isaperfect as
| simlation of our alien and increasing popu-
lations, and a consequent fostering of for
eIgn languages and customs; 1t means an
attempt to denatlonalize our American in
stitutions, and to put in their place the
tfete forms of the old world; it means |
gradual dIsmembership OF this cosmopolitan |
republic, and planting of as many sover-
elgnties In our mldst there are people of |
foreign tongues.
Well may the wrecks of past republics be |
warning OF present and approaching dan
gersl Well may our tatesmen scan the po. |
litical horizon and ask-What is in store for |
America? For century, this republic has
kept an individual unity among the nations
of the earth, Intrusting the guardianship OF
established rights to law, and the move
ments of reform to the vote of the people
Liberty has been our watchword and Union
our battle cry. And though an Euglish
speaking nation, we have welcomed Celt
and Teuton, Sclav aud Latin, SO long as
they renounce their foreign allegiance and
become Americans. But through the world
wide hospitality we are fast becoming a
heterogeneous people. and that liberty so
cherished by every loyal American, and
that Union SO essential to republican wei
fare, are to day, subject to the will of peo
pie whose racial differences are constantly
growing peril to national unity. Tariffs
and finances are concerns OF to-day, but
''the children of to day are the nation OF
tomorrow" And instead of building up
stronger and more harmonious union, Ca
hensleyism forcefuily tends 70 increase our
social and political differences. Instead OF
tea2hing Americanism. it seeks through tor
eign Int rterence to destroy that national
harmony which has so prospered this re-
public In the past. A people of one Ian
guage and many creeds, the Americans are
building upon the basis of Christianity
national edI1ce that aspires to the heayens;
and while they are building for freedom and
futurIty, it is plotted to scatter the builders
by Babel confusion of tongue! Yet with
all his old world habits welcome thrice
welcome the foreign cIodl Only let his
children and his chIdren's children breathe
the pure air of our living freedom-Iet the
breath of our liberties fall upon them, aud
new births OF our new soil, they are Ameri-
cans. Moulded In the coarse, common clay
OF humanity 3erstItion, the offspring of
serfdom. shall our immigrants become
Americans, or subjects of Caheusley? Shall
they contribute TO our strength, or to the
germs of our dissolution?
But beyond these dversifying effects,
Cahensleyism is struggle of political pra-
ciples-the old with the new-the past with
the present-a struggle of the degrading in
huences of absoutism ag inst the elevatIpp
principles of free natl nality. How differ.
ent Is our civilization which Caheuseyism
is antagonlZng from that of the lands from
which It Is drawing its strength Here is |
freedom, there serfdom; here intelligence, |
there ignorance; here po itical progress,
there monarchial stsguation; here are in.
stitutioDs to which all are admitted with
equality; there the systems of caste, arls
tocracy and fendalism, where one. seventh
OF the population is in arms to quell that
spirit of freedom which we enjoy. Behold,
here IS the palm of peace, the vine and olive
OF a Christian civilization, where free, in
telgeut manhood begets progressive. law.
abiding citizenship.
But is it possible for these foreign prin-
ciples to take root in American soil? Go to
Quebec, ask why their political status is
century behind that OF other American
and you will receive answer
In an unknown tongue and from people
whose social and Industrial conditions are
no better than those of the peasantry of
Europe. Go among the communities of !
Western Pennsylvania, search for the
causes OF their peculiar conditions, and you
will find that, within the past generation, 2
the most undesirable element of Europe has
settled upon that state, and without assimi-
latien into our Union is a menace to our
laws, scourge to our industrial interests
and poison to our civilization; an element
which
''May in some grim revel raise his hand
And shake the pi lars of the common veal 7
Till the vast tempe of our liberties '
shapeless mass Of wreck and rubbish lies" | q
Political disorder. social degradation, aud
anarchy these are the exotics
that Cahensleyism would plant upon our
SOIL. Let them once gain lodgment, and
nothing but united Americanlsm can uproot
them.
If Cahensleysm ceased with transplant
ing evil bearing principles to America, then :
It's dangers might be averted by closer re- t
striction of immigration. But 1T is more
than this. The scheme deepens into con-
spiracy. The Rubicon is crossed. Jesuit
ism, although here and there possessed of
heroic devotion, is yet, in its fanatical
phase, the stsgnatIon OF Europe and the
foster mother of Cahensleyism. 1t is al
ready here spreading Its corrupting ideas il
through every avenue of our body polite,
attacking the state in the name of the
hurch, and education in the name of re- /.
ligion. few years ago Wisconsin had
law requiring the English language to be
taught In the public schools. Through the
weight OF a narrow, bigoted priesthood, this
bene6cent law was abolished, that our free
American schools might give place to the 4
private sectarian domine; and now Jesuit
ism. the sword and shield of Cahenseyism,
is there triumphant, marshaling Its force,
''consuering and to conquer" while the
American youth Is cheated out of his in
herited rights. Beware priestcraft! It is
causing constant discord and revolution In