St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1896-07-04

and Join thsa.s Prayer 1t val1sy
roege. Prayer ct Monmouth. Prayer
q Atlantis. Prayer at South Mountain.
Prayer 1t Gettysburg. '-Ohi" says
some infldel. ''the nofthern people
prayed on one sido and tho southern
people prayed on tho other side, and
20 II did not amount to anything. !"
And I have heard good Christian
people COMPOUNDED with the in'
Adcl statement, when It h -
plain to me ~ my right band. Yes:
the northern people prayed In ono way.
and tho southern people prayed In an-
other way. and God answered In His
own way, giving to the north the re-
establishment Of tho government, and
giving to the south larger opportuni-
ties, larger than she had ever antici-
pated, the Harvesting Of her rivers in
great manufacturing interests, un-
til the Mobile and the Talla-
poosa and the Chattahoochce are
southern Merrimacs, and the
unrolIing Of great southern mines Of
coal and iron, Of which the world knew
nothing. and opening before her OPP
portunitles of wealth which will give
% per cent, more of afi1uence than she
ever possessed; and instead of tho
black hands of American slaves. there
are the more industrious black hands
Of the coal and iron mines of the south,
which are achieving for her fabulous
and unimagined wealth.
And there are domes q white blossoms where
spread the white tents.
And there are plows In the tracks wherc tho
wagons went.
And there are songs whore they lifted up Ra-
chaers lament.
take step further and say that be-
fore tho gavels of our senate and house
Of representatives and our political
conventions pound adjournment there
ought to be passed law or adopted o
plank Of intelligent helpfulness for the
great foreign populations which arc
coming among Us. It is too late now
to discuss whether we had better let
them come. They are here. They
are coming this moment through
the narrowa. They are this mo-
ment taking the flrst full In
halation of the free air of Amer
lea. And they will continue TO come
rs long as this country Is the best place
to live in. You might as we'll pass .
law prohibiting summer bees from
alighting on field of blossoming buck
wheat; you might as well prohibit the
stays of the mountain from coming
down to the deer-licks, rs to prohibit
the hunger-bitten nations OF Europe
from coming to this land Of bread-as to
prohibit the people Of England, Ireland,
Scotland, Italy, Norway, Sweden and
Germany working themselve to death
on small wages on the other side Of
the sea, from coming to this land
where there are the largest compen.
sations under the sun. Why did God
spread out the prairies Of the Dakotas
and roll the precious ores into Colora-
do? 1t was that all the earth might
come and plow, and come and
dig. Just as long as tho
centrifugal force Of foreign
dcspotisms throw them of, Just SO
long will the cintripetal force of Amer
loan institutions draw them here. And
that is what is going to make this the
highest nation on the earth, inter-
marriage Of nationalities! Not circle
intermarrying circle, and nation inter-
marrying nation. But it is going to be
Italian and Norwegian, Russia and
Celt, Scotch and French, English
and American. The American of q
hundred years from now is to be diff
ferent from the American of to-day.
German brain, Irish wit, French civil
ity. Stotch firmness, English loyalty,
Italian aesthetics packed into one man.
and he an Americana 1t is this inter-
marriage Of nationalities that is going
to make the American nation tho
greatest nation of the age.
But what are we doing for the moral
and Intellectual culture of the 500, 600
foreigners who came in one year, and
the coo, OOO who came in another year,
and the SOC, 600 who came in another
year, and the 1000. 600 who are coming
into our various American ports?
What are doing for them? Well. we
are doing great deal for them. We
steal their baggage as soon rs they get
here. We send them up to boarding
house where the least they lose is their
money. We swindle them within ten
minutes after they get ashore. We are
doing = great deal for them But what
are we doing to introduce them into
the duties of good citizenship? Many
of them never saw a ballot-box. Many
of them never heard Of the cons titu-
tion of the United States Many Of
Thorn have no acquaintance with our
laws. Now, say, let the government
Of the United States, SO command
ed by one political party or
both political parties, to give overy
who lands here . volume,
In good type and well bound for
long usage-a volume containing the
Of Independence. the con-
stitution Of the United States and =
chapter on the spirit Of our govern
mont Let there DO such book ON tho
shelf Of every FREQ library In America.
While tho American Bible society
puts into tho right hand Of every inn
migrant . copy Of tho Holy Scriptures,
lot tho government Of tho United
States, commanded by some political
party, put into the left hand Of every
= volume instructing him
into the duties Of good citizenship
There are thousands Of foreigners In
this land who need to learn that the
ballot-box is not foot-stool. but .
something to put your
foot on, but something to bow before.
There arc three great reasons why
you and should do out best for this
great reasons; Our
fathers graves, our cradle, our chill
dren's. birthright. When I say your
fathers graves, your pulses run quick |
y. Whether they sleep in city ceme-
bery or country graveyard, their dust
i very precious to you. I think
they lived well and that they
lied right Never submit to
have any government over their |
k0unha 0fhAr than that 0nvArn menk