The Monitor-register., 1896-05-15

newo1ou III HIS own way, giving to the
north the re-establishment of the gov
eminent and giving to the south larger
opportunities, larger than she had ever
anticlpated-the Harvesting of her rivers
In great manufacturing interests, until
tne Mobile and the Tal1apoosa and the
Chattahocchee are southern Merrimacs
n the unrolling of great southern
mines of coal and iron, of which the
world knew nothing, and opening be-
fore her opportunities of wealth which
will give 80 per cent more of afHuence
than she ever possessed, and, instead of
the black hands of American slaves,
there are the more industrious black
hands CT the coal and iron mines Of the
south, which are achieving for her fab
ulous and unimagined wealth.
And there are domes of white blossoms where
spread the white tents,
And there are plows in the track where the
war wagons went,
And there are songs where they lifted up
Rachel's lament.
Lincoln's Prayer.
Oh, you are a stupid man if you do
not understand how God answered
Abraham Lincoln's prayer in the White
House, and Stonewall Jackson's prayer
in the saddle. and answered all the
prayers Of all the cathedrals on both
sides of Mason and Dixon's Incl Gods
country all the way past, Gods country
now! Put his name in your pronuncia-
mentos. Put his name ON your ensignsl
Put his name on your city and state
and national enterprisesl Put his name
in your hearts. We cannot sleep well
the last sleep until we are assured that
the God Of our American institutions in
the past will be the God Of our Ameri-
can institutions in the days that are to
come. Oh, when allthe rivers that emp
ty into Atlantic and Pacific seas shall
pull on factory bands; when all the
great mines of gold and silver and iron
and coal shall be laid bare for the ma
ton; when the last swamp shall be re-
CLAIMED, and the last jungle cleared,
and the last American desert Edenized,
and from sea to sea the continent shall
be occupied by more than /. 200. 900, 900
souls, may it be found that moral and
religious influences were multiplied in
more rapid ratio than the population
And then there shall be four doxologies
coming from north and south and east
and west, four doxologies rolling to-
ward each other and meeting midcon-
tinent with such dash of holy joy that
they shall mount to the throne
And heavens high arch resound again
With peace on earth, good will to men.
I take a step farther and say that
before the gavels of our senate and
house OF representatives and our politi-
cal conventions pound adjournment
there ought to be passed a law or adopt
ed a plank of intelligent helpfulness
for the great foreign populations which
are coming among us. 1t is too late now
to discuss whether we had better let
them come. They are here. They are
coming this moment through the Mar
rows. They are this moment taking the
first full inhalation of the free air of
America. And they will continue to
come as long as this country is the best
place to live i'll.
You might as well pass a law prohib-
iting summer bees from alighting on a
field of poisoning buckwheat; you
might as well prohibit the stays of the
mountains from coming down to the
deer lick. as to prohibit the hunger bit
ten 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 themselves to death on small
| wages on the other side the sea-from
| coming to this land where there are the
largest compensations under the sun.
Why did God spread out the prairies of
! the Dakotas and roll the precious ore
into Colorado? It was that ,all the
| earth might come and pillow, and come
| and dig. just as long as the centrifugal
force Of foreign despotisms throws them
off just SO long will the centripetal
| force of American institutions draw
/ them here. And that is what is going
| to make this the mightiest nation ON
the earth. Intermarriage Of nationali-
ties, not circle intermarrying circle
and nation ~intermarrying nation. But
it 10 going to be Italian and Norwegian,
Russian and Celt, Scotch and French,
English and American.
Greatest Nations Of the Age.
The American Of 100 years from now
ia to be different from the American of
today. German brain, Irish wit, French
,civility, Scotch firmness. English loyal
/ ty, Italian aesthetics packed into one
man, and he an Americana 1t is this
intermarriage of na~tionalities that is
going to make the American nation the
/ greatest nation of the ages. But what
are we doing for the moral and intel
lectual culture of the 500, 900 foreign
ers who came in one year, and the
900. 900 who came in another year, and
the 800, 600 who came in another year,
and the 1. 900, 900 who are coming into
our various American ports? What are
we doing for them? Well, we are doing
a great deal for them. We steal their
baggage as soon as they get here. We
send them up to a boarding house, where
the least they lose is their money. We
| swindle them within ten minutes after
they get ashore. We are doing a 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
n6dru OF tne CONSTITUTION OF Lno OnlCe0
States. Many of them have no acquaint-
NICE with our laws. Now, / say, let the
government of the United States, SO
commanded by one political party OF
both political parties, give to every i'm
migrant who lands here a volume, in
good type and well bound for long usage
Ia volume containing the Declaration
of Independence, the constitution of the
United States and a chapter ON the spir-
it of our government. Let there be such
a book ON the shelf of every free library
in America. While the American Bible
society puts into the right hand of every
immigrant a copy of the Holy Scrip
lures, let the government of the United
States, commanded by some political
party, put into the left hand of every
immigrant a volume instructing him
in the duties of good citizenship. There
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