The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-05-11

anticipated, the Harvesting of her rivers
IN great manufacturing interests. until
me Mobile and the TallapOosa and the
Ohattahoochee are southern Merrimacs
and the unroling of great southern mines
OF coal and iron, of which the world knew
nothing, and opening before her oppor-
tunities Of wealth which will give ninety
nlne per cent. more Of aftiuence than she
ever possessed; and instead Of the black
hands OF American slaves, there are the
more industrious black hands of the coal
and iron mines of the south which are
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,
ana tnere are songs where they lifted
up Rachels lament.
Oh, you are a stupid man if you do not
understand how God answered Abraham
Lincoln prayer in the white house, and
StonewaN Jacksons prayer in the saddle
and answered all the prayers of all the
Gathedrals on both sides of Mason and
DiXon's line. Gods country all the way
past; Gods country now. Put his name
IN your pronunciamentos. Put his name
on your ensigns. Put his name on your
city and state and national enterprises
TUT MS 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 American Institutions in the DAYS
that are to come. Oh, when all the rivers
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
tom 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 oc-
cupied by more than twelve hundred mill
ion 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 COM
ing from north and south and east and
west, four doxOlOgieS rolling toward each
other, and meeting m.d-cOntinent 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.
take step further, and say that be-
fore the gaVels of our Senate and House
OF Representatives and our political con-
Ventlons pound adjournment, there ought
10 be passed law or adopted a plank of
intelligent helpfulEess for the great for
eign populations which are coming among
us IT IS too late now 70 discuss whether
we had better let them come. They are
mere. Ihey are coming this moment
through the narrows. They are this mo-
ment taking the first full inhalation of the
free air of America. And they will con-
tinue to come as long as this country is
the best place to live in. You might as
well pass law prohibiting summer bees
from atghting on a field of blossoming
buckwheat; you might as well prohibit
the stays of the mountain from coming
down to the derrick, as to prohibit the
hunger-bitten nations of Europe from
coming to this land of bread-as to prohi-
bit the, people of England, ireland, Scot
land Italy, Norway, Sweden and Ger
many, 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? 1t was that all the earth might
come, and plough, and come and die
Just as long as the centrifugal force of for
elgn deSpousms throw them off, just so
long VIII the centripetal force of American
institutions draw them here. And that is
what Is going to make this the mightiest
nation on the earth. Interma rriage of ma
tionalitieSi Not circle intermarrVine cir
Gle, and nation intermarrying nation Put
| y Is going TO be Italian and Norwegian
russian and Celt, Scotch and French
English and American. The American Of
a hundred years from now is to be differ
ent from the American of to-day. German
brain, Irish wit, French civ!lity Scotch
nrmnesS, English loyalty. Italian aestbef-
les packed into one man, and he an Amer
icanl 1t is this intermarriage of nationals
ties that IS going to make the American
nation the greatest nation of the ages
But what are we doing for the moral
and intellectual culture of the five hun
dred thousand foreigners who came
dred thousand who came in another YEAR
ana the eight hundred thousand who
came IN another year, and the one mill
American ports? What are we doing for
LhemE Wen, we are doing a great deal
Tor tnemF we steal their baggage
as soon as they get here. We send them
/ up to boarding house where the least
they lose is their money. We swind1e
them within ten minutes after they get
ashore. we are doing great deal for
them. But what are we doing to intro
duce them into the duties of good citi
zenship? Many of them never saw a bal
lot box. Many of them never heard Of
the constitution of the United States
Many of them have no acquaintance win
our laws: Now, say, let the government
OF the United States SO commanded bv
one political party or both political mar
ties, give 10 every immigrant who lands
here a volume, in good type and well
bound for long usage-a volume contain
ing the declaration of Independence the
constitution of the United States and n
chapter on the spirit 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 fbe
right hand of every immigrant a copv ~
the holy scriptures let the government
OF the United States, commanded bv some
poHJcaI party put into the left hand of
every immigrant a volume instructing him
IN the duties of good citizenship There
are thousands OF foreigners in this land
VINO need 10 learn that the ballot box is
not foot-stool, but a throne-not some
thlng 70 put your foot on, but something
/ to bow before. '7
But whether members of the natona1
legislature or delegates to one of the ma
uonal conventions, or private citizens let
us cultivate CHRISTIAN patriotism Oh
now good COD mas been to us as a uafioni
Just open the map of the continent ana
sec now IL IS shaped for immeasurabIe
prosperiues- Navigable rivers more in
NUMBER ana greater than of anv Other
land, roAlng down on all sides into the
sea, prophesylng large manufactures and
easy commerce. Look at the great rs,,s-a -
OF mountains, umbered with wealth an
the top and sides, and metaled vvitb
wealth underneath. One hundred ana
SSI {d thousand nous square miles of coali
miles OF iron! The iron to prv ouf fbe