Democratic Northwest and Henry County news. [volume] (Napoleon, O. [Ohio]) 1894-1905, 1896-05-14

Nhe encampment. You DAQ Debt6f go and
Join them" Prayer at Valley Forge.
Prayer at Monmouth. Prayer at Atlanta.
Prayer at South Mountain. Prayer at
Gettysburg. "Oh," says some infidel, "the
northern people prayed on one side and the
southern people prayed on the other side,
and so 1t did not amount to anything"
And have heard good Christian people
COMPOUNDED with the infdel statement,
when 1t is as plain to me as my right hand.
fes, the northern people prayed In one
way and the southern people prayed in
another way, and God answered in his own
way, giving to the north the re-establish-
ment of the government and giving to the
south larger opportunities, larger than she
had ever anticipated, the Harvesting of her
rivers In great manufacturing interests,
until the Mobile and the Tallapoosa and
the Chattahoochee are southern Merrimacs,
and the unrolling of great southern mines
of coal and iron, of which the world knew
nothing, and opening before her opportuni-
ties of wealth which will give 90 per cent
more of affiuence than she ever possessed,
and instead of the black hands of Ameri-
can slaves there are the more industrious
black hands of 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.
Gods Country.
oh, you are stupid man If you do not
understand how God answered Abraham
Lincoln's prayer in the White House, and
Stonewall Jaokson's prayer in the saddle,
and answered all the prayers of all the
cathedrals 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; put his
name In your hearts. We cannot sleep
we'll 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
oome Oh, when all the rivers that empty
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 nation; when the last
swamp shall be reclaimed, and the last
jungle cleared, and the last American des-
ert Edenized, and from sea to sea the con-
tinent shall be occupied by more than
1900, 000,0 900 souls, may 1t be found that
moral and religious influences were multi
piled in more rapid ratio than the popula-
tion. And then there shall be four dox-
| ologies coming from north and south and
| east and west, four doxologies rolling to-
ward each other and meeting midoontinent
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 farther and say that before
| the gavels of our senate and house Of rep
resentatives and our political conventions
pound adjournment there ought to be
passed law or adopted plank Of intelli-
| gent helpfulness for the great foreign pop
ulations 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
| Narrows. They are this moment taking TIL
| first full inhalation of the free air of Amere
lea. And they will continue to come as
long as this country is the best place to
| live in.
You might as we'll pass law prohibit
| ing summer bees from alighting on a field
of blossoming buckwheat, you might as
we'll prohibit the stays of the mountain
| from coming down to the derrick, as to
prohibit the hunger bitten nations of Eu-
rope from coming to this land Of bread, as
to prohibit the people of England, Ireland,
Scotland, 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 Da-
kotas and roll the precious ore into Colo
RADIO? It was that all the earth might
come and plow and come and dig. Just
as long as the centrifugal force of foreign
despotisms throw them off just so long
will the centripeta1 force of American in
stitutions draw them here. And that is
what is going to make this the mightiest
nation on the earth. 1ntermarriage of ma
tionalities! Not circle intermarrying cir
Gle, and nation intermarrying nation.
But 1t Is going to be Italian and Norwe-
gian, Russian and Celt, Scotch and
French, English and American. The
American of 100 years from now Is to be
different from the American of today.
German brain, Irish wit, French civility,
Scotch flrmness, English loyalty, Italian
aesthetics, packed into one man, and he an
Americanl 1t is this intermarriage of ma
tionalities that is going to make the Amer
ican nation the greatest nation of the ages
But what are we doing for the moral and
intellectual culture of the 500, 900 foreign
ers who came in one year, and the 900, 900
who came In another year, and the 800, 900
who came in another year, and the / 1,000,- :
600 who are coming into our various
American portsf What are we doing for
themP Well, we are doing great deal for
them. We steal their baggage as soon as
they get here. We send them up to o
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 ballot box; many of them
never heard of the constitution of the
| United States; many Of them have no &C.
quaintance with our laws.
| Now, l say, let the government of the
United States SO commanded by one polit-
ical party or both political parties, give to
every immigrant who lands here volume,
in good type and we'll bound for long usage
"a volume containing the Declaration of
Independence, the constitution of the
United States and chapter ON the spirit
of our government. Let there be such o
book on the shelf of every free library in
America. While the American Bible soci-
ETY. puts into the right hand Of every i'm
migrant copy of the Holy Scriptures, let
the government Of the United States, COM
manded by some political party, put into
the left hand of every immigrant volume
instructing him in the duties of good citi-
zenship. There are thousands of foreigners
In this land who need to learn that the bal
lot box is not footstool. but throne-not