Connecticut western news., 1896-05-14

thing" And I have heard good Chris. tian people confounded with the infidel statement, when it is as plain to me as my right hand. Yes, the northern peo- pie 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-establishment of the gov ernment and giving to the south larger opportunities larger than she had ever anticipated-the harnessing 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 be- fore her opportunities of wealth which will give e9 per cent more of affluence 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 achieving for her fab ulous and unimagined wealth
 And there are domes of white blossoms where
 spread the white tents,
 And there are blows in the track where the
 
 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 StonewaQ Jackson's s prayer in the saddle, and answered all the prayers of all the cathedrals on both sides of Mason and Dixon's hnel Gods country all the way past, Gods country nowi Put his name in your pronuncia- mentosl Put his name on your ensignsi Put his name on your city and state and national enterprises! 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 all the 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 na- tion; when the last swamp shall be re- claimed, and the last jungle cleared, I and the last American desert Edenized, and from sea to sea the continent shall be occupied by more than 1, 200, 900, 900 souls, may it be found that moral and | religious influences were multiplied in more rapid ratio than the populationi | 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 midoon- | 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 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 It 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 in.
 You might as we'll pass law prohib- iting summer bees from alighting on 8 field of blossoming buckwheat; you might as well prohibit the stags 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 Coloradof It was that all the earth might come and blow, 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 1t is 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 is to be different from the American ot today. German brain, Irish wit, French civility, Scotch frmness. English loyal, ty, Italian esthetios packed into one man, and he an Amer.canl 1t is this intermarriage of nationalities that ii going to make the American nation the greatest nation of the ages But what are we doing for the moral and intel lectuh culture of the 800, 900 foreign CTS who came in one year, and the 600, 900 who came in another year, and the 800, 900 who came in another year, and the 1, GOO, 900 who are coming into our various American ports? What are we doing for them? We'll, we are doing great deal for them. We steal theiI baggage as soon as they get here. We send them up to Q boarding house, where the least they lose is their money. We swindle them within ten minutes after they get ashore. We are doing 8 great deal for them. But what are we doing to introduce them into the duties oi good citizenshipf Many of them never saw a ballot box Many of them never heard of the constitution of the United States. Many of them have no acquaint- ance with our laws Now, say, let the government of the United States, se commanded by one political party c, both political parties, give to every i'm migrant who lands here a volume, 1T | good type and we'll bound for long usage "a 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 suct a book on the shelf of every free library in America While the American Biblt society puts into the right hand of every