The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1897-11-03
The CITY OF ANGELS.
AT Least that is What the Name
Implies.

But Many of the Inhabitants Are Far
From Being Angels-Rer. j. N. Marsh
Writes from the Golden State to His
Old Friends in Morgantown Enjoy
their stay in the Beautiful City In
Southern California.
Los ANGELES, CAL, Oct. 20, 1897.-"If
man be gracious unto strangers, said
Lord Bacon, % it shows that he is a citi-
zen OF the world, and his heart is no
island cut off from other land, but
continent that joins them"
| am glad to say, by way Of acknowl-
edgement, that the same is true of our
far-away friend, THE New DOMINION,
which continues still to be gracious Ii
always gives us pleasure to peruse the
pages of our home parer. But there is
a law of return.
Old Marcus Aurelius said "He could
relish no happiness which nobody
shared with him. and another has said
" sorrows by being communicated grow
less, and joys greater" Therefore il
we may add 10 the enjoyment OF any
for joy seems to be our lot and not
sorrow it shall not be withheld But
where there is superabundance OF ma
terial it is sometimes very difficult to
choose that which will prove most in
terestlng and also OF most practical i'm
portance to our readers.
Having already in 3 previous letter
spoken, though by no means exhans-
lively, of the delightsome influences,
marvellous products and other of the
agreeables of this glorious country, /
may now venture the more freely to
point out some blemishes or dangerous
social and moral conditions and tenden-
cies existing where-'every prospect
pleases and only man is VILE" Remem-
bering that | am looking for the evil and
not the good.
Erroneous impressions often arise
from name. This is the golden state''
but it does not follow that all of its in
habitants are therefore millonaires or
the sons and daughters of millionaires
We have, it is said, more millionaires
than any other state but we have the
poor-the very poor with us also, from
the dirty little Arab to thepoor old man
on his staff. What shall we do with the
street urcnin? A question for every
cline and country. Perhaps the solu-
ton could not be more plainly or pleas
antly set forth than by giving in brief
sermon from good old colored brother.
He began by saying: "Bredren,
shall take two texes: "Glad Tidings,v
and "Hallelujah %
Soon he asked, "What is glad tidings,
bredren? I'll tell you what glad tidings
am. Suppose dar was king in char
lot, and six caliker bosses, like what
dey hab in de sukkus, a-prancing and
atossing ub dar heads, and de soldiers
and ossifers marching by de side OBJ de
chariot, and dars little boy standing
on de corner OBJ de street as de perces.
sion goes by. Dish ere boy is ragged
and dirty; his har sticking trough de
holes in his cap he amt got no fader,
no mudder, no aunty, and he's looking
on to see de king and de caliker bosses
and de ossifers and de soldiers; when de
king he stops de chariot and says to one
OBJ dem ossifers,
Bring dat boy TO me p
Dat boys all dirt"
Bring dat boy to me |"
''But you'll ketch sumpin off dat boy"
Den de king got mad, and his face
lifted up on de top of his head like
coffee pot lid, and he holIered as loud
IS he could boiler:
Bring dat boy to me T.
Den de ossifer bring dat boy, and de
king say:
Take dat boy and git him measured
for some clo'es. and git him cap, and
some shoes, and cut his har and wash
him, put him in de barf, and den send
him to de school like de white folks CO."
Wall, all dis is done 'cording to de
king. wat he tell de ossifer; and when |
dat boy was clean, and his bar comb,
and get de Qualification, den dat king
come by agin, wild de caliker bosses and
soldiers, and de ossifers, and he says /:
where's dat boy? ?" and dey bring de
boy, and nobody knowed him; but de
king he knowd him, and say:
my chile, come up into de charios. |
'dopt you; you is my heir"
Now, wouldn't dat be glad tidings to
dat boy ?"
Then came the application GODS love
10 sinners, cleaning, teaching them, and |
making them heirs of God, joint heirs
with Jesus Christ, by adoption, and |
when he came to the climax, he said
"Now, bredren, is de time for de Sec
ond text, 'Hallelujah,' and we may jess
shout much as yere a-mind to"
Such, in brief, is precisely the course
to be pursued with the American waif-
the only practical, christian plan.
But there are yet more immediate and |
dangers in this favored land |
than the poor street arab Western life |
What are the traits that are characters |
tic of this great rising West, which is |
looked upon as the final battle field for |
the browning or defeat of the human !
race in its struggle to gain and maintain
a higher civilization than has yet been
ATTAINED. DR.. Strong in that remarka-
BILE book, "Our Country sums up the
situation in very comprehensive man
ner.
He undertook, IA years ago, to show
that the next twenty years in America |
means to the world for the shapiag of
human destiny more than 500 years Just |
past, and this great West is to be the
scene of elimination. The wealth of |
material resources OF America-almost +!
the intellectual powers and |
spirit forces growing more tense with ev-
cry year and with each step of progress |
bespeak the high destiny and great re-
sponsibility resting upon this nation.
But what Of the perils? The peril of
the peril OF socialism, the |
peril Of Romanism. the peril of immi-
grafton, the peril of wealth. all OF which I
root and growing more rank in the west
ern soil than can be found elsewhere.
Socialism in particular where SO manv
foreigners are to be found. Socialists are |
not only more numerous here but bold
err in the advocacy of their un American
ideas and louder in their fanatical cry
for liberty and the abolishing OF She pri-
uate ownership of land; for example |
their recent almost successful attempt |
to pass single tax bill in the State of |
And they declare they have bright
of controlling, ere long, the
balance OF power in California. Think
Of the spectacle of this fair state in the
heat of party strife, selling its birthright,
placing into the hands OF the hot blood
ed rioting foreigner its most precious
type, the:power OF self gov
A'law maker who has neith-
er learned obedience to law nor the law
Of obedience, That principle to which |
polity owes its stability, life its hapbi-
ness, faith it acceptance, Creation its
There is no liberty but the liberty of
law; the law of liberty, Obedience. But
to them liberty is the same name by
which the luxurious mean license, the |
reckless mean change, the rogue means
rapine, the fool means equality, the
proud mean anarchy, the malignant
mean violence"
1t is high time that every true Amer
lean citizen from east to west should be
not only informed as to their movements |
and nurnospa Int no inte1liUouf1v amin |