The Monte Vista journal., 1898-03-19
MYRoN REEDS SERMON.

DenVers Maech 1.-THE subject 0l
Rev. Myron W. Reeds address Mt tn.
Broadway theater yesterday morning
was THE Annexation Question. Quail
y and Not Quantity" He spoke u
follows:
We have been In too much Of hurry
to I'LL up the UnIted States. You own
a vacant lot. You can unload on II
broken bottles and garbage and dead
dogs. but 1t u NOT wise. The people
who migrated to this country in the
earlier days We're fair lot. America
In 1915 had good population. Bu,
now you look at the people landed In
New York. Not one In ten of them will
ever make an American, The cren.
ture, rs l look ut him. Is over here to
cntch another mans job. 1t is time now
to select. We have TOO many Of the
undesirable. l do no. wish the discon.
tent OF all Europe to be loosed on this
country. We have discomfort enough
OF our own.
sam Adams, Joseph Warren and the
men OF that clan did not migrate. They
did not peddle this discomfort. Let
every people tnke their medicine. If
they are hit to be free. let them work 1t
out. Freedom that Is conferred on
people does not amount to anything.
You cannot make a slave free unless
ne consents-unlexs he helps believe
In war as believe in calomel-take It
now and then about once in ten years.
The national product Of American
children is enough just now. The
country Is well filed. can pick out
men and women to export.
l object to filllrS this country with a
parcel Of "dregs OF II calm world and
long pcace.'
smut up the discomfort In Europe and
let them fight their own battles out. l
nave seen good fire put out by big
armful OF green wood. Attend to your
own discontent-"tell your troubles to
n policeman"
do not know who invented that,
nut II Is good. II had my way
would close our ports right now. No
more migration Of any kind OF people
nat Is the use OF coming over here?
My boy writes me that he lives better
In Belgium than he can In Colorado for
the same money. He IL boy that
writes the thing ns he sees 1t.
We do not really need any more ter.
ritory Tnke a horseback ride from
Kansas City to Hot Springs, Arkan-
sas. There II n whole range OF coun.
try. One OF those Ozark mOuntaineers
Will not settle there for money. They
are n great people. You insult one OF
them and on goes the top OF your head.
They are nice people to he with. All
these people Of east Tennessee and the
ozark mountains Hre poor but they are
Americans
l was born In Vermont. bu. the ma
)oriiy OF the Americans today live
south OF the Ohio river There il the
native blood Of the country. Nin,y-six
per cent. OF 1t Is undiluted I do no.
object to some OF the people who come
over here TO live with us. The Scandi-
navlan Is our cousin. He IL n little too
melancholy In his song The German
contributes to the nations life. He
has wonderfully tempered the New
England Puritan misery-the nations
conscience OF the Atlantic coast.
Assisted migration ought now to
cease. Among the names of the lately
murdered men In Pennsylvanla-mur-
dered by a sheriff. could not find an
American name. Those people are not
to blame: they have been iurcd over
the ocean.
Evidently we have too many people.
Under the question OF food for wife
and babies people become towards on
election day.
And now II Is proposed to annex
eight Islands In the Pacific ocean.
Whnt do we want of any more folks.
i believe In home rule. Ireland can
govern Itself all right. II governs
New York and Boston. The natives
OF the Sandwich islands We're all right
until Captain Cook discovered them
. Ill 10. ~.
were not acquainted with. | cannot
mention them. Captain Cook made n
mistake. He permitted them To call
him II god. Wen. II he was n god he
was not Immortal. and they Went nj
him with clubs and he discovered that
he was mortal No one ought 10 IN.
rndc as "A god unless he can stand
hardship. Captain Cook made n fail
urc OF IL. The population Of the sand.
wich islands a little more than n hun.
dred years ago was estimated mt 400.
un. The natives now are less thnn
W'on. Touched by civilization they
hnv" died like tlies In n drug store.
lhey We're fine, gentle race OF peo-
pie. Rcnd Two Years Before the
Mast. Their word Of saiu,ation Is II
love you. Aloha" There nre also b..
Sides thes" natives. swiftly dying. o5.-
hn Japanese and Chinese. I5.ND Eng.
iIsh. American. French. Portuguese ad-
N'ntur"rs. What gain In taking into
the American constitution this monde.
script miAturci There arr about l.:ao
i"p"r> over there. Why annex icp-
rosy: Thcr. is an article In n maya.
zine under that title.
] have enough to bother me without
That. II thcs. islands come I'm, Cuba
nnd Jnmnica and Costa RIca and the
Sandwich leroup. they must In. r,nrr.
srht"d. We have enough houscwork
oi our own nj present. We submit 10
u" spit upon by n nation thar Inns
done no good for ono years. What In.
Mn,ion. what hook has come from
spain IN hundred years? CASTELAR,
mas said some good things. but he Ii
essentially mn American born by some
accident on the wrong side Of the
ocean.
Let us settle our home questions. I
do not and viii not forgive the fnct
mat several men and women and n
baby were Killed In Colorado and thcr,.
hns been no trial for murder. There
WIS n committee Of Investigation.
When white man is killed In Colo.
fndo committee Of Investigation set.
Ties nothing. lie In tried. acquitted or
sentenced. Here In 4 innd OF Indians
bm'cllercd by n lot Of towards. Moth.
Ing done nbout II. Now all these
chickens come back 10 roost. Commit.
tees nr" not authorised TO try n tnur
hcrcr. ] do not cnrc whether n man
IL red. white. black or yellow. Until
those thieves and mur,i"rcrs I'm Routt