Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1899-06-02

plagnes No German.c divisions The
people of the United States are happier
than any people on earth. 1t is the tes-
timony Ct every man that has travelled
abroad For the poor more sympathy,
for the industrious more opportunity
Oh. how good God was TO our fathers
and how good he has been to MS and
our children To him-blessed be his
mighty name-to him of cross and tri-
umph. to him who still remembers the
prayer of the Huguenots and Holland
refugees and the pilgrim fathers. to
him shall this land be married Oh,
you Christian patriots, by your con
tributions and your prayers. hasten on
the fulfillment Of the text
The Immigration Question.
We have been turning an important
leaf in the mighty tome of our national
history One year at the gates of this
continent over 500, 600 emigrants arriv-
ed. was told by the commissioners Of
emigration that the probability was
that in that one year 600. 900 emigrants
would arrive at the different gates Of
commerce. Who were they2 the pau
pers Of Europe1 No. At Kansas City. l
was told by a gentleman, who had op-
portunity for large investigation, that
a great multitude had gone through
there, averaging in worldly estate $500.
| was told by an officer of the govern
ment, who had opportunity for anthem
tic investigation, that thousands and
thousands had gone. averaging $1,000
in possession each | was told by the
commission Of emigration that 20 fami
lies that had recently arrived brought
$50. 600 with them. Mark you. fami-
lies not tramps. Additions to the ma
tional wealth. not subtractions there
from / saw some Of them reading their
Bibles and their hymn books thanking
God for his kindness in helping them
cross the sea. Some Of them had Christ
in the steerage all across the waves.
and they will have Christ in the raj!
trains which at O'Clock every after
noon start for the great west. They are
being taken by the commission of emf
grafton in New York. taken from the
vessels, protected from the Shylocks
and the sharper, and in the name Of
God and humanity passed on to their
destination, and there they will turn
your wildernesses into gardens, if You
will build for them churches and estab-
li-h for them schools and send to them
Cbri tiau missionaries.
Arc you afraid this continent is 90
ing TO De overcrowded with this popn-
hltion? Alb. that shows you have not
been TO California, that shows you have
not been TO Oregon, that shows that
you have not been to Texas. \ fishing
smack today on Lake Ontario might as
well be afraid Of being crowded hy
other shipping before night as for any
one Of the next ten generations of
Americans TO be afraid Of being over
crowded by foreign populations in this
country. The one state of Texas is far
larger than all the Austrian empire,
yet the Austrian empire supports 30.
coo 600 people The one state Of Texas
is larger than all France and France
supports 5000, 600 people. The one
state Of Texas far surpasses in size the
Germanic empire, yet the Germanic
empire supports 41.0OO, coo people. !
tell yon the great want Of the western
STATES is more population.
While some people may stand at the
gates Of the city. saying, stay back
to foreign populations, | press ont as
far beyond those gates as / can press
ont beyond them and heckon to foreign
nations, saying, "Come, come, all ye
people who are honest and industrious
and God lOvingI But say you. Il am
so afraid that they will bring their
prejudices for foreign governments and
plant them here " Absurd. They are
sick Of the governments that have op-
pressed them and they want free Amer
Tea Give them the great gospel of vel
come Throw around them all Christian
hospitalities They will add their in
dustry aad hard earned wages TO this
country. and then we will dedicate all
20 Christ and "thy land shall be mar
ried. But where shall the marriage
altar bo1 Let it be the Rocky noun
tains when. through artificial and
mighty irrigation all their tops shall
be covered, as they will be, with vine
yards and orchards and grainhelds.
Then let the Bostons and the New Yorks
and the Charlestons Of the Pacific coast
come to the marriage altar on one side,
and then let the Bostons and the New
Yorks and the Charlestons of the At
lantic coast come to the marriage altar
on the other side, and there between
them let this bride Of nations kneel,
and then if the organ Of the lOudest
thuuders that ever shook the Sierra
Nevadas on the one side or moved the
foundations Of the Alleghanies on the
other side should open full diapasOn OF
wedding march that organ Of thunders
could not drown the voice Of him who
would take the hand Of this bride OF
nations. saying. "As bridegroom re-
ioiceth over a bride, so thy God rejoic-
eth over thee. At that marriage bun
auet the platters shall be of Nevada sill
yer. and the chalices Of California gold,
and the fruits Of northern orchards, and
the spices Of southern groves, and the
tapestry of American manufacture. and
the congratulations from all the free
nations Of earth and from all the tri-
umphant armies Of heaven. "And so
thy land shall be married.