Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1899-05-29
at in that one wear 600, GOO emigrants

that in that one year 600, GOO emigrants
would arrive at the different gates Of
commerce. Who were they? the pau
pers of Europe2 No. At Kansas City,
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 authen-
tic investigation, that thousands and
thousands had gone, averaging $1,000
in possession each. ] was told by the
commission of emigration that 90 fami-
lies that had recently arrived brought
$S5, 600 with them. Mark you, fami-
lies, not tramps. Additions to the ma
tional wealth, not subtractions there
from I 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 rail
trains which at o'clock every after
noon start for the great west. They are
being taken by the commission Of emil
grafton in New York, taken from the
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
lish for them schools and send to them
Christian missionaries.
Are you afraid this continent is 60
ing to be overcrowded with this popu-
lation2 All, 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. A fishing
smack today on Lake Ontario might as
well be afraid of being crowded by
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 3d.
900, 600 people. The one state of Texas
is larger than all France and France
supports 36, 100000 people. The one
state of Texas far surpasses in size the
Germanic empire, yet the Germanic
empire supports Al, 600, 600 people. 1
tell you the great want of the western
states is more population.
While some people may stand at the
gates of the city, saying, "Stay backP"
to foreign populations, press out as
far beyond those gates as I can press
out beyond them and beckon to foreign
nations, saying, "Come, come, all ye
people who are honest and Industrious
and God lovingp' But say you, 81 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 OPP
pressed them and they want free Amer
ica Give them the great gospel of well
come. Throw around them all Christian
Inequalities. They will add their in
dustry and hard earned wages to this
country, and then we will dedicate all
to Christ and ''thy land shall be mar
ried" But where shall the marriage
altar be? 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 grainfelds.
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
thunders 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, GAS a bridegroom re-
joiceth over a bride, so thy God rejoic-
eth over thee" At that marriage ban
quet the platters shall be of Nevada sill
ver 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.