The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1904-09-11
The BULLETINS SUNDAY SERMON
BY REV. FRANK DE WITT TALMAoE, D. D.

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find them In the impoverished italian!
and the Bohemians and the Portuguese
and In the human offscourings o.
Europe who each year come to oul
manufacturers and foundrymen anC
contractors and say. let me handle
your pick" Let me lay your asphal
pavement" LET me dig your mines
"Let me chop your wood Let m.
work in your foundries." I'VE are for
eigners. We do not intend to become
citizens Of the United States. AS sooI
as we can save up little money We
intend to return to our native land and
live there. But meantime We will work
cheaper than any American man can
work. Why? Because our living ex.
penses are practically nothing We will
live in dugouts. We will eat food that
no American family would eat. We will
buy no books and will wear the cheap
est clothing AS a result of these con
ditiens of living we can crowd your
American workman to the wall"
Protect American Laborers.
eign competition, must have help, and
help right soon. to save him from this
condition of affairs. Our national leg
islature must give 1t. Shall we lift
high our tariff walls to protect capital
and not at the same time lift high our
walls of immigration laws to protect
our native workers. Is not the Amer
lean laborer's sturdy arm as valuable
In the sight OF our government as the
capitalists pecketbook? What do you
mean by such statement as thatr'
some one asks. Would you start an
other Know Nothing party? Would
your ballot box slogan be American
work only for the American born
American political Offices only to be
held by those Graded under the shad-
peak p" Oh, no, am not preaching
any such political nonsense. do not
believe there ever was a pofitical,party
wrapped ia the sWaddling CLOTHES of
so many errors as that born in 1858,
and which, with ex-Presldent Willard
Fillmore as its presidential candidate,
swept many of our northern states in
1856 with the political cry America
only for the American born" Anerp
can liberties and American prowess
both on land and sea. militarily and in
dustrially, have been won and built
N1 by Americas adopted sons as well
as by her native born children. Were
there not Foreigners among GeQree
mightiest companions in
arms? Baron Johann De kalb, who was
shot at Camden in 1880, and Kosciusko
and Lafayette and many others-they
were all foreign born. Who was the
most valued statesman during Wash
ington's administration next to the
president himself? Alexander Hamil-
ton, who was foreign born. Who was
that reyolutionized naval war
fare and saved the American navy off
Newport News? He was Swedish
he was foreign born. Some
Of our greatest merchants, like At.
Stewart, of New York; our greatest
like Andrew Carnegie OF
Pittsburg; bur greatest scientists, like
Agassiz of Harvard: our social reform
ers, like Jacob A. Riis of New York.
md the most eminent political leaders
Of our day, like Carl Schurz, once sen
ltor from Missouri and member Of
President Hayes cabinet-they were
Ill foreign born. Ii you blot out from
Dur nations history all she deeds which |
Americas foster sons and daughters !
have accomplished for the land of their |
adoption you blot out some of its |
brightest pages.
Where 10 Draw the Line.
But while we. as American citizens,
would welcome gladly into our midst
lie German or Englishman or Scotch
nan or Swedes and the men OF any
foreign nationality who with intelli-
yence would come among us and say,
Brother, give me thy hand, for today
would be one with you and become
IN American citizen" yet today we
would not welcome the ignorant, the
die, the filthy, the pauper, the lazza-
Joni or the criminal offscourings of
europe or Asia, who would come to
his land, not to become American citi-
ems, but TO stay here just long
'nough to scrape together a few thou
and dollars and then go back to the
and of their birth We would not
Welcome the ignorant and dcpfaved Of
oreigR lands. who would underbid our
AmerIcan workmen and compel our
american boys and girls TO live in
ugouts or as rts in cellar as they
i've. These classes have neither part
I0r parcel in the glorious Inheritance
& freedom and equality for which our
fought and bled. While We
you'd gladly open our gates to the
oppressed of other lands, we woeld
hut them against horde that can
ave no appreciation for the precious
Of American citizenship and
10 sympathy with our national aims
nd ambitions. and whose coming Is as
much of menace to our people as tie
loud of locusts is to harvest fed.
'ations, like, individuals, should lie
Use as well as generous In their hos
itality We must protect ourselves
gainst the industrial lOeusts of the ,
ID world by wise and discriminating
Tvs which shall do injustice to none,