Mountain advocate. (Barbourville, Ky.) 1904-1935, 1914-05-15

does not know that they came
across from England a little over
four hundred years ago, and some
of them landed up here in our
border State at jamestown. Va,
and they have been coming ever
since; your ancestors and mine
came with them, or have come
since, why did they come? To
seek for freedom and happiness,
and by their industry and brav-
cry they carved from a wilder
ness, for US. one of the sweetest
homes this side of heaven.
In q true sense we are all inn
migrants from the old country
who have come abroad, and set
up a government superior TO any
other upon the globe; one that
speaks freedom from her noun
tain heights which is heard across
the sea. The people over there
wonder at it, they imagine the
United States to be the next
place to heaven, which it is, and
they long to be in this land of
freedom which their ancestors,
as well as ours, founded and paid
the price of blood for it.
Honorable Judges, ladies and
gentlemen, | say let us not be
selfish, let us welcome our guest,
our friends, our kinsman, as old
SamOset, the savage Indian, well
coined the pilgrims four hundred
years ago; as you all know, his
cries were Welcome. English,
Welcome" for it would not do
for us to shut ourselves up from
the friendly ties of brotherly
love to the world, we are honored
by the world abroad, by every
tribe and every nation, for our
humane principle, and what
would the world say of us if we
should lock our ports on them?
They would cry America,
America, why do you do this?
Has not your constitution said
heretofore that we may come and
throw off our allegiance and be-
come American citizens? Why
do you refuse us now? You have
welcomed our friends, our kins-
men, and they have fought to
help you gain your freedom, and
they have told us Of your cOun-
try, they have said it was a free
country, why do you lock your
doors on us and then send us
missionaries SO that We may meet
you around the throne?
Be it far from me To argue any
thing that is untrue, hu each
and every one OF you know.
we'll as ! know, that o.
did not intend any such state OF
affairs to exist, for We have got
to be friendly, Obedient and not
slow To entertain strangers here
in this temporary life, which is
only a suburb of life immortal.
My honorable opponents may
think ! am out of reason on this
subject, but | am only arguing it
from a humane principle, one
that will stand, one that has
never been turned down, one
that never will be turned down,
know how my honorable OPP
ponents felt, and feel about this
subject, though it stood them in
hand to do the best they could
with their side of it, but If 1,
looked as much like a foreigner
as they do | would not be guilty
Of arguing against immigration,
| truly do not believe that their
ancestors have been over here
more than a hundred years, and
if immigration had been prohib-
tied one hundred years ago it
would have deprived even them
of being free American citizens,
and no doubt some of you back
in the audience, and Il do know
one thing it would have cut the
Dutch" out of me. | am sur
prised at my honorable oppo-
nents for getting up here before
you intelligent people and argu-
ing that Immigration should be
prohibited, that is, cut out en-
tirely, | do not say they diu not
know better, but they thought
they would pull u blind fold over
your eyes, and make you judges
say Eyes, we will stop immigra-
ton; We will lock ourselves up
here in these fOrty-eight states
aud make the world abroad our
enemy" which it would do. DO
you say it, repeat it Honorable
Judges. do you say it? No. each
aud every one of you know that
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