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THE BANKElt-WATCTIMAN, ATHENS, GEORGIA -MARCH S, 1889.
hO KNOW-NOTHINGISM.
OR. TALMAGE TALKS ABOUT THE
CRY, "AMERICA FOR AMERICANS”
Bo
to the
Say» It lx Absurd, Contrary
Spirit of American Institutions, and
VnJust—'Who Aro Americans?—Advan
tages of the Influx of Nations.
Brooklyn, March 3.—Dr. Talmage
preached in the Brooklyn Tabernacle
this morning on the subject, “Shall
America be reserved for Americans?”
As his sermons are now translated in
every language of Europe and many
languages of Asia, in his audiences
may be seen persons from many dif
ferent nations. After an exposition
of the scripture ho gave out the hymn:
Arm of the Lord, awaket awake!
Put on thy strength, the nations shake!
Text, Acts xvii, 26: “And hath made
of one blood all nations.” That is, if
for some reason general phlebotomy
were ordered, and standing in a row
were an -American, an Englishman, a
Scotchman and an Irishman, a Freuch-
mnn, a German, a Norwegian, an Ice
lander, a Spaniard, an Italian, a Rus
sian and representatives of all
othirf nationalities bared their right
arm and a lancet were struck into
it, the blood let out would have the
same characteristics, for it would
be red, complex, fibrine^ globu-
!ine, chlorine and containing sul
phuric acid, potassium, phosphate
of magnesia and so on, anil Harvey
and Sir Astley Cooper and Richardson
and Zimmerman and Brown-Sequard
and all the scientific doctors, allopa
thic, homeopathic, hydropathic and
eclectic, would agree witu Paul as,
standing on Mars Hill, his pulpit a
ridge of limestone rock fifty feet liigh
and among the proudest and most ex
clusive and undemocratic people of
the earth lie crashed into all their pre
judices by declaring in the words of
my text that God had made “of one
blood all nations.” The countenance
of the fives races of the human family
may be different as a result of climate
“Go buck I Heaven for the Heaven-
iansl”
WHERE THE ABSURDITY IS UNJUST.
Of course we do well not to allow
foreign irations to make this country a
convict colony. We would have a wall
built as liigh as heaven and as deep as
hell against foreign thieves, pickpock
ets and anarchists. We woula not
let .them wipe their feet on the map
of the outside door of Castle Garden.
If England or Russia or Germany or
•France send here tlieir desperadoes to
i get clear of them, we would have
these desperadoes sent back in chains
to the places where they came from.
We will not have America become the
dumping place for foreign vagabond
ism. But you build up a wall at the
Narrows before New York harbor, or
at the Golden Gate before San Fran
cisco, and forbid the coming of
the industrious and hard work
ing and honest populations of
other lands who want to breathe
the air of our free institutions and get
opportunity for better livelihood, and
it is only a question of time when
God will tumble that wall flat on our
own heads with the red liot thunder
bolts of his omnipotent indignation.
You aro a father and you have five
children. The parlor is the best room
in your house. Your son Philip says
to the other four children, “Now,
John, you live in the small room in
the end of the hall and stay there;
George, you live in the garret and
stay there; Mary, you live in the cel
lar and stay there; Fannie, you live
in the kitchen and stay there. I,
Philip, will take the parlor. It suits
me exactly. I like the pictures on the
wall. I like the lambrequins at the
windows. 1 like the Axminster on
the floor. Now, I, Philip, propose to
occupy this parlor and I command
you to stay out. The parlor only for
Philippians.” You, the father, hear
of this arrangement and what will you
do? You will get red in the face and
say: “John, come out of that small
room at the end of the hall; George,
come down out of the garret; Mary,
come up from the cellar; Fannie, come
out of the kitchen, and go into the
parlor or any where you choose; and,
Ph1 M
way. Politics and governments
affairs being corrected on the other
side of the watersj Ireland under dif
ferent regulation turned into a garden
will invite back another generation of
Irishmen, and the wide wastes of
Russia brought from under despotism
Americans? Are you a Frenchman?
We cannot forget your Lafayette, who
in the most desperate time of our
American revolution, New York sur
rendered and our armies flying m re
treat, espoused our cause and at Bran
dywine and Monmouth and York town
to the rescue of our fathers
back another generation of Russians.
And there will be hundreds of
thousands of Americans every year
settling on the other continents. And
after a number of centuries, all the
earth full and crowded, what then?
Well, at that time some night a pan
ther meteor wandering through the
heavens will put its paw on our world
and stop it, and putting its panther
tooth into the neck of its mountain
Rochambeau and his FYcnch fleet
with six thousand armed men. Are
you a German? We have not forgot
ten the eleven wounds through which
your Baron De Kalb poured out lus
life blood at the head of the Maryland
and Delaware troops in the disastrous
battle at Camden, and after we have
named our streets and our cities and
range will shake it lifeless as the rat counties after him
terner a rat So I have no more fear tithe of what we owe Ge \ . ,
of America being overcrowded,than valor ^
man who made way for religious lib
erty for all lands aud ages? Are you
Polander? How can we forget your
brilliant Count Pulaski, whose bones
laid in Savannah river after a
that the porpoises in the Atlantic
ocean will become so numerous as to
stop shipping.
THB ADVANTAGE OF THE INFLUX OF
NATION8.
It is through mighty addition of for- mQrtal wouud gotten while in the
eign population to our native popula-1 stirrups of one of the fiercest cavalry
tion that I think God is going to fill charg ^ c f the American revolution?
or education or habits, and the
will nmWiiW n rmai* brotherly behavior I put you lor two
hours m the dark closet under the
stairs.” God is the Father of the
human race. He has at least five
will have the projecting upper jaw,
■and the Caucasian the oval face and
small mouth, and tho Ethiopian the
retreating forehead and large lip, mid
tho Mongolian tho flat face of olive
hue, and the American Indian the cop
per colored complexion, but tho blood
is tho same and indicates that they all
had one origin and that Adam and
Eve were their ancestor and ances
tress.
AMERICA IS THE MIXING CALDRON OF
NATIONS.
I think God built this American
continent and organized this United
States republic to demonstrate tho stu-
P endows idea of the texL A mail in
ersia will always remain a Persian,
a man in Switzerland will always re
main a Swiss, a man in Austria will
always remain an Austrian, but all
foreign nationalities coming to Amer
ica were intended to be Americans.
This land is the chemical laboratory
where foreign bloods are to be inex
tricably mixed up and rc.ce prejudices
and race antipathies aro to perish, and
this sermon is an ax by which I hope
to help kill them. It is not hard for me
to preach such a sermon, because, al
though my ancestors came to this
country about two hundred and fifty
years ago, some of them came from
Wales and some from Scotland and
some from Holland and some from
other lands, and I am a mixture of
so many nationalities that I feel
at homo with people from ' uuder
every sky and have a right to call
them blood relations. There are mad
caps and patriotic lunatics in this
country who aro ever and anon crying
out, “America for Americans.” Down
with the Germans 1 Down with the
Irish! Down with tlio Jews! Down
with tho Chinese! are in some direc
tions tho popular cries, all of which
vociferations I would drown out by
the full organ of my text, while I pull
out the stops and put mv foot on the
pedal that will open the loudest pipes,
and run my fingers over all the four
banlcs of ivory keys, playing tho chant,
“God hath made cf ono blood all
nations.”
There aro not five men in this au-
dience } nor five men in any audience
today ui America except it be on an
ludian reservation, who were not de
scended from foreigners if you go far
enough back. Tho only native Amer
icans are the Modocs, the Shawnccs,
the Chippewas, the Clicrokees, the
Chickasaws, the Seminoles and such
like. If the principle America only for
Americans be carried out, then'you
and 1 have no right to be here and we
had better charter all tho steamers aud
clippers and men-of-war and yachts
and sloops and get out of this country
as quick as possible. The Pilgrim
Fathers were all immigrants, the Hu
guenots all immigrants. The cradle
of most every one of our fami
lies was rocked on the bank of the
Clyde or the Rhine or the Shannon
or the Seine or the Tiber. Had the
watchword “America for Americans”
been an early and successful cry,
where now stand our cities would have
stood ludian wigwams, and canoes in
stead of steamers would have tracked
Hie Hudson and the Connecticut; and,
instead of the Mississippi being the
main artery of the continent, it would
have been only a trough for deer and
antelope and wild pigeons to think
out of. What makes the cry of
“America for Americans” the more
absurd and the more inhuman is that
some in this country who themselves
arrived here in their boyhood or ar
rived here only one or two genera
tions back are joining in the cry.
Escaped from foreign despotisms
themselves they sav, “Shut the
door of escape for others.” Getting
themselves on our shores in a life boat
from tho shipwreck saying. Haul the
boat on the beach and let the resLof
the passengers go to the bottom 1 Men
who have yet on them a Scotch or
German or English or Irish brogue
crying- out, America for Americans!
wliat if the native inhabitants of
Ilsaven, I mean the angels, the cheru
bim, the seraphim born there, should
stand in the gate and when they see
us coming up at the last should say:
race.
sons, a North American, a South
American, a European, an Asiatic and
an African. The North American
sniffs the breeze and he says to his four
brothers and sisters: “Let the South
American stay in South America,
let .the European stay in Europe, let
the Asiatic stay in Asia, let the Afri
can stay in Africa; but America is for
me. I think it is the parlor of the
whole earth. I like its carpets of grass
and its upholstery of the front win
dow, namely the American sunrise,
and the upholstery of the back win
dow, namely the American sunset.
Now I want you all to stay out and
keep to your places.” I am sure the
Father of the whole human race would
hear of it and chastisement would
come and, whether by earthquake or
flood or drought or heaven darkening
swarms of locust and grasshopper or
destroying angel of pestilence, God
would rebuke our selfishness as
nation and say to tlio four, winds
of heaven: “This world is my
house and the North American is no
more my child than is tho South
American and the European and the
Asiatic and the African. And I built
this world for all the children, and tho
I iarlor is theirs- and all is theirs.” For,
et mo say, whether we will or not, the
population of other lauds will come
here. There are harbors all' the way
from Baffin’s bay to Galveston, and if
you shut fifty gates there will beother
gates unguarded. And if you forbid
foreigners from coming on tho steam
ers they will tako sailing vessels. And
if you forbid them coming on sailing
yessejs they will come in boats. And
if you will not let them come in boats
they will come on rafts. And if you
will not allow wharfage to the raft
they will leave it outside Sandy
Hook and Swim for f ree America. Stop
them? You might as well pass a law
forbidding a swarm of summer bees
from lighting on the clover top, or
pass a law forbidding tho tides of the
Atlantic to rise when the moon puts
under it silver grappling hooks, or a
law that the noonday sun should not
irradiate tho atmosphere. They have
come. They are coming now. They
will come. And if I had a voice loud
enough to bo heard across the seas I
would put it to the utmost tension and
crVj Let them cornel You stingy,
selfish, shriveled up, blasted souls
who sit before your silver dinner plate
piled up with breast of roast turkey
incarnadined with cranberry, your
fork full and your mouth full and.
cramming down tho superabundance
till your digestive organs are terrorized,
let the millions of your fellow men
have at least the wishing bone.
AMERICA HAS ENOUGH ROOM FOR ALL.
But some of this cry,- America for
Americans, may arise from an honest
fear lest this land bo overcrowded.
Such persons had better take the
Northern Pacific or Union Pacific or
Southern Pacific or Atlantic and Char
lotte air line or Texas and Santa Fe,
and go a long journey and find out
that no more than a tenth part of this
continent is fully cultivated. If a
man with a hundred acres of farm
land should put all his cultivation on
one acre he would bo cultivating a
larger ratio of his farm than our na
tion is now occupying of the national
farm. Pour the whole human race,
Europe, Asia, Africa and all the islands
of the sea, into America and there
would be room to spare. All the
Rocky Mountain barrennesses and
all the other American deserts
are to be fertilized, and as
Salt Lake City and much of Utah
once yielded not a blade of grass now
by artificial irrigation have become
gardens, so a large part of this conti
nent that now is too poor to grow even
.a mullein stalk or a Canada thistle,
will through artificial irrigation like
an Illinois prairie wave with wheat or
U he a Wisconsin farm rustle with corn
tassels. Beside that, after perhaps a
century or two more, when this conti
neat is quite well occupied, the tides
of immigration will turn the other
this land with a race of people 95 per
cent, superior to anything the world
has ever seen. Intermarriage of fam
ilies and intermarriage of nations is
depressing and crippling. Marriage
outside of one’s own nationality and
with another style of nationality is a
mighty gain. What makes the Scotch-
Irish second to no pedigree for brain
and stamina of character, so that blood
goes right up to supreme court bench
and to the front rank in jurisprudence
and merchandise aud art? Because
nothing under heaven can be more
unlike than a Scotchman and an
Irishman and the descendants of these
two conjoined nationalities, unless
rum flings them, go right to the tip
top iu everything. All nationalities
coming to this land the opposites will
all the while be affianced, and French
nnd German will unite and that will
stop all the quarrel between them, and
one child they will call Alsace and
the other Lorraine. And hot blooded
Spaniard will unite with cool blooded
Polander and romantic Italian with
matter of fact Norwegian, and a hun
dred and fifty years from now the race
occupying this land will be in stature,
in purity of complexion, in liquidity
of eye, in gracefulness of poise,
in dome like brow, in taste, in intelli
gence and in morals so far ahead of
anything now known on either side
the seas that this last quarter of the
Nineteenth century will seem to them
like the Dark Ages. Oh, then how
they will legislate and bargain and
pray and preach and govern I This is
the laud where by the mingling of
races the race prejudice is to get its
death blow. How heaven feels about
it we may conclude from the fact that
Christ, the Jew, and descended from a
Jewess, nevertheless provided a reli
gion for all races, and that Paul,
though a Jew, became the chief apos
tle of the Gentiles, and that recently
God has allowed to burst in splendor
upon the attention of the world Hirsch,
the Jew, who after giving ten million
dollars to Christian churches and hos
pitals, has called a committee of na
tions and furnished them with forty
million dollars for schools to elevatehis
race in France and Germany and Rus
sia to higher inteljigence and abolish,
as he says, the prejudices against tlieir
race, these fifty million uollf| n s not
given in a last will and testament and
at a time when a man must leave his
money anyhow, but by donation at
fifty-five years of age and in good
health, utterly eclipsing all benevo
lence since tlio worm was created. I
must confess there was a time when I
entertained race prejudice, but, thanks
to God, that prejudice has gone, and
if 1 sat in church and on one side of
me there was a black man and on the
other side of me was an Indian and be
fore me was a Chinaman and behind
mo a Turk, I would be as happy as I am
now standing in the presence of this
brilliant audience, ana I am as happy
now as I can be and live. The sooner
we get tliis corpse of race prejudice
buried, the licaltliiei# will be our
American atmosphere. Let each
ope ; fetch a spade and let us
dig its grave clear on down deeper
and deeper till we get as far down as
the center of the earth and half way
to China, but no further lest it poison
those living on the other side the earth.
Then into this grave let down the ac
cursed carcass of race prejudice and
throw on it all the mean tilings that
have ever been said and written be
tween Jew and Gentile, between Turk
and Russian, between English and
French, between Mongolian and anti-
Mongolian, between black and white,
and put up over that grave for tomb
stone some scorched and jagged chunk
of scoriae spit out by some volcanic
eruption aud chisel on it for epitaph:
“Here lies the carcass of one wlie
cursed the world. Aged, near six
thousand years. Departed this life for
tho perdition from whence it came.
No peace to its ashes!”
A RATIONAL VIEW OF THE CASE.
Now, in view of this subject, I have
two point blank words to utter, one
suggesting what foreigners ought to
do for us, and the other what we ought
to do for foreigners. First, to foreign
ers. _ Lay aside all apologetic air and
realize you have as much right as any
man who was not only himself born
here but liis father and his grandfather
and great-grandfather before him.
Are you an Englishman? Though
during the revolutionary war your
fathers treated our fathers roughly,
England has more than atoned for that
by giving to this country at least two
denominations of Christians, the
Church of England and the Methodist
church. Witness tho magnificent
liturgy of' the one and the Wesleyan
hallelujahs of the other. And who
shall ever pay England for what
Shakespeare and John Milton and
Wordsworth and a thousand other
authors have done for America? Are
J ou a Scotchman? Thanks for
olra Knox’s Presbyterianism; the
balance wheel of all other de
nominations. And how shall Amer
icans ever pay your native land for
what Thomas Chalmers and Macin
tosh mid Robert Bums and Christo
pher North and Robert McCheynoand
Candlish and Guthrie have done for
But with no time to particularize I say,
“All bail to the men and women of
other lands who come here with hon
est purpose I” Renounce all obligation
to foreign despots. Take the oath of
American- allegiance. Get out your
naturalization papers. Don’t talk
against our institutions, for the fact
that you camo here and stay shows
that you like ours better than any
other. If you don’t like them there are
steamers going out of our ports almost
every day, and the fare is cheap and,
lest you should be detained for part
ing civilities, I bid you good-by now.
But if you like it here, then I charge
you, at the ballot box, in legislative
fonts and all our mountains altars of
praise and all our valleys amphithea
tres of worship, and our country,
having become fifty nations consoli
dated in one, may its every heart
throb be a pulsation of gratitude to
him who niado “of one blood all na
tions” and ransomed that blood by the
payment of tho last drop of his own.
JOHN WANAMAKER’S KITCHEN.
It Is an Appetizer. an«I Is Especially
Noted Tor Fine Mince Hies.
John Wanamaker has one of the
biggest kitchens in the world. It is
in the basement of his Philadelphia
store, where no rats aro tolerated and
no dampness is permitted to ncnctrate.
Wanamaker takes great priuo in this
kitchen, as he does in everything con
nected with his store. Often he goes
down to tho big steam cooking pans,
lifts tho lid, tastes the soup, peeps at
boiling potatoes, or inspects the little
porcelain pan in which the charlotte
russc is served. Wanamaker is noted
for his rich charlotte russe, and the
delicacy is made from a recipe fur
nished the chief cook by Wanamaker
himself. Wanamaker likes to take
visitors through his kitchen and ask
them to sample the food in all its
stages of preparation. His is one of
the few great kitchens in the world
which a man may go through and
coriie out' with a good appetite.
Wanamaker’s kitchen is actually an
appetizer. The great merchant is
never so happy as when running a
knife into the Lancaster county but
ter and passing it around for visitors
to taste. In Wanamaker’s restaurant
from 4,000 to 8,000 persons are fed
every day, and Wanamaker is not too
proud to lunch iu his own shop. In
summer he makes and sells there 3,000
quarts of ice cream daily, and in oys
% • ; r , • w x quuruj ui iw urciuji uanv. uuu m vya*
hall, in churches and everywhere be ( terseason fries 30,000 oysters. Wana-
out and out Americans. Do not try
to establish here the loose foreigu Sab
baths or transcendentalism spun into
a religion of mush and moonshine, or
foreign libertinism or that condensa
tion of all thievery, scoundrelism, lust,
murder and perdition which in Russia
is called Nihilism and in France called
Communism and in America called
Anarchism. Unite with us in making
by the grace of God the fifteen million
square miles of America on both sides
the Isthmus of Panama the paradise
of virtue and religion.
GIVE THE FOREIGNERS INFORMATION
ABOUT AMERICA.
My other word suggests what Ameri
cans* ought to do for foreigners. By
all possible means explain to them our
institutions. Coming here, the vast
majority of them know about as much
concerning republican or democratic
form of government as you in the
United States know about politics of
Denmark or France or Italy or Swit
zerland, namely nothing. Explain to
them that liberty iu this country means
liberty to do right, but not liberty to
do wrong. Never in their presence
say anything against their native laud,
for, no matter how much they may
maker knows his trade and caters to it
os carefully as an apple woman on the
street corner. That is the way he be
came rich.
An instance of this is to bo found in
the orders he once gave his restaurant
manager about mince pies. <*Have
only the best mince pies that money
will buy,” he said, “even if you have
to sell at a loss. I can afford to sink
$10,000 a year in mince pies rather
han have people say I do not give
them good pies. The peoplo of Pliila-
delplna can't bo fooled on mince pies.”
Neither can Wanamaker, and with his
usual carefulness in seeing that all his
orders are earned out to the letter it
was for a long time his custom to slip
downstairs and sample the pie every
day. Wanamaker is now famous for
his mince pics.
When Wanamaker first started up
his restaurant, then a much smaller
S laco than it now is, his manager or-
ered 200 dozen assorted pies in antici
pation of a big run by the Philadel
phians on their favorite pastry. But the
customers were scarce the next day,
and when the store closed 197 dozen pies
were still on hand. The restaurant
manager was in consternation. He
have been oppressed there, in that at once sought Wanamaker, whom he
native laud there are sacred places,
cabins or mansions around whose
doors they played and perhaps some
where there is a grave into which they
would like, when life’s toils are over,
to bo- let flown, for it is mother’s
grave and it would be like going
again into the loving arms that
first held them and against
•the bosom that first pillowed them.
My! my! how low down a man must
have descended to have no regard for
the place where liis cradle was rocked.
Don’t mock their brogue or their
stumbling attempts at the hardest of
all languages to learn, namely the
English language. I warrant that
they speak English as well as you
could talk Scandinavian. Treat them
America as you would like to be
treated if for the sake of your honest
principles or a better livelihood for
yourself or your family you had
moved under the shadow of Jungfrau,
or the Rigi, or the Giant’s Causeway,
or tho .Bohemia Forest, or tho Fran
conian Jura. If they get homesick,
as some of them are, suggest to them
that God is as uear to help them hero
as lie was near them before they
crossed the Atlantic, and that
the soul’s final flight is less
than a second whether from the
beach of the Caspian sea or the banks
of Lake Erie. Evangelize tlieir adults
through the 'churches and their chil
dren through the schools and let home
missions and tract societies and the
Bible translated iu all the languages of
these foreign people have full swing.
Rejoice as Christian patriots that in
stead of being an clement of weakness
the foreign people thoroughly evan
gelized will be our mightiest defense
against all the world. The congress
•of the United States recently ordered
found in his office after all the em
ployes had gone home. “Are the pies
still good?” asked the great merchant
after listening to the manager’s story.
“Yes; they will be good all day to
morrow, but not after that.” ‘‘Well,
then,” said Wanamaker, “put an ad
vertisement in every morning paper
to-morrow announcing that for t
day only we will sell choice, fresh
pies at a cent a cut. See what that
will do.” Next morning the Phila
delphians read Wanamaker’s pie ad
vertisements and by nightfall there
was not a piece of pie left in tlio house.
In telling this story Manager Gillam
added: “That is tho way with Wana
maker. He will have only the best
that is to be had, and when the goods
won’t move he makes them move.”—
Cor. Chicago Tribune.
• A Dream Realized.
I am not “a believer in dreams” in
the common acceptance of the term,
but I have recently liad an experience
that, to say the least, was remarkable.
I will relate” it simply as a matter of
fact, not as an argument Few people
in St. Louis have entirely forgotten the
famous Reily tragedy, Which occurred
’about five years ago. George Reily, a
river pilot, killed his wife and then
committed suicide. I was an old time
friend of Reily, and was at his bedside
before he died, and while he was suf
fering from the self inflicted wounds.
I attended his funeral and have cher
ished his memory as that of an un
fortunate friend. Thomas D. Freeman,
of Monroe City, Mo., was a long time
friend of both myself and Mr. Reily.
On the 10th of January last, while
taking my morning nap, I dreamed
that George Reily came to trie and told
WASHINGTON S 0l |
Appropriation Bills p as <
The President Talks ^
WISCONSIN RUFfuj.
TACKS A LADY.
BrandUhes a Knife and Crl©, ^
will Have My *evengei— A j, t ''
vlct Attempt* to Knife a Ward„
Shot l>y,the Latter—The Do»u, ^ '
Wife. H
Washington, D. C., Fob. 28 t J
house to-day the senate bill for «
tection of the salmon fi beries i n V
was passed with an amendment
senate bill for the erection of a
building at Kalamazoo,
passed. It appropriates $75,000. ’
The senate passed a number of
bills. W ith slight amendments th
ogjce appropriation bill was pass*
senate then took up the confeimJ
port on the interstate commerce bi^*
The Herald’s Washington con
ent reports that he has had a L,
interesting talk with President”
land. The correspondent led aZ
versa tion to subjects bearing onth
ture prospects of the republic and!,
the president, with the utmost fn
ness, said: ;
“I am a democrat with all
implies. I am, moreover, a
democrat, in that I believe tha
principles of the democratic
essential to the well-being of t^'i
try. During the war," he added
republican party had
and unquestionable control of
public policy. No one will qua
the service it rendered at that thatt
But the rank and file of the arm:
composed largely of democrat*. 1
generals who won renown are also n.
of them democrats. While there v
among the republicans a small min
of hot-heads who found fault wit
Lincoln administration, andamout
ocrats an equal number of fossils,.
timidity was a national misfortune!
great bulk of the people frome ' 1
west, without respect to part/
tions, were solidly patriotic an<
for any necessary amount of sacrifice!
the preservation of their institutions,]
is folly to claim that the war,was f
by either republicans or ‘d.moi
it was fought by the
citizens of the north. But it is pit
he said with treat seriousness, "th.
der republican administration^,
has been given a fresh and dans
impetus to monopolies, trusts ana
bines. Immense fortunes have bs.nl
cumulated, unknown in the days ofcj
fathers. They are a peculiarity of y
helium times, and the control
they arbitrarily exerci e over the c
existence is a direct menace to th
fare of our workingmen and our
era.”
The party, the president decli
which willingly encourages these I
tendencies is not worthy to bee
party of the people. As, a democrat^
president believes strongly iu thee
and has very large sympathy
working classes. Whatever ini
with their interests interferes wi
great majority of our citizens.
‘‘NOW, MY REVENGE 1»
An Unknown Ruffian Attacks a Younjll
With a Knife.
Superior, Wis., Feb. 2 a .—Anatf
was made last night to murder]
Maggie Walter, a highly rev
young lady of this city. At 0:31
her room to go to supper. As
going down stairs she met ai
man, who remarked: “Now I wil
revenge,” and struck her with a dag
inflicting a deep cut in her shoulder.
The man fled, and the young laiy^
picked up in an unconscious coni
She partially recovered about 8 o’c
but was unable to give the slighter
to her assailant. Suspicion rests i.
man who formerly boarded with]
Walter family, and with whom!
Walter , had some disagreement,
young lady will recover, batph/cj
say that her injuries may result f
sanity.
A DESPERATE CONVICT.
. n . . . „ , y ——j me that Freeman had died at 4 o’clock
built new forts all up and down our that morning. I told my wife of my
American coasts, and a new navy is dream, but as we had not heard that
about to be preiected. But let mo say “ —
that three hundred million dollars ex
pended in coast defense will not bo so
mighty as a vast foreign population
living in America. With hundreds
of thousands of Germans in New
York, Germany would as soon think
of bombshelling Berlin as attack
ing us. With hundreds of thousands
of Frenchmen in New York, France
would as soon think of firing on -Paris.
With hundreds of thousands of .Eng
lishmen in New York, England would
as soon think of destroying London.
The mightiest defense against Euro
pean nations is a wall of Europeans
reaching all up and down the Ameri
can continent, a wall of heads and
hearts consecrated to free government.
A bulwark of foreign humanity heaved
up all along our shores, re-enforced
by the Atlantic ocean, armed as it is
with tempests and Caribbean whirl
winds and giant billows ready to fling
mountains from their catapault, we
need as a nation fear no one iu the
universe but God, and if found in his
service we need not fear him. As six
hundred million people will yet sit
down at our national table, let God
preside. To him be dedicated the
metal of our mines, the sheaves of our
harvest fields, the fruits of our orch
ards, the fabrics of our manufactories,
the telescopes of our observatories, the
volumes of our libraries, the songsof our
churelies, the affections of our hearts,
and all our lakes become baptismal
Mr. Freeman was ill we thought little'
of it. On the 17th of January I re
ceived a paper from Monroe City con
taining a notice of the death of Mr.
Freeman, which I subsequently learned
had occurred on the very day aud
at the very hour I had dreamed. Mr.
Freeman was assistant postmaster at
Monroe City when he died.—Cor.
G lobe-Democrat.
A Senegambian Verdict.
’Rastus Johnson (colored gentleman
of. leisure)—What’s dis I year’bout
marry-ago bein' a fale-yah? Who’s
’sponsible fur dat sayin’?
Pete Pullback (meekly)—Dat's what
dey all say, ’Rastus. v,
’Rastus J.—Dey all lies, deni Doan’
I know wliat I’m a-talkin’ ’bout?
Wasn’t I a toilin’ and a slavin’ pusson
till I became the odder half ob Celia
Tucker? An’ now ain’t I de boss ob
my own home? Can’t I sit ’roun’ an*
play de banjo and ’courage Celia wid
de washin’, an’ not keer wliedder de
white washin’ season am good or bad?
Celia can git two dollahs a day at do
tub. No, sah, marry-age am not a
fale-yah.—Pittsburg Bulletin.
The property of tlie Metropolitan
Museum of Art, in New York, is worth
$2,272,705, and recent donations by
Mrs. J. \Y. Drexel and H. C. Mar-
quand will swell this sum to three
millions.
He Attempt* to Knife a Deputy
is Shot by the Latter.
Fort Madison, la., Feb. 23-
Emerson, a mulatto, sent here i
tawattumie county in 1887, to s
three years’ sentence for burglary, 1
shot and killed, in the penitentia
Eme son had been an unruly p«
from the day of his arrival. For
misdemeanor he was given a®
dark cell. On a promise, howevtt]
he would go to work, he was tra" "
to his own quarters. The next i
when his door was unlocked!
to come out. Tho guard so rep
reputy Warden Townsend,
went to the cell, and, after
endeavoring to persuade the prison
obey orders, started into the
him. Emerson rushed for I
with a knife which he had cone
his person, and the deputy warden"
his revolver and fired. The ball*
the convict in the groin
from los3 of blood shortly afterwa
WHITMER’S WIFE DEAD.
The Relict of the Last Witness of
moui “Book of Mormon."
Richmond, Mo., Feb. 28.—3b 3 - 1
A. Whitmer, widow of the lal®^
Whitmer, the last “witness’
“Book of Mormon,” died at her re ^
in Richmond on Tuesday, Februij
at 9:15 o’clock, at the age of 75'
She was married to David
an the 9th day of January, 1831,
ette county, N. Y. In 1838 she®
with her husband to Richmond,^
she has since resided. She w*"
children, David J. Whitmer
A. Schuerch, who reside in w c
and two g and children, Geo
Schuerch, of Richmond, and J *“
R. B. Vancleve, of Chi ago.
bond died on the 25th day of
1888. . , |
Her remains will be burW"
those cf her husband to-morro''
ing at 10 o'clock. ______
The'proposed combination of
nongahela river coal operate*
likely to le successful.