. Social Dynamite: The Wickedness of Modern Society from the Discources of T. De Witt Talmage . from alighting on a fieldof blossoming buckwheat, you might as well prohibit thestags of the mountains from coming down to the deer lick,as to prohibit the hunger-bitten nations of Europe fromcoming to this land of bread, as to prohibit the people ofEngland, Ireland, Scotland, Norway, Sweden, and Germany,working themselves to death on small wages on the otherside the sea, from coming to this land, where there are the MORMONISM. 117 largest compensations under the sun. Why did God spreadout the prair
. Social Dynamite: The Wickedness of Modern Society from the Discources of T. De Witt Talmage . from alighting on a fieldof blossoming buckwheat, you might as well prohibit thestags of the mountains from coming down to the deer lick,as to prohibit the hunger-bitten nations of Europe fromcoming to this land of bread, as to prohibit the people ofEngland, Ireland, Scotland, Norway, Sweden, and Germany,working themselves to death on small wages on the otherside the sea, from coming to this land, where there are the MORMONISM. 117 largest compensations under the sun. Why did God spreadout the prairies of Dakota, and roll the precious ore intoColorado? It was that all the earth might come and plow,and come and dig. Just as long as the centrifugal force offoreign despotisms throw them off, just so long will thecentripetal force of American institutions draw them here. Andthat is what is going to make this the mightiestnation of the earth. Intermarriage of nationalities. Notcircle intermarrying circle, and nation intermarrying nation,but is going to be Italian and Norwegian, Eussian and. TOO NUMEROUS TO MENTION. Celt, Scotch and French, English and American. TheAmerican of a hundred years from now is to be differentfrom the American of to-day. German brain, Irish wit,French civility, Scotch firmness, English loyalty, Italianaesthetics packed into one man, and he an American. It isthis intermarriage of nationalities that is going to make theAmerican race the mightiest race of the ages. Now, I say,in Gods name let them come. But what are we doing for the moral and intellectualculture of the half million of foreigners who came in one 118 MOKMONISM. year, and the six hundred thousand who came in anotheryear, and the eight hundred thousand who came in anotheryear, and the million who came into our various Americanports. What are we doing for them? Well, we are doinga great deal for them. We steal their baggage as soon asthey get ashore! We send them up to a boarding-housewhere t
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