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Show The Greiit Saus&ae Machine. What ah immense sausage machine the United ' !i States is, to be sure. You do not believe it? Well, come to Bills Island first and take a look. Did you oveu see the raw material in so many forms? Look at them as they disembark. See from that German Lloyd steamer. That crowd came from southern Europe Italians, Greeks, ' Slav, simple peasants some, beggars some, a vgood many thieves, while some are of the canaille and are meditating possible murders even now. Most of them will stop in the big cities and fester there. 1 Some of th-em will be playing hand organs day I after tomorrow and learning the ways of the strange new land. This steamer over the way is a Hamburg liner. Most of its people are Germans, Ger-mans, though mixed in with them are some Rus- l sians. The Germans know where they are going. ' Thoy will not stop in the big cities. The chances are that this day next week thoy will all be in some ' colony of their countrymen in Missouri or Wis- consln and will be telling of all the old neighbors whom they left in the Fatherland and of Uiobo who will come out next year. Over acrosB is a British ship from Stockholm. There are the fair-haired fair-haired ones whoso great-grandfathers were Norsemen Norse-men and whOB fathers fought under Gustave Adolphus, and their brain and brawn will be felt in the lirvest fields of Minnesota and the Da-i Da-i kotas next summer. The big ship over to the loft is from Liver- pool and the jolly crowd that is thronging down ; ' upon the wharf are Irish boys. Note the two in advance. They have been Americans over since thoy learned that their grandfather shot a landlord land-lord and one of their uncles killed an "informer." Come back here in three years and you will find one of them a policeman. Ask him where his running mate that he had when he "came over" is, and he will, tell you he is the night shift foreman on an Idaho mine. Look around! There are nationalities enough to start a world. There are fair men and dark, fair girls and dark. So far it is a mystery with them all; the picture is ever dissolving and a new one forms every day; they gather there daily and daily wend their way inland in-land to merge with the resident host that for three thousand miles stretch away to the west, j even to the western ocean. Last year on every i I week day a wave of three thousand of them was ! thrown upon that shore. (And you do not see where the simile of the sausage machine comes in? Well, you are dull, sure enough. None of them are Americans, are they? Well, go and look for them ten year hence and see what you will find. Suppose that pretty German girl that is tripping down the plank happens next year to marry the English lad I who is offering to carry her bundle, what will they ; be five years hence? You say, "An English man and a German woman." Will they? What will I their babies be then? All Americans, will they i not? Do you see that Italian family over the !; other way? Suppose the older girl goes to Den ver and marries a Russlon, what will their chil-' chil-' dren be? :j You think you are pretty much of an Ameri- can, but where did you come from? I saw your son last night at the theatre tossing a bouquet to a charming French songstress, and noted this morning that he was studying a French dictionary. diction-ary. Are you sure that all your grandchildren are going to be Americans of pure lineage? Don't you see that a hundred races are all the time it passing through the hopper of this machine into which they alt- indistinguishable a they are fed .through,, but all -oiir thing as thoy emerge? All itafterlofy all ready to flglifc for native land? AH r&dy folWomo pollcfrtnw or-rllde1nts; ttll gjj'otbUiif ? on tongue; till aflamd. With enthusiasm Ifer & Jjjpl where the opportunities; ar& open to all alilto,' and all swoarfng by the flag that in one hundred and thirty Tw's, from nothing has made a light to lighten the world. |