The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1886-10-16 00:00:00

CELTS GETTING UPPERMOST.

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Whatever we may think of Mr. Gladstone's politi-
cal morality, says the Graphic, he is a keen observer
of the signs of the times, and he perceives, to borrow
the language of the share market, that Colts are buoy-
ant while Anglo-Saxons have a downward tendency.
We use the words Celt and Saxon in the loose popular
sense, for in reality the co oallad Irish Celt is a being
of very mingled lineage. The point to which we here
desire to call attention is this. Till quite of late years,
the Anglo-Saxon element, though far inferior in num-
bers, held undoubted, though not always undisputed,
sway, both in Ireland, Wales, and the Scottish High-
lands. Gradually, however, the Celts have been
Elowly winning back their independence. Ireland
set the example, and is sanguine of almost imme-
diate victory ; while Welsh farmers and
Highland crofters are, at: a respectful distance
following suit. Even the Scotch Lowlanders are getting
rather tired of England and her flabby system of
Government, and want, not to set up for themselves
(they are far too pawky for that), but too obtain more
thorough local self-government. A glance at
statistical tables seems at first sight to falsify this idea
of Celti3 flood and Anglo-Saxon:ebb. In 1841, with-
out. Anunting Scotland, there were half as many people
in Ireland as in hngtana, nhorofto now thEpopulation
of England is five times as numerous. Why then is
Ireland more powerful now than she was:4s years ago?
The answer is that there are enormous colonies of her
sons and daughters in every English-speaking country
in the world, Great Britain included. There are
something like two millions of people of
Irish birth or descent in this island alone, and
they are chiefly settled in the big towns and the
manufacturing districts. The number of copies of
such newssheets as the Universe, the Catholic Times,
and United Ireland sold in humbler districts in
London shows the existence of a considerable Irish
population. One reason why the Celts flourish is,
that, at all events in their native countries, they lead
more healthy, primitive lives. They are tillers of the
soil, and keepers of sheep and cattle. The Anglo-
Saxons are getting to be a towny race, and the luxury
induced by mechanical discoveries is sapping their
natural simplicity and energy. In the United States
the progress of degeneration is even more apparent
than here. These remarks may appear unnecessarily
pessimistic, but without doubt there is a substratum
of truth in them. Anyhow, the subject is one of first-
rate importance.

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