The Irish standard., 1891-10-10
nth INCL % SAXON FRAUD !.
Fully Exposed By an Able Writer, in
the North American Review
Recently.
FALSE AND OFFENSIVE IDEAS.
Millions Of Americans Regard the Odious
and Lying Term "Anglo-Saxon''
as Being Offensive.

i and Lying Term "Anglo-Saxon'
as Being Offensive.
In proportion as the North American
republic grows powerful and over
shadow ing, grows the anxiety of Eng,
lisbmen to have it understood that this
potent factor in the worlds affairs is
what they term Anglo-Saxon says John
C. Fleming in the North American Re-
view: that it is Anglo Saxon in race,
feeling and literature. Matthew Ar
mold, Gold~ in Smith, Edward A. smith,
Edward A. Freeman aud James Ap-
tbopy Froude, all British chauvinists,
are the most distinguished advocates OF
the idea-an idea received with enthu-
siasm by some here IN America, with
indifference by others, but by large
section of our people with dislike, be-
cause it is false and because it is Often
siye. Those great writer's are English
men who see more or less clearly into
the future. They see that the day is
surely coming when England will have
to take her place behind the American
republic, and they would like their
countrymen coming after them to be
able to say: what does it matter,
after all, whether it be the elder or
Younger branch of the Anglo Saxon race
which shall influence, perhaps sway,
the worlds destinies and shape its liter
allure and civilization, provided it be
Anglo Saxon?"
While governor general Of Canada,
the Marquis OF Lorne meyer wearled OF
clarifying the Anglo Saxon. The idea
ran through most of his speeches; he
was never so happy as when congratu-
latlng his mother.in-law's subjects on
the fact that they were part and parcel
Of the imperial race that many enthusi~
asts assert has sprung from the lost
tribes of Israel. And vet the noble
marquis is himself heir to the chief
fancy of a great Celtic tribe, and will be
the McCallum More on Che death OF the
Duke of Argsll, In addressing Canadl-
ans in such a strain, his lordship was
absurd, inaccurate and unphiiosophica].
Had he taken time to think, he would
have realized that the people he called
Anglo Saxon were Celtic, even as the
Campbells themselves. The leader OF
the Canadian government in his time
was Sir John a. Macdonald, whose
name speaks Tor itself; his lieutenant
was the French Sir Hector Langevin:
the leader in opposition, the Scottish
Celt Alexander Mackenzie, and his
second in command the French Wilfred
Laurier. One- third Of Canada s popu~
lation is French-that is to say, Celtic
Larin; one third Irish and Highland
Scottish, and the remaining third OF
English and German descent The mar
quis was about as enthol0gically cor
rect in addressing Canadians as Anglo
Saxons, as was Mr.. Blaine in his letter
accepting the nomination for the presl-
dency in 1884 when he drew & distinc-
ton between the two Americans by
terming one of them Spanish and the
ether Anglo-Saxon.
It is necessary in order to escape the
trouble Of disputing over an unscien =
tiic expression; that Irishmen, for in
stance, should tacitly admit the Anglo
Saxon to be something of proprietor
of these United States, and representa-
tive of race aristocracY? What about
the descendants of Frenchmen, of Ger
mans, of Slavs, and OF Scandinavians,
who do not admit Anglo-Saxon super
iorlty? When, overp0wered by his
emotions, the average Fourth of July
orator eulogizes the Anglo-Saxon, he
does not pause to consider that the
Celts and Germans among his audience
may inquire of one another if there is
any room on this continent for them.
It may fatter the vanity Of the orator
and portion of his hearers to- have it
admitted that they, the race arlstocracy
of the land, are allied IN blood to th Q
Anglo Saxon on the other side Of the
Atlantic who rules SO mighty an en-
pire, or, merely exulting in his 1gnor
ance, he may imagine that every white
man is an Anglo-Saxon. The writers
who SIT calmly down with white paper
before them and thinking pens grasped
in their fngers-and there are thou
sands Of them-have not the same exs
cuse, and yet they ring the charges on
the Anglo-Saxon idea in and out of sea-
son.
There are several ways Of arriving at
a fair approximation as to what race
the American people really belong to,
or are descended from; among them
names, languages. immigration, figures
and features. Now, while there can be
no question that the English language
is all but universally spoken in the
United States and Canada, it is spoken
as eloquently and sonorously by the
Irish American Daniel Dougherty. the
Franch American ChaunceY MI. Depe w,