The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1891-06-11
ANGLO,sAXON UNITY.

The New Orleans Incident, as Tue io
volt against the Mafiaites and the ihVo,
cation of the "higher law" to suppian''
temporarily, the ineffective machinery
of the constituted authority IN Ne"
Orleans, is euphemisticalIy referreo ~
by the magazine writer's, appears 10
be having a tendency to chrystali~e
public sentiment against tne
continuance of an undeslra'
BILE foreign immigration TO
these hospitable shores which may yeU
assume the character OF a tangible
protest. The first effort OF Sighor Ru-
dini,s fustian and the possibility of in
ternational complications arising out
of the New Orleans incident was to
strengthen the sometime demand for a
broader and more comprehensive
Americanism, greater restrictions ana
more careful espionage OF all foreign
immigration and the placing OF
higher value upon the investiture OF
American citizenship. Thus it was
aroued that the criminal and nauper
class OF any or all nations should De
rigidly excluded from our shores ana
the lax methods of citizenizing such
foreigners as are permitted to become
residents to swell the vote of some par
ticular political party or candidate
should be reformed. The spectacle of
adopted citizens of the American re-
public appealing to a foreign power
for protection to life and property III
their adopted homes was one calcu-
lated to stir the resentment OF Ameri-
cans, even those not unduly 1mpreg-
mated with ultra Americanism. Out
of it has come demand that the mere
declaration of an intention to become
n citizen shall not invest the foreigner
with ali the rights and privileges of
American citizenship, meaning more
particularly, of course, the election
franchise. and that before he may be-
come a voter he shall know something
of American institutions, have at least
a colloauial knowledge of the country
and have resolved to become perma-
nently an American citizen.
But the questions growing out of
the New Orleans incident have led,
almost imperceptibly, through a wide
range of thought and discussion, to a
proposition, which, wild and impracti
cable as it may at first appear, is re
ceivlng the careful thought of some of
the leading mint both hemispheres,
and that is Apa arv the2 unity. The
idea Of restrictii\ wher,.English speak
ing immigration naturally led to a
consideration of the more desirable
English speaking class and from this
to the idea, Utopian though it may
be, OF an Anglo-Saxon brotherhood,
all the English speaking
people of the world, the transition was
easy. Lord Meath, In the Fortnightly
Review for May, in an article ON the
subject, says: 1.-THE political union +
the English speaking races may be an
impossibility, imperial federation may
be a dream, but the future supremacy
of the Anglo.Saxon race will not be a
dream, II only the members of the
widespread family be true to the high
ideals of life, to themselves and to
each other" The sentiment and
coroliary of Lord Meath's conclusion
will meet responsive echo in that
portion of the American republic in
which the Anglo Saxon has been
forced more than once to assert his
supremacy and to support it wi ct
arms" and where the race problem
is the forever haunting nightmare.
May not the sometime popular shib
boleth Of America for Americans" be
slightly altered into the broader
phase America for the Anglo
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