The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1893-04-22
COOL AUDACITY,
England is Inappropriately Called
the Mother Country of the
United States.
ANGLO-AMERICAN ARROGANCE

The Early English Expeditions
We're Composed of Assassins,
Thieves and Outcasts.
For the past few years attempts have
been made in various interested quar-
ters to induce the world to believe that
the inhabitants Of the United States
America belong to the Anglo Saxon race.
This preposterous notion is being chiefly
propagated by certain agencies most Of
which are either affiliated to English
"loyal' societies of the Orange type, Or
owe their existence to the magic power
of English gold. Anglo American news
papers support the fallacy in articles
glowing with 'patriotic" ardor. The
wealthy and enterprising London cor
porations, who are buying up our West.
ern breweries, and purchasing their title
deeds of millions of Uncle Sans acres,
swell the chorus that
Where'er we be-on sea or shore II
We're Anglo-Saxons evermore!" i
In order to give this delusion fresh
impetus, a project has been set on foot
to organize next year in London an An
glo-Saxons olympiad. to which according
to the circulars just issued, "A]l the
nations of the Universe, in
Guiding the United States and Australia,
will be invited to send representatives"
Orations will be delivered and odes re-
cited glorifying this sturdy stock which
takes to itself the dattering junction. that
it has not only established. on a firm
basis the greatest of modern Empires in
the old world, but has also created the
greatest of Republics in the new! The
cool effrontery Of these London olympiad
gentry in including the sixty five millions
of Americans in the Anglo-Saxon race
is simply exquisite in it's downrighta au-
dacity, says Eugene Davis in the West
ern Wa,chman. We are, it seems, the
transatlantic cousins" of the Cockney
denizens of Ludgate Hill and the Strandl
We are one with them forsootb, in blood
and feeling, in history and tradition, in
our hopes and aspirations; and who
knows but that in the near future our
forty four States may become part and
parcel of that almost limitless empire on
the shores of which the sun never sets.
Certainly the buffoonery OF the Britisher
could no farther go. No more idiotic
project ever emanated from the mind Of
man outside the precincts of lunatic
asylum. Another attempt made by these
fanatics is readiness on their part to
make capital out of the approaching
Worlds Fair IN Chicago. If that Expo
sition becomes a bowling success, the
credit will be due, they say, to the mas
terly enterprise of the Anglo-Saxon race.
As for the Anglo -Saxons of the Lake city,
they are as numerically strong as Prot
estant pastors are in the kingdom of
Kerry. I verify believe that they could
all be accommodated in bakers dozen of
Mr.. Yerkes's cable cars; for Chicago, as
every one is aware, is city where nine
tenths of the population comprise peo-
pie of German, Irish, Polish, italian and
Scandinavian blood
The history of the gradual settlement
of the land, that now forms the United
States of America, proves only that a
small portion of it's Eastern and South
ern seaboard was originally colonized by
-Saxons. The overwhelming ma
jority of immigrants to these shores for
the past hundred years had no Anglo
Saxon blood whatever in their veins,
Even most of the Anglo-Saxons who
focked hither several hundred years ago,
were men who had to seek shelter from
the pitiless brutalities of their own much
belauded race-men like John Carver
the Pilgrim father, and Penn the Quaker,
both of whom were victims to persecu-
tion at home among their own, and were
compelled through sheer necessity to
seek for a habitation on this side of the
Atlantic where they would be at liberty
to worship God according to the dictates
Of their consciences. The earliest settle
ment on record was that of Sir Walter
Raleigh and his companions in Virginia.
The colonization of he.frst pioneers was
a wretched failure several successive
colonies having been practically annihi-
lated by the Indians. At last in 1906 it's
shores were visited by a band Of one
hundred and i've English gentlemen
adventurers who had to leave their coun-
try for their country's good. Knaves
and ibertines, thieves and assassins
who had to choose between the halter at
home or expatriation to foreign parts,
dilapidated swells who had to seek fresh
fields and pastures new lor the recon
struction of their lost fortunes, and faw
s