The herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1893-1900, 1894-02-15
"ANGLo-sAxoN" TwADDLE.


particular harm, was not in the best
taste. We allude to the remarks of ex-
Governor Beveridge of Illinois, who, in
the course of post prsndial effort, re-
ferred slightingly to the Latin race.
Probably if he had to do it over again.
this distinguished Illinoisan would omit
from a purely social occasion reflections
that were calculated to wound the sus-
capabilities of u large portion of the
people of California. Hon. R. F, del
Vale, in communication which APP
peared in the HERALD yesterday, dwelt
on certain aspects OF the ez governors
remarks in very happy manner.
Perhaps nothing is more interesting
than the rise, decline and fall of ma
tions. The fascinating pages of Gibbon
tell OF the fortunes and vicissitudes of
one race. confessedly and away ahead.
the greatest of all times, and distinct
lively a Latin nation. The Romans
loom go far above any modern nation in
the universally Of their undisputed do
minion that, to employ sporting
phrase, ECLIPSE is frat and the rest
nowhere" When Rome went through
the inevitable process of decay her
place was taken by France. The force
and significance of this branch of the
Latin race ia best emphasized by the
fact that, during thousand years,
France was sitting on the rest of Eu-
rope about five-sixths of the time.
During the meteoric career of the First
Napoleon his marshals occupied every
capital of Europe, and all at one time.
Fortunately for the right little, tight
little isle, the stormy channel separated
France from England, or London would
have been in the list of the occupied
| CITIES. There was a time when the
Spanish infantry was the most famous
in the world, and it was Spanish and
French valor-the legions of Charles
Martel and Ferdinand and Isabella
that prevented Europe from being over
run by the unutterabis Turk centuries
before the naval battle of Lepsnto and
the victory of John Sobieski under the
walls OF Vienna saved Christendom q
second time.
Any one who is the possessor of
| Spanish blood is quite excusabls for
being proud of the fact. The record of
! that chivalrous nation is respondent
with heroic deeds. It's career of adven-
ture in the new world reads like a
romance cadenced in epic measure.
Long before the Mayhower landed at
Plymouth Rock the Spanish conquista-
dores had penetrated inland as far as
| Salt Lake. The writer was 30 fortunate
as to inspect an old Spanish map and
history published in 1865 in company
with Captain Wiltse, celebrated ga.
want attached to the United States army.
4 On this map the Great Salt Lake was
/ laid down with absolute geographical
accuracy, so Captain Wiltse, who wac
acquainted with every minute of the
topography Of the country, affirmed.
Long before the timorous Puritan set
tlers on the shores OF New England had
dared to venture dozen miles inland
from the Massachusetts coast, the race
which Governor Beverage undertakes
to disprize, had penetrated to the center
OF the continent from both sides, had
stood on the highest peaks OF the
Andes and Cordilleras, and was lord of
all it surveyed from the csnter all
round to both oceans. Anglo Saxon en-
terprise cut no figure whatsoever in the
early settlement of the interior, and
the Pacific coast side of the American
continent. What the Spaniards did
for the Pacific coast, for portions of the
Atlantic coast and for Mexico, Central
and South America, another Latin race,
the French, did for Canada, for the great
lakes and for the country clear to the
Rocky mountains. The Anglo-Saxon
eettler chiefly distinguished himself by
being afraid to stir away from the rim
OF the ocean, and by Dragging moat IN
ceasinglY OF the little of which he could
} rightfully claim in the conquest and
civilization of the American continent.
Fortunately for the future OF the
United States this is cosmopolitan ma
ton. The claim that we are Anglo Saxon
ID even more unfounded than the claim
that the United Kingdom of Great Brit
ain and Ireland itself is Auglo.Saxon.
j, II is largely Celtic, and no amount OF
tNsddle can change the fact that the
Normans revolutionizad that Island.
The Anglo Saxon blood in the United
States ia really only an inconsiderable
fraction of those OF the races that enter
into the great republic. 1t is far ex.
ceeded by the Celtic blood that ramifie:
from Maine to the gulf and from the
Atlantic to the Pacific ocean.
Good wine is said to need no bush
This eternal prsting about the achieve.
ments of the Anglo-Saxon-a misnomel
} when applied even to the English PEG
I ple-would be more honored in tht
, breach than in the observance. Ameri
} can people will have occasion to rejoice
, at sill the noble and chivalrous bloodI
, that will enter into the composition o
: the mightisst nation, aimee Rome, thai