The record-union. [volume] (Sacramento, Calif.) 1891-1903, 1895-12-30
ENGLISH BLOOD.
Strong Words From a Los Angeles
Paper.

Iap6r.
(From the Los Angeles Express)
We have waited very patiently for
some of our Democratic contemporaries
who so strongly favored an alliance
with England few weeks ago to come
out in denunciation of the Presidents
message, but they seem to have for
gotten their theories in the face Of the
condition that confrontS US.
So far as we want any foreign alli-
ance with an old world Power, it must
be as the Express" has always main
tanned with Russia and not with Eng
land. The talk about blood being thicker
than water sounds well, but means
nothing. In the first place, there is not
common blood between the majority of
Americans and Englishmen, and in the
second place if there were it would
count for no more than does the fact
that the best blood in England comes
from France. The English people are
as heterogeneous as their language to
begin with. They have never had an
English sovereign on the throne for 500
years, unless Cromwell be considered a
sovereign. They have been ruled by the
French, the Scotch, the Dutch and the
Germans, and their own Queen has
such supreme contempt for them
that she prefers the issue of a left
handed German marriage for her soYc
in-law to the proudest English noble
man. The best blood of England emf
grated to this country two centuries
ago, and those who remained behind
have been degenerating ever since.
Their greatest General was an Irish
man, the Duke of wellington; their
best financiers Germans, the ROths
childs, and whenever they have needed
brains or help they have been forced
to import them. They are famous for
their hypocrisy, going forth to convert
the savage with a Bible in one hand,
bottle of gin in the other and rife
strung across their back. They have
debaSed every race they have come in
contact with, and have made money
the sole rule of honor, principle and
right. Their conduct in dealing with
Turkey is a fair sample of how they
allow themselves to be bullied. They
talk loudly of their Christianity, and
yet stand idly by with their hands in
their pockets while thousands of Chris
tians are being murdered.
me American people nave nothing In
common with such a race. We insist on
being ruled by an American, not by an
alien. We do not circulate tracts and
gin, Bibles and bullets together. There
is no pagan god factory in this country,
nor have we ever used cannon to make
opium fiends of Asiatics. Most of us
have some English blood in our veins,
but it is the blood of men who left Eng
land two centuries ago because she had
become too disreputab.e for them to live
there any longer. We gave the English
very good thrashings twice when the
blood was a good deal thicker than it is
now, and we are perfectly willing and
able to do it again.
Our natural allies are Russia and
France. If Russia can drive England
out of Asia, so much the better. By SELL
ing Alaska to us, the Cars Govern
ment practically agreed to the Monroe
doctrine. If alliances are desired, let
them be with natural friends, not with
certain enemies. The less this country
has to do with England the better for
it and the worst for Great Britain.