The daily morning journal and courier., 1896-05-02

The words "jingo" and "jlngoism,' ' just now at the end of eVerybodys tongue and pen are also of disputed derivation, We all know about the English music hall song which set the word going with new meaning in 1871, but the original coinage of the term By Jingo!" is quite doubtful. In the Basque language the word lingo means God, and 1t is widely believed that By Jingo!" was form of oath with which the Basque sailors famil- iarized the English sailors, and, through them, all English-speaklng people. But others believe the word is a corruption of St. Gingoulph. It is one of the oddities of popular word making that the term 'jingoism," as now used, is a complete travesty of the sentiment of the song from which it was taken, A jingo, either in England or America, is now set down as a man spelling for fight, eager for war at any cost But the original muslc-hall song, with the jingo chorus, expressed exactly the opposite sentiment-a de- sire for peace. It began with "We don't want to fight" and its tiercest war note was struck in the declaration that if they had to do what they would rather not, they had plenty of men, ships and money.
 John Bull" the mythical parsonage supposed to represent the English peo- pie, and now figuring largely in our ed itorial writings, and in cartoons, was the invention of Dr. Arbuthnot, in one of his satirical sketches ridiculing the great Duke of Marlborough. In the opinion of Dr. Johnson, Arbuthnot was the first man among the eminent wri- ters in Queen Anne's time" He drew John Bull as the typical Englishman-- stout red-faced old farmer far too corpulent for comfort, choleric, but withall an honest and well-meaning fellow. He clothed him in leather brooches and top boots, and put a stout oaken cudgel in his hand and a bulldog at his heels, and so set him up for all time, to serve as the representa- tive Englishman. He may have been not so bad a caricature in the days of Queen Anne. But to-day, certainly, there is much force in Leslie Stephens remark that "he completely hides the Englishman of real life" The average Englishman of 1896 is physically no stouter, certainly, than, and probably not as stout as the average American; and the stout cudgel and the bulldog are no longer apt symbols of the mod ern British disposition. He has lost the excessive pugnacity of his forefatn- CTS, and, as we have lately seen, is above all anxious to keep the peace with his Uncle Samuel
 Speaking of Uncle Sam" and Brother Jonathan" whose names are being freely used, too. in the passing international furry, there is no doubt about their origin. When General Washington went to Massachusetts to take command of the Revolutionary army he found great lack of amnau- milton and other supplies. He turned for aid to Governor Jonathan Trum5nll of Connecticut and got it, and in many emergencies of that period he used tho phrase, We must consult Brother Jonathan on the subject" The expces- sion became nationally carrent, and it stands as the American parallel to John Bull" Uncle sam was not in vented until the war of 1872 Two m SBeClOIS Ol WdI Suppli''S ts Ni''y, N ] Il, were named Ebenezer and samuel Mll- son. A workman in their employ was marking lot of casks received from one Ebert Anderson q New York con tractor, and which were thus stamped "E. A.--U. S." A bystander asked the workman what these marks meant. and he replied that they probably meant "Elbert Anderson and Cnca sam" alluding to Inspcator Samuel Wilson, who was locally called Uncle Sam" Thus the initials uf the United States were transformed by a local joke into a national sobiIuet. winch will doubtless last as long as our rt~ public.
 But who first undertook to give the portrait of Uncle Sam" or "Brotf,er Jonathan" as long, iean, slab sided lantern jawed individual is got known. Whoever he was, he libeled us. There is a strong reason for believing that the average American of to-day is heavier in the scales, broader between the shoulders, deeper in the chest ana of more generous waist -girth than any of his civilized contemporaries.