Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1898-07-24
What stitutes Nationally

The place OF q persons birth Is indica-
tive OF q persons nationality only in a
political sense, and even t.aI is only what
the laws may say upon the subject.
Our Anglo-Saxon friend will surely not
maintain that because duck is Matched
in a hens nest that it is a chicken. 1t is
also doubtful if he will assume that the
thousands of little slant eyed Chinese
born within our western States, are
Americans. They are not even Americans
in political sense-that is, they are not
citizens.
We have a continuous crop of little
pickaninnies in the South-black as the
ace of spades, and hair as curly as the
stuffing of a mattress-are they Ameri-
cans?
In a political sense they are as much
American as if they had been here for
centuries, but in a racial sense they are
not-they are Africans.
Thus a German comes to this country,
and after naturalization he becomes,
| politically speaking, as much an Ameri-
can as though he were born and bred
here, but ethnologically speaking, he is
st!ll a German. The effect of the laws
| works neither change Of blood nor
racial feature.
1t is not exactly correct to speak of
Victoria as being "of German descent,
for the use of this word descent in its
ethnologic sense, as here implied, means
| a deviation or departure from liked
| type. usually remote In Victoria gene
o'ogy there has been no deviation trom
| the Germanic blood worthy of mention,
hence she is a positive Germa l type of
the Teutonic race. Had her blood been
Gfused by marriage outside the German
amilies-the German to some extent pre-
domino ting-it might then have been
Pc per to speak of her as one OF German
descent That she is English in poiiti-
cal sense, is indisputable. William, Prince
of Orange-a Dutchma1, had no sooner
set his conquering foot on English soil
when presto,-he became an EnGlishman
but only through fiction of law.
Physically, through race and blood he
was still Dutchman, as Queen Victoria
is now a German.
AS our Anglo-Saxon friend very truly
suggests, there are no Americans in this
country in the fullest and most complete
sense of the word-unless in except the
few Indians of Wyoming. whom Mr..
Hanna instructed in the art of politics
last fall. They are Americans in the
proper ethnologic and political sense ma
tives and at the same time citizens. All
citizens of this country are Americans in
a political sense.
How are races and nations founded?
Taking the Biblical account of creation.
we are all Administration the opinion
| rNft hn 81 in N
family are of Aryan descent. But we
have scattered, mixed and blended, and
| then eventually separated into vast
groups of separate and distinct character
istics.
We arrive at these conclusions from the
| fact that man is gregarious Numbers
| associate in certain geographical limits,
| they settle and blend together and their
government and customs extend to fixed
| boundaries-what was a heterogeneous
mass becomes a homogeneous people-we
| then have a distinct race-a new type of
| humanity.
Ethnologists doubt if we have yet pro-
| duced type distnctively American. 1t
! is probable we have not And 1t may be,
| that not until our country is fully settled
| and the blood from all nations that is now
pouring in among us, is fully mingled and
settled will we produce the great type
| that will be known as Americans thous-
| and years hence, We are but the fore
runners of a race.
| A distinguished authority maintains
| that the great American race will be
| brown-saying that the people of this
country incline to swarthiness and with
| the tincture that will be given By the
| absorbed African, Indian and Oriental
will give us that cast For the benefit of
blondes who take pride in their fairness
we will say that this is not supposed to
occur short of six or seven centuries.
| If birth place alone indicates nationality
| what shall we say of the Hebrew? Under
| this diction, there are no Hebrews.
| BARON JONES.
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