Arizona republican., 1898-06-19
"ANGLo-sAxoNs, AGAIN.

HYDROCARBONS AGAIN
 The educational results of the war promise to be considerable The popu- lar knowledge of geography has al- ready been considerably enlarged. Now there seems to be a chance of an equal expansion of intimacy with history. The discussion over the use of the word "Anglo-Saxon'' is leading to ex- haustive researches into the origin of the race. There are those who resent with bitterness the Anglo-Saxon the ory. They are mainly Irishmen, who have perhaps an overweening belief in the efficacy of everything Celtic. One of them writes to the New York Tribune questioning the accuracy of the statement that England has not sent. us two-thirds as many emigrants as Ireland. Yet such a statement seems to be we'll within the truth, if the statistics which have been avail able since 1920 are worth anything. Previous to 1920, of course, the Irish emigration amounted to very little. The colonial settlers were mainly Eng fish or Scottish. Neither in New Eng land nor in the south were there enough Irishmen to make any distinct i've mark upon the population. It is true that we do not know how many settlers were Irishmen in disguise. The assertion has been made of late that Virgil was an Irishman, and that his true name was Ferghal; and so it may be that Washington himself, despite his English ancestors, had some lineal connection with County Cork. Barring this contingency, however, the Ameri- can colonists were certainly not Irish.
 But objection is made chiefly to the Identification of the United States as a nation with the Anglo-Saxon race. Who were the Anglo-Saxons, it is asked, and why should we be counted among them? A correspondent of the New York Sun can find no Anglo Saxons anywhere. He thinks that the Norman conquest wiped them out; so the historians tell him. It might be pertinent to inquire how he has read history. William gave many rich prizes castles, abbeys and fertile lands-to his Norman freebooters; and the na- tives were abused as well as robbed. Yet although the Norman element makes a large showing by means of it's kings and nobles, it did not swallow up the Anglo-Saxon element, but was rather swallowed up by 1t. New laws. new ideas, became the order of the day" says the writer in the Sun, 'and it was farewell forever to the Saxon race" This is a pretty large premise. We are heirs of Alfred the Great no less than of William the Norman. The very fact of the survival of English speech, in face of the use of French by the court, shows how the race main tained itself and finally conquered it's conquerors. The same argument ap- plies to laws and institutions. The people of the United States would be English even though larger propor tion of them were Irish or Germans or For English laws, litera- ture and manners have survived with us. Foreigners can become true Amer jeans only by accepting Anglo-Saxon traditions
 So much for the practicsn question. there are objections to the use of the word Anglo-Saxon. But these objections are not based upon any assumption that the English nation in Elizabeth's day was not of the same blood as the English nation in Alfred's day. They proceed from the fact that the Anglo-Saxons before the Conquest called themselves English. Old Eng fish would therefore better represent the people and language of that time than Anglo-Saxon. Indeed, Angul- Seaxna may best be translated as Eng in distinction from the SaxonS who had remained in Germany. Alfred is called in the Chronicle King of all the English kin" Thus the use of Anglo-Saxon has been in part re- sponsible for such misconceptions of history as that indulged in by the Suns correspondent; as if our ances- tors were not our ancestors because we called them by an illogical name.
 When Kemble named his history ''The Saxons in England'' he put the historical fact correctly. All this however, is aside from the question whether we are Anglo-Saxons or not. Correctly or incorrectly the name has come to signify those of English race: and that, with whatever mixture of other races, the people of the United States are substantially English is so clear that only those with preiudices too strong fer their judgment or with a too keen delight in paradox would think of disputing it.