The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1898-08-06

made their marks.
These barons had vassals who were
Saxons, and the effect of the charter
upon their condition was similar to that
OF the Emancipation Proclamation upon
the slaves of this country-and not SO
far-reaching in effect as the Fifteenth
amendment.
Previous to the effacement of the Sax-
ons by the Norman, the illustrious
names of that race could be counted on
one hand-what names have they given
us since?
The Angles came nearer being moth
ing than any other people that have
page in history-they aided and abctted
the SaXons in their butchery and gave
England her name-a corruption of An
gleland. This is almost the complete his
tory of the Angles.
What has the remnant or diffusion Of
the SaXons and Angles done? Nothing.
Their achievements? They have none.
In history do not exist. England
has relegated them, kings and all, to a
nominal place in the annals of her past.
They are obliterated from the book of
peerage. They have been wiped off the
arms Of Great Britain Yet there is not
an Englishman today who makes pre-
tensions of being anybody but claims de-
scent from William the ConQucror or
one of the rullians. and at the same time
imagines that he is an Anglo-Saxon.
Mrs. Victoria Victim, queen of Great
Britain, is a German and her husband
was a German. This present dynasty
started from Germany With the Georges,
to rule the English people, unable to
even speak the language of the people
whom they governed. The queen speaks
English with a strong German accent,
and German is the language Of the
household
On the English throne back of Vic
toria's German ancestors, beginning
with George l., we have Anne, the de-
scendant Of IL Scot before Anne we
have William of Orange, a Dutchman;
before him we have Scotch rulers back
to James L.; and then an unbroken limo
of rulers of Nornan-Frcnch descent
back to William the Conqucror. Oliver
Cromwell, named by some ''the great
est Of Engllshmen," was of Scotch de-
scent, at least on his mothers sde-his
fathers ancestry is lost. In eight hun
dred years no Anglo-Saxon in sight of
tho throne!
The persons who have added to
| Great Britains history, where it Is pos
sible to trace, are not Anglo saxons.
Victorlas favorite prime minister,
! Benjamin Disraeli, whom she created
: earl OF Beacontield, was a Jew. Glad
stone, his great antagonist and success
or, was OF Norman Scotch descent. The
ancestry Of tho present premier Sails
bury, is lost three centuries back. The
present head of the army, Sir Garnet
Wolslcy, is All Irishman. Napier was
Scotch and Wellington was Irish. In the
whole college of dukes royal and hcrcd-
itary there is not one OF Anglo Saxon
| descent, and In all the pccragc of Great
Britain it is doubtful il there is single
one who is in any manner an .tngloS SAX
on. Hundreds OF years of history has
| not given us the name of Il single sub
| icct of Great Britain known outside Tue
| borders of the islands who was OF An
glo- Saxon lineage. 1t may hc probable
| that tho Saxon nmalSamntcd with the
| lower Norman strata, but at any rate he
has kept himself hidden.
Many English professors and more in
| tclligcnt classes of England have long
ago intrrdictcd the word Anglo Saxon.
| Then why should 1t in any manner he
applied to the cosmopolitan population
OF the United States?
Nearly onc-third of our population is
OF foreign parcntngc, the greater por-
ton as it has always come. from cOnti-
mental Europe. With reference to Euro
pcan nationality, the German porula-
| ton exceeds that OF any other: next in
number comes the Irish, Chen the Sean
! dinavian, then tho English. followed by
the Russian, then many others in lesser
| degree.
| The English represent about ten per
cent of our foreign born population,
hcnco the Righteousness of referring 10
the United States as an Anglo-SaXon ma
tion, even supposing that every English
I man that ever came here was an Anglo
Saxon, instead of Irish or Scotch de-
/ scent which is most usually the ease.
In Il few hundred years a mania for
racial prOgcnitors distinctly American
might break out, and the inhabitants of
this land might call themselves Powhat-
nn-Pawnces, or Observation-Disclosures. and
the orator could refer to the glorious
achievements of this alleged ancestry,
speaking Of its courage, genius, chivary,
majestic edifices, arts, etc. or course 1t
would be but vapid nonsense yet every
bit as sensible as the present nonsense
about tho crude and barbarian Anglo
| Saxon, who left nothing as d monument.
In many respects there is a close paral
lei between the Indian and Anglo Saxon.
In starting our POwhatan-Apachc
race we can use Pocohontas as the ANAL
gamatOr of the races. PocohOntas left
l,4 '<,,, crn 'rho,poc polro N,bn IN t,,r,