The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1898-08-01
LATIN DEGENERACY.
A Latin Defends His Race With Consider
able Vigor.


To The St. Paul Globe:
For some time past our newspapers have
been eagerly commenting upon Latin degen-
eracy. In addition to this, certain Anglo
maniacs have seized upon the Spanish-Agner-
lean war as pretext to pour out the vicls
OF their wrath and venom against everything
that Is Latin. So far member of that race
has deigned to reply. Since President Nc
kinley is said to have made the statement
that liberty has been the dream of the Latins
Tor centuries, and when they attained re-
publics they conspired to overthrow them,
etc., etc. l now ask you, in spirit of fair
ness. to publish an answer to these gross
misrepresentatives of the race Of which the
writer Is a member.
The cry of Latin degeneracy is a WORKOUT,
hundred years ago. when the Prussans sub
dued Holland and the cause of the republic
was lost. Joseph H., Of Austria, exclaimed:
France has just fallen doubt if she rises
again" But France rose greater than ever.
That same cry was heard again after the
Franco-Prussian war, when Bismarck said:
France will perish in anarchy" But France
rose to be the foremost nation in the world.
The main cause of the prosperity of France
Is. she no longer has an aristocracy to drain
the life-blood of the state. In England the
arstocracy and their imitators in this coun-
try can be seen loling in sybaritic elegance
upon the cushioned seats of their costly
coaches, looking down upon the people as
secondum hominem.
Recent statistics show that the percentage
OF French development during the past quar-
ter century has been greater than in any
other country in the world. The aacrity with
which France paid the largest war indemnity
extant in history, astonished the world. In
France 3 00,G00 people own land, while in
England 30,000 people own all of that coun-
try. France according to Sir Charles Dixie.
is the only military power that can pretend
to cope with England on the seas, while she
more territory during the last quarter CEN
fury than any other power in the world. This
is an astonishing achievement for degen-
crate race.
AS for the roll the Latins have played in
the development of civilization, none but
the uninformed would seek to belittle them
Ihelr entire history has been a struggle for
liberty In the beginning we see France in
nerltng ancient civilization and transplanting
the fruits OF her learning in other countries;
we see Charles Martel falling on Saracen,
Etlenne Marcel drafting the grande ordoun-
ance and attempting to build up the civic
liberties OF France; we see Descartes and
G eeinnea safe safely conducting philosophy and
Cathoilc and Protestant inqusitions
on the one hand and idealism ON the other
thus rescu.ng the word from theory and
imagination to the work OF realism and tru Il :;
we see the Huguenots carrying professions
hitherto unknown into other countries; we
see the Italians advocating the doctrine that
the people should own the government. and
not the government the people, and We see
them disseminating the fruits of the Rem
asssance. while France and Spain carried
North and South America we see the b'ttor
struggle of the freethinkers for the liberty
OF conscience and the encyclopaedists sound
ing the death knell to the theologico-meta-
physical system. thereby making the great
French revolution possibility which shat
tered empires. cast aside ancient suDersti-
twenty centuries Of despotism, and called
the world to freedom; we see Vo!tare
called to grace the court Of Frederick thu
Catherine IL; we see the sovereign hlnd
of the first consul shattsring despite en-
pires and wherever the eagles of Ma 9oleo
went were carried with them the embers OF
republcanism. which were left smou dering
in the soil as standing menace t. tyrants;
we see the French teaching the Americans
the theory of liberty and the Americans / lus-
trating that theory by putting it into prac-
tice; we see Adam Smith borrowing from the
French physiocrats. and Darwin from LII
marque, we see that towering and co7summate
genius. August Comte. establishing his sys-
tenn of positive philosophy, who for the first
time showed US the exact relations the scien-
ces have to one anothe-, and thus gave u,
purely empirical philo -opAy: s'e the arms
of French rescuing Italy from the tyranny
of Austria. and finally we see the establish
ment of the third republic and the pre- se1t1-
ton to the United States of the statue o.
liberty.
Now. for Spanish cruelty: England's rule
of Ireland ought to be sufficient answer to
silence this continuous pratling by the An
glo-Saxon of Spanish cruelty Witness her
treatment of the Acadians, sending mother
north, farther south, and the children in
another direction and her barbarous treat
ment of American prisoners in the Revolu-
tiopary wars. who were thrown in the bottom
of ships, and left to smother to death and
die in their own filth. She forced opium
upon China by the force of arms and thus
corrupted the morals of millions upon mil
lions of people and damned their progeny.
Witness her rewarding the Jameson raid rs
almost an acknowledgment that she is
piratica government.
. The Letins have prospered without the
compliments of her jealous enemies and these
VIII continue to patrol the ramparts of the
citadel of liberty, guarding the rights Of
man. -Adolphe Paradis.
413 Phoenix Building, City.
JULY 90 1893.