The Irish standard., 1898-06-18
OF CEITS AND TEuTONs
IS INAUGURATED.
HIBERNo-sEaMANlc COMBINATION.
NEW EUROPE AND NOT NEW ENG
LAND is MASTER.
OF The DESIIAIES OF The REpUB Lie.
THE ANGLO-SAXON FICTION TO UE
VIGOROUSLY FOUGHT.

| The following article appeared in the
Irish World and the Chicago Citizen
of last week under the nom de plume
of "Celto-Teutonic":
| There is q movement among the Ger
mans Of the United States to get the
German language more generally Taught
in our public schools The National
German Teachers Association, body
| of trained, crudite and intellectual Ger
mans in existence in this country since
1870, and with headquarters in Milwau-
kee, are the champions of the move
ment. This is certainly a praiscworthy
and noble ambition on the part Of the
| German element of our population and
should merit the sympathy and support
OF all lovers of fair play, as it's success
Will enable our great composite populae
ton TO study in it's own school system
the language and rich literature of a
great people from whom onc-fourth OF
the population of this republic have
sprung
Hitherto our educational system has
been conducted as if this republic was
merely an English colony, when in rcnl-
lty not l5 per cent of our population is
of British origin. A union of the Irishs
German, Scandinavian, French, Italian
and other clements in the United States
is necessary in order that proper rec
ognition of their work in the founding
and upbulding of this nation NAV he
correctly stated in our conntry's annals,
as well as to prevent the Justification
OF truths and facts In so for rs they
relate to the work and influence Of those
elements in shaping our countrys dcs-
Itiny.
1t has reflected no credit upon the
great mass of the people of this republic
who certainly arc not of British origin
to have allowed our educational system
| to be dominated by an unfair and COM
parativcly small fraction which has pcr-
sistently used it to teach each rising
generation of Irish, German, French.
scandinavian, Polish, Italian and other
children that they were the descendants
OF a class of commercial marautlcrs in
England styling themselves the great
| Anglo Saxon race" To successfully
carry out this conspiracy against tho
majority of the nation ii has been ncccs-
s;ry to keep constantly sounding the
praises of these sO-caIlcd "Ang1o-Sax-
ons, and at the same time studIouslv
keep minimizing, obscuring and often
entirely supprcssinE important facts
relative to other clements of our nom,-
lation.
Instead of taking pride in an Amcr-
can nationality and slorifying in the
great cosmopolitan people that We are,
whose ambition and destiny should be
that of an cXamplar for other nations.
this faction is ever conspirng to make
us Il tail to Il British kite
Devoid of all national aspirations of
its own, It's aim seems to be to MAKE
this republic politically and financially
snbscrvicnt to a foreign power. Taking
Ruagc, dominating in a measure our
boards of trade and stock exchanges.
and with the hitherto seeming indifIcr-
cncc of the Irish, German, Scandina vfan
French and other clements that 70 to
make up an overwhelming majority of
our population, and upon whom The bur-
dcns of the nation largely rest, this
audacioUs faction has assumed to be the
whole thing in our national affairs
In its insane desire to serve the in
tCrests of what it terms It's "kin,lrcd be-
yond the sea-" we are now called upon
to become Il buffer state for foreign
power, and that, too, for our hereditary
and only enemy as against the nations
we are largely indebted to for our ma
tional existence.
Without pride of ancestry, without
aspirations for an Independent nation
ality, these Anglomaniacs, through their
newspaper organs and with the aid of q
lot of pulpit moun1cbanks on this side
are ever apoiOgizng for the War Of the
Revolution, which freed us from their
kindred over the sea-" the most auda-
cious going SO far as to advocate the
omission from our school histories of all
reference to that war and of the deeds
of the great men who were engaged In
it, thus conspiring to deceive tie chill.
dren OF the nation and impose lie upon
posterity.
Nor is this to be wondered at whc::
we consider that the kernel of this un-
scrupulous faction engaged in this nera-
rious work is the linea descendant oj
the Colonial Tory clement which would
have defeated Washington were it not
for the Irish and French in his army
and which again later, at the Hartford
convention, did all in its power tc