The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1898-08-06
BARONS OF RuNNYMEDE WERE NoRMANs
NO SAXON KING IN BRITAIN SINCE
THE TIME OF HAROLD.
The ANGLES AN INSIGNIFICANT RACE
FUTURE AMERICANS MAY he CALLED
POWHATAN-PAWNE

Tho remote ancestors Of civilization
We're no kings, knights and fair ladies.
They We're naked and skin-clothed har-
barians-save cannbals, great bare
footed, hairy men and naked, bare-head-
ed, sun-tanned women.
All the elegance we see now in broad
cloth or silk shirt waist, is the descend
ant of the barbarian combination. Saw
agery is our common ancestry. From
this primal beginning our blood has
drifted through ages, races, nations and
climates. Accurate knowledge of this
intermediate period is buried in oblivion.
Then comes later period of partial
light, in which racial and tribal differ
ence is barely visible.
Out Of this interminable confusion
two savage tribes are selected to father
all of the human race that wears pants
and who have acquired tho English
tongue, and they are named Anglo
Saxons, says Baron Jones in the Wheel
Ing, w. Va, Register.
The Britons were barbarians who
smeared themselves with a blue dye
called woad. In their religious rites they
chopped off the head of the sacrincial
victim with bronze ak, in q grove of
oak, upon which the mistletoe had COM
menced to grow-a poetic death. In oil,
the British barbarians were as decent
and as worthy Of relationship as any
other set of barbarians. Yet no one
claims relationship with the proud and
godlike Caractucus, who was carried in
to Rome, nor with the fearless Queen
Boadicea, who In her scythed chariot
led her savage hosts in an unequal strug-
gle against the invaders of her country.
! Caesar as pastime conquered the
barbarians, and for over four hundred
years Rome guarded them as a mother
does nursing She taught them ag-
riculture and protected them from
| other barbarians Of tho north. She
planted the first seeds of progrcss-thcn
Rome, beset by dangers of her own left
| them.
After the departure of the Romans the
| northern hosts of Picts and Scots COM
menced their brigandage again, the
Saxons under the robbcr chiefs IIcngist
and HOrsa camc over, then the Angles
| and the Lutes and Il lot more, to engage
! in the amicable sport of pillago and mur-
der The SaXons, being the strongest,
gained supremacy. The savage butchery
| of their conquest is revolving the
butchery of a people whom their chron-
| iclers tell us, invited them over as pro-
| tectors. Many criminal invasions of the
past have been cloalted under fasehood
Those whom the Saxons could not
| subdue or destroy fled westward and in
to Wales. The descendants of the Brit
on who battled in the surf against the
| invasion of Caesar live thcrc-it is the
home of the Briton of the past
The Saxons set up several little king
| doms and spent the time fighting among
| themselves. Then the Danes came down
| from the north in their warship and
! subjugated the Saxon-who had long
paid them tribute money-and planted
Danish dynasty upon the throne, which
reigned through three successive sov-
ercigns.
| The SaXOnS again secured the throne,
the Danish line failing for want of is
sue, and held it for brief period--thcn
came the cataclysm of blood that an
initiated everything Saxon and Danish.
William, son Of Robert of Normandy
and a tanners daughter, crossed the
channel, and at Hastings after stub
born battle, destroyed Anglo-Saxon dom
ination forever. 1t was not change of
government forced upon Il subjugatcd
nation, but it was the annihilation of a
people. All existing institutions were
| destroyed, the lands were confiscated
and the people reduced to Il state of alb.
ject scrvilty, their very name being held
in detcstation. They were only suffered
to exist, in the words Of William, "as
clothing of the SOIL
The condition of tho Saxon, this
| coarse, NCTHclOHS anu brutal race, as
Macauley mentions them, was worse
than that Of the Russian serf in his
worse degradation. He occupied an in
tcrmediatc position between our slaves
half century ago and the Indian of
the present era.
Over hundred years after the con-
| OuerOr had landed the barOns of Eng
land forced King John to sign the magma
charta. In this first document that gave
the people of England anything like in
dividual liberty, some historians profess
to see victory and uplifting Of the
Saxon. The tWenty-six barOns who
forced John to sign the charter and
themselves signed 1t, were not Saxons
but held their dignities and office
through laws of descent from Normans.
It may be remarked here that three Of