The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1898-10-18

no ARE ANGlsO-SAxUNS
A Correspondents objects to the Com
mon Designation.

Seattle. Oct. is. 1888.
To the Editor: Why VIII 50 bright a
man as my friend Col. William +. Prosser
spoil a good article. such as that from his
pen IN Saturday mornings Post-intelii-
gencer. with such very untBteihgent ana
.ntenable talk as this:
1.-THE war with Spain has done much to
demonstrate the truth OF the propositions
that the Christian religion. the Eng ish Ian
guage and the Angto-SaNOn. including the
German race, viii eventually dominate the
whole earth?
The colonel must have been wool Their
ing when he wrote that sentence. Ii is i'm
possible TO see how the war with Spain has
done or could possibly have done. anything
whatever TO demonstrate any part of these
Propositions II Vas a war between two
Chr!sti4n nations. Even the territorial re-
suits ~ fhe struggle are still quite I'M
certain As for the cant about Anglo
Saxon" let me quote for the coioneFs bene
fit article that subject which APP
psared IN Notes and Queries. OF London.
f0Tty-one years ago. and which bears In
terna evidence OF having been written by
the greatest master OF English history then
living Edward a. Freeman, the historian
CT the Norman Conquest OF England of
The Origin Of tire English Nation 81
after reading 1t carefully the colonel will
abandon,.h use % tina; absurd and mean
;ngless term "Auglo-Ssxon,"
MAY /. n the beginning Of this new
year. which Is 10 inaIgGrate also a new
era II brotherhood between the United
States and England, take the liberty or
asking = 40tsfioH on a subject winch mas
often puzzled me- II is probable that some
che e your readers on the other side Of
the Atlantic may he able 20 explain my
difficulty. for believe the Americans were
ne nrst IL Use The name whica cannot IN
c"fsIand. IN tas sense ~atch seems - oe
gaming ground My question i. What DO
they ard -her English tmitators. mean ny
Ang,1-SS.;y oTsf " nat G.j he Caltsd states
consul mean When. al she dinner lately
gwen % Capt. Eartstetn. after substt,ut-
INK Turks ara Russians for Or. Watts
dogs and lars and mons n the well known
ltGe GucGEic poem about barking a19 Bit
ing Re continued.
q 'F}1ft AnEIo-S axouS should newer le.
SUca angry passions rise: q
Their great hiK hands were never made
To tsar each oTs@r's eyes.
Il an entirely 81 loss TO understand
This name: and I esa s1rne ore would 10
ne tNa favor 70 axp}a.u what g really
meant ~ 4 ! Know scrie-hlng ~ people
- ~ were cage9 - II A good many c%ntu-
riss age. who founded in short. by SOW de-
.reas q very rowerfUt stale n the ia-EeS-
ySrt - the British Islands; Ard who IN
Ger r-a genera. rams e the An9 o. - Mons.
cor ttG}4a1 - eNiSt - England and scotland
& zen or eight hundred years have
Indeed given Yfyy s@tf unusual r8tas u mas
tsr their row extinct language 70 recover
mach u 2Hs4T lost history and iaR. -
make ;.e forms q th~i. CIV itzatson Intel
!, < h}s - IRE ps pie ao nov ocCapy the
COUNTRY +YhIca they ocC3risG. But | have
a1rA thts sl4as. because, 1hesa had become
tifI.-tGlA.E BILE because towards t7e and ~
me sis ~ert1 ceGfGry that peculiar C.vE.za-
t1n rfceiVe1 = shpcA waicz gave Il a to-
tAfY G.fTerent d4Te.t.a1. All 50 modified the
whole Being o. the people as 70 cause q
system q sGtirely new combinations
"FToTa that tlnne there have been ags9r-
fly re- fer very sews Angso-SsxSns lerf
SRI England, and ! presume sf1Il fever II
ire trffef Stafes ~ Auer}cs Tssre ha -
g.eeu EHElssAEy5en. deriving taaar hioa4 from
Cells. saxens, Norsssssn. FTsacAn.en,