The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1898-04-24

u,stletos for an on3sct Of ~og6Akp. sSd
yet enough all-round savngery of the
blackest type to make a part Of his wor-
snip putting human beings INTO great
wicker cages and burning them alive as q
sacrifice TO his deity. Then there is the
Saxon character that comes In. which
Mr.. Ruskin tells ms II notable for Its i'm
aginaticn. docility. love of beauty and
love OF knowledge. all OF which 90 to
make q people Of what We might call the
worshippink type. Now. usually I'm esti-
mating the English people we stop there
and say they are A-nElo-saxons, but when
we do so we omit one of the most Inn
| p~ortant factors in the makeup of the En-
! glishman: for after these there came the
Norman Now you must not confound the
Norman with the excitable. volatile. jolly |
Frenchman of to-day. The Norman was a |
| different style Of man. He was a stolid.
stern sort of fellow. who never gave up
anything he got his hands on. He was
a born fighter: so much so that Mr.. Rus
| kin summarizes his character when he
| saws that the Norman was a man who
| could not easily be a Christian. but he
could be a hrst-class hater of the sara
cen.
..But even when you have those char
acteris.ics you have not yet brought into
view all the forces that go to make up
the Englishman of to-day. Tor TO these you
must add the Cornish. A little while ago
I called them the Scotch of England. and
] know Of no higher compliment 1 can
pay to anyone than to mistake him for a
Sootchman. / know one thing. that IL is
safe to make that mistake. for no one u
ashamed of that race or would get angry
at such an imputation. The Cornish char-
acter is Celtic. though 1t is more closely
allied to the Cymarfc. 1. e.. Welsh. tnan
to the Gaelic. In Britanny. In France.
there is a district called Cornouaille. and
there you will find many of the old Cor
nish names. and another link that binds
ehovo "a the FOLKS 0f the EnRliQh count
of a like name is that they have there
many celebrated wrestlers. In Cornwati
you find very few traces OF the Roman
conquest. and 1t would seem that the old
Romans found the former inhabitants OF
the cream and pasty county were rather
too much for them. Yet these ancfents
were by no means heather. for there Is
every reason to believe that Christianity
took root in Cornwall before 1t dio SO
anywhere else in England. Anyhow. II
YOU keep your eyes open as you travel
through Cornwall you will notice that the
crosses that remain are mostly Greek
crosses. not Roman. dating before the
Roman conquest. For centuries that
county remained independent. and 1t was
not until the Normans came across and
conquered England hat the Cornish gave
in. and they took two years longer than
any other part OF England to make up
their minds to submit to William. But
even then the tenacity of the race show
ed itself once more. for while in other
parts of England the c~onquerors were
soon able to impress upon the people the
very nomenclature of their tongue the
people of the tin county refused to follow
copy. and even to this day have very
largely held to the old Celtic names; so
much so that Tregellas' little couplet IL
true:
BY Tire. RIOS. Pol. Ian. Caer and Pen,
You may know most Cornishmen.
80 Il Is the compositeness of character.
o,or mart of which tS an remarkably
strong in its own point. that has made the
English race what ii is to-day. Tn domi-
nant features of the English character to-
day are doggedness. self-reliance and a
peculiar seif-satisied air that is often
written down by foreigners as unbearabie
conceit: but there is added to these a very
:, stern determination to fight for and stand
by the right. Not that ] mean that John
Bull is never I'm the wrong. for he often
|, IL. but what I mean Is that II you can
! make him see that such and such a
course is right you have won a good deal
more than the battle,
$50 that " you AXE into account these
! facts that I have been speaking of they
4 will be some explanation of why II is that
the English character has impressed itself
e n such a remarkable manner upon the
> life and history of this republis. even
3 etaoin shrdlu cmfwyp vbgkqj xzhhfhiffj
$ from the very beginning of its history.
Take. for example. that table of presi-
otblo ~ ~ 49,
years World Almanac and you will find
S that out of q presidents that are named
5 there Is of them claimed their paternal
ancestry as being English. and in these
I Is are Washington. Lincoln and Garfield.
while of the other nine three were OF
: Scotch parentage. one Welsh. one Hol-
I land and five were Orangernen,
from Ulster county. 1t is certainly a very
remarkable fact that of all the various
. races of peoples who have commingled
haze 40 fprpn this nnW nation uif IN
n but one exception, Van Buren,, every pres
s ident has been a descendant Of British
subjects. and that three-ffths Of these
S were English.
y so that Sons OF ST. George have an an,
: cestry to be proud of: but you also have
{ a reputation to keep untarnished.
e at seems to me that it is the duty OF
4 every foreigner who comes from across
p the sea or from across the border, tC
bring with him the best characteristic
e of the country which he has left. In other
countries, where the individual counts fol-
3 very little, he may perhaps be careless OF
his influence. but not here. In this land nc
man is a cipher unless he makes himself
u such. and IL Is the duty OF the foreigner
o not to try to establish on this soil littls
X Londons and little Dublins and little
i Frances and little Berlins; not TO estab'
lish here Acknowledgement and Irish
q Americanism and OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES
{ and all that sort of thing. which only ends
I'm transplanting here and perpetuatins
/ the bad points of the various nationalities
I, instead OF building up a nation strong
IL with the excellencies and strength o.
e those across the seas.
'tSince I am talking to Sons OF st
e George. let me point out that there arr
l. two excellencies that exist In Eng'an'
g that you should endeavor to root firmly II
n the soil Of this new country.
l. First OF all. the sacredness OF home
n You have heard about the happy homes o
England. and seen them. perhaps. Tha
3 poem is not mere Jingle of lines ana end
d ings: IL Is fact: for there. to an exten
il unknown elsewhere, the sacredness o
II home remains untarnished. The sacred
IS ness OF the marriage tie has not beel
IN played fast and loose with as IL unfortu
Il nately has been here. The divorce laws o