Kentucky Irish American. (Louisville, Ky.) 1898-1968, 1898-07-16

modified Britisher
On the contrary, while resisting and
rejecting the arrogant assumption of
Anglo-Saxon superiority we must as
sert and maintain the perfect equality
of all races which go to make. up the
national life of the republic, which
enter as streams into the magnificent
river of American citizenship, each
preserving for time its identity while
contributing its full share to the
strength, the swell and the purity of
the tide by which it is peacefully borne
onward and in which that identity
must ultimately be lost In the
meantime, however, good citizenship,
the best interests of the republic, its
strength and stability demand that
those streams shall be allowed to flow
on peacefully, and to silently mingle
as they flow undisturbed by the storms
OF hate, passion or prejudice which
the fanatical claims of Anglo-maniacs
would, if recognized, be certain to
engender.
We have, it may be said, as yet
reached only the formative period.
AS race the American type of Cauca-
sian blood has not yet appeared, but
he will come in time, and where he
appears we trust that he will have all
the virtues and none of the vices of
his much mixed ancestry. There is
one thing, however, wherein he will
not excel his fathers. He will bear
no warmer love for the American
banner, nor can he be any more ready
to shed his blood in its defense, than
were his German, Irish or Scotch an
cestors, and his American history will
tell him, if it records the truth, that
whenever test or trial was made,
whether in a war with England or
with Spain, his ancestors of foreign
birth or blood were not found want
ing.
There is, however, another view of
the matter which should not be lost
sight of, and which must show the
most unthinking how worse than fool
ish is all this Anglo-Saxon nonsense.
1t is not long since one of the great
est statesmen America ever produced,
the lamented James G. Blaine, pointed
out to his countrymen on what lines
they might hops to successfully
develop the foreign trade and COM
merce of the nation as against Euro
pean competition. With that insight
and clearness of perception and ex-
preston for which he was alike re-
markable he sought not along the par
allels of latitude but those of longi-
tude, pointing to the Central and
South American republics, which are
just now entering upon period of
great improvement and expansion,
and with whose political institutions
and aspirations our people were and
are in hearty sympathy. With this
idea in mind he had in contemplation
the Pan-American Congress and his
famous reciprocity schemes.
Blaine failed in the realization of
his great plans because he was little
too far in advance of those around
him, and it may be of his time; but
the wisdom of his judgment has since
been abundantly indicated. We
want South American trade. The
United States, rather than England,
France or Germany, should have the
markets of Mexico, Peru, Argentine,
Chill and all the rest.
How far will the Anglo Saxon bah
bic which we just now hear so much
of commend us to our South Ameri-
can neighbors? Are they likely to be
influenced in our favor by those silly
scribblers who are daily heaping in
suit upon them and the race to which
most of them belong, and who are
never so happy as when prating of
the alleged superiority of the Anglo
Saxon2
If something is not done to restrain
them our country and Government,
while engaged in administering well
merited chastisement to poor old
Spain, stands an excellent chance Of