The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1898-08-01
LATIN DEGRNERAcY.
A Lat;n Defends His Race With Consider
able Vigor.


able Vigor.
To The St. Paul Globe:
For some time past newspapers have
been eagerly commenting upon Latin degen-
eracy. In addition to this, certain Anglo
maniacs have seized upon the Spanish Amer
lean war as a pretext to pour out the vscls
OF their wrath and venom against everything
that is Latin. So far no member of that race
has deigned to reply. Since President Nc
Kinley is said to have made the statement
that liberty has been the dream of the Latins
for centuries, and when they attained re-
publics they conspired to overthrow them,
ETC., etc. l now ask you, in spirit of fair
ness. to publish an answer to these gross
misrepresentation of the race of which the
writer IS a member.
The cry of Latin degeneracy is WORKOUT,
stereotyped expression. 1t heard one
hundred years ago, when the Prussians sub
dued Holland, and the cause Of the republic
was lost, Joseph H.. Of Austria, exclaimed:
France has just fallen 1 doubt If she rises
again" But France rose greater than ever.
That same cry was heard again after the
franco-Prussian war, when Bismarck said:
France. will perish in anarchy But France
rose to be the foremost nation in the world.
The main cause of the prosperity of France
is she no longer has aristocracy to drain
the life-blood of the state In England the
aristocracy and their imitators in this coun-
try can be seen lolling in sybaritc elegance
upon the cushioned seats Of their costly
coaches, looking down upon the people as
secondum honinem.
Recent statistics show that the percentage
OF french development during the past quar-
ter century has been greater than in any
other country in the world. The alacrity with
which France raid the largest war indemnity
eXtant in history, astonished the world In
France 5000, coo people own land while in
England 10000 people own all of that coun-
try: France, according to Sir Charles Dixie.
is the only military power that can pretend
TO cope with England on the seas, while she
is second to none on land. France has taken
nrin he Loot
fury than any other power in the world. This
Is an astonishing achievement for a degen-
crate race.
:, AS for the roll the Latins have played in
the development of civilization, none but
the unlnformed would seek to belittle them
;helr entire history has been a struggle for
nDerty. In the beginning we see France in
herltlng ancient civilization and transpanting
the fruits of her learning in other countries;
we see Charles Martel falling on saracen,
Etienne Marcel drafting the grande ordoun-
an and attempting to build up the civic
HDertles OF france; we see Descartes and
G eanae safe safely conducting philosophy and
Catholic and Protestant inquisitonn
on the one hand and idealsm on the other.
thus rescu:ng the word from theory and
imagination to the work of realism and tru Ii
we see the Huguenots carrying professions
hitherto unknown into other countries; we
see the Italians advocating the doctrine that
the people should own the government, and
not the government the people, and we see
them disseminating the fruits of the Rem
a.ssance. while France and Spain carried
that learning into the remotest corners of
North and South America; we see the bitter
struggle of the freethinkers for the liberty
OF conscience and the encyclopedias sound
Ing the death knell to the theologico-meta-
physical system, thereby making the great
French revolution possibility which shat
tered empires. cast aside ancient supersti-
items, and knocked the pillars from under
twenty centuries Of desDotism, and called
the world to freedom; we see Voltaire
called to grace the court of Frederick til,
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Catherine IL; we see the sovereign hand
of the first consul SCATTERING despite en-
pires and wherever the eagles, of Napoleol
republicanism which were left smou' dering
in the soil as standing menace t. tyrants
we see the French teaching the Americans
the theory Of liberty and the Americans Illus
trating that theory by putting 1t into prac
tice; we see Adam Smith borrowing from The
marrque, we see that towering and consummate
genius, August Comte, establishing bis sys-
tenn of positive philosophy, who for the first
time showed US the exact relations the scien-
purely empirical philosophy; we see the arms
Of French Iescuing Italy from the tyranny
ment of the third republic and the presenta-
ton to the United States of the stltue o.
liberty.
Now, for Spanish cruelty: England's rule
of Ireland ought to be sufficient answer to
silence this continuous pratling by the An
gloSaxon of Spanish cruelty. Witness her
treatment OF Cne AcadlanS, SenQlng a mOtDer
north, farther south. and the children in
another direction; and her barbarous treat
ment of American prisoners in the Revolu-
tionary wars who were thrown in the bottom
of ships, and left to smother to death and
die in their own filth She forced opium
upon China by the force of arms, and thus
corrupted the morals of millions upon mil
lions of people and damned their progeny.
Witness her rewarding the Jameson raiders
almost an acknowledgement that she is
piratical government
The Latins have prosDered without the
compliments of her Jealous enemies and thsss
will continue to patrol the ramparts of the
citadel of liberty guarding the rights of
man. -AdolDne Paradls,
413 Phoenix Building, City.
July 29, 1898.