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

! ana putting on instead their new
found attire as Anglo-Saxons
If such change could be wrought
who is there who will say that the
character of the average American
would be improved thereby The
Anglo Saxon fraud, however, rests
upon the assumption that the change
has already been accomplished, that
the national motto, "E Pluribus
Unum," is false; that Americans are
not now and never will be composite
race, but that with facility some
what akin to that by which John Bull
is said to convert beefsteak into beef
eating Britisher the Anglo-Saxon has
absorbed and transformed all other
races in America.
Nothing more ridiculously absurd or
untrue can well be imagined.
A certain distinguished writer well
known in America, speaking on the sub
ject on one occasion said: "Americans
have Anglo Saxon enough in them to
make them mean, but not enough to
make them forget that Europe and
not England is the mother country of
America.
do not agree to this statement of
the case. Americans have not even
enough Anglo-Saxon in them to make
them mean, and let us thank God
they have not. AS for the insight
ficant but loud-mouthed faction to
which have already alluded, the re-
mark attributed to a Frenchman (?),
who walking through cemetery with
a companion happened to read upon
tombstone the inscription, ''Not
dead but sleeping" suits their case to
T. 'John," said he to his COM
panion, "here's fellow who is dead
and hasn't sense enough to know it."
Where are the Anglo Saxons to be
found and what do we know of them7
The ancient Britons were undeniably
Cells, as were also the Picts, by whom
they were subjugated. These in turn
were overrun by the SaXons, and the
Saxons in turn were conquered by the
Danes, and later were completely SUBJ
jugated by the Normans, whose de-
scendants to this day hold them in
subjugation, for the hereditary law
makers and landowners of England
are principally -of Norman. descent
Your Anglo-Saxon cuts very mean
figure even in England's history. His
cowardly and abject surrender to the
Normans after the battle of Hastings
has few, if any, parallels in the his
tory of the world. That he was a
creature with a well defined yellow
streak in his makeup and with little
national pride or patriotism about
him the history of England, from the
landing of William the Conqueror to
the present time. abundantly shows.
The people of England are not
therefore in any proper sense of the
term Anglo Saxons, but as applied to
Americans the term Anglo Saxon be-
comes grotesquely absurd and ridic-
ulous.
Prince Bismarck has been recently
quoted as saying that not S per cent.
of the population of the United States
are Anglo Saxon, and he used the
term not in its correct and restricted
sense, but in its loosest form as ap-
plicable to all Americans of English
descent or lineage. No one who has
given the subject any study will be
found to differ from the Iron Chan
cellor on the subject.
Indeed, it is growing clearer every
day that all this Anglo-Saxon mother
twaddle we hear of comes
from comparatively Insignificant
class of our citizens, who have not yet
awakened to realization of the fact
that the United States is not British
colony, but nation of seventy mill
ions of freemen.
The rawlings of the Anglo-Saxon
cranks are as uDpatriotic as unwise.
How shall it benefit our country,
whose citizenship is drawn from every
race and every land, that race hatred I
Or animosities shall be engendered |