Kentucky Irish American. (Louisville, Ky.) 1898-1968, 1899-06-03

as Anglo-Saxons, while others among
them would have us believe that real
American is only a sort of a modified
Britisher.
They draw their entire political faith
from England not from the honest and
intelligent democracy of the country, but
from its Tories, the narrowest, most in
tolerent and least progressive in all
Europe.
They view every question affecting the
life and prosperity of America through
British spectacles and measure it by
British standards. They are Americans
by accident but Britishers by instinct and
design.
Their ideal of American independence
would be realized by an Anglo-American
alliance. They tell us, in substance, that
the American eagle may no longer fix
his gaze upon the sun or sweep upon the
storm cloud over mountain or plain, that
he must abandon his solitary fight and
seek shelter and protection between the
paws of the British lion.
What matters the danger or degrade
ton all this would entail2 There is
abundant compensation for it all in the
fact that we are no longer to be known
as plain American citizens, like Wash
ington, Jefferson, Jackson or Carroll,
Lincoln or Logan, Grant or Sheridan,
but that we are to find ourselves all OF
sudden, we know now how, in the
twinkling of an eye, as it were, and in re-
spouse to mere sounding brass, trans
formed into staggering, blathering
Anglo-Saxons.
The people of England are in no
proper sense Anglo-Saxons, but as APP
piled to Americans the term Anglo Saxon
becomes grossly absurd and ridiculous.
The rawlings of these Anglo-Saxon, An
glo-Alliance cranks are as unwise as I'M
patriotic. How shall it benefit our coun-
try:whose citizenshipis drawn from every
race and every land that race hatreds or
animosities shall be engendered here2
We demand and have a right to de-
mand, that those who seek the distinc-
elOh vi SHdll DGCOIlG
American in the true sense of the word,
that they shall be loyal to the American
flag and to the principles of liberty and
progress for which it stands, but we have
no right to ask them to become Anglo
Saxons or to bow down at the shrine of
Anglo-Saxon idolatry. On the contrary,
rejecting the arrogant claims of Anglo
Saxon superiority, we should assert and
maintain the absolute equality and right
of the various races which enter as
streams into the magnificent river of
American citizenship, each preserving for
time its identity while contributing its
full share to the swell, strength and puri-
ty of the tide which bears it onward and
in which that identity must ultimately be
lost
In the meantime, however, good citi-
zenship, the best interest of the repub-
lie, its strength and stability demand
that those streams shall be allowed to
flow peacefully onward, and to silently
mingle as they flow, undisturbed by the
storms of hate, passion and prejunice
which the fanatical claims and unpatri-
otto designs of Anglo-Saxon maniacs
would, if recognized, be certain to engen-
der.
There is not the slightest room to doubt
that the British Government and its
hirelings on both sides of the Atlantic
have been diligently plotting for years,
by a system Of fraud and falsehood, to
create in this country sentiment favor
able to an Anglo-American alliance,
hence the ISLANDERS OH Germany, Austria,
France and Russia which appeared in the |
public press during our war with Spain |
and usually in kilograms coming from
English sources.
We were told that France, our ancient |
ally and friend, was opposed to us, that
the Germans were ready to assail Dewey
at Manila, that Russia was ready to |
sweep down upon us, and that England |
was the only friend we had in the wide,
wide world.
They literally bombarded our ears with |
their lying reports, and the representa-
tives of France, Germany and Russia
were kept busy in making public and |
official reputation of the falsehoods.
The trick did not work, however, and /
all Anglo-American alliance, or any other
thanks to the good horse sense
of the masses of our people, is as remote
and impossible today as it ever was.
We have no quarrel or cause for quarrel |
with any of them and we wish to remain |
so. We want to do business with them all,
to promote friendly relations and COM
merce with them all and thus peacefully |
to advance, as far as we can do so, their |
happiness and prosperity as we'll as our
own.
Thus, gentlemen, trust would BIZ |
metallists reduce to practice and preserve |
inviolate the lesson of wisdom embodied |
in the toast to which have so feebly at
tempted to respond: Peace and COM
merce with all nations, entangling al |
lance with none.
DISAPPOINTED.