The courier., 1899-01-28


b part of his name. When they reach
his surname the fire and confidence
and pride have left their voices and
they pronounce it with an Indifferent
reserve as though their whole duty
had been done on the initials. The
mannerism Is Of no consequence and
is only worth remark because it is
characteristic of all the populists
Mr. Hayward's vote is concerned only
with his last name and they pro-
nOunce it with JUNCTION and confidence.
Mr.. Lambertson Mr.. Fields and
Mr.. WestOn's votes are as positive and
confident as any of the Others and
seem to be for the men rather than
for their initials.
Anglo.SaxOn Superiority: to what
1t Is due is the title of a book by Ed.
mOnd DemOlins translated from the
tenth French edition by Bert Lavigne.
M. DemOins accepts without race
prejudice the superiority Of the Anglo.
Saxon race over all others. A map on
the title page illustrates the extra
ordinary power Of expansion of that
race which seems destined to succeed
the Roman Empire in the government
of the world. The Anglo-SaxOn parts
of the map of the world are all of
North America except Mexico and
Central America, nearly half of South
America, the southern half of Africa.
In Asia India, Australia. the British
Isles and Nova Scotia, as well as the
numerous small islands of the sea
controlled by England. All this won.
derful vitality and power of colonial.
tiOn Is in the descendants of the Sax
ons who settled in Great Britain in the
fifth century, principally south of the
Thames, wiere they spread their own
name: WesseX, Sussex, Essex. The
Saxon, unlike the Celt, is a born far.
mer, thanks to the geographical con-
ditiOns Of his previous abode. He
settles firmly on the soil. His ideal is
the foundation of a rural estate on
which the individual is perfectly in.
dependent of his neighbOrs and of the
political chiefs. The authority Of the
Saxon chiefs is purely temporary and
elective. Here we have the first mani.
feStatiOn OF self government and even
an embryo parliament in the reunions
OF the people (FOlkmOt) and gather.
lngs or the wisemen (WitenagemOt.)
In the sixth century the Angles ar.
rived from Schleswig and after a cen.
tury and half were conquered and
absorbed by the Angles. Then the
Danes came and settled in the little
island, a lOrdly lot who had no idea of
working fora living. Their plan was
to subjugate an agricultural people
and force them to contribute part 6f
their labor to their lords subsistence.
The Saxons paid the invaders Dane
gelt until the peasant uprising, when
the Danes were driven back To their
own country. Then the indomitabIe
peasants immediately and sulemnly
reasserted their favOrite form of self.
and defined it by drawing
up the Saxon customs in all their
purity: this was the famous common
law 1t affirmed the narrow limita.
tions or the public powers by ensur-
ing individual liberty and bv the in.
stitution Of the jury The Normans
conquered the SaXOnS but the Saxon
conquest began just as soon as the
fighting was over. The institutions
and the language OF the conGuerors
and the conquered are today English
and not Norman. M. DemOlins saws
In his very interesting treatise that
the Angl lo.Saxon has expanded until
he occupies all the points of vantage
because he attaches himself to the
soil ard leaves politics to the Celt and
because OF the reliance OF every Anglo.
Saxon man upon himself rather than
upon his family or upon the COM