The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1899-03-25
WHICH SILENCES The ANGL LOMANIACS.
Imagine They Are Better Than
the Vast Majority
OF THEIR OTHER FELLOW CITIZENS.
Their Ancestors Civilized by
the Celts and Romans.

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The following reply to boastiul
Anglomaniac recently appeared in the
New York Sun under the signature OF
J. D. O'Connell. of the Bureau OF Stats
tics, Washington, D. c.:
One "E. E. c." addressed letter to
a contemporary which appeared in that
paper of the 25th ult., under the caption
AN Anglo-Saxon Country" E. E. C.
undertakes to say that "the recent Eng
lisl-American rapproacl1ement appears
to make some of the Irish in this coun-
try who are not yet Americanized froth
at the mouth and that "they throw
fits at the name Anglo xon'-wfat-
ever that may mean. He also under
takes to deny the truth of the statement
published, which he is apparently reply
ing to, that in 1900 only one-tenth OF
that portion OF Our population which is
derived from the immigrants who came
here after 1S4o, will be Anglo-Saxons.
I beg to say to this unknown contrib
utor that one who talks about the Anglo
Saxon and says that this is an Anglo
Saxon country, that it was settled and
developed by Anglo-Saxons, and that
two-thirds of its white inhabitants are
of Anglo-Saxon descent, makes state
ments regarding a matter of which he is
totally ignorant. What does e. E. c."
know about the Anglo-Saxons or their
characteristics or their institutions, or
even their language? What was there
peculiar to the Angles and Saxons that
was not common to other German bar
barians before they came in contact with
Roman civilization and Roman Chris
tianity? Can he say OF this man in
Brooklyn or that man in New York that
one is an Anglo-Saxon and the other is
not? All that the great scientists
could say would be that John Smith"
OF Brooklyn, being blue-eyed, blonde,
and of fair complexion, was, therefore,
in some respects OF Teutonic or Ger
manic type; and that "Mr. Jones' of
New York. being dark-laired and hav-
ing blue eyes, indicated, i'll some re-
spects Celtic type; and then you
would say that there was blending in
each individual Of both types, and that
neither was in fact Tcutonic nor Celtic.
This is all that can be said or maintained
as evidence that the English people or
American people are of the Anglo
Saxon race; and it shows the absurdity
of the claim.
Every well-informcd ethnologist
knows that while the Angles and Saxons
remained purely Teutonic or Germanic
tribes, they were, like all other Teutonic
or German tribes, blonde, haxen-
haired people of good physique and hav-
irg only such institutions" as were
common to all other German tribes and
like European barbarians; and every
well-iniorned reader knows that the an
cient Britons were stalwart, dark
haired racc-far on the road to civiliza-
ton when the Angles and Saxons began
to cross the German ocean to seek set
Elements on the southern and eastern
coast of England and that whatever
civilization and institutions the latter &C
quired were acquired from the same an
cient Britons, who, in turn, had ac-
quired their civilization and institutions
from the Romans during the four CEN
turies OF Roman occupation.
Some fool writer some time or other
got the idea into his head that the An
giles and Saxons overran the island and
practically exterminatcd the Britons,
and, therefore, that the English people
of his day were Anglo Saxons. Sue
cceding him we have such other fool
writer's as "E. E. {" rushing into print
with the claim that not only the Eng
lish people, but the great mass of the
American white people, are OF Anglo
Saxon descent, or that at least two
thirds of them are of that descent, and
that these "Anglo-Saxons" will control
and determine, in the future, as in the
past, "the lines on which our national de-
velopment shall take place." 1 wonder
why "E. E. c." excludes our colored
brethren, for certainly the so-called An
glo-Saxon language is their mother
tongue, and if Celt is not TO be re-
garded as an Anglo-Saxon, why include
him in the two-thirds OF the whole
Americans, or why include the descend