The Big Stone Gap post. [volume] (Big Stone Gap, Wise County, Va.) 1892-1928, 1900-02-15
uoe,,,,tv to the Anglo-Saxon.

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Oar LAT. war with Spain and The Presen'
Anglo. Boer war has signalized an import.
ant and far reaching fact OF in'erna'ioha'
oolitIcs. The Anslo-saxon Is dis''Nea
I, Ia not mere political Jealousy that 'nsoe
the newspapers in every country In con.
,;rsn,al Europe take the Spanish side OF
our late quarrel. and II Is not po''''c''
ealousy now that leads these same paper
- xo;cs a similar chorus OF hostility 10
England in her present conflict. IL "
d.ep.seated dislike of the Angio'sah0"'
hat tall. little short Of race haired ~
bs, been manifested in European history
.,n.. tho time of william the Conqueror'
I'D row that our own off-sboot OF Anglo
soxon civilization in America is becoming
ooteut enough to make itself felt Ill inter-
National affairs, it is being visited upon US
as we'll as upon the English.
To trace all the causes Of this wor'u'
wide dislike of the Anglo-Sa1on 10 'hei.
roots would require volume but 'ne' al
..;sa from the one main stem-Angio-
s.xon success. 1t is a well-nigh un'Ver-
-, - nsrverse. attribute Of human nature
- d;s,;ke the man who has proven himself
% hs better and a stronger man 'han
,ourself and this is the offense that the
.no,o-sa.on has committed in the eyes OIL
,hs world. In spite Of all opposition Dis
!. today the strongest, the most rap'o'y
Increasing and the most uplifting force
49,, = he;uc felt in the world. To it we
owe practically all the great discoveries
:, Tho world of science and mechanics at
moI "a for tbe advancements in civil aho
delicious liberty that have made the worlc
h.hi,able for enlightened men. Eng'ah'
aud America have been the light-Dearer'
If the nations and their combined Gu"
,.u,rt;on 70 civilization rises mountains
h;cher than that of all other peoples To-
no,hsr This is the shoe that pinches th'
Latin. the Teuton, the Celt and the o'a'
4
Il ia the steady multiplication and sprea'
over the earth Of these twin sympois 0
Aneio-Saxon prOgress--the cross oil o.
coo,ce and the Stars and Stripes tina
cause the mutterngs Of the continental
European. a,
If is. of course, true that many oil IN
great things CT history were done by mel
not of Anglo Saxon blood. We have Da
MANY inventors, warriors, statesmen al"
philosophers, who, in their lineage were
Irish. Gallo or Teutonic extraction. Du
these great ones. for the most part "er
iuspired by and worked under tue Anglo
S,xon spirit. Perhaps, not majority
Americas present population is OF Anglo
Saxon extraction, yet the Anglo oaAo
impress is on eyerything,-our Speech oO
home life, our literature, our politics IN
our religion. No body OF n-Ehgl''
speaking immigrants, however large Ia
heen able to cngraft permanently upon ou
American life any important social iea'u'
Of Continental Europe, just as the MOI
man and Scandinavian conquerorS
England could not carry continental III
into England, bat in a generation then
selves became Englishmen with Eugiis
WAYS. The children and grandchildren
our German, Gallo, Slavic, Latin an
Celtic immigrants are today American
:. and practically indistinguisha'le iro
their compatriots whose Anglo-saxon al
: eestry originally nodded and gave dire
g tiou TO American institutions.