Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1902-07-03
OUTSIDE POINT OF VIEW

: OUTSIDE POINT OF WE'VE
In the hurry and hustle of our every
day life many things are going on
around US that receive little or no at
tention. One of the self-evident
affairs is that here III Iowa, and prob
ably in all OF the other states OF the
middle West, we are making i new
race. one tkat for lack OF other Gefini-
ton we shall call American. This race
may be Anglo-Saxon, may be the mem
bers of ii Will be able TO trace back To
hold England and claim ancestors but
the family tree Will be hard to climb
Some OF the branches Will bear but lit
tie resemblance to the parent stock
Mentally and physically this new stock
is already decidedly distinctive. And
it goes without saying this new race is
an Improvement on the previous gem
erations. What follows in this line is
from personal observation, and i'll no
wise is the theory built up TO suit the
condition.
Some years ago there came to X
hemans They settled there as tillers
OF the soil. Children came 10 them,
sons and daughters born in Iowa
Those sons and daughters both from
their earliest days helped their parents
in the fields in the necessary hard
physical work on the Iowa farm. The
result was magnificent specimens of
young manhood and wonianhood es-
pecially the latter. Now y county was
also settled up" by down east Yam
KEGS. Children were born to them also
and their boys aud their girls grew up
into manhood under the beneicent sun
and climate of Iowa. They were an
Improvement physically In the previous
geeration, who came from the land OF
the conSumptive east winds OF New
England. And then came the natural
result The Yankee boys married the
Bohemian girls. The physical attrac-
tons of the dark skinned bright-eyed.
strong. healthy. farm girl appealed
strongly to the descendant of Miles
Standish ard Deacon Mather. Com
paratively few Bohemian boys married
the Yankee girls. The latter found
more congenal mates in Yankee de-
scent Business brought the writer
into Y county ut the time when the
children of the Yankee young man ana
the Bohemian young woman (both
born in IowsO We're beginning to grad
uate from the high schools. Observing
teachers told the writer that in men
tai activity they We're far in the lead
of any other nationality, and this state
ment included the children of German,
Irish. Swedes and English parcntage.
Physically, a stranger need only use his
eyes to see the improved makeup OF
the children of the male Yankee and
the female Bohemian.
Again, only last Year the writer was
in Y county. He passed by a big
school house at recess time. Great big,
stout blue eyed, light haired, full chest
ed, strong lnbed boys and girls We're
there. And after they marched into the
school house and in the high school
room commenced singing America, 1T
did seem appropriate. 1t was their ma
tonal song. And little inquiry
brought out that these fine physical
specimens of 16 and is year old boys
and girls, We're the children of Yankee
born Iowa men, and Swedish born Iowa
girls. Here again the Yankee male Sc
lected the Swedish females. But few
Iowa born Swede boys married Iowa
born Yankee girls.
And so interested in this line, the
writer has been making inquiries all
over the state as occasion and business
brought him into different Iowa coun-
ties. The rule seems to hold good every
where The English male stock is mat
ing with the German. the Swede, the
Norwegian and the Bohemian female.
OF course there are many marriages
these days, where the foreign male, l. e.,
foreign descent, finds wife in the fe-
tmale descendant of Yankeedcn, but IL
is the exception rather than the rule.
Now this condition of affairs, is of
great interest to many. 1t means much
to the future of this country. OF course
it is only history repeating itself. But
while students of history date the de-
cadence or rise of certain natlonallties
from intermarriages with he women OF
conquered provinces. While even the
offspring of the warrior ana ms cap
ture,l female of another nation. nave
made names in history. it is doubtful
lii ever so many advantageous crosses OF
blood have occurred as is now noticeable
i'm many parts of our own and other
western states And true 1T is, this new
race. are entitled to a distinctive name.
Is there any better name than Ameri-
can? In few generations there Will be
societies of western Americans. VIII
it sound odd in a hundred years from
now, for some college graduate to claim
that he descends from the Hawkeyes of
1900.
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