The Irish standard., 1903-10-17
ENGLISH NOT ANGLo-sAxoN.

| y contribution TO ordinary sanity in
connection with the .Anglo-SaXon
myth, by DR.. james G.. Kiernan, ap-
pcarcd in last Sundays issue of the
Chicago Tribune. OF late years there
has been so much loose talk about
Anglo-SaNon world supremacy ana
| like rot. that it becomes important for
every one to understand that Anglo
| Saxon means nothing in these days.
In some way a foolish notion has
arisen among a certain class of Amer
leans that "Anglo-SaxOn" stands for
something superior. Not one in Il
hundred of those who talk about the
superiority of the Anglo-SaXon race
knows what the term means Not
long ago we heard a Highland Scotch
man and an Irslman, from Belfast.
discussing the large question of
world politics, and both referred to
themselves as Anglo-SaXon. They
were probably as near right as the
Cockney, who calls himself an Anglo
Saxon. DR.. Herman, like all others
who have given the ma tier attention.
shows how meaningless the term u.s.
He says:
Under cthnologic studies old race
terms and delnarcatiOnS are vanishing
AS race, the noble '.Aryan' has gone
albeit Aryan speaking nations exist
The 'Anglo-SaXon' myth, which so
greatly fascinated even thinking men
of Celtic blood and cognomcn like Ma
caulcy, is following in it's wake The
An%lo--SaXonS' are no longer low
German tribes (Anglcs. SaXons. and
'Iutcs'. which stamped law. speech.
and religion on all RonaniZcd Colts
they did not kill off in the British
isles. thereby forming the English
speaking nations. The gods of the
SaNons were old Celtic gods Craylor:
Origin of the Aryansl. The Anglo
SaNonS' themselves II mixture of CeltS
conventional sensc), Ccltibcri;ins. Tcu-
tons conventional sensc,. Sclaves (con-
ventional sensc,. with low primitive
races. We're no more Teutons (Keane:
'Ethnology) than the high Germans
Observation-Disclosures were Teutons.
or the Bohcmians Kclto-Tento-
Sclavcs) were Sclavcs or the French
and Spanards (Ibero- KcltO leu.
tons) We're Latins or the Irish and
Welsh observation-disclosures were
Cclts. All Celtiberians who came
nort'lward in Europe from Africa
(Scrgi: The Mediterranean RaceJ
mingled everywhere with Mongolia ell
ements like the Tuens and Films and
even more primitive races. as we'll as
the conventional Celts, Teutons. and
Schlaves.
"The Tcutonic sociologic ideal.
where not dominated by the Celt or
Ccltiberian. was Roman. The polity
which had survived Roman autocracy
in the British isles, found there by the
Anglo Saxons,' was in essence that OF
the English speaking nations. The
Celtic Brchon Tor breast laws had the
same regard for the rights of the in
dividual freemen that English COM
| mon law has in criminal matters, and
even more regard for woman. The
English common law is tainted here
by Judge made law and the contempt
for woman of oriental Christianity.
What the king wanted under Norman
polity judges legislated under preteXt
of saying what law was. In Wales
and in the Scottish highlands, despite
the Romans. democratic institutions
still persisted Mt about the status OF
The republic of the American Indian
Six Nations Daniel Wilson: a Typi-
cal American RaceO. The status in
the isle of Man (whcre the only local
legislature in Britain exists was high
or. In Ireland. where the monarch,
vas elective clifton: Origins of Eng
ish History. it was higher still. Ma
cauley erred when he derived the con-
stitutional monarchies of the continent
rom Teutonic (conventionaD sources.
These constitutional monarchies were
elective. either as to dynasty or as
o individuals. At times they assumed
i federal type. Brian Roroihme was
hereditary lord of Munster, but cleo
i've overload of Ireland. England still
etains this type. Under the Tudors
popular consent was specifically re-