The Irish standard., 1903-05-16
The Prating About Anglo-Saxcn Supremacy
and Superiority Only Tends to
Stir Up Race Hatred.
Many Facts Which Show That the Path Of
Safety for the American Nation
Leads Not to London

The April number of the magazine,
"Out West" contains the following
article from the pen of Charles II.
Beach. which we take the liberty of
publishing:
In these days much loose and ull-
considered talk is going about In this
country upon the subject Of Il so-called
Anglo Saxon world domination, and
many of our people. who read the
newspapers more than they think,
seem somehow to have absorbed the
notion that it is all very true, and all
very nice, forsooth, that in the new
century the Anglo-SaXon race-what
ever that isis to inherit the earth, and
is to do to death all other and dcgen-
crate folk, the degenemcy and the de-
cadence of nll the other nations Of the
earth duly assumed as necessary
mil ior premise. 1t should seem that
only little reflection and analysis and
some exact speech ought to make an
end of this fatuous idea, and that only
II dull point should easily suffice to
prick Il bubble so ill-innated and SO big
knowledge about the Anglo-SnXon race
and assume for verify all the nonsense
they see in the newspapers about 1t,
knew exactly what an Anglo-SaxOn is,
and what he is not, and why this talk
is abroad I'm the earth, and could be
made to realize TO what national and
tends, we might have less Of 1t In fu-
tulr. It is as a contribution to nation
al sanity on this subject that this
article is written.
When an American plumes himself
upon his Anglo-Saxon extraction and
initiates himself with the idea, it is
more than Il thousand to one that he is
gucssng-;nM guessing wrong. If, in
any individual case. all the necessary
assumptions happen, by the barest
chance, to be correct it comes precise
ly and only to this, that in the particu-
lar case the individual traces his line
age backward some dozens Of genera
tions to an ancestor, or group of an
ccStOS, who, when first heard of, were
lalf-nAked savnges in the woods Of
Grrmany-Snx0ns, Angles or Jutes-
tribes of people distincly inferior in
civilization to their Southern and West
crn nclghbOrs. After their settlement
in England and n wild and barbarOus
existence there for some centuries,
during which of themselves they made
little progress in any drection-all the
recent Alfred millennry rubbish to the
contrary, notwitlIstanding-tllc were
ultimately slbiugatch and civilized by
people from the north of France, who
imposed upon their name their Ian
guagc, their religion, their law and
their enlightenment Whatever they
have subsequently attained is the d.
rect and immediate outcome of the civil
ization imported from Normandy and
Brittany, and imposed upon them with
an iron hand from ltoucn and Rome
After a period Of vassalagc to their
Frankish masters, these angliciZcd
German savagcs came TO be the mid
die, lower middle and peasant stock Of
the British islands. Wearing for many
generations very awkwardly the civil
ization that had come to them from
across the channel, they finally came to
stand upon their own feet, compact,
serious, dull stock of people, having in
deed, like every other race of mankind
that has come to the front, their vir-
tues. their cxccllcncics and their limit
ations-not worse, perhaps, but certain
ly not better, than the races from
which they had derived their civiliza-
ton. From about the eleventh century,
when the world was created (fOr them)
to this present. they have in general
followed, and not led. in the march to-
ward higher and better things: and it
is the most untaught and insular con-
ccit to pretend for them as stock any
essential prominence. When you say
that they are strong and serious. and
not In general below fair average Of
humanity, and that In their develop