The Irish standard., 1903-11-28
; ANGLO-sAxON FAKE AGAIN.

nNoLV.9hAVN ZANE h0hIN.
The Minneapolis Tribune, comment-
ing on the recent crime committed on
Franklin avenue bridge, has fallen in
to the "Anglo-SaXon' habit 1t is a
bad habit and wonderfully catching,
but we are surprised that the Tribune,
whose comments are usually so point.
ed and we'll considered, should fall in
to the now prevalent loose talk about
Anglo-SaXons. If Anglo-Saxon means
anything to-day it means descendant
of those people called Angles, SaXons
and Jutes, who migrated from the
northern jungleS along the North Sea,
into Britain about the middle of the
fifth century. These people We're dis
tinguished from other Teutonic tribes
then in Europe in that they were far
less advanced and more savage than
their neighbors. They had not come
in contact with the Roman soldiers
and merchants; neither had they been
Christianized. They overran Britain
civilization that there existed. They
not only conquered, but they destroy
ed, and what they did not destroy they
oppressed. So they remained for the
better part of two centuries until mis-
sionaries from Ireland and Rome after
much hard work slowly taught to
N th,iS IL, pnli i.rin
centuries more they made little pro-
gress until the Norman French came
over to England and taught the slow
and stubborn Anglo-SaXon the art of
government and impressed upon him
the French language and civilization.
Thus civilized, educated, Christanized
and refined from Ireland. Rome and
France, the Anglo-SaXon about the
middle of the eleventh century began
to play an important but not unusual
part in the affairs of the world Last
OF all European peoples TO become
civilized, the Anglo -Saxons have, as IL
rule, followed rather than led in the
progress of the world. Indeed, the
Anglo-SaXon made no progress until
he mingled with the Celtic and Gallic
peoples. Since that time lie has been
neither better nor worse than the
average European. except. perhaps, a
little slower. The Tribune assumes
that we are an Anglo-SaXOn nation. A
perusal of an abstract Of the census
would dispel that illusion. Take most
any northern city or community and
the fact is ut once apparent that we
are most everything else but Anglo
Saxon. Boston. the first .Anglo-SaNOn
settlement in the north, is nearly fifty
per cent Irish today. If we take into
account all the other natiOnalitics
which arc decidedly not Anglo Saxon,
there remains Il rather insignificant
minority which might by far-fetched
gencalogy count itself Anglo Saxon.
This is even more true of the city Of
New York. The same is true of al
| most every northern community. The
nearest specimen we have in this cOun-
| try of an Anglo Saxon is doubtless to
| be found in southern states. The un-
| fortunates who made up the colony
| that settled Georgia have remained
. free from the influence of other races
! The descendants of these people are
4! scattered about in the south, and to
them the Anglo-SaXon monomaniacs
must look for the purest specimens in
this country. This talk about Anglo
Saxon superiority is so loose and p,lcr-
| lie that it scarcely needs attention. but
when Il newspaper with the influence
: of the Tribune falls into the error we
feel justified in making Il simple
statement of fact. In speaking of the
historic race to which the alleged muir.
derer belongs, the Tribune says:
| Yet Anglo-SaXondom has been alb.
sorbing these sorts Of unpromising ma.
terial for many centuries, and always
has found it digestible in generation
or two. England was the refuge of
debris thrown off by the hot-bloodcd
races of the South and East long be
fore the discovery of America opened
new future outlet for their continual
flights. There have been foreign quar-
tiers in London, where all the passions
of alien peoples ragged and spent them
selves in contracted space almost Il:
freely as under their own fiery skies
Only just now London was the seen,
of secret society assassination anon.
! Americans, quite rs mysterious as tina