The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1907-03-09

a Americans are descended from
Esb forefathers, and despite the
Lac of the lion IS tail, and other oc-
NAL political and social evidences
nelophobia, the English are not
Ii unon as other foreigners In the
tsd states. OF the three millions
a nar;cans in the colonies when IN
sdont Government was established,
E,,t half a million were English or
Fsuaiish stock. The English Ian"
With improvements. is the Amer
k1nnguage. English laws are
african laws. The Constitution looks
Enrlish precedents, and every one OF
STATE constitutions comes from the
Ii source. American literature can
be separated from English htera-
u and even England does not at
Mt distinction
n the history of our country the
rlish names are most numerous and
istrious. OF our twenty-five Presi-
la fifteen have been of direct Eng
stock. beginning with Washington
ending with Cleveland. 1t is
rthy of note that all but two of the
<s;dents have como from British
Il, either English, Scotch, Irish or
rls8. The two exceptions, Van Bu~
4 and Roosevelt, were Dutch IN the
Fernal line, but both Scotch in tho
|ferual line. To enumerate the Eng
names which stand out in the his.
y of the Republic would be TO set
VA the names of at least three.
,rths of the men whose fame has
'ds the glory of America in state.
nd. war and letters. Comparatively
English are coming to the United
ties now, the yearly immigration
No about 10000, and they are al
al Immediately assimilated by the
1erican population Among the ma
& Englishmen who are now holding
b political office IN this country may
mentioned j. j. jenkins, member of
upress from Wisconsin and chairman
the important judiciary committee,
Representative William Lorimer of
icago.
kndrew Carnegie is the best known
the native Scots who are now Amer
ns. He. came to the United States
q pennicss boy, and is now the sec
richest man in the world. He has
en- away moro money than any other
in history. Another Scot, born in
shadow of the home of Robert
rms. is James Wilson, secretary of
iculture. He Is the only one Of
Kinlcys s cabinet officers who has
1 onto his seat at the President S
neil table until this day, Alexander
ham Bell. the inventor of the tele.
ne, was born IN Scotland. The late
akcr Henderson Of the National
Use Of Representatives came from
tland when boy. Nine Presidents
The United States boasted of Scotch
'd.. Robert +. Lee of Virginia was
ccnded from Robert Bruce, King of
Hand, Washington Irving was of
tch parentagc and the list of his sue
'ors in American journalism who are
The same blood includes James Cor
Bennett, Henry Watterson, White.
Reid, Arthur Brisbane and John K,
Lean. The ST. Andrew S society of
York is l52 years old. and nearly
~. State has a Scottish American
nnization.
lie few Scots who come to this coun-
nowadays do not settle in colonies.
rapidly amalgamate themselves
3 the Americans. This was not so
'hc old days when the frontier was
pt with dangers. Companies of
tch people, armed with good rifles
BIBLES, and accompanied by Pres
enan ministers, broke over the Allie
mes into the Western wild. Many
these colonies were from the Caro-
:. and In Tennessee and Alabama
Mississippi they are found today
scotch, still Presbyterian, and still
traid' From such settlements as
'e nave come the Witherspoons and
'rsons:, without which names the
NIy OF American Presbyterians can
~ written. a century old, each of
nttie transplanted Drumtochtvs
Fp its old traditions, the marriages
f'lth Scots. and the blood is kent
E. Welcome to as many Of these
ABIDING, God fearing peopls as will
ur .neigbbor of the North, the fair
ninaon or Canada, sends us thousands
ler sons each year, IT is said there
more canadians on this side Of the
ndtary than there are in the Domin.
Inc manner in which this country
acIs the young blood of Canada IS
hIn py a recent class of engineers
- ga are graduated from McGiIl Uni
NY In Toronto. At the close of the
twcnty-one young men were given
Io!mas, and nineteen OF them left i'm.
nately TO accept positions which
: !. waiting for them in various parts
.ns United States. The Canadian
iittie different from the American
.nere is no reason for regarding
ds a foreigner. To the America6
lcn canada has given Bishops Fow.
ana Berry of the Methodist church.
science, Dr. William Osler; to iour,