The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1909-09-11
A aRoUNpLEss. CLAIM.


most anxious to. cultivate the friend
ship Of the United States. Now and
then we read the speeches of Anglo
maniacs and Englishmen in referenc j
to blood being. thicker than water. So
far as that goes, there is no need OF
affirming or denying it. Blood IL
thicker than water" no matter wheth-
er the blood is that of an English
man, an American, an Irishman. q
scotchman, Q. Norwegian, a Swede. q
Negro or q; Chinaman. But when
representatives of the noble Anglo
Saxon race refer to blood being thick
er than water they mean English
blood, and imply that. English blood
flows through the veins of the ninety
million people of this republic. Of
course, they cannot back up such .
statement from the official census.
which gives the percentage of popu-
lation according to nationalities. Take
it in Minnesota alone, how much Eng
lish blood circulates through the veins
and arteries of the twenty-seven diff
ferent races that occupy its fertile
prairies? English blood in the North
Star State 10 like a drop in the buck
ct. 1t 10 pEeposterous claim thet
the people Of the United States are
Anslo-Saxons. What was said by
Thomas Paine. author of the Rights
OF Man." over . century ago, is more
true: today than when he wrote it:
Europe, not England is the mother
country Of America" And yet the
English and their imitators in, Alnev-
lea are continuously harping upon the
hackneyed phrase about blood being
thicker than water! .
Once In g. while, the blood-and.
water cry IT, abandoned By some in
telligent Englishman who has trav-
eled in the United States. After vts-
iting New York; Boston, Philadelphia,
Chicago. Minneapolis and San Fran
CISCO, and seeing how few persons &c
meets in the vast throngs that pass
him by are English in appearance uf
mode of Speech he soon drops tina
blood-and- watst argument and falls
back on other things This was the
case with Alfred Moseley. who re-
Gently, honored this country with his
august presence Speaking of closer
Anglo Americancre relations, he said not
q word Of the blood question, bu,
brazehly asserted that England pre-
vented an European coalition against
the United States during the Spanish
4aHerican war. The Boston Globe COR
reefs him thus: bb : ~. 1871 ''-'--.
1--WE think. Mp. Alfreu Moseley is
taking. liberties swhene he says that
England's present plight arose out If
the fraternal regard manifested for us
at the time Of the Spanish American
war, when, in hia opinion, Europe was
ready to jump on Uncle Sam and rem
der the Monroe doctrine obsolete. Just
what was the attitude of the powers
at the beginning OF the Spanish Amer
lean. war, is a matter (which Kaiser
William has already discussed with his
English. critics, He says he was al
ways our friend sand. that the English
ambassador at Washington was the
first to suggest intervention on behalf
of SPAIN" "a
Of course, Mr.. Moseley would not
believe anything Kaiser William says.
He evidently has not kept track of
what transpired eleven years ago IN
English diplomatic circles. He should
have gone back to, the. time of tns
Rebellion and told his readers what
splendid aid England rendered to the
United States when. fighting for the
preservation Of the Union. God help
the United States If it ever relies OH
England in the day Of danger.