The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-03-23

suspicious political investment Great
 Britain ever made, beating the union with Scotland out of sight. Canada would be turned into numerous states Of the union, all with senators and representatives in Congress and all with votes in the elec- toral college. Every one of those states would be Anglo-maniac from hamlet to metropolis from kneadng- trough to leg islature, from home fireside to church al- tar. A while ago no political platform was finished that did not have an Irish plank;' but that sort of politics would be a skeleton in the closet, along with the bloody shirt of ''tis 90 years since" With such conditions, what more natural
 than hard and fast diplomatic alliance
 with Great Britain that would soon wax to be political federation?
 We narrowly escaped that consumma- ton six-score years ago, and it was de- feated by the instinctive wisdom of
 George Washington and the homely wis
 dom of Benjamin Franklin. Wedderburn, who never entered upon forlorn hope, nor threw away the scabbard," if we are
 to credit "Junius.'' was the brains of
 Lord North's administration, and he in- sisted on ''throwing in" Canada when the treaty acknowledging our independence was negotiated. He saw as Washington and Franklin saw. that France would demand Canada of us as indemnity for her efforts in our behalf. Washington and Franklin preferred England for neighbor rather than France and they
 ne1ected the gift, knowing that it would occasion war with France, which would nave forced our alliance with England,
 which, in turn. would have resulted in
 allegiance to the British crown after
 England drubbed France for us, as would have been the case had Wedderburn suc- ceeded in throwing in'' Canada
 I have employed the term Anglo-Saxon in observance of general custom and in defiance of strict accuracy. We need not appeal to Dean Swift to learn that the imagination, which is the womb of things
 is stronger than the memory, which is the grave of things-hence Anglo-Saxon it is and Anglo-Saxon 1t will be as long as men speak of those who employ the English tongue. The highest type of Anglo-S Saxon is not yet come. All of us must agree with pr. Eliot, president emeritus of Harvard when he opines that miscegenation of the Caucasian and the Mongonlian, or the Caucasian and the Ethiopian, produces a lower order of 1u- man beings: but when he says that a. marriage between an Irishman and an Englishwoman, or between a Teuton and a Latin, or between a Scandinavian and a Slay, or, in short, between any two families of the white race, produces a similar lowering of the species, he lays himself liable to challenge.
 Leaving America out of account, for we are not yet of age. the English have shown more intellectual genius and more physical virility than any other people of all history, ancient or modern {. and there are more bloods in England than in France or. Germany or Spain or Italy. Your Englishman is Teuton and Celt It does not require riotous imagination to fancy that the blood of Boadicca is in the veins of George V, and who shall say that the blood of Caesars and of Agricola's legions is not perpetuated in the veins of the yeomen of Nottingham shire and the herdsmen of Northumber- land? Is it not possible that Francis Bacon was the direct lineal descendant of the Emperor Julian?
 What a mixture of this all-conquering Caucasian race the future American will be, made up as he will be of all the bloods of Europe from where the Danube finds the sea to where the Neva falls into the gulf, and the Ebe dilutes the Baltic. With Anglo-Saxon for base, this Ameri- can will inherit from Celt, Latin, Ger man. Scandinavian, Slav. There will be tinge of Greek, also, and little of the blood of Asia-Minor.