Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1911-10-25

monumental work, 1.-The German Ele-
ment in the United States" devotes the
first chapter Of his second volume to the
best treatise, we have met, on the Ger
man blood in the American people. He
calculates the German element in 1900
numbered 1S,400,000; the English 90
100000; the Irish and Scotch, or Celtic,
100000, a total of 52,7OOOO0, Of a to-
tai white population of 66,990,000. The
100000 Scandinavians are not in
cluded in these figures. The Eng
lish, German and Scandinavian ele-
ments therefore total 43,So0,0OO Teutons.
The Celts U3.9oO,OoO) are the second
strongest element, while the Romance
and Slavic are comparatively very weak.
These figures prove the Americans are
a Germanic people, and either Of the
three Teutonic elements should, there
fore, learn to understand the other two.
The Celtic element in the British Isles
(9,141,472) is decreasing while the Eng
lish or Teutonic (36,075,269) increases,
| fact that has bearing on the future
of America. The Celts in Europe and
America are being teutonized by the
English German and Scandinavians.
Prof. Max Muller in the second vol
| ume Of his English work, "Chips from a
German Workshop" says: Though the
Old Morse is but a dialect of the same
language which the Angles and Saxons
| brought to Britain, though the Norman
| blood is the same blood that floods and
GIBBS in every German heart, yet there
is an accent of defiance in that rugged
Northern speech and spring Of daring
madness in that throbbing Northern
heart which marks the Northman wher-
lever he appears, whether in
Iceland, or in Sicily, whether on the
Seine or on the Thames. In the great
race of civilization Frank ana Anglo
Saxon had tendency to become dull and
lazy, and neither could arrive at per-
Election till it had been chastised by the
lNorsemen, and finally forced to admit
Ian infusion Of Northern blood into its
lsluggish veins. The vigor of the var
lious branches Of the Teutonic stock may
be measured by the proportion of Nor
man blood which they received. In Nor
mandy they became earls of Rouen an(
in the British Islands Kings of England
but their language struck deep root on
lily In Iceland" We add, also in Green
land and Finland. Being freemen the,
| developed free people wherever the!
came, often too free to retain their Ian
guage. It remains to be seen what the.
will do in America the land of the free
ENGLISH AND AMERICANS LEARN
ING GERMAN AND SCAN
DINAVIAN.
Times have changed in late years. TIL
English are more favorable to learnin
other languages. English tourists t
Norway we hear are now speaking goo
Norwegian and American tourists t
Germany speak better German. TIL
one-language people of the Anglo-Saxo'
race are beginning to study and teac
their children one or two living langu
| ages of their ancestors. The people Q
| various countries Of the earth are n
longer divided as natives, foreigners an
English. The English and the German
l are being compared in every detail b
4 other nations and both are alike fol
eigners. If the English have not los
by comparisons, the Germans and Scar
dinavians have gained. Europe, and es
pecially the German part, never enjoye
greater material prosperity than at pres
ent and this is being shared by tn
northern countries so near to Berli1
and England is compelled to revise II
estimate of both Germany and Scandil
avia. In the near future, the Englis
people of America also will have
raise their estimate of the America
1, Germans and Scandinavians, if the
have not already commenced to do S
That the rise of the old hanseatic, vii
ing fatherlands will be shared by the
children abroad is a suggestive though
that need not be developed here, even
the space permitted.
Many Germans and Scandinavians
America, who have forgotten the
mother tongues simply because they he
no chance to keep it up, see now the
mistake and would be delighted If
good opportunity were given their chi
dren to recover it. In Detroit, Mini