The Liberal democrat. [volume] (Liberal, Kan.) 1911-1924, 1917-06-07
1.-THE PROGRESS OF THE
TEUToNIc PEOPLE"

Progress Of the Teutonic People,"
Claude has long since graduated, and
is now Professor" himself. A few
days ago his aunt, Mrs. D. C. Woods
in going through some old papers,
run across thae essay. Mr.. Wood
showed it to the writer, who request
ed that we be permitted to print it,
which request was granted
Claude is son of w. G. Bunyard,
who is well known here, and is en-
gagged in the furniture business at
Tyrone.
Claude is one of the bright young
men graduated from Liberal high
school ond is credit to the school
and his parents.
The essay follows:
The Teutonic race sprang from
three distince classes of people, name
ly: the Norsemen, the Germans and
the Romans. The Norsemen were a
tribe of barbarians who lived on the
Scandinavian peninsula. They were
a seafaring people often going
thousands of miles in their open
craft to explore the unknown sea.
They colonized Iceland, landed on the
coast of Labrador and it is said trav-
eled as far inland as the interior Of
Minnesota. The Norsemen were
almost giants in stature, the result of
their never ending outdoor life.
The Germans dwelt in the forests
OF what is now modern Germany and
Austria Hungary. These people had
no established place of abode, but
wandered about in the forests, the
wild animals which furnished them
with food and clothing being scarce
ly more wild than these children of
the forest. In stature the Germans
were not inferior to the Norsemen,
and, added to their size was an in
vincible spirit. They were always
fighting. War was their trade, they
never knew when they were beaten.
They gave no quarters and expected
none. When once repulsed they
would collect again and fall upon the
enemy in numbers and strength for
midable, even to the we'll trained
phalanx of the Romans. Thus the
people endowed with such an irwin
chile spirit were styled by the great
Caesar himself as the uncomfortable
Germans. The Romans were the
civilized people of the period, they
ruled practically the whole world
They were an ambitious people,
never satisfied with what they had
but always wanted more. Alexan-
der, the great Greek general, after
having conquered Mede and Persia,
prayed only that he might have more
worlds to conquer, also, Caesar, the
greatest and most ambitious of Rom
an generals, extended the boundary
line of the Empire into Africa on the
south and into Brittany on the north
and west. Ambition was the cause
of Caesars untimely death, as like
wise it has been the destruction of
many men since.
Thus we find that the physique of
the Norsemen, the unconquerable
spirit of the Germans and the ambi-
ton of the Romans, when blended to-
gether made the Teutons strong,
energetic and an ambitious people.
About the year 400, there lived
along the German ocean between the
mouth of the Rhine and the peninsu-
la of Jutland, two tribes Of people,
the Angles and the Saxons, who be-
longed to the German stock Of the
Teutons, speaking the low-dutch lam
guage. These are people to whom
we Americans owe our lineage, they
are our ancient ancestors, their dia-
lect is the root of our modern Eng
fish language.
ASfOoS tHc uerlHdH OCedH anu
west of the territory belonging to
the Angles and Saxons, lay small
island known as Brittany, which was
inhabited by the Celts, who since the
time of Caesar had been under the
rule of the Romans. The Angles
and the Saxons being crowded some
what in their small territory and
being likewise of warlike nature
attempted the invasion of this island
called Brittany.
The Romans had withdrawn their
legions from the island for the sake
of protecting their home govern
ment, thus the Celts left upon their
own resources were not able to
Withstand the attack of the invading |
army, and were partly but not Who'll
ly conquered by the Anglo-Saxons.
After this invasion the island of
Brittany, or Angleland, as the Sax
ons named it, was the home Of An
glo-Saxon people. The Anglo-Sax-
ons were very intelligent and took
up readily with the Roman civiliza-
finn which had haan introduced fO |