Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1918-12-16
.B|sMARCK's PROPHETIC
" VIEW IS NOW RECALLED
paw Great Political Fact OF Modern
Times That America Spoke
English.
UNDERSTANDING PERMANENT
Lord NorthclifYc Declares Present
Union OF Sentiment Between u. S.
and Great Britain Will Not Prove
Thing EphemcraI.

NA"6 1SipiChlcTai.
BY VISCOUNT NoRTHCLIrFIs,
EnEiand's Greatest New.paper Pro-
prietor.
LONDON. December 15.-Bismarcx
~, as once asked what he considered
iha; .,mes. He rcpiie1: fTn= fac:
I I.t North America speaks English"
bismarck. In spite of his antigua ted
.ne1Iies OF government and his short
poNcy regarding Alsace- Lorraine. was
clearly man who saw what was COM
me: al the time when he gave this
any particular Significance in the fact
mat the language OF North America
Is English. What is happening to-day
prophet Of events
II Is always difficult to forecast what
Misery VIII have TO say upon any given
can be an doubt that our descendants
VIII read In their history books that
most valuable and permanent OUT
people OF the United States and the
people from which the main stem of
generally who have not been across
NE Atlantic are too ready to talk as
u he the S,o American can people were OF what
is loosely. termed Anglo Saxon" stock.
Those who are leaders among them
names among the America rs who are
pest pest fnown In England is apt to mis-
or President Wilson. President Taft.
President Mckinley, President Cleye-
land land H Pr Grant; President Lin
tary McAdoo and Secretary of War
ss aa., Secretary Of the Navy Daniels.
iary houston 1"' c ; House and
others. AT the heads OF the biggest
inesses; Of schools and universities,
also 10, be found. more often than not.
descendants from British stock.
NOT PEOPLED MAINLY
ny nRITIsH STOCK
But l. Is dclusion. TO suppose. as
United s,a,es is Sui, f peoS SS ' en1rei ns
or even mainly. by men and women OF
British blood. The American popula-
ton is n mixture and II gains b. be-
ing a mixture. just as the british race
gained In the ages of it's formation by
being COMPOSED Of various elements.
tion TO the Anglo-Saxon. The British
~ still the strongest individual strain
IN the population Of the United States.
though for many years before the war
the other strains had. by means both
omen and secret, striven 10 disrlace II.
Nof the nossibility Of that ambitlon
war will do more. 1t has done more
already, than any other event could
nave zone 10 inold the dlnercnt Aneri-
can racial elements into a nation
united and distinct. II i'll not be
an Anglo. Saxon" nation. but its lam
guagc Will be English. It's legal and
political forms VIII be derived from
those OF the British Isles. and II will
carry on many OF the best Anglo Sax
on traditions.
As Bismarck anticipated correctly.
the fact OF it's being an English speak
ing nation will have "a very strong
influence upon the history OF the world
stF>a
FROM BEING I;PIIEMERAL
For this coming together OF the
American people with the peoples OF
the 1--WE independent states which com,
Zealand and South Africa--this alli-
ance Of the English speaking communi-
and order. and the right to self-Eov-
eminent. and respect for treaties and
engagements. and fair dealing with
cannot be permitted TO pass away as
n mere phase of international rela-
lions. 1, is too valuable. too impor-
tant for that TO be It's fate.
I.amartine. called the French revolu-
ton "a date in the human mind" He
events which alter. not alone institu-
tons. but also modes of thought. The
armies which Carnot organized for
victory were lighting for something
more than their right to be governed
democra tically and not monarchically.
They were fighting for cause dimly
perceived to be The cause of mankind
The idea a. the back of the reyolu-
ton was that OF square deal for
everybody. small as well rs great. and
not only for individuals, but for ma
tions. The very same idea lies at
the back of the American and British
participation In this war: AS your
:. President so clearly and happily cx-
pressed it in speech to Congress
nearly year ago, the price of peace
is full impartial justice. Justice done
You catch with me- President VIII
son continued. in a passage OF moving
beauty and power. the voices OF hui
mainly that are in the air. They grow
more persuasive and they come from
the hearts Of men everywhere"
WHY ARE THE SMALLER
PEOPLES CONSIDERED.
Many people wonder what means all
the bother about the Jngo-Slavs and
cause been taken up by American and
British statesmen alike? Because the
voices Of humanity declare that the
CLAIMS of small nations to self-govern-
ain nor the United States had any
thing to gain by taking part in the
European conflict. They would have
gained much by keeping out put, OF it. Bn.
not let them keep out CT it. That is
what makes their alliance "a date in
the human mind"
1t has taken them long time to
come together. Much misunderstand-
ing. many preutices havo had to be
smoothed away. The Americans hated
the English because they beat them
in the War of independence 1t is
always the victors who keep up sore
ness a longer time than the worsted
The English affected to despise the