Evening star., 1924-11-23
By THOs. n. MARSHALL.
Vice President Of the UniteA
- States.

nA THOS. II. MARSHALL,
Former Vice PrssIdent Of the UniteA
r T is not at ali strange that the con-
fusion OF tongues at Babel brought
about a conflict as to superiority
u OF races which became centuries
old. Even today, and in our
country, the man who does not speak
the English language is regarded by
many as belonging to an inferior
people, notwithstanding that the his
tory Of the world dIscIoses that every
tongue has its virtues and every
race its Vices. On the other hand,
proponents of the compulsory use Of
English in. the United States are la
beled ,"Anglo-maniacs." The charge
is freely made against them that
they would like to strike the New"
out Of New England. They are even
suspected OF being desirous that our
country again become an appanage
Of the British crown. They are ac-
cused of trsing to make Englishrf1en n
out Of Irlshmen, Germans. Italians.
have observed resentment on the
part OF Americans at any reference
to Ang1o-Saxon civilization. 49,
The term seems to inspire in GER
tain minds the concept that those
who use IT believe that America is
really Anglo Saxon. OF course, such
is not the case. To the contrary, they
are well prepared TO argue that even
the British Isles are not in blood
Anglo-Saxon. They 1ike to think of
the British as the poet laureate de-
scribed them In his welcome to
Queen Alexandria,:
SaIon and Norman and Dane Are we,
But all OF Us Danes in our welcome to thee.
-, l.
Here in America. where we have
Of recent years been repudiating the
melting pot, the term "AngIo-Saxon"
does not In any respect imply that
we are Angio-Saxon by blood. This
was distinctly pointed out in a most
interesting discussion In the United
States Senate which l well rcmem-
Der. The chief participants were
John Sharp Williams of Mississippi
and James x. O'Gorman Of New York.
These Senators, both well versed In
history and skillful at debate. got
into a heated argument over the
makeup of the American revolution
ary army. Williams is of Welsh ex-
traction. He is not Anglo Saxon,
not even English, save as he speaks
the English tongue. He contended
that there were few Irishmen in the
<tIHiS, ldSt II
was largely English.
OGorman, who traces his lineage
to the Emerald Isle. would have
none OF this. He insisted that the
Army was largely Irish. Each drew
on his storehouse of historic knowl-
edge. Each piled the arts of public
discourse, which both knew so we'll.
Neither was able to make the other
yield. But the Senate was enter
tained and instructed. Those of us
who listened got a new slant on the
term Anglo Saxon" We were
brought to the conviction that our
repudiation Of the melting pot had
not changed the history of our peo-
pie.
This year happens to be the ter
centerary Of the Huguenot Walloon
immigration into America, and for
some months now argument has
again been heard that the causes of
the American Revolution were not
English at all. We have been rein
formed that the struggle to impress
men with regard to their right to
worship God as they pleased and to es-
tablish a government that would be
satisfactory to the governed found
its real origin among refugees from