“A. MILLERAND.”
After this, who can be scandalized by the vehement criticisms directed at the National Council by Grumbach, against the state of siege and of arbitrary rule which the Government of the Republic imposes upon Alsace-Lorraine?Does M. Clemenceau, that “old libertarian” know the decree of Millerand? In any case it is important to know that this decree is not aimed at the Germans residing in Alsace-Lorraine, but at the citizens of Alsace-Lorraine of Category A, those indisputably French. Incredible, yet true!
Americans Not An English People.
Americans Not An English People.—Careful computation made by Prof. Albert B. Faust, of Cornell University, shows that while the English, Scotch and Welsh together constituted 30.2 per cent. of the white population of the United States of the whole of 81,731,957, according to the census of 1910, the German element, including Hollanders, made up 26.4 per cent. of the total, and constituted a close second, the Irish coming next with a percentage of 18.6.
| Total white population in the U. S. proper, 1910 | 81,731,957 | 100% |
| English (including Scotch and Welsh, about 3,000,000) | 24,750,000 | 30.2 |
| German (including Dutch, about 3,000,000) | 21,600,000 | 26.4 |
| Irish (including Catholic and Protestants) | 15,250,000 | 18.6 |
| Scandinavian (Swedish, Norwegian, Danish) | 4,000,000 | 4.8 |
| French (including Canadian French) | 3,000,000 | 3.6 |
| Italian (mostly recent immigration) | 2,500,000 | 3.0 |
| Hebrew (one-half recent Russian) | 2,500,000 | 3.0 |
| Spanish (mostly Spanish-American) | 2,000,000 | 2.4 |
| Austrian Slavs (Bohemian and Moravian, old Slovac, etc., recent) | 2,000,000 | 2.4 |
| Russians (Slavs and Finns one-tenth) | 1,000,000 | 1.2 |
| Poles (many early in 19th Century) | 1,000,000 | 1.2 |
| Magyars (recent immigration) | 700,000 | .8 |
| Balkan Peninsular | 250,000 | .3 |
| All others (exclusive of colored) | 1,181,957 | 2.1 |
According to this table, more than twenty-six Americans out of every hundred are of German origin and about thirty out of every hundred only are either of English, Scotch or Welsh descent. Recent writers, like Dr. William Griffis, and Douglas Campbell (“The Puritan in Holland, England and America”) have vigorously disputed the theory that the Americans are an English people. As Prof. Faust shows, only 30.2 per cent. of the mixed races of the United States are of English origin, while nearly 70 per cent. are of other racial descent.Dr. Griffis wisely declares: “We are less an English nation than composite of the Teutonic peoples,” and the great American historian, Motley, declared: “We are Americans; but yesterday we were Europeans—Netherlanders, Saxons, Normans, Swabians, Celts.”
“She (England) has a conviction that whatever good there is in us is wholly English, when the truth is that we are worth nothing except as far as we have disinfected ourselves of Anglicism.” James Russell Lowell in “Study Windows.”
“Most American authors and all Englishmen who have written on the subject, set out with the theory that the people in the United States are an English race, and that their institutions, when not original, are derived from England. These assumptions underlie all American histories, and they have come to be so generally accepted that to question them seems almost to savor of temerity.... Certainly no intelligent American can study the English people as he does those of the Continent, and then believe that we are of the same race, except as members of the Aryan division of the human family, with the same human nature.”—Douglas Campbell. “The Puritan in Holland, England and America,” Chapter I.
“The Germans were among the earliest and the most numerous of American settlers. The Anglo-Saxons are the acknowledged masters of the earth. The bulk of the early immigrants were of these two stocks. Examine the matter from any angle, and it is apparent that the American people are the direct, immediate descendants of world empire builders.