Show RACE characteristics the philadelphia record reviews the population of 0 tills country as given by the census of 1890 anil and mentions that of the terelen born residents more than a were born in england scotland and wales then it refers to the scotch in this country and the prejudice tit of the english agal the scotch and expresses tile the beller belief that Scotch men feel more at home in tills country than they do in england it ites cites ur dr johnsons remark that he loved sermons nod and then added though the dos dog be a scotchman and at a presbyterian and ami lie III should DO not be I 1 1 was I th lb first to praise him lie he thinks too that salisbury has that same name pic iudice which profitably probably has come cuic down to him from froll ills who inho aa was queen elizabeths great minister all these speculations are arc useless because it shows a want of understand lag of tile the true english character ED gl ishmen feel na ia kindly toward scotch men ien us as they to do toward any one but the leason Irig Ih island larad Is what bile Is I 1 Is because Ip causo it la Is inherent in the englishman to thinly think and feel that lie he and ills hll race are arc tho the great race lace of 0 the lite world and v when lion the tent comes carries all ELI the rest of the must lie sacrificed if necessary to sustain or to vindicate tile englishman or the english government it Is riot not so at nit all with the cosmopolitan mo ma politan race nl has grown crown up in ili tills this country lit in reference ret prence to persons when it comes to the defense of tho the nation the he american Is just as intense as tile the englishman but it Is true that the american people have lebs lefas prejudice and they come nearer meeting tin on equal terms the men of all nations than any other oilier people on lite face of the earth that Is there Is less clannishness among native born americans than among any other people und and the reason leason la Is we suspect because they sao aio a new race for we meet a L man on oil tile the street who traces lili ancestry back to plymouth rock if 1 you please and bc ond thit that still we find that lit in ills his chis in ili nine line cases out of ten there Is 19 Gein Gc imai tan scotch irish or french blood till and the race really still belll Is in the formation torin alion state arid and the real leal american race made up oc at the ilia blend ing ini of all other laces mill ua not become r absolutely abol fixed and take on an the clannish character of older nations nit lons for yet perhaps two hundred years |