Salt Lake Telegram | 1902-06-20 | Page 4 | English the Coming Language

I I ENGLISH THE TI-lB COMING LANGUAGE LANGUA GE Some one has lately figured out that two-thirds two of the letters of the world are aret written in the English English En En- glish gush language We c should have guesse guessed 1 that the proportion was larger But ut take it as it is or is-or or as itis itis it if is said to be What l hat a striking commentary upon the advance which the language has hs made and which the Anglo Saxon Anglo Saxon race has made as the natural natural nat nat- ural and inevitable conquerors of the world They know the strenuous life as a race or races and they practice it It is they who g gc over the seas to conquer distant nations nations nations-by by force of arms if necessary necessary necessary essary by the more peaceable resorts of peace if possible Conquer the he world they must for along with the conquests of peace may now and then of necessity come com coma conquests of war and accompanying accompany accompany- ing immediately the conquests of war come the themore themore themore more peaceful advances of commercial and social progress The English language sufficed for Shakespeare Shakespeare Shakespeare Shakes Shakes- peare and Emerson It is equally the most generally generally generally gen gen- gen gen- u utilized language of commerce We Te have havel l heart heard of American America manufacturers who do not care to do business abroad with buyers or correspondents correspond correspond- who do not know how to correspond in our own tongue The Spanish descended people of Porto port Rico and of Cuba the Malays of the Philippi Philippines Philippines Philip Philip- pi pines es want to learn not some tongue which might come conie m more ro naturally to them which is not the tile language of commerce and of progress but our own rather 1 They will learn it as the descendents of the B Boers rs in South Africa will learn it and must learn it in spite of England's recent concession in favor of Dutch ih in the courts and in the schools of the Transvaal With all this comes civilization and pr progress gress ss and so in time the peace of all the world because i ignorance noran e and sloth have been subjugated