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Show The American Race. The Viscount d'Avenel, in his impressions of the United States, thinks that the descendants of the Anglo-Saxon in the United States will 'soon become as extinct as the Iroquois and Hurons; that the rush from southern Europe will overwhelm over-whelm them. He gives a great many statistics to prove his statement, and concludes by saying: "The law of physical development makes the permanence per-manence of the American race impossible. The r&ce will be crowded out by the survival of continental con-tinental hybrids, and the last of the,. Almoricans will come as surely as the last of the Mohicans." Rather of a gloomy prospect, is it not? But there is still hope. Who is the greatest of all Frenchmen? Would not Viscount d'Avonil instantly in-stantly reply, "Why, Napoleon, of course." And still there did not happen to be a drop of French blood in the great Corsican's veins. He was just as much of a Roman as was Julius Caesar. But just before his birth Corsica was annexed to Franco. Ho was sent to France to be educated and the events transpiring In Paris just then kindled Into life the old Roman germ which peril per-il aps had bean dormant In his and his ancestors' sculs for fifteen hundred years, and he took possession pos-session of the world's stage and hold it for twenty j ears. There was not much American blood in Patrick Pat-rick Henry, but was he not pretty much of an American? And when the Anglo-Saxon is merged and last in the hosts from southern Europe, what will the best be? Will they not all be Americans? Will tfley noE bo a race reaeBrnea Ijy ft SBStjhd birth? ii race In which will be blended all that has been Brave and brilliant find High and' tfUdf In ail the races? ihd thG Aliglo-SfbKm will not he lost. Old Eclipse, whoso birthday was the day when the coming of the great Eellpse half paralyzed i'lth fodr the ignorant pdpulace of northern Europe dnd the British Isles. Eclipse was a sorrel sor-rel horse with a" black spot on his shoulder. That black spot wa transmitted through nine generations genera-tions of Ilia edits, and to this day, when horsemen gee a sorrSl thoroughbred, invincible in spirit, that "iooks &h the sun with wide open eyes" and seams roOdy to "swallow the ground with fierceness fierce-ness ancj rage," they instinctively look for the black sptit otll the shoulder, though the life of a hfrrse is so short, ahd It was a hundred, and forty 1 years ago when did Eclipse was in his glory. The ; jSLnglo-Saxon is riot going) to be lost. There will J bo more blending, but all that is good In the An- I felo-Saxon will be saved, and the best that was j fii Phoenicia, In Greece, in old Rome, In the j Teutons, In the Old Vikings and the Saxons and i Celts will find new expression in that American ' race that Is . to bo, when it will dominate this continent and give peace and a glory above all other glories to this oarth, for the great God guided the -making of the Hag, and that flag was made not only to symbol the glory of the earth, ' biit to bo a harbinger of the peace and the power and the matured splendor which Is to bo when the human race become brothers and the awful scales of Justice will be perfectly balanced. |