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Show T ' " 1 . . . . t "MR. DOOLEY" AN ANGLO-SAXON. Not all Englishmen are destitute of humor, and thse of that nationality able to analyze the philosophy phil-osophy of "Mr. Dooley" can appreciate what that character said to "Henncssy" about the Anglo-Saxon Anglo-Saxon victory in the election in this country two weeks ago. Ihe comments of the Loudon press made it appear that Roosevelt's election was achieved through John Hay and the Anglo-Saxon element of the Republican party. "If I thought they would do that, I would not have voted tint way," said Mr. Ilennessy. "And did you?" quoth Dooley. "Then I'm. the only Anglo-Saxon that prevents ihe election of Roosevelt from being unanimous." It is a gross mistake to call the people. of this country Anglo-Saxon. Naming them such is expected ex-pected from the Englishman, but falling from the lips of an American it is an error that deserves contempt. America is of all the races of Europe not of England. . President Roosevelt brorght out this fact and one of its causes in his addres, at the- unveiling of the statue of Frederick The Great. The blood of almost al-most every civilized people of Irishmen. Engln-h-men, Germans, Italians. Frenchmen, Slavs, Greeks, and Scandinavians runs in American veins This unprecedented interiilixture of the practical genius of the Englishman, with the imagination of the Italian, of the steady industry "and somber temper of the Teuton with the mercurial habits and joyous disposition of-the Greek and the Latin could not fail in any circumstances to produce a race essentially different from any of those from which it sprang. We are a composite of all, but the name is one American. ' : : |