ANGLO=SAXONDOM.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 802, 27 April 1910, Page 5

ANGLO=S AXON DOM.

v;V;; ;;y; its high- mission. "if>- : ; : i•.■'■; f 1T..;. ■-..)' .■l-^;^.::J;;'(^/X : ;HenTy;i';of.'l«-\Arigde9, j -:...'■ California, whose mission- at ■; the - Town, Hall has .been"^ drawing large, audiences. : .every .evening,' was the. guest■ pf.the New, . Zealand ■ Club 'at • its luncheon; at , the .';■ TJtf.C:AV;yeste^y.y;Mri;P. v Xlv : : Freeth l'. presided.- .;'' '.'. 'C'iV: .".■.'■'.", ■' \ '\. '• ' : ,; - '■■■'■' " 'cTh'e..^^ Future oi'. the' Anglb'-Saxoii" Race"- ■ subject"; of: Dr;- Henry's ; speech, . but'he took a rapid introductory view ■ ofJ'ithev past' and the present. , ; At the '-.- opening of the 16th century, there:were '--' only?<.five million 'people; speaking..'the .English , language.; To-day,'there were 150 ; .. millions, ;besides foreigners' ■.' who' ;'were. learning .it. The' English-speaking .'races. ' ruled one-third of the inhabitants' of : the :'' globe. They: didjnore than, one-third of jta trade,'possessed'more, thac one-third ■ :■ of. its shipping, , and;, wrote .two-thirds ..of the .letters, that went through; the -post.,. They were far and-away, the j.wealtniest: people-on earth,: and:, the development. of .the: Anglo-Saxon- race ' was -.the." most /remarkable phenomenpn of/moderntimes, : and many people believed: that- it had a. : still- greater.-.futurei-,b*efore-*' it. The : twp; great-.'national- traits,;.as,.distinguished. from the,-individual traits,of.'.the^AigJo^ Saxon'-.race were colonisation, and 'assimi-"' lation.-sjGreat^Britain'..represented- the, i oolonial,-,i.dea, : 'and.;iha4.;been., more-sue-. '.-• cessful;'iii-.nsol6nisation than. .any.-other' -'■■"bationsiarltr was..•■.Wγ-: 'distinctivfc/wbrk, . and her; -colonisation .'throughout the; world had conferred great benefits and, blessings upon- -,the peoples who had come ■'-. nnder-'the Union Jack.;:- Assimilation; on the-bther hand,..was the speciil problem. yof.theiOnited States.iand;it;was in many : , respects, a more ; difficult' one.-. jitJntil- ten • ; years ; ago-!most,of America's;' immigrants ; had'come from' Northern Europe, Great Britain and Ireland, but, witjiin,the last decade,.put<of 7$ millions; of'people; who ,- had come into;thu c6nhtry, 70;,' per.cent. .•were-.from -.:. Southern .Europe. >. They .in-; ■-;' eluded Socialists,;. Communists, ;Nihil- ' ists,v;Atheists, Anarchists—people .of all sorts ;of \ religions': and./ of :no;■ ■ 'religion. ' They:,brought the.: red. flag,:, the dagger,. .and. 'every weapon they'; could.- ; They; .-" sought the. ■ destruction . of' the /Govern-' ment'of the very country to which they Jiad ■, come. - The. great.-problem was to *. lake them into;,the body, politic and.make -..'...them : ■ worthy .participators- in' , " constitu- ' Vtionar:'liberty.' ■ All 'the .problems ' : of .:,, America' centred' inthat one;' -She had ■ ito take all that.heterogeneous i mass into , .'ner ./political stomach'iand.: digest.,'it.■ - /..When that was; recognised,'one could ho ,-. . longer;; .wonder 'at the 'corruption of "American municipal government.' : He be■•'..':Heved that the:,future of;the English- 1 spealnnj races .'was/to act: together'for fpenring. the peace , of the world, nromot- '.. rbp trade, causing- a more' equitable :dis- . tributionyof. the gifts nf God.' communicating4o the peoples' in heathenism and bondage, the preat. blessings : of the' civil . and religious liberty, and evangelising the ■'..■world: : : .- .-•.■■■ -" ■,■ .""■"-■■,'■.. °,•■■'..■.. p ■ ' ' .'Dr.. Henry's elotiuent address wasgreatly enjoyed by the company, "and' at the close, three cheers: for America were .given at the call of ihe chairman. ';■.,-•