“NO AMERICAN PEOPLE.”

Taihape Daily Times, Volume XI, Issue 3496, 26 May 1920, Page 7

“N O AMERICAN PEOPLE.”

MANY RACES, MUCH DLVITDEID

‘‘You must dispossess your mind'-of the idea that there is an Amerfchn • people at all, as' we understand a people in Europe, ’ ’ says Mr Of-nfet' Madox it.neper, writing in the National Review, on .“British Delusions (muming-Americans.’'’ “If you t3sbk the whole population of Europe, mix, u it-roughly in y moitar, auued a eomBHr 3 ' flavouring ■ ,pf Africans,- Asiatics,' 4 Wf?3“ the like, .crushed it with your pcstff.*! and scattered the result thinly Wc#' I tpe- uontipent, you -would have s^nie*' 5 I thing' approximately to AmcricaAtiPrp would, however,- more closely to,, tv ' people - than do the AWsHm J cans at present, for instead o’f being i properly mixed, they are divided-iaySKJji ethnographic strata, which only toucks* at. the. C(lg^s ; America tries to forget ■this, and simpends by vigorous newspaper T .p ( rop.agu.p ) da in making EuraJfiS.fi forget it, because in these stirring times it is well to belong to a ‘ united ' people.’ Also she is not at ail premm: of certain ,lyinds of ‘Americans, ’ tiMd | does her,best to forget them.’’ -r/ixsr# Thougli it is denied that there&auitvr class distinctions in America, Mr j Hueffcr maintains that in no other j country in the world are class dhs-.-j tinctions morp inevitable, more ob- ] vions. or more rigidly drawn. The 1 most obvious, though the most ently denied) is that bei.’* - Jon ‘white’ American and the 'foreign. ’!' The white American may be roughly j defined as anyone of British, French, ! 1 German, or Dutch eSTfaetion who ’inßvi ...ii * , t*

been settled in the country for more; than two generations. They have a „ ' supreme contempt tor anyone outside • the charmed circle. There are classedwithin this class, but. broadly spent-' •mg, these are the only real Americans’, * in their own eyes at least. They 3 pijofess-, with a bored! benevolence, that the “ Americanising ” of others is a. success, but “if you ask them ’to dinner, to meet, say', a .'Jewish ‘ delicatessen’ storekeeper, you will learn' quite a lot of things. . . The Scan- j dinavian, for some reason, tbougie' ail- i unitedly ‘white,’ ranks socially 7 a shade below the rest. The definite so- | cial line begins to be drawn at -'the ‘Dago,-’ and below Him come various shades, each carefully defined, leading to the lowest depth of all, the foreign Jew. . . Recent* events have made dollars so common that they cease to have any value as a glass guide. There are several billionaires who are not received at all. “It must be remembered that ‘white’ America is also governing, thinking, organising, and acting America. . . ‘Big Business’ is’ on the whole favourable to the British Emt, pive, because the British Empire makes for the peace of the, world. So, for that matter, is the Jewish-confrolled ‘Little Business,’ so far as it takes any interest in the matter at all. Fundamentally 7, though, it is too deeply engaged in money-making to care anything whatever about America. England. or all the other nations of the world put together. If ‘Little Business’ hoard that America TuuT decided to become a British colony again tomorrow, the news would affect him only 7 so far as it would affect the money market. The American Jew is not really in sympathy with the Bolsheviks —except ns were his compatriots who engineered the Bolshevik regime in Hungary on a money'-mak-ing basis, and cleared a satisfactory return before they went out of business. At present he scents money in supporting the Irish, but as soon ns he finds that Irish republican loans are good romance but bad business, ho will drop out; Mr Hearst, who liver. only 7 to register his opinions, will follow his example, and Amc-ica will forger that such a country' as Ireland exists. ” '