"1683-1920". Frederick Franklin Schrader
shouts or grinning at a passing troop will be arrested and brought before a court martial for insulting the army. Every German official with cap or arm-emblem who refrains from saluting officers will be arrested and after an examination will be released. His name will be reported to general headquarters of the division.’ ”
In the new electoral orders, 30 per cent. of the population of Alsace-Lorraine is disfranchised. The voters are divided into three classes, consisting of persons of French birth or pure French extraction; second, of children born of mixed marriages. In this class those only have the franchise who are the sons of French fathers married to German mothers. The third class, consisting of voters having a German father and an Alsatian mother, are completely disfranchised.
France is proceeding in Alsace-Lorraine as the English did in Acadia. “The Nation” of September 6, 1919, indicates the measures in the following article:
Military measures for the punishment of troublesome French citizens of Alsace-Lorraine are quoted in the following extract from “L’Humanité” of July 16:
“Citizen Grumbach spoke on Sunday, before the National Council, of the order issued recently at Strasbourg by M. Millerand, a decree under which any citizen of Alsace-Lorraine who notably appeared to be an element of disorder would be immediately turned over to the military authorities.
“This abominable decree, whose existence Grumbach thus revealed, is now known in its entirety. It is to be found in ‘The Official Bulletin of Upper Alsace,’ No. 25, June 21, 1919. Its title is ‘Decree Relative to Citizens of Alsace-Lorraine in Renewable Detachment’ (sic). Order is given to the municipalities to draw up lists of citizens of Alsace-Lorraine in renewable detachment.
“And here is what Article 2 of this strange decree says:
“1. Every citizen of Alsace-Lorraine whose class has not yet been demobilized in France, and who notably appears to be a disorderly element, shall be immediately, upon the order of the Commandant of the District, arrested by the police and turned over to the military authorities.
“His papers will be sent by the Commandant to the commanding general of the territory, who, after inquiry, will command the return of the arrested man:
“To his old organization if he was a volunteer in the French army;
“To the Alsace-Lorraine depot in Paris if he is a former prisoner of the Allied armies, or a liberated German soldier.
“2. Citizens of Alsace-Lorraine whose class has been demobilized in France.
“Any of these men who notably appears to be a disorderly element shall be arraigned by request of the Commissaries of the Republic before the Commission de Triage under the same classification as undesirable civilian citizens of Alsace-Lorraine.
“Strasbourg, 24 May, 1919.
“Commissary General of the Republic,
“A. MILLERAND.”
After this, who can be scandalized by the vehement criticisms directed at the National Council by Grumbach, against the state of siege and of arbitrary rule which the Government of the Republic imposes upon Alsace-Lorraine? Does M. Clemenceau, that “old libertarian” know the decree of Millerand? In any case it is important to know that this decree is not aimed at the Germans residing in Alsace-Lorraine, but at the citizens of Alsace-Lorraine of Category A, those indisputably French. Incredible, yet true!
Americans Not An English People.
Americans Not An English People.—Careful computation made by Prof. Albert B. Faust, of Cornell University, shows that while the English, Scotch and Welsh together constituted 30.2 per cent. of the white population of the United States of the whole of 81,731,957, according to the census of 1910, the German element, including Hollanders, made up 26.4 per cent. of the total, and constituted a close second, the Irish coming next with a percentage of 18.6.
| Total white population in the U. S. proper, 1910 | 81,731,957 | 100% |
| English (including Scotch and Welsh, about 3,000,000) | 24,750,000 | 30.2 |
| German (including Dutch, about 3,000,000) | 21,600,000 | 26.4 |
| Irish (including Catholic and Protestants) | 15,250,000 | 18.6 |
| Scandinavian (Swedish, Norwegian, Danish) | 4,000,000 | 4.8 |
| French (including Canadian French) | 3,000,000 | 3.6 |
| Italian (mostly recent immigration) | 2,500,000 | 3.0 |
| Hebrew (one-half recent Russian) | 2,500,000 | 3.0 |
| Spanish (mostly Spanish-American) | 2,000,000 | 2.4 |
| Austrian Slavs (Bohemian and Moravian, old Slovac, etc., recent) | 2,000,000 | 2.4 |
| Russians (Slavs and Finns one-tenth) | 1,000,000 | 1.2 |
| Poles (many early in 19th Century) | 1,000,000 | 1.2 |
| Magyars (recent immigration) | 700,000 | .8 |
| Balkan Peninsular | 250,000 | .3 |
| All others (exclusive of colored) | 1,181,957 | 2.1 |
According to this table, more than twenty-six Americans out of every hundred are of German origin and about thirty out of every hundred only are either of English, Scotch or Welsh descent. Recent writers, like Dr. William Griffis, and Douglas Campbell (“The Puritan in Holland, England and America”) have vigorously disputed the theory that the Americans are an English people. As Prof. Faust shows, only 30.2 per cent. of the mixed races of the United States are of English origin, while nearly 70 per cent. are of other racial descent. Dr. Griffis wisely declares: “We are less an English nation than composite of the Teutonic peoples,” and the great American historian, Motley, declared: “We are Americans; but yesterday we were Europeans—Netherlanders, Saxons, Normans, Swabians, Celts.”
“She (England) has a conviction that whatever good there is in us is wholly English, when the truth is that we are worth nothing except as far as we have disinfected ourselves of Anglicism.” James Russell Lowell in “Study Windows.”
“Most American authors and all Englishmen who have written on the subject, set out with the theory that the people in the United States are an English race, and that their institutions, when not original, are derived from England. These assumptions underlie all American histories, and they have come to be so generally accepted that to question them seems almost to savor of temerity. … Certainly no intelligent American can study the English people as he does those of the Continent,