ABSTRACT
Already the advance guard of the irresistible army of Anglo-Saxon emigration has begun to pour down upon it. The supremacy of the Anglo-Saxon still figured in Fourth-of-July oratory, but it also had immense philosophic and scientific backing. After the Philippines were ceded by Spain to the United States, Strong foresaw that the next area for Anglo-Saxon expansion would be closer home. It is obvious, he argued, that the constructive ideas of our civilization are Anglo-Saxon ideas. In addition to other objections to the term "Anglo-Saxon" he may have realized that it probably would antagonize those Americans who did not consider themselves members of the race. What Roosevelt did, in effect, was to create a new ethnological division-the "American race" or "our race"-and then give it all the qualities which others attributed to Anglo-Saxons. Almost without exception British newspapers endorsed Chamberlain's speech. One authority on the Spanish-American War has described as "astonishing" its favorable reception in the American press.
