from: Hans
Ulrich Wehler: Der Aufstieg des amerikanischen
Imperialismus. Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen,
1974/1987.
-- John
Fiske grows up in Massachusetts in
the tradition of nativism (belief at racism and the belief of
enharitage of racist characteristics). Massachusetts is
purely with an Anglo Saxon population in those times,
only white inmigrants (p.63)
-- John Fiske is spreading teh racist ideas of
Mr. Herbert Spencer and of Mr. Darwin
making these ideas popular
-- John Fiske is the writer of popular books
with simplified thinking systems (p.60) for all
non-students and laymen (p.61)
-- John Fiske has much power by his travels with
his speeches and lectures for laymen, and he is
translating complex thoughts
-- Fiske wants to reach also a job as a professor in Harward,
but this is not possible for him (p.61).
The racist
doctrine of Mr. John Fiske
John Fiske claims:
-- all what is "Anglo Saxon" is dominating other cultures
because all "Anglo Saxon" contains an Aryan genius
-- the real peak of the "Anlo Saxondom" would not be the Victorian
Empire but the development of the "U.S.A." down
to the Pacific coast line (p.61).
1870
John Fiske is making
the prophecy to the "Anglo Saxons" that they will have
the domination of the world
English "Anglo Saxondom" will "convert" the whole
world into "Aryan states" (p.61).
1878-1881
Washington: The
supreme racist Mr. John Fiske is holding speeches about
a "Manifest Destiny" - Fiske becomes in fact a
government assist
and for being this government assist he is invited by
-- "U.S." Präsident Hayes
-- the president of the Federal Court Waite
-- the senators Hoar and Dowes from Massachusetts
-- General Sherman
-- and he is also assisting the diplomat and historian Mr.
George Bancroft (p.63).
Fiske gets more
invitations, e.g. from the Interior Secretary (Minister of
Interior) Mr. Carl Schurz. President Hayes
is presenting Fiske just to the whole cabinet
(p.63).
Dramatic effect
of the speech "Manifest Destiny"
-- Fiske is presenting "U.S.A." in a new
"dimension"
-- Fiske is presenting the existence of
the "U.S.A." in a new historical overall context
-- Fiske is stating that these "U.S.A." would be the point
of origin for a world wide mission within the "modern"
evolution doctrine of those times
-- Fiske confirms the
traditional "American" feeling of supremacy
-- Fiske is integrating the Puritanic thinking of being
elected into a prophecy
-- Fiske is pretending to the public that he as a well
studied person would present historic "science" here
-- Fiske is integrating to this idea of national mission
after the civil war a "modern" content
-- Fiske gives to the public the vision that the dominance
of the world would be a predestination for the "U.S."
Empire by God
-- industrial exports play a significant role with this
"American" rise and Mr. Fiske means that these "Anglo
Saxon" products will have world wide "penetrating power"
-- Fiske appeals against the "American" prohibitive tax
system because competition will always decide for
"American" products (p.63).
Fiske's racism
against inmigration
-- Fiske rejects non-Germanic inmigrants
(p.63)
-- Fiske is copying a part of the
propaganda hostile to inmigration which is claimes already
by the "Immigration Restriction League"
-- Fiske claims
that the "racial substance" of the biggest "Anglo Saxon"
nation should be kept pure for realizing the world wide
dominance (p.63).
Spring 1879
Speeches of John
Fiske: "Manifest Destiny"
in Boston and London,
with enthusiastic reactions in the public (p.61).
Summer 1880
Fiske's thesis:
Germanic triumphal march from Teutoburg Forest to the
Pacific
John Fiske is
holding speeches at the "Royal Society of
Great Britain" with absolutely racist content about
the "political ideas of America" which are
concealed as a "Manifest Destiny":
-- Rome was the "keeper of peace", but there had
been many faults in it's organization
-- only "America" with it's occupations down to the Pacific
coast line had combined the central power with local self
administration, and this would be a model of the
representative democracy for the whole world with
"peaceful diversity" (p.61)
-- the race of "America" came from
Germania, and therefore the history of "America"
begins with the victory of Arminius in Teutoburg
Forest, and then the triumphal march of the Germanic
tribes came occupyint the British Islands in
the 5th century and this march is continuing down to the
Pacific coast line (p.61-62)
-- Fiske is making the prophecy
that the Anglo Saxon growth of population would be higher
than the Chinese have
-- Fiske is making the prophecy that Anglo Saxon
military will dominate the world
-- Fiske is making the
prophecy for the "U.S.A." that they could reach a
population of 1.5 billion humans with half of the density
of Belgium, and all 25 years the number of
population will be doubled, so at the end of the 20th
century there would be 600 to 700 million persons
-- Africa will be "Anglo
Saxon"
-- France and Germany will go down to the
level of Swiss micro states (p.62).
-- according to Mr. Fiske
the victory of the English armies against the Spanish and
French armies on the "American" continent in the 18th
century is a "steering hand of destiny"
-- according to Mr. Fiske
in the 19th century the "Manifest Destiny" of the
"Anglo Saxon" race is dominating, and this race would gain
their definite shape now and all the world would surrender
with the exception of the seats of "old cultures"
-- Fiske makes a prophecy
that the whole earth will be "Anglo American"
-- Fiske makes a prophecy that 4/5 of the world
wide population will have "English ancestors" soon
-- Fiske makes a prophecy that Europe will have
to disarm and a union of European states as a counter
power will be unevitable for balancing the power of the
"U.S.A."
-- under the leadership of "U.S.A."
would begin the "true civilization of modern times", only
then the world will really be "Christian" (p.62).
March 1885
The "Harpers
Magazine" is printing this speech "Manifest Destiny"
and there is a great response in the "U.S."
populations (p.62)
[It can be admitted that this "response" is provoked by
right radical racist white press].
1886 appr.
London speeches of
Fiske about "Manifest Destiny" edited as a book
(p.62)
1894
Foundation of the
"Immigration Restriction League"
by New English patricians. The first President of this
leage is racist Mr. Fiske (p.63) who is supporting
the league with speeches, among others in the inmigration
towns of Saint Louis and Milwaukee (p.64).
