Saturday press. [volume] (Honolulu, H.I.) 1880-1885, 1882-02-11
Americanization of Europe.

The following is the conclusion OF an
able and interesting article in the London
FbrtnighHy Rsyie1c, on the present cond-
ton of England and all monarchical
Europe
1t isa relief to turn from the pickering
of the jealous nations of the Old World to
the spectacle which is presented to us
ncross the Atlantic. The future is there,
and AZ we contemplate the ma jestc pro-
portions of the Great Western Republic,
with its population of fifty millions rapidly
swelling to double that total, we feel that
here we have the faotor that is destined to
rcvolutionize the world. The influence Of
the United States upon Europe was by no
means insignificant even in the first
French Revolution, but it was small COM
pared with that which it is exercising to-
day, but was MS nothing compared with
the power which it will WELD tomorrow.
We feel the subtle but direct influence of
America in almost every European State.
The most significant sight afforded us this
yenr, although one of tho least noticed, is
the enormous exodus which goes on un.
ceasingy from the Old World to the New.
In numerical proportions tho exodus of the
Children of Israel to the promised land
was nero bagatelle compared with the
vast and fertlizing stream of human life
which is being emptied upon the prairies of
the West. The rate of immigration into
New York will this year far exceed two
thousand day. Altogether the United
states have received an overflow of the
surplus population of Europe exceeding ten
millions person in the last fifty years.
Hitherto America has been but us the
snfety-valve of the older world. The
outcasts, the prescribed, the oppressed, and
the hunger.smitten of Europe, have found
in the American Republic safe shelter
and Widespread table. "The Providence
that ordans all things" said an American
recently, has bestowed upon America
land enough to give every European pea
SAINT farm. 1t seems now as if every
peasant is about to claim his guerdon. "
The rush across the Atlantic is unprece.
dented. One-fortieth of tho entire popula-
ton Of Sweden has booked passages to
New York. If this goes on unchecked"
said German, sin few years all Ger
many will BIO found in America" Already
Ireland beyond the sea counts more sons
Of Irish descent than tho Green Isle itself.
Even from little Switzerland last year
went seven thousand immigrants to the
Republics of the West. More than fifty
per cent. of the emigrants are able. bodied
men under forty years of age. The emf
grants are the cream of the population OF
the countries which they desert. The
"feckless loon" stays at home. 1t is the
man of Intelligence, enterprise, and energy
who emigrates. 1t is obvious that so vast
disturbance of the balance Of population
must, in the long run, produce correspon
ding changes in the political and economi.
cal situation. The reflex of the New
World upon the Old, already great, is DAHL,
increasing. Everywhere American COM
petition, American emigration, or Amor
lean ideas are at work disintegrating thu
fabric Of European society, and perplexinl
tho statesman of tho older world witt
thoughts of change. The constant draii
of his best fighting men to the New Worl'
is one of the greatest grievances whicl
Prince Bismarck cherishes against Provi
dence, and his perplcxity is more or les
shared by the masters of many legions al
over Europe. In Ireland we are face t.
face with movement which owes its orr
gin to the Irish-Americans, who supply
with its organ, its funds, and its leaders
The same phenomenon may yet be vii
messed in Germany. 1t is already bein
witnessed in the latest agitation agains
Austrian rule in the Bocche di Cattar'
where the monntaineers are said to be il
cited to revolt by returned emigrants frol
America, who have brought with them til
democratic ideas of the West. America
Influence nodded the Bulgarian Constit,
ton, and although that has proved Il
great success, being too much in advant
of the condition Of the population, it is
significant hint of things which are
come. So far from allowing the Eur'
peans who settling in millions within the
borders to Europesnixe their States, Il
States bid fair to Americanize Europe.
American influence is most directly 70
in the economical region, but the polite
effects Of the economic revolution which
being wrought by American competitic
are already becoming perceptibe. III
American farmer is undermining tho fou
dations of the English aristocratic syster
While driving his plough through the vi
gin prairie, he is nprooting the teudal il
situations which linger beyond their tin
in the older world