Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1914-01-25
Tells Of the Jews Part in the
Alloy, Which, He Says, viii Be
Unlike Any Other Race, but
Will Have the Virtues Of AL,
heartbroken. to The Ola world

heartbroken. to the old World
Whether any country VIII ever
again be based Ike those Of the old
World upon a unity Of race or reli-
gion is matter OF doubt. New
England. Of course, Ike Pennsylvania
and Maryland, owes its inception 10
religion. but the original impulse has
long been submerged by purely eco
nomic pressures And the same mot
ley immigration nom the Old World
Is building up the bulk Of the com
ing countries AT most, the dominant
language gives q semblance of unity
and serves to attract a considerable
stream Of immigrants who speak IL
as OF Portuguese 70 Brazil, Spaniards
TO the Argentine.
Chief Magnet Economic.
But the chief magnet remains eco-
nomic, for Brazil draws six times as
many Italians as Portuguese, and the
Argentine two and a half times as
many Italians as Spanish. 1t may be
argued, OF course, that the Italian
gravitation to these countries is still
a matter Of race, and that in the alb
sence of an Ell Dorado OF his own,
the Italian liz attracted toward States
that are at least Latin. But though
Brazil and the Argentine be predonu-
nantly Latin, the minority of Ger
mans. Austrians and Swiss is by no
means Insignificant.
The great modern steamship, in
facts supplemented by its wandering
and seductive agents playing the
part in the world formerly played by
invasions and crusades, while the
economic" immigrant is more AMI
more replacing the refugee just as
the purely commercial company
working under the native law is re-
placing the chartered company which
was a law to itself
How small part in the modern
movement Is played by patriotism
proper may be seen from the avidity
with which the farmers of the
United States cross the borders to
Canada to obtain the large free
holdings which enable them to sell
off their American properties How
little the proudest tradition counts
against the environment is shown in
the shame felt by Argentine born
children for the English spoken by
their British parents
Beliefs Will Unite.
me difference in the method OF
importing the ingredients makes thus
no difference TO the action of the
crucible.
Though the peoples now in process
of formation in the New World are
being recruited by mainly economic
forces, it may be predicted they will
ultimately harden into homogeneity
or race, If not even of belief.
For internationalism in religion
seems TO be again receding in favor
or national religions Qf, indeed these
were ever more than superflciallv
superseded), at any rate in favor of
nationalism raised into religion.
is II wonderful if the crucible, can
able of fusing such a motley of
types INTO the true born Briton. -
should be melting up its Jews ike
ola SILVER? Jews are a "recessive"
type whose physical traits tend to
disappear in the blended offspring
There does not exist in England
to-day q single representative Of the
Jewish families whom Cromwell ,d :
mitted, though their lineage NAV be
traced in not few noble families
Thus every country has been and Is
Melting Pot
But America. exhibiting the normal
fusing process magnified many thou
sand diameters and diversified he
yond all historic experience and fed
not by successive waves OF immisra
ton but by hodge podge of stimuli
taneous hordes. is. in Bacon's phrase.
an 'ostensive instance" OF a universal
phenomenon.
America is the Melting Pot"
Her people has already begun 10
take on such a complexion OF its
own, 1t is already so emphaticallv
tending to a new race, crossed with
every European type, that the British
Illusion OF a cousinly Anglo Saxon
people With whom war is unthink-
able is sheer willful blindness
Even to-day, while the mixture is
still largely mechanical not chemical.
the Anglo Saxon element is only pre-
porrderant; 1t is very far from being
the sum total
1. ZANGWILL.
January. 1914.