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
viii Have the Virtues Of ALL.

WIN nave Inc virtues VI Hll'
American than Dr. Charles Eliot,
president Of Harvard University,
whose prophecy Of Jewish solidarity
| in America and OF the contribution Of
| Judaism to he worlds future Is more
| optimistic than my own. DR.. Eliot
points to the still unmelted heaps OF
racial matter without suspecting-
although he is a chemist--that their
seInblance OF solidarity is only kept
up by the constant immigration OF
similar atoms TO the base TO replace
| those liquefied at the apex.
once America slams her doors, the
| crucible VIII roar like closed fur
mace
Heaven forbid, however, that the
! doors shall be slammed for centuries
yet The notion that the few mil
| lions of people In America have
moral right to exclude others Is mon
| strous.
ExeIusiveness impossible.
Exclusiveness may have some JUS
tiflcation in countries. especially when
| old and well populated; but for con-
| tinents like the United States-or for
| tralia--to mistake themselves for
| mere countries is an intolerable in
| justice to the rest Of the human race.
The exclusion Of criminals is as
impossible in practice as the exclu-
sion OF the sick and ailing is un-
Christian. Infinitely more important
were 1t to keep the gates of birth
free from undeslrables. As for the
exclusion of the able bodied, whether
illiterate or literate, that Is sheer eco
homie madness In so empty q CONT
nent
Fortunately, any serious restric-
ton Will avenge itself not only by
the stagnation of many of the States,
but by the paralysis of the great lin
ers which depend on steerage pas
sengers, without whom freights and
fares will rise and saloon passengers
be locked OF their sailing facilities.
Meantime the inquisitlon at Ellis
Island has to its account cruelties no
less atrocious than the ancient Span
ish-cruelties that only flash into mo-
mentary prominence when some lux
urious music hall lady of dubious
morals has taste of the barbarities
melted out daily to blameless and
|hardworking refugees from oppres-
sion or hunger, who, having staked
their all on the great adventure. find
themselves hustled back. penniless and
heartbroken, to the Old World.
Whether any country will ever
again be based like those of the Old
World upon a unity of race or reli-
gion is a matter Of doubt. New
England, OF course, like Pennsylvania
and Maryland, owes its inception to
religion, but the original impulse has
long been submerged by purely eco
nomic pressures. And the same mot
ley immigration from the Old World
Is building up the bulk of the com
Ing countries. AT most, the dominant
language gives a semblance OF unity
ana serves to attract a considerable
stream of immigrants who speak it
as of Portuguese to Brazil, Spaniards
to the Argentine.
Chief Magnet Economic.
But the chief magnet remains ecos
nomic, for Brazil draws six times rs
many Italians as Portuguese, and the
Argentine two and 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 Is attracted toward States
mat are at least Latin. But though
Brazil and the Argentine be predomi-
nantly Latin. the minority of Ger
mans, Austrians and Swiss Is bv no
means insignificant.
Inc great modern steamship. in
fact~-supplemented by it's wandering
and seductive agents PLAYING the
part In the world formerly played Nv
inVasions and crusades, while the
economic" immigrant is more ami
more replacing the refugee Just as
the purely commercial company
Worklng under the native law is re-
placing the chartered company which
was law to itself.
HOW small a part in the modern
movement is played by patriotism
proper may be seen from the ayidlty
with which the farmers of the
United States cross the borders 10
canada to obtain the large free
holdings which enable them to sell
on 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.
Inc difference in the method OF
Importing the ingredients makes thus
NAANo ~ hll6 action or the
Crucible.
Though the peoples now in process
OF formation in the New World ore
being recruited by mainly economjr
forces II may be predicted they will
ultimately harden into homogeneifv
OF race, II not even OF belief
For internationalism in religion
seems to be again receding in favor
or national religions or, indeed thes.
were ever more than superfrialIy
superseded, at any rate in favor ~
natlonalism raised into religion
Is It wonderful IL the crucihIe can-
able OF fusing such a morley ~
types into the true born Britop +"
should be melting up its Jews ,iisa
old silver? 5ews are a "recess,va,.
type whose physical traits tend -
disappear in the blended Offspring
There does not exist in FngIana
to-day a single representative or tba
Jewish families whom Cromwell "a
mitted, though their lineage NAV he
traced in not a few noble families
rhus every country has been and Is
Melting Pot" -
But America, exhibiting the normal
rQSlng process mauptfed ,nan,, en-.