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

yet The notion that the few mill
lions of people IN America have
| moral right to exclude others is mon
| strous.
ExeIusivensss impossible.
EXclusiveness may have some JUS
tification In countries, especially when
old and well populated but for con-
tinents like the United States--or for
the matter OF that, Canada and Aus
tralla-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 I'M
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 conti-
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 inquisition 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
meted OUT daily to blameless and
Woodworking refugees from oppres-
sion or hunger, who. having staked
| their all on the great adventure, find
haYr ngs.lxF I..II y
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-
Bion 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
monte 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
and serves to attract a considerable
stream Of immigrants who speak 1t,
as or Portuguese TO Brazil, Spaniards
to the Argentine.
Chief Magnet Economic.
But the chief magnet remains eco
monte, for Brazil draws six times as
many Italians as Portuguese, and the
Argentine two snd a half times as
many Italians as Spanish. 1t may be
argued, OF course, that the Italian
gravitation to these countries is still
u matter of race, and that, In the alb
sence of an Ell Dorado of his own,
the Italian Is attracted toward States
that are at least Latin. But though
Brazil and the Argentine be predomi-
nantly Latin, the minority of Ger
mans Austrians and Swiss Is by no
means insignificant.
The great modern steamship. in
supplemented by its wandering
and seductive agents playing the
part In the world formerly played by
lnVasions 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 law to itself.
How small part in the modern
movement Is played by patriotism
proper may be seen from the avidity
win which the farmers of the
United States cross the borders TO
Canada to obtain the large free
holdings which enable them to sell
on their American properties. How
lttle the proudest tradition counts
against the environment is shown in
the shame felt by Argentine born
children for the English spoken bv
their British parents
Beliefs Will Unite.
The difference in the method Of
importing the ingredients makes thus
no oinerence to the action of the
crucible.
Though the peoples now in process
OF formation In the New World are |
oelnS recruited by mainly economic |
forces, " may be predicted they will |
ultimately harden into management |
OF race, II not even of belief
For internationalsm in religion
seems TO be again receding in favor |
OF national religions (if. indeed. these
were ever more than superficiauv
Superseded), at any rate in favor 81
nationalism raised into religion.
y racial homogeneity has not vet
neen evolved completely even in Eng
Iahd-and, of course, the tendency can
never be more than asymptotic-ill |
IS because cheap and easy transport |
ana communication. with freedom of |
economic movement. have been late
developments and are still far from
perfect Hence there has never been
a thorough shake-up and admixture
or elements, so that certain countries
ana corners have retained types and
breeds peculiar to them,
Is II wonderful II the crucible. can
able OF fusing such motley Of
types into the true born Briton."
should be melting up its Jews ike
old silver? Jews are n "recessive"
type whose physical traits tend 10
disappear in the blended offspring.
There does not exist in England
to-day single Representatives Of the
Jewish families whom Cromwell ad :
mitted, though their lineage NAV be
traced In not a few noble families
Thus every country has been and Is
a Melting Pot"
But America, exhibiting the normal
fusing process magnitied many thou
sand diameters and diversified he
yond all historic experience, and fed
not by successive waves OF immigra
ton but by a hodge podge OF sinful
taneous hordes. is, in Racon's phrase
an "ostensive instance" OF a universal
phenomenon.
America is the Melting Pot"
Her people has already begun 70
take on such complexion OF it's
own, Il is already so emphaticallv
tending To n new race, crossed with
every European type, that the British
Illusion of cousinly Anglo Saxon
people with whom war is unthink-
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