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.
to the Old World.

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 semblance of unity
and 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 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
matter OF race, and that. in the alb
sence OF an FL Dorado of his own
the Italian Is 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
fact--supplemented by its wandering
ana seductive agents playing the
part in the world formerly played by
invasions and crusades, while the
economic" immigrant is more AMI
ha
the purely commercial company
working under the native law is re-
placing the chartered company which
was a law to itself.
How small a 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 thee borders 10
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.
The difference in the method OF
importing the ingredients makes thus
crucible
Though the peoples now in process
OF formation in the New World are
being recruited by mainly economic
forces. j may be predicted they will
ultimately harden into homogeneitv
OF race, II not even of belief.
For internationalism in religion
seems TO be again receding in favor
or national religions (if, indeed these
were ever more than superficiaIIy
superseded), at any rate in favor of
nationalism raised into religion.
Is II wonderful If the crueible. can
able OF fusing such a motley of
types INTO the true born Briton"
should be melting up its Jews ike
old silver Jews are a ''recessive"
type whose physical traits tend 10
disappear in the blended Offspring
There does not exist In England
to-day single representative Of the
Jewish families whom Cromwell ad-
mitted, though their lineage NAV be
traced In not few noble families
Thus every country has been and is
a Melting Pot"
But America, exhibiting the normal
fusing process magnified many fhou-
sand diameters and diversified he
yond all historic experience, and fed
not ny successive waves of immigra
tion but by a hodge podge Of stimuli
taneous hordes is, In Bacon's phrase.
an "ostensive instance" of universal
America is the Melting Pot"
Her people has already begun 70
take on such a complexion 81 its
own it 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-
ponderant; II is very far from being
the sum total
I. ZANGWILL.
January. 1914.