Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1916-07-09
IN Dir. MAN NORDAU.
CHAPTER [.

Crhc second and concluding chap
ter OF DIR. Nordau's article will be
published next Sunday, July 16.-Ed.)
Europe's disaster is Americas OPP
portunity. Providence seems to have
created the New World deliberately as
Il remedy and Il lesson for the follies
and crimes of the old. Compression
of conscience, persecution Of faith
drove the Pilgrim fathers from Europe.
and they implanted in the virgin soil
Of America a higher type of civiliza-
ton. which grew up round tho CEN
trail ideas of liberty. tolerance, the dig
nifty of labor. and tho sovereign right
Of personality
Ever since these beginnings each
European CONFUSION has sent across
the ocean a new wave of immigrants
who placed their confidence and their
hope in the American ideal and who
expected TO breathe freely over there,
after being suffocated in Europe.
Napoleon the Great. after his down
fall. yearned for an asylum in America.
The dcpopulation of Ireland was not Il
consequence of famine alone, the un-
bcarable political and agrarian condi-
tons aud the powerful attraction of
Columbia contributed also largely to it.
The sway of the so-callcd Holy AL
lance" over the European Continent
made this part of the world loathsome
10 its noblest minds.
After the rcvolutionary years 1S4S
and 1919 the fighting champions OF
popular rights saved the ruins of their
ideals by cmigrating To the United
states.
The defeated Poles acted in the same
manner after their insurrcction OF 1863
and so did the prosecuted Jews, fol-
lowing the Russian massacrcs Of 1881.
MI these preccdcnts, however. dwindle
10 nothing when compared withs i'm
mincnt events.
Will. ENDEAVON Az ALI. COSTS
no ESCAPE CRUSHING BURDEN
\ftcr the war European conditions
VIII become. TO say the least. 80 un-
comfortable that the strong, the deli
cate the proud will not be willing to
submit to them They will endeavor
AT all costs to escape the crushing
burden OF taxes, the poisoning OF no
lltical life. the national hatred the
obstacles put in the way of travelling,
OF the exchange of commodities. OF
intellectual Intercourse between ma
tons. obstacles which will often be car
rltd 10 the point OF hostile interdic-
ton. They will assert their deter
mnation To develop freely, TO work
productivity. and to have modest
share I'm the joys OF life
AS TO the goal whittier TO steer, they
viii have not a moments hesitation;
this goal will be the ar-Spaneled
Banner,
In the first place. it will be the
economic factors which will impel the
stream OF European emiGrants to flow
towards the West. The war has given
American Industry an immense upIift
From the Atlantic TO the Pacific the
engines throb and the chimncys vomit
clouds Of smoke as never before
Captains of industry heap ND fabu-
ious wealth. ana each day breeds new
millonaircs.
But the workmen do not go empty
handed either, They better their stand
ard of living increasingly. they provide
ever more efficiently for their future.
they have ever more inspiring leisure
LEFT them for walking on the sunny
side Of life and for cultivatinE spiritual
interests.
WoRI>INGMAN WILL LOOK
no AMERICA AS PARADISE:
Tho European workinGman, a victim
/ TO the hlacltmail which all govern
n"ntS Viii he compelled after tho war
/ 10 practice on him in order to keep tho
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