English Translation

67 I. " And it came the time when the lonely branch was rushing ". Jos. Mach. (On both hemispheres). About the situation. In the United States of America about one and a half million Czechs and Slovaks live, over this immeasurable area of the prairie from east bank to the Pacific, from the lakes of Canada to the Gulf of Mexico, scattered. This emigration, our most numerous emigration in general, has its very interesting history and also its relation to the "old homeland", as the Czechoslovak tribal countries are called by the emigrants, Our modern emigration is in particular the work of the sixties and has its serious social and political reasons. In the second half of the last century, the news of the happy country in the West attracted many emigrants from their homeland, who longed to get to know the world, but called mainly for a larger piece of bread, which was very sparse at home. It is and was especially the area around Tabor, Humpoletz and the whole Czech south-east, the Kreis Kralowitz, Moravian Slovakia and Valachei, it is almost the whole of Slovakia, from where Czechoslovak blood flowed through decades" in vollem currents. People from one place or its surroundings regularly returned to a city or a farmer's circle and the names of our cities were given in America to the settlements of the cities they re-colonized. Thus, their Morovia, the Slovaks in Pennsylvania, in Dakota one can find Wodnian and Pisek as well as Tabor, in Lousiana Kolin and Libush in Oregon, Malin and Prague there are four in North America. The emigrants who can do because of the sccial distress were simple people, often of minor schooling, sometimes even without any training. They came to the Promised Land without higher (x name of a place of pilgrimage in Moravia. Arn. of the translator. - 2 -