English Translation

49a - 2 - Intentions and longings, without interest in public affairs at all, only with the only wish: to find bread for themselves and the numerous children. With them they then brought mistrust against everything and everyone like an evil curse from the homeland, like the evil seed of the three hundred-year-old sub-ra d d Te a d r which impersonal interests and all the advantages and disadvantages of the nation, their race and class from which they came. On farms and in places of heavy industry where rough undefined work is required, there was such of our people the most. Anyone who once saw the poor emigrant families drag the smaller bundles, suitcases and a series of unadulterated children on their treacherous pilgrimage over Bodenbach to Bremen or Hamburg, who saw them living the difficult life in the intermediate deck and the first years of laborious beginnings in America, will understand why the Czechoslovak emigrants of the old days thought only with bitterness. The emigrants of a different kind come to them: the military refugees and those who fled from Austria-Hungary from military service, that is already a much more trained, more open element, there are among them many young craftsmen, here and there also an intelligent one. They penetrate the body of our emigration and are the thinking social and politically enlightened element. There are also numerous miners from the north and from the Ostrava region, hard but good people, with a tradition of national, social struggles, And finally lives here still that tradition of political emigrants, who, because of their political attitude, the political depression, fled from their homeland, this generation dies out already, but the traces of their good work still persist. These were in particular Vojta Náprstek, Klácel, Pačes, the pennsylvani- sche Choura and others. With emigration also educated intelligence came from the homeland, even - as doctors - also university intelligence. But precisely this latter had no particular, refined influence on emigration;' she did not understand to find a judicial relationship with our people. Under this intelligence, however, there were also people from the impact of a Thomas Čapek, - 3 -