German Emigration

-Emisrration. wliich since 1848 luis been one of the reat features of modem (ennany, is a ■evolutionary niovement; tor the naen who go are chiefly of the modèrately weathy middle ulass. They leave, but they do not retiïrn. They and their ■liiiiiren reniain to struigthen and enrich the Republic beyond the Atlantic, where conscription is rmknown, rightof ueeting nnfetteved, and Jtmkerdom abïorred. Tïxe ineraory of the Fatherland remains, but it is a memory only, not a iving anxiety to return to help on its irogress or to enhance its prosperity. Uut this exodus has been chiefly of the niddle class, and the millions wlio have one have but accentuated the diïïerence between the toiling many and the mreaucratic, aristocratie, and military 'ew who oppress them - have too left m al most impassable gap between the wealthy landlonl and the small ownei r laborer, between the hand-to-mouth workman and the capitalist class. The moderate Liberáis, the progressive class oí Germany, havingbeen driven away to seek their fortune amid American liberties, those who remain look to revolution rat her than to steady progress to remedv their present