Hungary and the Hungarians . he Zagrab of to-day. Butthere is another Croatia, sad in its desolation, cold in itspoverty. It was the contrast of the two that startled will be the message of the capital to the country ?For without the country there will be no capital. Theunconcern on this point in Zagrab alarmed growing community of Croatians seemed notto weigh with them. Strong, clever workers, withnothing to do. Meanwhile politicians fight aboutwhat language shall be used on the railways. Whoreally cares ? Directly the practical plane is reached,Croatia will mend. But that
Hungary and the Hungarians . he Zagrab of to-day. Butthere is another Croatia, sad in its desolation, cold in itspoverty. It was the contrast of the two that startled will be the message of the capital to the country ?For without the country there will be no capital. Theunconcern on this point in Zagrab alarmed growing community of Croatians seemed notto weigh with them. Strong, clever workers, withnothing to do. Meanwhile politicians fight aboutwhat language shall be used on the railways. Whoreally cares ? Directly the practical plane is reached,Croatia will mend. But that time wont come yet. In attempting to escape the conditions imposed uponthem by the homeland,over forty thousand a year are nowfinding a home in America. It is not skilled labour,but whatever the task is thats offered, the Croatianwill soon become an expert at it. The Croatians havea proverb which illustrates their character: Whathe sees, he makes. Some of them are very expertwith the axe. It is a common thing to find in the. MARKET FOLK, NEAR ZAGRAB, CROATIA CROATIA AND THE CROATIANS 237 woods of America Croatians who can hew to the linefor a distance of sixty feet. Sturdy men like thesealways find an employer. In 1895 they begangoing to America, settling principally in Pennsylvania,Illinois, and New York. In New York City 15,000 ofthem were employed to break the dock-labourers strikesome years ago, and to-day they have a monopoly ofthe industry. It is interesting to discover that, whilstthese people knew nothing of trade unions in Croatia,and took the places of the Irish dock labourers in NewYork as non-union men, they have since formed the mostiron-bound trade union in that city,and now dictate termswhich the older unions would never have thought of ex-acting. In Joliet they run a paper which has a circulationof 50,000 copies. Apart from wild, rugged scenery, littleof moving interest is provided the tourist in Croatia. ASlav language or a knowledge of German is
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