Show 11 1 F ft ft 4 I 1 ANXIOUS 9 scandinavia THE PEOPLE za P LE LEAVING THEIR fatherland the tl vry vory 11 ower of tir 1 44 is gar sk lieff a 11 w stion satt Sd tt ll I 1 loss gain to i lit the star state I 1 it has caus caused ed klas oscar IL ana and his government great deal of anxiety to soo bee so many young and healthy people of both boxes go to america leaving the old and infirm behind in tb mother coun country try this matter of immigration has become all the more seri MU oua writes r tea thyge in the detroit I 1 r ea prats as a largo proportion of the emigrant are of the go 0 o called pure sweden swedes light hatred haired and blue eyed who are 80 0 o nearly akin to tin danes dunes the north germans and anelo saxon sa and at it upon whom the country ha has always al way depended in war and peace an official hinves was instituted a short time aua a and it was boull in so federal T ei p place lacos that almost the tha entire effect effective p population 0 puls bad had left the country and go gono a e to the united states in lasome some ansta instance n ces the vacant places haj hal been filled by lapp lapps and russians people to whoa whom swedish thought and swedish Ins titu alons are entirely foreign even in tho province of which has him alway always been deu ae as the h home ome of unadulterated bd bolh lh blood th peo pec I 1 ie are leaving in throng thus the immigration from sweden Is I 1 fast assuming tho the ch character fracter of a art national onal calamity and Is regarded rear ded by b anany with grave apprehensions the immigration from the two other scandinavian din di avian countries denmark and norway has ao so far been lea less 3 exten extensive siv but it baa bag been sufficient however ta perceptibly change the economic condition alto also there them A danish historian has observed tb that at the scandinavians sustained ned a perceptible loss of vitality when t their heir ablest and most men left the nail live ye countries in euch such largo number numbers and founded new nations in 24 normandy and england certain it isthan is that the marvelous activity of the viking ago ebbed away alter tho the great groat anglo exodus and did not manifest itself again until the remarkable ro re vival of scandinavian literature aid aud art at the beginning of ot the present century bilile with tho the colonists colonist the inherent spirit of enterprise assorted asserted itself as wo we know at a much earlier date still tho the parent nations have been ablo able to maintain their political independence and produce a literature tho the true of which tho the world is ju t li beginning to realize but it Is not impossible that another I 1 buch lots of their healthiest blood and brain might entail even more serious consequence especially in an uga age when tho the rapid rap I 1 it succession of events leaves the weaker nations but little time to eather gather new strength for past blo emergencies looking ing at the other side of the question tho the people of this country have reasons to welcome the swedish and other scandinavian danish and norwegian immigrants they are either skillful kill ful mocha mechanics or indus grioua farmers always law abiding and intelligent and 1 aft w st ed 4 t to atis i A wak ik 6 i I 1 i ak iba Z fib A lif 4 4 jl 1 C classes od have bave bebin ay currents oC modera caudill ayt 15 ture which with remarkable promptness and reaches them through a excellent tw Ilent public londi laumark lA and nn etwo naw r bilk a moral me hl a tbt 1 igeta X i w maw isias in tee cai C ol vUe 1 vink Bwy imi w 0 ro ivr amm where wh e N h cubio albor an am institution recon arsat not ailt it at all 11 ML 0 it shall perhaps never bo told bow how many million acres of waste tho the quiet and scandinavian Sc immigrants bavo bare converted couver ted into smiling orchards and taxpaying farms in our creat great central and wea western tern states but tho the county records will show that their now homos homes we permanent which are aldom if it over ever eold sold for wort I 1 beyond lie yoni aho simple act gage of casting bis his vote voto tho the natural izol scandinavian little ono malre s art in poll alj I 1 baldly uil so nuri r aei of sc homine and w wire re pulling are distasteful to him and oven when tho the central slates atos last year were all ablaze with Alii Ali unco tunco meetings the scandinavian farmer kept right on jonhn haling allne his grain to town tho the monotonous i chuck of his lumbering wagon forming a sort of substantial undertone to tho the orations of the village statesman and when thu the ebronio speculator devise devises a crand grand scheme with millions in it by which his own city ie Is to be mado made tho the center of bo the universe ur a trual til i met ropo lie lis is to be built out on tho the fr frontier outler tho scandinavian settler sticks to his farm arm contentedly raising wheat and corn and pork and boot and more of it every year HI ills children lh ildren are am sent to our public schools and colleges collo ires and become bon bons fide american citizens cit lion with american virtros and american vices tho the scandinavian immigration has ot of lato late year years bw b i by a of college bred young men MOIL many of whom are ablo able professionals while other others hold positions in our od institution institutions froin from tho the smith fontan institution down to the city high schools sc hoole hoy drop into place and become part and parcel of our so to atal organism sta before they receive their letter letters of american A tow few havo have been boon accorded fixed places in american litera tur and nod many are more nr lose less prominent in journalism they ney I 1 ave fallen into line with amer loan national thought and are devoted to their adopted country and her bar tut tullon ions often with the ardor and the romantic ad admiration mi ration charr 41 loverso lover 0 different nationalities lind luid if it they can be said to represent our of scandinavian leans then the scandinavian element ment in the united state sta log is I 1 not 1401 only harmless but a source of positive moral and economic strength |