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Show Th Puritan Uttr When Mixed, Myron W. Iter d. When you have stated the race of a man, the color of a man, then you say, with Robert Burns, "a man's a man for a' that." It is quite difficult to define a native American. The fact that he was born on American soil does not altogether define him. Many nationalities are in the native American. England, Ireland, Ire-land, Scotland, France, Germany, Holland Hol-land and Poland were in this country before the revolutionary war. The Puritan came, the Catholic and tho Huguenot. Tho new world was the mixing pot of the nations. Every nation seems to have sent its contribution. contribu-tion. And at lirst the contribution was a benefit. The unmixed Yankee that one linds today along the Atlantic coast is not a perfect being. He is better where he has mixed. .Milwaukee never had a boom nor a panic, but it grows right along larger and more beautiful. The majority of its people are Germans. They are a steady home-loving people, not given to show, given more to substance. sub-stance. Tho colonics of Holland along the Hudson and Mohawk show what thev are by their solid, permanent-looking permanent-looking homes and big red barns. The English Puritan needed the life, the vivacity of the Huguenot. |