Salt Lake Tribune | 1904-07-03 | Page 8 | Baron Munck on Finland's Woes

BARON MiCK ON I FINLAND'S WOES Leader Finnish Exiles' I I Committee. I; Ho. Advises His Compatriots HI j... to Settle in the Were It Not for tho United States, Hl Finns' Best Hopo "Would Be Bcnth. Hf li7ERE t D0t for the Unltcd states every loyal Finn could Y W pray Cor nothing better than Hjj death." 1 In theso words did Baron Munck of Hg Helslngfors, Finland, express him- H oelf to a Tribune representative at the Kenyon lost night. Baron Munck, who is one of the lead-1 lead-1 lug members of the Finnish Exiles' Hl committee, which maintains a bureau Hv in New York for the purpose of giving support to all those driven out of their native land by the brutal oppression of the Russians, is making a tour of the whole country. With him is Dr. J. ' Hundiiaueen, a member of the German Reichstag, from tho eastern district of Silesia. As his" constituency is full of Polish exiles, who emigrate over the border to escape 'the -Russian rule, he was ablo to confirm everything said m by the baron. Come West, He Advises. HO "We. the committee of the Society of Hl Finnish Exiles in America, are advislpg HS all those of our countrymen who are Hfi able to, to come out West. It Is out Htf licre that we feel that the principles of liberty which we despair of obtain-Hj obtain-Hj ing in our own country aH long ns she Mj is under the heel of the" Russian bear, are most fully developed." Tall and aristocratic in appearance, with a fine face and physique. Baron f Baron Munck has none of the dlstort- ed Ideas which his aristocratic birth and position might have given him. He has the warmest love and sympathy for the poorest and meanest of his com-patriots. com-patriots. ' Will Make Good Citizens. Hj "I have seen much written in your Hfi papers, and have heard much said of late against the tide of Immigration B) , which the freedom and great lnstltu- tions of the United States are drawing over here," he continued, "but I tell you, as I would I could impress on 1 every American, that in our country- men you are getting men who will be as good and true citizens as you will find. They appreciate their haven of refuge. Before they come here, while they are still in mid-ocean, they have already learnt to love the country, and each year they live here they learn to appreciate her more. Don't despise the Finns, because they arc going to make as good Americans as anybody.", Hj Fullest corroboration was given by the accounts of both Baron Munck and Dr. Hundhausen to the sensational stories that have been written and cabled across the Atlantic concerning the barbarous treatment accorded to the whole of Finland by its rulers.