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Show m sin mux as nniiuiuNTH. .u;l4.t.,rta r.ir!4tc Them is no nitiun In Europe tint is more jdvirse to violence, and lu. leas stmpiihy with Utopian nsplritiuns thin tin people of N'orwiy and Sweden They hive been trilntil in Industr), frugality and minly self reliance by the Ire. institutions nnil the scunt resources uf their niliv,- linds and tho nioder-Btion nioder-Btion and iclf restraint hiherile.1 the In cool blood uf thu Norilunake them constitutionally consti-tutionally Inclined to trust In slow and orderly methudi rather than swift and violent ones, The) come here with no millennial expectations, doomed to bitter dlssapolnlment but with the hope nl gaining, by hard and unremitting tod. a modest couipetene) lhey dcniind less of life than continental imnilgrinu of the corresponding class, and they usually, for this v ery reisou, attain miro. 1 110 instinct to -'avc is strong In the mijority of them and sive tney do 'when their neighbors, of less frug-il hihits are running behind , , , It is therefore a fact which all students of the social problem arising from Immigration have remarked, that the Scandinavians adapt themselves with great ease to American institutions. There is no other diss of Immigrants which Is so reidily asslmihtcd, nnd as sunics so 11 aurally American customs nnd modes of thought. And this is not because their own nationality Is devoid of strong characteristics, but became, on account of their ancient kinship nnd subst quint development, they have cettiln fundimenlii traits In common with us, and arc therefore less in need afadiptatlon. The Institutions of Nor way are the most democratic in 1 "rope, nnil those ofbweden.'though less liberal, are developing In the same direction Both Nnrstmenand Sweden are ncetis turned to pirtlcipste in the imtugcment nf their communal all lira, and tu vote for the-lr represent Hive In the national parliament and although the power given them here Is nominally greater than that they riJo)ed nt home, it is vlrtuallv less. 'I ho sense of public res ponstbiilty, the h ibit of interest in public alfairs, and a critical altitude towards the nets of government arc nowhere so general among the rich and poor alike as in Norway and Sweden, noiwltlistand lug the fact that the suffrage in not universal. |