Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1879-12-08
HANS AND JOE.

Ihe ACKNOWLEDGEMENT Organ
Denounces the Scandinaviaus as Worth
less and Ignorant Peasantry-Hans Matt
son Resents the Insult to His Country
men, and is Denounced as a Broker who
Buys Scandinavian Votes Like Cattle.
Here in the Northwest we have vast unoc
cupied areas of fertile lands. and are very much
in want of the surplus people of whom Eng
land wishes to get rid-tbe intelligent and
thrifty tenant farmers, one of whom would be
worth, in immediate economical and social
value to the State, dozen of the ignorant
peasantry which are driven here by poverty
from some other parts of Europe, and who are
chiefly valuable as the progenitors of more
intelligent and thrifty race of sons and daugh-
ters."-Pi0neer Press.
Comments of Hans Madison in Stats lid
ming.
"We have read and re-read the cruel VEN
emous words dozen times, in the hope of
finding some loophole through which we
might escape the conviction that they were
intended as deliberate insult TO one quar-
ter of the inhabitants of the State of Mime
sofa, but there ia no escape from it. The
only peasantry besides the English, which
have come and are coming to this State,
are the Swedes. the Norwegians, the Danes
and the Germans, and it must be them that
the great newspaper alludes to. It is moth
ing unusual for that paper to heap insult
and abuse upon individuals who dare to
think aud act in opposition to its notion;
but this is the first time, we believe, that it
has deliberately and without any provoca-
ton, with one foul sweep,
attacked and insulted men and
women by the hundred thousands, and
| class of our own citizens who have since
| the very infancy of the State and former
| Territory. bore noble and manly part in
making this great commonwealth what it is
to-day, economically, socially, politically and
every other way. Truly the Pioneer Press
acts the part of 'sthe bully to perfection.
Were it the sentiments of the native born
population of Minnesota which the Pioneer
Press echoes it would be hi Oh time for the
majority of the farmers in Houston, Fill
more. Freeborn. Blue Earth, Brown, Nicol-
let, Goodhue, Carver, Chisago, Isantj,
Stearns, Becker, Kandiyohi, RenvilIe, Pope,
Douglas, Grant, Otter Tail, Becker and
Clay counties to pack up their traps and
seek q home in some State where
they would be regarded for some
thing more than brood cattle. But it is not
GAo 6eutlIuouIb VI our uaGlV0 DOfQ Qo1g QDOfS,
which the Pioneer Press insultingly utters,
| and We are as much authorized to echo their
sentiment as the Pioneer Press, for we have
known them as long and as we'll. The
American people are too fair, too just and
too humane for entertaining any such feel
ing against those who came here at their
own invitation and who have been good
neighbors and trusted friends ever since the
earliest days of our pioneer settlements.
They have stood side by side too long in ad.
| versity as well as in prosperity, in the dan
gers of war and in the blessings of peace.
They know and acknowledge that to all
alike belongs the credit for the economical
| prosperity for the schools, churches and the
colleges, of which our State now justly boasts,
and for the good, moral, patriotic and re-
| ilgious spirit which pervades our people.
And furthermore, If We mistake not, they will
not allow the Pionee1 Press to heap its in
suits upon those neighbors unrebuked. The
unjust, uncharitable and foul assertion must
stand as tho sentiment of the Pioneer Press
alone, or at most of a prominent coterie
which surrounds it, and which is the most
blameworthy because it fouls the very nest
that warmed it, and insults the people
I throgh whom many of it's individual mem
bers have indirectly gained whatever promi-
hence and honor they now possess.