St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-09-15
With SONG and PRAISE.
The 250ih Anniversary Of the First
Swedish Settlement in
America.
CROWD AT THE EXPOSITION.
This Is Old Settlers Day---The Various
Announcements from the Big Show
on the Hill.

Despite the rain the EXPOSITION caught
an immense cOncourse of people yester-
day. The occasion was the celebration
of the two hundred and fiftieth ami
versary of the Swedish settlement in
America. There was a general turn
out of Swedis b societies, and the dele
gates to the general council of the
Evangelical Lutheran council now in
session in the city. At least ten thou
sand people witnessed the exercises in
the afternoon. The parade was omit
ted because of the weather, but had
the day been prOpitiOuS twice or three
times that number would have at
tended. The speakers platform was
decorated with Swedish national col
Ors. After music by Cappa's band, Col.
Hans MattsOn delivered
THE Address OF WELCOME,
in which he SAID the discovery of
America was the creates event which
had taken place from the days of Christ
till the time it was made, but the settle
ment of America by the right kind of
people was in its beneficial effects upon
the human race, matter of still greater
importance. 1t seems like an order of
Divine Providence that this new world
was left in its natural or savage state
during all the dark centuries of school
ing md experiments in Asia, Africa
and Europe, in order that it might re-
main virgin soil for the higher civili-
cation which was to follow. TO eStab-
lish this civilization based upon true
principles of government required not
only wisdom and strength but tOlera-
ton, brotherhood, justice and exalted
virtue. The people chosen for that
great work came from different cOun-
tries and different conditions Of
life-the English pilgrims to New Eng
land, the Dutch, the SWedeS and the
QuakerS to the middle county, the Eng
lish cavaliers. the Scotch HighlanderS
and the French HuguenOtS to the South
and in them all, combined and inter
mingled, were found the elements of
body and of mind which have given to
the world its best government, its great
est nation and its highest civilization.
Since the English were the largest in
number, their language became the
language of all, and for that reason,
perhaps, history has been partial in
favor OF those who first speak it.
Memorials and anniversaries have often
been celebrated over the landing of the
pilgrims, and of the valOr of the knights
sung thousand times, so that their
household words among the genera
ton of our day, while the
others have been often forgotten or
ignored. Fully recognizing the merits
Of all, we have assembled here to-day
from parts of the United States to COM
memorate a great historical event in
celebrating the 250th anniversary of the
landing of the SwedeS on the Delaware,
and to do honor to their memory in
prayer, song and Speech-and to this
intellectual feast bid you all a hearty
welcome.
Rev. II. N. HalIequist delivered the
invocation in Swedish, after which
came the singing of Our Country" by
the Swedish chorus.
Hon. W. w. Thomas, Jr., of Maine,
THE ORATOR OF THE DAY,
then delivered his address, speaking
in English. After reviewing the his
tOrical facts in connection with the set
Element of the SwedeS in America
since the Swedish ship of war, the
''FOgel Grip" sailed into Delaware. lie
quoted statistics showing the tide of
emigration to America since 1868,
when the number of Swedes landing
at United States ports increased to
10000.
In the decade beginning with 1868,
the number of SwedeS arriving in ports
of the United States suddenly increased
to more than 10000 and then to more
than 10000 year. In 1880 there came
to us in round numbers 10000, in 1881
so, 900, and in 1882 the Swedish immi-
grafton eliminated with a grand total
of 81, 707 souls. Think of it! What a
grand army of labOr-mOre than 10000
strong, more than regiment a week
that in the brief compass of a single
year sailed over the ocean to our shores
from old Sweden alone. For the eight
years, from 1880 to 1887, Sweden sent us
the magnificent total of 81 ,249 of her
stalwart sons and fair daughters-an
average of nearly 10000 year. When
we reflect that the entire population of
old Sweden has at no period reached
100000, the Swedish exodus to the
United States during the last quarter of
a century becomes phenomenal. even in
the wonderful history of American i'm
migration.
Should this immigration continue
and all signs indicate that it wiIl-the
day will surely come when the United
States will contain more citizens of
Swedish descent than Sweden herself;
and we will be not only the Newer, but
the Greater Sweden as we have already
become the Greater England. Includ-
ing all persons of Swedish descent, Min
nesota reckons to-day nearly 100000
Swedes within her borders, and as a
Scandinavian state she stands easily
first in the Union. Minnesota is in
fact, if not i'll name, the New Sweden
of to-day. Wherever, in this broad
land, the SwedeS fix their habitatiOns,
whether it be among the forests of Min
neSOta or Michigan, or on the prairieS
of Illinois or Iowa; everywhere they are
noted for their honesty and industry,
their economy and thrift. No other
foreign race so speedily embrace our
American ideas and become so COM
pletely AmericaniZed. Our Swedish
fellow citizens do not try to subvert our
institutions. There are no Swedish an
archiSts, or dynamite bomb throwers.
Order-lOving. as well as liberty-loving,
God fearing and law-abiding, the Swede
seeks to know the law of the land, not
to break. but to keep it.
After the "Star Spangled Banner"
was sung, j. A. Enander, the editor of
the Hemlandet, of Chicago, delivered
the historical address III Swedish.
Gov. McGill was absent, and Presi-
dent Northrop, of the State University,
delivered the address. An ode, COM
posed for the occasion in Swedish by
David Nyvall, was sung, followed by
the recitation of an original poem by A.
I. Lincoln, and short addresses by Rev.
c. a. Swenson, DR.. Schmaker, Rev.
Petre, Rev. Skogsberg, Gen Andrews
and d. Nvall.
TO-Day's Musical Programme.
AFTERNOON-PART Il p. N.