Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1902-04-17

would not get on SO well with our
LANGUAGE. His clothes had the Hol-
land cut and his shoes also. But his
SOCKS We're strictly American. They
We're patterned after the fashion Of
Jerry Simpsons. for he had nary
SOCK 20 his name And why should
he 1t was a hot day. and his feet
We're quite warm without socks
asked him how he liked America and he
said very much. His complexion still
had not acquired the American bronze.
1t sui showed the Holland trade
mark OF fairness and softness |
asked him also if he knew what this
excitement on the Fourth Of July was
all about and he replied that it was
because ON that@day America had re-
Iounced English rule. which is more
l apprehend, than many an Americans
native born could tell. For I suspect
that there are many Americans who
shoot firecrackers and consume pic
mic lemonade and wilt their linen on
the Fourth who have no idea what it
is all about, whether it is to commem-
crate the fall of Babylon or the rise
OF the Standard Oil Company.
met another young man who had
been in America since the Worlds
Fair in Chicago. He talked English
so we'll that | had to ask him to make
sure that he was a Hollander He
had broad accent that Indicated a
possibility of a foreign birth, but 9TH
erWise he seems to talk English bet
ter than many native born Ameri-
caNs. He even knows our slang,
which is the hardest for foreigners, to
understand. He said Of a young man
who had gone to a business college to
learn how to do business that he
couldn't cut the caper.'' He used
it correctly, too.
He had studied English in Holland,
and had been in London in school for
several years. He talks French and
German with equal fuency, yet he is
working as farm hand at 500 a
month. 1t seemed like a misfit, and
asked him why he did not get into
some line where his education would
Dt VI SOiIle value. he Sdlu NE uOpeu
to get into something else soon.
The prevailing church of the Hol-
landers is the Dutch Reformed Church.
which is, as [ understand it, very
closely related, being at least. a first
cousin to the United Presbyterians.
They are strict Calvinists and believe
in Psalm singing They are believers
in free ordination, which, [ believe, is
a Characteristic of the, Dutch, and OF
the Germans. who are orthodox.
do not pretend to know what the Ger
man universities teach in that line.
And since Pella was settled by a
people seeking religious. freedom it is
fitting that it should be a city Of
churches. for it surely is. The prevail
ing church is the Dutch Reformed,
but there are a good many who be-
long to other churches, notably the
Methodist and Baptist churches are
patronized by the younger generation.
In the Dutch church, of course, only
Dutch is preached When they get
tired of a preacher or a preacher gets
tired they make change just as
ether churches do Their mode of
worship, to be sure, does not mate
rally differ from other people. In
everything they are becoming so thor
oughily Americanized that you would
scarcely detect their foreign origin.
They are thrifty, we'll to do and val
liable people to have in a State.
During the war they were intensely
loyal to the North. At one time all
the professors and 1875 students left
Pella College to go to the war. Many
were not Hollanders, but many of them
We're.
A marble tablet in the library Of the
University shows that the memories
OF those who went to war and never
returned are kept green and are an
inspiration to the rising generation to
do noble and heroic deeds.
AS 1 understand it, the colony was
never intended to be communistic in
government. From the start each
paid his own expenses. What he ac-
cumulated, if anything. belonged to
him. The colony was organized as a
nucleus around which to build a COM
nlunity Of people who believed alike
in religious matters, but not for the
purpose Of government, since from the
beginning they have been under the
State government the same as other
citizens of the State.
It will give some definite idea of the
plan of the original settlement or col
ony to quote from a case that was in
the Supreme Court about 1868. It was
a case in which the city of Bella tried
to obtain possession of the square al
ready referred to in this article, called
Garden Square. Which shows that
while the Hollanders came to America
to pursue religious liberty they did not
propose to let anybody cheat them out
Of anything in the material world that
belonged to them.
III. P. Scholte was the president of
the colony. He owned d square of the
town of Pella. He owned more, but
he owned the Garden Square. He pro-