Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1904-01-21
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pathetically: DO you think America
should treat her English cousins So
and at the same time receive with
out question or protest thousands OF
Iunskilled and ignorant foreigners"
| Here. also, were two returned by
! the government officials as demented,
and so unfit for acceptance by our
country. Again, young SWede,
several years in America, workman
| in chair factory in Massachusetts,
! is en- route to Finland for six
months stay in search of health,
/ leaving wife and child behind.
But the failures are the exceptions
to the rule. Here is young English
man, painter by trade, native of
Stratford, who informed me with some
pride that he had done" Shakes
Ipeare's house just before he came to
America. He also assured me that
his sister was a servant in the home
Iof Miss Corelli, the well-known nov
elist. He is going back to England to
stay till after Christmas" and is
dressed from head to toe in manner
calculated to cause considerable ex-
element in staid old Stratford.
A Polish farmer, with a wife and
child IN Poland, the owner of a farm
of As acres burdened with a mortgage.
decided three years ago to leave his
loved ones and try his fortune in far
famed America. He is returning now,
bringing his sheaves with him" for
he has paid the mortgage and is
eagerly returning to join his family in
his fatherland. He informed me that
he did not expect to return to
America. With his farm clear of in
curbrance, his beloved but Cnslaycl
Poland was good enough for him. He
might we'll say America is a coed
county" He said in broken English,
America is good country for a
young man, but bad place for an old
man." Perhaps he was right.
young Irishwoman, sent to an
aunt in America when child, is now
returning to her parents, bringing her
Massachusetts-born husband with her
He is prosperous young merchant,
and left the arrangements for the trip
in the hands of his wife as one ex-
perienced in ocean travel Why
should the thrifty Irish girl, who went
out Storage 10 years ago, waste
money on the style of the second
cabin?
Here is a bright-faced, rosy checked
Swede girl, for year or more resi-
dent of the Back Bay as second girl,
She likes Boston Every naturally, we
all remark. She is going to visit her
parents. who are farmers in Sweden.
With her young Swedish workman
from Denver. with the western noun
tain atmosphere in his voice and talk,
is returning for a visit. He rebuked
fellow-Swede, returning from a visit
to his sons in Minneapolis, for daring
to express his opinion of America, by
saying: why you haven't seen
America at all, if you've only been as
far as Minneapolis"
Last, is an old Irishman, for over so
years a resident of the new world.
He is 73 years of age, but straight and
strong as man of SIS. He is making
his first and last trip to his birth !
place. He told the simple but heroic |
story of his life: Il have always been
a laboring man" said he, but have
saved my money, accumulated prop
erty, and educated my son for the
/ asked him why he had
succeeded where SO many fail, and he !
said: For two reasons; first, have
let drink alone; and, second, | have
always been faithful to every duty as !
signed me-" Although entirely UNI
schooled, he was most interesting and
intelligent in his conversation upon
tho political and commercial affairs
of the day. When he found that | was