The Minneapolis journal., 1906-07-29

Paying glowing tributes to Minneapo-
lis and Minnesota, and showering the
Scandinavian peoples with. praise, Her
bert n Casson has an article on The
Scandinavians in America, s IN the
current issue Of Munsey g magazine.
It is short and necessarily superficial,
but is mainly correct. It is an extre- !,
" flattering thing Mr.. Casson has
turned out and if he were politician
he could Justly be accused of angling
for Scandinavian votes.
Minnesota gets equally hatter1ng
treatment Her wonderful progress, her
phenomenal growth, her climate, the
beauty of river, lake and prairie are de-
scribed in glowing terms, as just such
country as the Scandinayians would
be likely to choose in seeking home.
- The Three Nations. ..E
| Each Of the three Scandinavian ma
tions is given separate mention IN
which the national traits are described
and the leading men are named. VI
the Danes it is said:
I tsThe Danes are peace-lovlng,
good natured-people. You will search
thru many public institution before
YOU find one They are seldom winners
Of the big prizes in the race. for wealth,
not because they lack force, but because
their energies are used for hlgher
are low a.a
For the Norwegians.
The Norwegians get this bouquet:
gians. They number about twice as
many as the Danes and two-thirds as
many as the Swedes. No race makes a
nobler type of American than these
1 proud. free-natured people. In the
| isolated valleys of their homeland they
have learned to be independent; Of au'
thority. They think their own thoughts
and live their own lives, They nave
| fought for centuries with the mountains
and the sea, and finally have developee
type of national character which al
the world respects. In the cold, clean lea
air of Norway the germ Of serv1lltJ
sickens and dies. ,,s9 - B.
a. For the swedes.
And the third branch of the famil,
gets this: H., ,,5.,4l ~ j,
SVPassing on to the Swedes,= we fnt
a great army Of 100000, half Of whom
lWere born in Sweden. Next, to Stock
lsholm, Chicago has more, Swedes thai
I any other city in the world. New Yorl
z has nearly fifty thousand-as many, a
it's total population a century ago. AM
Minneapolis has forty thousand or more
1T is simple fact, and not fiattery
!. TO say C1dJ prosperity !oAAoWo "
4 swedes.s They are pss;ther lazy and Sc
dom unskilled ICY mix brains an
tmuscle. No pssp1e produces q smalle
4 proportion Of arudges or kickers: The
90 at their work with vim and cheerfu
,f ness, whether, the pay-envelope be the
= or thin. ~ II! &"= j - -. - S'If e
Highest Type Of People. ''s
4 In conclusion the writer sums up 2
Fl his praise for the subject Of his. art
Gle in the following laudatory climax !;
"A HSuch are the Scandinavians-th
Y artistic Danes, the practical SWede
and the independent Norwegians. The
! have won the highest respect from
other Americans, by deserving it. The
are honest. Industrious, wholesome pc
lple.s They make no trouble. There
not a Scandinavian slum in any Amer
can city. - In morality and in, INTEL
7 gence they rank with the best OF u
They are all readers, not only OF the
! own newspapers, Of which there a
14O, but Of papers and magazines
general. -, :,
UWe have been obliged to raise t.
he barriers against certain classes Of fc
~ eign immigrants; but 50 far as t.
er Scandinavians are concerned, they ha
~ a standing invitation to come across t
water and Join the 100000 Of the
ID, own people who are here now. In ia.
y. It is safe to say that if the whole, thr
It's nations decided to move, bag and oe
he gage, to the United States, we Wou
Ill throw all the gates wide open a.
ck give them hearty welcome.