Albuquerque weekly citizen. (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1891-19??, 1906-12-15
Has Been Located In uthua.
MIA on the Baltic. People
Of which
now SEEK THIS COUNTRY
m VERY LARGE NUMBERS
An Interesting Article But One
Rather More FanClfm and Far
Fetched Than True.

(By a. w. oroeley.)
An chronological tragedy is told Do
the pfosaio igufes of the annual re.
port OF the federal bureau of imml.
grafton Hidden away IN serried
ranks of statistics o. the story Of the
exodus from Llthuania 10 the United
States. "a tangible evidence OF the
hopelessness and despair that has dis.
hearicncd furOpcs oldest race ln the
very birthplace of the blond Aryan
type whose descendants have forged
q circle on conquorinE civilization
around the world q is a significant
fact that this iineal remnant OF she
original Aryan blond type should 81.
ter q girurgio OF countless centuries
Tor the realization of racial ideals.
turn 90 The youngest of iis descend
ants for asylum and refuge upon the
collapse 81 the illAaTred and short
lived Baltic Republic. whose brief
page IN history drips with blood
The records 0f the immigration
bureau slow that among the thou
sands OF ilrhuanlnns who fer the
year past have been Rocking to the
Uufed states q large number are
docking to the farms aud ranches Of
the vest and northwest. Tor the
Lithuanian has been a tillor Of the
soil and newer OF wood from times
lmmen0rial But not few u them
20 Ia Increase the struggling colonies
OF LithuanlaEs IN the big cities
who're relentless competition drives
them In gaunt want 20 the sweat
Shops. Chicago has large colony
OF Let's. iithuanians. and Esths,
from which place they have spread
over Illinois, Michigan. Wlsc0Rain
and Miune1oin, the states which show
the largest proportion Of the new I'm
migration.
CAUSED Naposlon's Downfall.
Lithuania the homo Of the Let's,
Ilthuanlans. and Esth0nianH. a one
Of the most primitive and least
known regions IN Europe Until
quite recently q was practically terra
incuFnlia, q harsh. inhOspitHhle eli
mate ahcitering an almost savage
the Rale-swept Baltic Il has for cen
turtles been darkest Europe Only
now and then az great hist orlcal In.
teryals has n emerged from its ioga
and mlsis 20 attract general notice
a., for Instance. when u gave Nap0
leon bis coup Do grace In the fate
iul march from burning Moscow. u
was Ia the awAmpta OF LAihuania
rather thnn on che field of Watorloc
that BOnaparto's grip on the destlniei
OF Europe was wrenched loose by
savage, rovongeful, blood-luatlnf
Lofts.
Politically. lithuanie Is included
within the boundaries OF the Russian
governments OF iAyonla, wilma, Koy
no. 0rodno. vibesk, Mlnsk. Mohalev
and Suwalkl, and IN Prussia Il In
ciudeg the provinces Of Enst ant
West Prussia Long years ago 4
was on Independent kingdom with 80
own prince and nobility. q dim tradl
tlon which. however, has kept ally,
the national spirit through centuries
Of political servitnde. Crowded Il
between cunquerinE Germans on chs
one side and aggressive Russians o.
the other, Lcttiah autonomy sue.
cnmhed % 0ycrpoworing forces ans
sullenly accepted foreign auzerainH.
Il IL within only the past ten year.
or 80 that lAthuanla has been recug
nizud as the aclrntihc treasure hous'
0i Europe. D region which held thi
answers 10 the most perploxing an
thropulngical ana archaeological pioh
LENS, discoveries which have cast
food OF HIGHT upon race origins ani
forced the abandonment of time
honorcd theories A. The result o
patient investigation and long doly
lng q considerable school probably
the most authoritative. declares tina
the blrhplaco ~ the Aryan race wal
not nu the high planes oi Asia, Wherl
Muller sought to hx So. bat that thi
point OF dispersion the cradle of th'
Arynn mce. was on the shore OF th'
Baltic, in iho homo OF the l4ntts an'
tho iAthuauians Scholars Tor man.
years held the theory that sanakri
was the oldest tongue, che one near
est the original Aryan speech. hu
vcsilgaiiOn has proved to The mind
of many modern Investigators thn
SanskrIi must surrender its place o
honor 10 Lcttish and Lithuanian a
the most primitive OF Aryan tongues
The testimony oi phll0logy Is he'll
10 support the theory thai Liihunnl
Is the home of the primitive Aryan
The lcitiah,liihunnian lnnguag
forms a family By Itself iniermediat
between slavic and Toutopic but 90
more primitive than either and Wit
pcouliaritlea ng lts own that show
close klnship with both sanskrii an
IoJta. whJ had been crowded iron
the 100000 Llthnnnians and give
evidence ot lttlc changes ihroug
the centuries
There Is more evidence that th
Llihuanlans are the remnant OF th
original Aryan stock ], ls cour
tyy of dense forests and awamps, 81
lnhoanliablg wlldefnCss past Whic
mo coaquorlng hOrdcs OF the NOR
progressive and militant Aryan tribe
swept without invading. leaving ih
leits. which had been crowded iron
TIE moro fertile valleys and plain
lalo this refuge. To develop wliNOu
ne spur oi competition, the struegl
iDf exist1acc. heine simply one VII
lho elements Civilization 8pfaa