Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1911-09-06

a "Greater Germany" so Scandina-
via is developing into "Greater
Scandinavia" The German father
land, Deutschland" (the peoples
land) is larger than the German En-
|pire, including besides Germany,
Austria, Switzerland, Holland, Bel
GUM, Luxembourg and their world
wide scattered children; so the Sean
dinavian fatherland includes Den
mark, Norway, Sweden, Iceland, the
Swedes in southern Finland and their
scattered children abroad. Parents
and children belong together wher-
ever they are: The solidarity and
|nationalism of Germans and Scan
dinavians are growing faster and
stronger than we realize, and the
struggle and sacrifice to maintain
their languages abroad will on the
whole succeed, though here and
there are localities where they fail.
Scandinavian like German is a good
popular general VOID including more
people united by common language
tie than is generally supposed.
SCANDINAVIA, A COUNTRY
, STRATEGICALLY LOCATED
| FOR WORLD WIDE IN
FLUENCE.
The nature of the country as a
geographical division is advantage
eous for world influence. The Scan
dinavians occupy as We have said, a
large and peculiar peninsula, pro-
jecting from the icy polar region,
where it joins Russia on the north,
into great body Of water and prac-
tically connecting with Germany on
the south. History proves that the
peninsular peoples in the" case
of Arabia, Greece, Italy, Spain and
India-being protected from the
Cain-like murderous hand of their
neighbors, have developed into the
great nations. England is a modern
instance of island civilization, Ger
many of the continental type, but
Scandinavia of the peninsular. While
Germany has land communication
with it's neighbors, Scandinavia's in
tercourse is by sea, and thus he1
sons and daughters more than any
other nation, have learned the langu.
ages and customs Of other countries
! Byexpansion at home and abroad ant
by strength Of the ties between faith.
erland and worldwide scattered chill
dren, the mother tongue is. strength
ened. Scandinavians no more thar
Germans forget their mother tongu,
because they learn foreign langu
ages. There are other causes.
People often look at maps and SCI
only the dry land. They do no
study the water, the seas, lakes an,
rivers and their relations to eacl
other to the land. The Scandinavian
Peninsula has its true meaning onl,
when considered in it's relation to tn
North Sea and the Atlantic Oceal
and to the long north and-south Bal
tic Sea, which is in the north wha
the east-and-west Mediterranean i
in the south, ranking in size next t.
it. All Scandinavians must have tn
! kindliest affection for this noble bod
Of water, natures fertilization o
their national life, culture and langu
age against Russia from expandin
westward. That which nature ha
so benefcently preserved to us as
birthright trategically located alon
the warm gulf stream in the far col
north between the vast land areas Q
the continents Of the old and ne,
worlds, their children's childre
should never sell at any .pric,
Northern Russia may try to crush
by force. Shall free northern. Am
erica help to crush it, deliberatel
! and persistently crush it, by the in
difference Of American Scandinav
'ians7 It tis az assation if Scandin
.ayia has not less to fear from he
professedly loyal children il Amer