New Britain herald., 1914-04-09
LITERAL TRANSLATION
 OBTAINED BY HERALD
Points in Rev. Ohman's Article
 Reprinted in English.
COPY FOLLOWS SWEDISH ORIGINAL

Name of Article Was "Our Commun-
 ity" and 1t Treated of ForeiGn-
 CTS and Yankees of this City, Ex-
 plaining Politics.
 ton of the discussed article in re- z cent issue of the "Tempelklockan as is possible to obtain. Following Reverend pr. s. G. Ohman's denial of the article printed in Tuesday nights paper the Herald took pains to get into touch with an authority on the Swedish language. The gentleman who furnished the trans lation was disinterested party ana not a citizen of this community. His name will be omitted for obvious req sons. The translation though rather ponderous is reproduced literally herein.
 Our Community.
 We live in a very cosmopolitan com munity It Is asserted that here among our 55,000 inhabitants. not, 4,less than about twenty-five different languages are spoken. The commu nity also bears the stamp hereof. Out on the streets are seen many different types of people and many different languages are spoken. Yankees Swedes, Germans and Irishmen now belong to the old stock in our city. The other nationalities have settled here in more recent years, of which , Poles and Italians have become es- pecially numerous. The former have built for themselves considerable section of the city, not to say conn munity under the leadership of the energetic and talented Catholic priest, L. Bojnowski. The Poles are 8 pro- gressive people and their influence in the community has already attained considerable strength. They under stand how to act in unison.
 New Britain has undergone a radi- cal change during the last twenty years. During this time the city has more than doubled it's population and, in high degree, developed it's indus < tries and commerce. The so-called foreigners have contributed greatly, not only by manual labor, but also in many instances by mechanical skill
 
 city's professional men. must be reck- oned among the leaders just those which are of so-called foreign birth this change in the composition of the community, has naturally brought about many other changes in the di- recting Cor leadership of the com munity. It is not many years since Y New Britain was controlled socially, financially and politically. by few men who ruled all and everything. Fortunately, it has now become quite different. Power and influence have now become distributed little and will continue to be so more and more. The ''Yankees' have had the had habit of desiring to consider themselves as the only Americans" and regard all others as foreigners" They have, therefore. especially in a political sense, made themselves sort of guardians for others and sought to dictate their methods of thinking. In order to get the "foreigners'' on their side, they had selected among these, certain trusted persons who have run their errands fin order to obtain votes for their candidates. If. however. any foreigner has dared show his independence and demanded recogni- ton for his countrymen, then-O, woe! very bitter expressions have soon been heard against unreasonable de- mands," then no foreigners were al- lowed to exist, but we should all be "Americans'' and nothing else.
 As concerns the Swedes. we have marked with regret. how even among these. attempts have been made to carry out this deceit. And there ara Q men with weak brains who think that It is remarkably great to be an err rand boy for the great" even if they should thereby oppose their own countrymen and destroy their inter- ests.
 Preparations have now been going on '4 for some time for the spring election. particularly in the republican camp. There the mayoralty is especially hungered for. This hunger must, at times, have been very severe judging from the many Dutch Suppers," which have been arranged during the winter. At these suppers, it is prob able that there has been more talking 'than eating. Yes. certain "candi- date,'' has so assiduously used his tongue in his own interests and for his own glorification. that 1t would not surprlse us II he, at this stage, had talked his candidacy to death. No doubt, there are some people who applaud such things, but among the swedish people we may fortunately, consider those a disappearing mi nority.
 Nevertheless, may our countrymen succeed in attaining for themselves those positions in the city's govern Ytent and various other offices which they desire. Tn such efforts, our shnllld knnxuiraclu