New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1914-07-08

land and Elsewhere.
GREAT FACTOR IN NORTHWEST
Scandinavian Immigrants Have Done
Much IN Developing This Section
of the United States-Defense Cues
ton Still Most Important Topic Of
Discussion in Norway-Universal
Suffrage Passes Lower House Of
Danish Parliament.
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When our own Northwestern states
and territories reached out in every
direction in quest for pioneer settlers
none responded from the warmer
countries. How fortunate for our
Northwest, and for the whole United
States, that the highly Christianized
and civilized Scandinavian peninsula,
projected farthest into the north of
the old world, and needing its sons
| and daughters at home, most gener-
! ously offered them to plant their Gull
| tire and language in our Far North
| western domain. No European ma
tons were better prepared by kind
Providence to endure the cold and
blizzards of the north of the new
world and to plant better type of
Christian civilization there than the
| Norwegians, Swedes, Danes, Iceland
ers and Firms, the five nations that
speak the two Scandinavian tongues
and represent the Scandinavian cul-
ture, with a three-language public
| school system equal to the best in
the world, which they will plant and
| cultivate in the virgin soil of the
new world when the opportune time
comes: From the signs of the times
| it will soon be at their DOORS These
people from the northwestern coast of
the old world anchored their culture
not on the fringe of the new world,
but here in the very heart of the
| North American continent, in one
compact body. They hold strategic
position in the new as they do in the
old world. What they have accom-
plished here is an instructive chap
ter in the worlds history. 1t is open
for inspection. Americans them
selves are proud of their achieve
ments on the farm and in town and
city. In no other part of the world
/ have they done better. No part of
our country developed faster and
healthier than the Northwest, where
these people settled. Nowhere has
their free Viking heroism better
chance to express and materialize
itself. Their work so we'll begun
should be developed to the highest
degree. Their Netherlands have no
colonies at present elsewhere, and if
their interest and emigration are not
diverted from our Northwest and a
Port Arthur defense of their culture
be erected by the schools in the ris-
ing generation, they will maintain
themselves and serve America as
well, if not better, in the future Every
state in the West and South is cry
ing for immigrants, white people be-
ing always preferred. But the source
of supply of Europeans, or white, i'm
migrants is limited, especially from
and for the north 1t is far easier
to secure immigrants to settle South.
ern than Northern lands, because in
the South there are far more people
and much less land. Hence the ques-
ton is vital one-where is the vast
territory of the North. especially that
of the new world, to obtain settlers.
The Norwegians, Swedes, Danes, Ice
landers and Firms have made be-
ginning. Subtract them from the
Northwest and what have you? Min
neapolis would be the Northwestern
frontier instead of the center of
North America. Italians are no more
at home in Canada than Scandina.
vians in Alabama. There is an eter.
nal fitness of things also in develop
ing and conserving the material and
culture resources of races and ma
tons. Scandinavians are patriotic
people. Their patriotism, hitherto
expressed in admiration of their his
tory and country, is turning also to
an appreciation of their culture and
language, to their mission on the sea
and beyond the sea. in uniting their
worldwide scattered sons and daugh.
ters. in retaining and spreading their
culture and language in pure form.
Two million people in the British
Isles speak the Celtic tongue and
| 1000 900 of the population of British
Canada speak French. 1t ought to be
easy for the 100000 Scandinavians
in the free country of the United
States to maintain their languages.
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Nelson Morris of Chicago has been