The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-07-03

NSW 1oIki July 2-(Speclal. )-MOntanu will lead every other state of the Union in responses made to the liberty loan call. The corrected returns an analysis Of which was received in New York city this morning, show that in it's per capita apporuonment of the loan. Montana sur passed, relatively speaking the subscrip tions reported from any other state. Were prize or any special designation of honor to be awarded for the best achievement, Montana would receive it. The opportionment for the state was $6,- 76S,OOO, but there was subscribed by cfu- zens of the state $t343O,100 Had the other states of the far northwest done a s well as Montana, the total subscriptions reported from that section would be ap proximately twice as much as the amount actually subscribed which was little over $7o,oOo0Oo. This amount is nearly $So00,o00 less than the apportionment for the entire district.
 Detailed information brought to New York this morning by some of those who had part in the vigorous campaign ing work for the liberty loan that was carried on in the ninth reserve district, made up of the states of Michigan, or the sota, Montana, North Dakota, South Dakota and Wisconsin tell of some very peculiar conditions which prevail in the northwest to which the attitude of the state of Montana toward the liberty loan furnished a strange and gratifying ex- ception These conditions are of a kind which are of importance to the entire country, especially in view of the prob ability that the Secretary of the Treas sometime in autumn.
 Montana differs from the other states of that section in the fact that, leaving out the mining and industrial labor, the native born population is considerably in the majority. All over the northwest the various committees which in six or seven weeks undertook to float 100000 of the liberty loan, discovered that the native born citizens were those who were the easiest to approach. and who were the quickest to understand what the oppor- tunities and obligations relating to the new loan were, whereas the citizens who were of foreign birth, or whose parents mmigrated from countries across the sea, were often appealed to in vain, not manifesting open hostility to the loan, but apparently entertaining exactly the kind of sentiment respecting in which might be expected were German propa gandists actively at work.
 It was said this morning by one who took part in the liberty loan campaign that the foreign population in the ninth reserve district, of which Minneapolis is the center, is very large probably pro- portipnately larger than in any other district of the United States. excepting possibly New York city. Careful esti- mates, which the recent campaign for the liberty loan made possible place the native born population in Wisconsin. Minnesota and North Dakota, at from 25 to 27 per cent. In northern Michigan. South Dakota and Montana. the native born population ranges from 37 per cent to N50 per cent. The larger figure repre- sents the native born population in Mon~ tana. and undoubtedly explains why it was that Montana oversubscribed her al- lotment by 100 per cent.
 GERMAN AND SCANDINAVIAN
 This foreign population. which i'll the entire district is so greatly in excess of the native born population, is made up of some 30 to 40 different nationalities, but Germans and Scandinavians prepon- derate. The German emigration to Min nesota in the early days of that state was very large, and this is also true of Wisconsin. In North and South Dakota is very large German element and in Wisconsin. Minnesota and the two Da- kotas the Scandinavian population is also very large, probably preponderating.
 When the various committees were ap- pointed for the purpose of making thor