YoungstownskeÌ SlovenskeÌ noviny = Youngstown Slovak news. (Youngstown, Ohio) 1910-1940, 1924-02-08
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came also insmigrants isof other
of Europe, though the lat
ter came somewhat later, shout
and after 1890. However, it is not
the purpose Of this article to deal !
with all these different immigrant |
groups. We are primarily, con-
cerned with the Slovaks and will
confine ourselves to. them as fir |
as i; possible and consistent with
our general policy in handling the
problem CT immigration.
Much is said, and with full just
ification, in praise fthe pioneer
who, ak in hand, cleared this for
ests, made fields arabic. and built
roads on which others proceeded
farther west in their conestoga
wagons. These pioneers, or front
nrsmen, had a hard life. On the,
one hand they had to struggle
with nature for. every inch ef;
ground, on the other they had 10.
fight off the attacks Of hostile IE-i
dian, tribes who resented the in;
trusion of the white man into ter;
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riforics which they considered
their 'hanting grounds terrific
ries; which Had remained for cen
turies, and. probably for thousands
OF years, iii the same state Of un-
development. These pioneers arc
held out to the newer immigrants
as examples; that they had ven
tured out, to open the roads to
civilization and had made it pos
sible for. others to follow the track
which they had laid out. Pres
cnted as Il fact, this is undenia bic !:
as a reproach it is only partly
justified. When the newer immi-
grants arrived all the pioneering
was done. The west was no longer
'wild and woolly', and the econ
omic demands following the civi!
war were much higher than those
Of colonial days, just as today s
demands are higher than these OF
the days of civil war. Each crest
Of the waves Of immigration
brought in people who had to face
conditions different from those
which the earlier arrivals hal
found. and therefore, all compa,
risons in this direction are inapr
In the wake Of the early pioneers
farr-lands were thrown open, an
he who came first had the pick.
When in the first quarter oil
the 10Th century machine produc
tion began to replace home mar:
ufacture, and increased capacity
Of machinery enabled enormou:
production, the econemic feature,
Of this eountry1 underwent revo
: lutionary changes. As conse
qucnce of these changes, in the
middle of the 10Th century, negr;
slavery became untenable, anc
the friction which arese over thi.
issue resulted in a war betweey
the northern states Of the Union
which were rapidly becoming in
lustrialized, and the souther,
states, which were then. and ever
ROW still are, largely agricultural
The outcome Of this war is knows
and for our present purpose onl,
insofar unpOrt&nt, that, with III
winning Of the civil war by tn
northern states. industrial Ameri
ca won over agricultural Amer
ca. The immigrants who had al
rived during the pioneer era ha
turned to farming as one of tn
few MEANS by wAich to susstai
themselves, while the immigrant
who came here during and afte
the industrial transition turned I
the industries because they. ,o1
fercd a variety Of eppertunitie
Thus it hsppened that many in
migrants whose ancestors; for nj
M, pa,,arafinns had bean Slxi1lp