Chairman. has been largely based upon a very great degree of admiration which I have always entertained for the Scandinavian race. The people of the Scandinavian countries are certainly a class of persons whom we have every reason to welcome to our shores. and with whom we have every reason to desire to maintain the utmost cordiality of relations. In my own State twentyodd years ago. so high was the estimation in which our people held the populations of the Scandinavian peninsula that our Legislature authorized the creation of a special commission to visit Sweden and organize a colony for immigration to the State of Maine. Under the guidance of our present minister to Sweden a colony of its people came here and ave established their homes in my section of the State of Maine. and. Mr.
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