A few days ago I recevied one of the best letters that I ever read in my life from an old resident of North Dakota. He knew what tme situation in the Northwest really is. One of its misfortunes. he said. was that there had been a great influx of immigration from Europe into that region that was deeply tinctured with European socialistic ideas. though lie did. I am glad to say. have the candor to add that many of these immigrants were very fine citizens. indeed. an opinion which I heartily share. In my opinion the inevitable tendency of this bill. if it goes into effect. will be to impoverish the spirit of the people of the Northwest. to sap those habits of selfreliance which made the early history of our great West one of the grandest epics in the history of the human race. and to destroy those principles of Individual initiative. individual energy. and individual ambition upon which the splendid structure of American progress. Prosperity. and happiness has been reared.
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Generalizes that European immigrants are deeply tinctured with European socialistic ideas.