Speech #680081383

Almost all Scandinatvians in this country live in turers of legend. but simply iy incompetents who could nit get on at better homes than did their lncestos in the old countries. and home. and the lavishinss of nature that they found liei . the vast yet-. for the ec(mmon run of mni conditions in those countries ease with which they could get livings. confirmed and augmented lheir have been more livable than in any of the other countries of native incompetence. Europe. These big. heavy. hardworking Seindinavians have stored up The writer then goes on to tell how the winning of the West the material for one of the stanzas of the great American epic was accomplished at a small sacrifice and then speaks of the that will some day be writteuand it will not be written by the immigrants that have come to our shores since that time. and scoffersthe taling and the building of the great Northwest. this. I think. is of interest it this discussion: I These foolish Scandinavians have gone on working and living The immigrants who have come since those early days have been. if from the fruits of their own toil. built up real American farm anything. of even lower grade than their foreruniiers. The old notion hones. built more churches and schoolhouses than have any that tlie Uiited States is peopled by the offspring of brave. idealistic. other breeds of meu here. and they are now the backbone of the and libertyloving minorities. who revolted against injustice. bigotry. progressive movement that is coming out of the West. They and medievali.sm at homethis notion is fast sueummbing to the owned. according to the last census. as much value in farm alarmed study that is been given of late to the immigration of recent lands as tile Germans. and those of Norwegian blood alone years. . owned as nuc of farm values ts all those classed as English. The truth Is thait the majority of nonAngloSaxon iniigrants since Scotch. Welsh. and Irish. the Revolution. like the majority of AngloSaxon immigrants before The people of Scandinavian blood are overwhelmingly for the Revolution. have been not the superior men of their iative lands. this bill. Whether there is any cause for alarm or not. time but the botched and unfit. Irishmen starving to death in Ireland. will tell.