A little over 50 years ago when I was just a young fellow. the Standard Oil Co. laid a pipe line through our farm. In those days the ditches were all dug by hand. and hundreds of men slept in our barns and our sheds. For weeks and weeks and for a good while after that. those fellows went through there from time to time attending to their jobs and inspecting the line and one thing or other. Foreign immigration was at high tide in those days. I talked with some of those men over a period of years. as did my father. There was one reason why nearly every man had come to America. and that was to escape militarism in Europe.
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