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Story of an Emigrant.
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Their combined population is now one-third of a million.
St. Paul contains a large number of Scandinavians, but
Minneapolis seems to be their favorite city, the Swedes alone
numbering over forty thousand. They have many churches,
private schools, academies and other institutions of learning.
The three Scandinavian nationalities agree pretty well in
our good state, and have united their efforts in several
enter-irises of some magnitude. In Minneapolis there are several
banks and other monetary institutions owned and controlled
by them, not to mention hundreds of other important
commercial and manufacturing establishments due to the
enterprise of our countrymen. Having gradually learned the
language and the ways of this country, a surprisingly large
number of the Scandinavians who began their career as
common laborers have engaged successfully in business on
their own account, and many have devoted themselves to
professions demanding a higher education, which is greatly
facilitated by a number of excellent academies and colleges
established and supported by them in several of the western
states. A great number of county offices are filled by the
Scandinavian-Americans; in our legislature there are
generally from thirty to forty members of that nationality ; many of
them have occupied positions of the highest trust and honor
as officers of the state and of the United States, and no one
can deny the fact that they have universally proved
themselves fully equal in ability and trust-worthiness to the
native born.
But it is not only in Minneapolis or in Minnesota, but
throughout the whole country that the Scandinavians have
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gained such a good name, that in all the recent agitation
against foreign emigrants, not one voice has been heard
against them. They learn the English language well and
quickly, and assimilate readily with the native American
element, which is natural enough considering that they are to
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