A new history of the United StatesThe greater republic, embracing the growth and achievements of our country from the earliest days of discovery and settlement to the present eventful year .. . orthwestwith a population that alreadynumbers millions. From Chi-cago to Montana there is now apopulation of full Scandinavianorigin, which, perhaps, may beregarded as about equal in numbers to the population that remains in Swedenanil Norway. In Wisconsin, Minnesota, North Dakota, and South Dakota, aswell as in northern Iowa and in some j^arts of Nebraska, there are whole counties?where the population
A new history of the United StatesThe greater republic, embracing the growth and achievements of our country from the earliest days of discovery and settlement to the present eventful year .. . orthwestwith a population that alreadynumbers millions. From Chi-cago to Montana there is now apopulation of full Scandinavianorigin, which, perhaps, may beregarded as about equal in numbers to the population that remains in Swedenanil Norway. In Wisconsin, Minnesota, North Dakota, and South Dakota, aswell as in northern Iowa and in some j^arts of Nebraska, there are whole counties?where the population is almost entirely Scandinavian. Upon all this portion ofthe country for centuries to come the Scandinavian patronymics will be as firmlyfixed as they have been wpow the Scotch and English coasts, where the North-men intrenched themselves so numerously and firndy about nine hundred or athousand years ago. The Scandinavians in the Northwest become Americanswith a rapidity unequaled by any other non-English-speaking element. Theirpolitical ambition is as insatiate as that of the Irish, and they already secureoffices in Their devotion to the American school system, iheir polit-. LiAKE-SHOKE DHIVp;, CHICAGO. 526 ADMINISTRATION OF CLEVELAND. ical aptitude and ambition, and their enthusiastic jiride in American citizen-ship are thoroughly hopeful traits, and it is generally believed that they willcontribute much of strength and sturdiness to the splendid race of North-western Americans that is to be developed in the Upper Mississippi and Mis-souri Valleys. The Northwestern Germans evince a tendency to mass in towns,as in Milwaukee, and to j^ieserve intact their language and national traits. SOCIETY AND GENERAL CULTURE. The large towns of the Northwest are notable for the great numbers of thebrightest and most energetic of the young business and professional men of theEast that they contain. While they lack the leisure class and the traditions ofculture that belong to older
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