The Scandinavian Element in the United States

436

Ibid., letter of Sigurd Syr.

437

Ibid., Aug. 28, 1889. After the fall election the same paper, October 9, announced: “The Scandinavian Union thus seems barren of results… Peace be with its ashes!” – because it secured only 5 senators and 18 representatives in the State legislature.

438

Skandinaven, April 5, 1893.

439

The North, Jan. 22, 1890, quoting in translation from Fædrelandet og Emigranten.

440

The North, July 17, 1889.

441

Translated from Svenska Folkets Tidning (Minneapolis), April 20, 1890.

442

Boyeson, “The Scandinavians in the United States,” North American Review, CLV, 531; Rockford Register (Ill.), Sept. 16, 1889.

443

The North, Aug. 14, 1889, translating from Skandinavia (Worcester, Mass.)

444

Billed Magazin, I, 139 (1869); Skandinaven, Feb. 5, 1896 – an editorial printed, like many others, in English and evidently designed for the consumption of editors of English papers. It is also evident that Skandinaven’s readers understood English. Söderström, Minneapolis Minnen, 132, gives a fairly complete list of all the Swedes, Norwegians, and Danes elected or appointed to city, state or county office, even including policemen. For similar list for a rural county, see Tew, Illustrated History and Descriptive and Biographical Review of Kandiyohi County, Minnesota (1905).