[433] Fædrelandet og Emigranten, July 10, 1870. See also an editorial in The North, June 12, 1889, regretting that the question of national proportions and groups should be raised “but the principle having been recognized, we consider it our plain duty to see that it is fairly and squarely enforced.”
[434] The North, July 10, 1889.
[435] The North, July 10, 1889, including translations from Posten og Vesten of Fargo.
[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.