Rensselaer Republican, Volume 14, Number 1, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 September 1881 — Our Western Empire. [ARTICLE]

Our Western Empire.

ttutmu City Times. Eighty thousand Swedes will come to. the United States this year. Nearly all df.thfeee will settle on the line of the Northern Pacific railaoad: Do our people know what this means? Of all the races of Europe the Scandavian is the most vigorous, l and it is, by its law of habits.an Industrious, frugal and Intellectual race. Next,the whole line of that road is susceptible of settlements The valley of tne Bed Rlyfer of the North is about 225 by 300 miles In extent, of the finest wheat lands on the continent, besides being better fitted for rye, oats, barley, flax/ and like dfops Ibafi any In the worldL-The climate is just suited to the Norseman, and here alone he finds room for a new Scandinavian empire. And these people are frem the home of civilization ana it i/i to-day the blood of the sea kings that donates the Commerce of the globe. Then again,the family ahd Bible are the basis of the social life of these people. They are hoDest, constant iu tneir convictions, strong, and wedded to home. In fifty years more they will have a series of commonwealths there that will serve as a balance wheel to the more emotional regions of the south, and it would be only logical If they were to furnish a century hence tne armies to quell another secession rebellion. This region has had its difficulties Jay Cooke saw its capabilities and Sdtight to use them, but he was a monopolist and a public enemy, and was put aside by the bowling mob. But his labor was not lost, ana to-day his road has reached the '.confines of a country larger than the whole north of Europe, and of a fertility equal to any part of the union. The people who go there go to till the soil, to raise their families, to work and grow in comforts afid property. Jay Cooke is already vindicated. 1 .