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World, ethnologists discriminate several types of 

 Finns each with its own Finnish habitat: one type 

 less "heavy-headed" and obtuse than the other. Both 

 types seem to be represented in America. Finland 

 is a tri-lingual country, Russian and Swedish being 

 domiciled there with the vernacular. In Michigan, 

 it is not easy at once to determine whether one is 

 dealing with a Finn or a Swede. The name is 

 Swedish and Swedish may be readily spoken by the 

 person in question. The slightly almond eyes and 

 general appearance of the features help to resolve the 

 doubt in favor of a Finnish prime relationship, 

 although here, as in Finland, there may be an inter- 

 mingling of these stocks by marriage. Normally 

 the Finn was temperate even before the adoptioii of 

 prohibition, contrary to common opinion, as was 

 shown by his vote in favor of constitutional prohi- 

 bition. In the copper country, for example, mining 

 locations with a large Finnish element, and certain 

 rural precincts almost wholly Finnish in composi- 

 tion, were overwhelmingly in favor of the prohibitory 

 amendment, leaving it to urban constituencies of 

 definite American and aristocratic tendencies to tip 

 the balance to the contrary, side. How far the Finn 

 leans to socialistic doctrines is not easy to determine, 

 although the strike of copper miners in 1912 showed 

 that these views were frequently held, even in rural, 

 as distinct from mining, locations. A similar ten- 

 dency in Finland has been attributed to the system 

 of land tenure in large estates, to opposition to the 

 tyranny of the one-time rule of the Czar, and per- 



