AMALGAMATING OUR FOREIGN BORN 



trymen as points of departure for real homes 

 elsewhere or the settlement near one an- 

 other, natural in a strange country, of peo- 

 ple hailing from the same land and 

 speaking a common tongue. Most country 

 Germanies, Swedens, Bohemias, and so on, 

 belong to this latter type. Their existence 

 betrays no un-American motive, no obsti- 

 nacy, no contumacy, and they will quietly 

 dissolve after a time. Temporary infelicity 

 may attach to this species of banding, but 

 it cannot prove disastrous. 



Bohemians everywhere patronize schools, 

 not behind even the Germans in this. In a 

 certain city, the board of education being 

 unable to provide a suitable place for the 

 high school graduation exercises, a Bohe- 

 mian merchant came forward and placed 

 the opera house at their disposal, himself 

 paying the bill. 



Dangerous or pernicious herding is of 

 the other, the intentional kind, meaning dis- 

 like, or dread of, and a more or less resolute 

 stand against, Americanism. 



One powerful cause of the tenacity with 



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