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which will unify the American race. It is 

 not only the people of Southern Europe who 

 are finding opportunity here now in this age 

 of Gleaning. The hard-wood forests of Wis- 

 consin, Michigan and Minnesota are being 

 cleared by Scandinavians and the Swiss, 

 people who have been imbued with the bitter 

 lessons of centuries in establishing agriculture 

 in their native, ill-favored homes. The history 

 of the communistic settlement of America has 

 never been written. There are Icelandic 

 colonies in North Dakota, Mennonites in 

 Kansas, Dunkards in Saskatchewan, Japanese, 

 Portuguese and Slavs in the Pacific States, 

 and only now an army of ten thousand stal- 

 wart, bearded sons of Holland with their 

 families are taking up homes on the border of 

 the Great Plains. These and many others, 

 in addition to the classic examples of the early 

 Puritans in Massachusetts, Swedes in Del- 

 aware, Quakers in Pennsylvania, and Mor- 

 mons in Utah. The early groups sought only 

 communistic isolation. Witness the Mormons 

 as late as 1846 electing to build an empire 

 in the midst of a desert. But the later 

 groups are inspired only by the vision of the 

 possession of an acre of land and an escape 



