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savings. The Danish University and its students 

 have instituted free lectures, with evening lectures, 

 all over the country — besides promoting popular 

 amusements, distributing cheap literature, and 

 opening oflfices for free legal advice. Clubs are 

 formed in music, gymnastics, and cycling, and 

 there are debates conducted for the advantage of 

 the rural population. In all ways country life has 

 become exceedingly attractive. Very much remains 

 for our own government to learn from Denmark, 

 especially in the way of establishing Postal Savings 

 Banks in our villages. 



By going to the country we are not only helping 

 ourselves, but are aiding the solution of the great 

 social problem, how to make man out of the mass, 

 and something better than masses out of men. 

 Nearly one million a year from Europe's herded 

 population comes to our shores for citizenship. All 

 but four per cent, drop into tenements. The social 

 salvation of America rests with the country. There 

 is land enough for a population of five hundred 

 millions. The unimproved lands of the Northwest 

 constitute about fifty per cent, of the area. Maine 

 has eighty-eight per cent, of her land still unim- 

 proved, Pennsylvania, fifty-five per cent., while 



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