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G ALICIAS S.Tli** Winnipeg Free Press last week endea* ured in a lengthy editorial tlt;* |rofe that our tiam'ii* n immigrants eoul 1 safely I**euti *t- ^ .^1 with the franchise liecause they conn* from a country vvlicre sum political freedom was hereditary,! and high civic intelligence a com-/**' rnon feature; though no one who had ever seen tin wretched etvat-| urcs on their arrival would suspect ; it.‘ For ov r l-o vears' says ;h f■; won h rtuily ill-informed journalGalicia has been part of a country ^whoa-*-form of government is pr-1i i-ely the anie as that ol Great]Irituin lt;r ( aaada tuwnich would^ hrino Us I*a« k to 1 lt;i d, m which ***' , - . .war t iahlt; ia was part ot the Km;r*. doin of Poland, a miserably de-:I umd s 1 monarehy that was such a Kurop* an nuisance tliat it was uh -match abolished: part going to!** \u uria u ider the name of lt;laiicia. j* j ,u t to Prussia as IVmen, and part1to Hussiu un.h r the old name ol / Polui I The inhahitants were, serfs ol the soil sold with it andwere only emancipated alter the lII revolution in Austro -Hungary hi ■' 1S4S-49 the (Juvernment allow r ing their value to the large lard1 uwiit rs.v I 'O'■ s th* Finn l'r.-s in it- pyramid il ignorant*** imagine there wn*11 root a in th • .-an. ■ country lor Met I ternich and municipal freedom' I i \\kild Flood thirty commanders ■- like Havnuti, (.'lam Galias. or Jella- j .i i ivieh reeog’u/e the majorities lt;u tr county councils? it is llhreU.O.e that anyone new a-davn should n ignorant as not to know tlriH 1 civic freedom get*- smaller and civilization gets lower, the further one .f goes eastward.It i he position of die Galicians nt : home was ‘xaedy what th y an- j U •. ctred to blt;* to us in Manitoba as government paupers ignorant.»l* dirt v. and d--b.is.-d: out obedient to in lie- authorities a-doug as they w--n-, f d; and the Kr**+* Press would breckless eumg ^ to entrust 1 he-p. Mpile with votes 5,0 deci I*’ liOW |1 the country is to'i governed sf III h-peir leliee. {
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Dauphin Weekly News
Dauphin, Manitoba, CA
Fri, Sep 29, 1899
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