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Vapaa Sana
Iftuuuf PeofUei Golumn
Finnish Immigiants and a
"Fiii Kontri"
John I Kolehmainen
Professor of History and Govern-ment
Heidelberg College
In response to America's ideolo-glc- al
as eli as lts material en-vironme- nt-
Finnish imrnigrant
life has been marked by the
wtdespread acceptance of ne-- v
ldeals and values as veli as by
the more apparent modlflcationj
In dreas dietary habits language
and the Itke The democratlc
winds of a renowned 'Ftll Kontri"
'nils the salls oi the Finnish Im-mlgrants
driving them trreaistlbly
away from their old moormgi
1 "This countryä atmosphere" re- -
flected the Calumet Michigan)
Amerikan Uutiset In 1902 'has
' brcathed Into us entlrely dlflerent
vicvpcints from those known in
Jour land of berth"
I
The Immlgrants recruited kr--
1 gely from underprlvlleged rural
elements were well preparcd to
uccvpi irauujonai American ut'-mocr- atlc
concepts Many of them
left Finland wlth a deep-roote- d
aversion for arlstooracy a heri-tag- e
of anclent proverbs that
rang out with the cry "Out of
the way peasant here comes the
lords family! Let them pass— to
helli" The immlgrants perslsted
stubbornly as a keen-eye- d trave-le- r
observed in 1926 in regardinij
thelr former homeland as a pa-radl- se
for the Privileged Three:
landowner churchman and publlc
offlcial It remalned In thelr
mlnds a country '-he- re the "ma-nu- al
worker could expect any kind
of treatment at the hands of even
the smallest lord"
The democratlc ldeals and in-stitution
of a new homeland thus
readily won the affections of Fin-nish
immlgrants Speaking for
them the editor of an lnfluentlal
ncwspaper said In 1898: "I admlre
the constltutional popular free-do- m
and democracy of the United
States: I am sensltlve lf they are
tourhed I detest aristocratic
rule and oppression of the peop-Ie- "
The generous measure of
new-worl- d freedom of press was
almost lnstinctlvely contrasted
with condltlons prevalllng in the
old country during the Russiflca
tion Era The Hancock (Michigan
Sankarin Maine for exsmplc
after censorship had prevented
lts circulatlon n Finland expos-tulat- e
that "such theft of prlvate
property Is :mposslble In a re-pub- lie
where one person Is no
sreater a master than another'
Pleasing too was the Wide mea-sure
of personal freedom "Hov
many Fmns" reported a vlsltor
from Finland "have been Joyously
surprlsed at belng able to Ilve
1 thelr own Ilves In peaee vithout
the questloning of ali the curious
to be where they u-ant- ed at any
momcnt to try and fall to be
"vealthy or pennlle to be re-spect- able
men or vagabonds —
1 and yet be arccpted agaln by the
others whcn the wheel of fortune
turned" The gentler sex also felt
the lnvigcratlng lmpact of Ame-rican
freedom and chlvalry: as
early as 1899 Akseli Järnefelt re-ported
In hls Suomalaiset Ameri-kassa
that the Imrnigrant women
"quickly came to recognlze their
value and to demand treatment
correspondlng to thelr new status"
Imrnigrant attachment to demo-cratlc
values was manlfested In
cther ways In America for
I example the salutatlon Mister
came to symbollze the full release
from an aristocratic order "A
man who In Finland was mtre
Peter or Paul one whom no ont
delgned to respect as a hurran
belng" explalned Professor A J
Piet-l- Ä in hls excellent HtlsJngUtS
Astorlaan "became In America Mr
Partanen Mr Mäki cr scmebody
else a hurran belng and a clUzen
ho could demand recognltlon of
his humanlty' Almost as a corol-lar- y
the Lnmlgrants adopted the
practlce cf addresslng friend
ard strangers alike with the faml- -
Uar Sini (you) rather than polte
te fthou) a divergence from old
world etiquette that both ama2ed
ard shocked those accustomed to
more deferntial treatment The
tsmlgrant however were
'strongly convlnced that in domq
so they tre conforming to true
democratlc prlnclples and folio
ing the general American cus
tom" On occaslons it must be ad
mltted ovcr?calous devoUon
equalltarianism let to unfur ha
ling of those ncvcorrcr- - w! --
misfortune was thelr former t
lortune and whose on ly rrf
jeemed to be dlacreet anovn
The teneta of reliKiou frL
llkewlse found express n 1: F
nUh imrnigrant life Am n i
an establlshed church a- -
Wr of fact stemmed back
old country Many Immi-- r : -- been powerfully stirrtd b
Ijiestadian and the Awakt'n vl 1
vivallstic movements of the im
tecnth century both of h i--
n
carried a strong note of oppoMtion
to a state church Whllc no for
mal scceasion from the Church of
Finland occurred In frec Amenra
thesc groupings quickly and na-tural- ly
crystalliied into separate
and compctlng Luthcran churches
the Apostollc Luheran (Laesta-dian- )
the National (the Awakcn-ed- )
and the Sucml SynoU
(Church of Finland The rccep-tlv- e
attltude of many immigrants
toward the American sctup was
wcll expressed by the vencrated
Laestadian leader Juhani Haatta-ma- a
in letters vrltten in the
1880's to hls American followers
"Dear brethen you now live in
free America The state docs not
blnd you to follow fakc teachings
as here In Europe You can con-fes- s
with your llps the lmplt
laith that Is In your hearts" In
tlme the pattern of a frec church
in a free state became the hali-mar- k
of imrnigrant religious
thlnklng a development &ettini
them apart from thelr Finland
brothers who remalned loyal to
the tradHional system Condltlons
generally exlstlng In the new
World made It difficult to attract
and hold Church of Finland clergy
In 1906 the presldent of the
Hancock Suomi College informed
a Detroit newspapcr that it was
'almost Impossible to secure Fin-nish
mlnlsters to come here from
the old country and even those
who do come are not perfectly
adapted for work In thls field"
A few years later the college bul-letin
recorded the lament that
"mlnlsters vho come over here
from the fatherland do not fmd
condltlons here such that they
stay"
Religious freedom miant more-ove- r
the appearance of non-Lu- t
heran churchgoers among the im-mlgrants
ranglng from Congre-gatlonaU- st
and Methodlst to Uni-taria- ns
and the theosophically
incllned followers of Annie
Hesant Hope was exprfssed by
thelr adhcrcnU that In a new
"hberatlng' ' environment the
Finnish "national mlnd" would
accept and support non-Luthera- n
points of vlew The foundcr of
Finnish American Unitarianism
for example felt certaln that Im-mlgrants
ln increaslng number
would rally around a church
whtch he descrlbed to be "the lo-glc- al
growth of the American
splrlt the free cnterprislng lnde
pendent brothcrly mlnd" The
emergence of non-luther- an move-ments
It might be added engen-dere- d
a &erles of hlghly contro-vers'- al
Issues as to the ethlcs of
mlsslonary actlvity among a
people traditionally Iutheran and
the compatlbillty of non-Luthcra-nls- m wth a "truc Finnish plrlf
The Methodlst publicaVon Rau-han
KUpl for one argued force-lul- ly
that the Finnish American
Methodlsts wcre neither renegades
nor pariahs but were as staunchly
Flnntih as the good Bishop O usta f
Johansson of the Church of Fin-land
A voluntary religious syst-e- m
on the other hand Inaugurated
nonpartidpaUon among the lmi1
grants to a degree that verily
ttartled the old World In frec
America the Immlgrants very
quickly learoed that It was not
necessary to go to church pay
a prearher'8 salary cr nreat ln
company of a catechlsm at a rea
ding exaninatlon
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sa Britannian yltä monet pitkät vii '
kot silli aikaa kun pakkaset ja lumi '
myrskyt aiheuttivat kansalle monta
tukalaa hetka sodan väsyttämän
kansan keskuudessa Tassa kuvassa
nahdaln pienen matkustajan Lontoon
erailia asemalla istuvan matkalauk
kunsa piillä ensi kertaa pitkistä ai
kaa auringonvalossa
Religious fieedom flnally con-trlbute- d
something to the modlfl
catlon of theologlcal teneU somc- -
tlmes although not always ln a
Uberal dlrecf-o- n As an lllustra
tion the Amerikan Suomalainen
in Inlran&lgi-nc- e
model
of a
of
proof dlslntcgratlon
personal-soug- ht
find In
Tlie
vinced
approprlatlon "only
others
' support Immlgrants
a vlsltor from Finland felt
ould
hving Ihe
Adam vthen he hears
Amirlcans of
competltion guidlng prln
c'ple economic The mat- -
Is a ckar as day them and
they undtrstand v-h- y Fin
land has more
travclled the road of free corn pe
tltlon" In of the
migrant
backwardness could bo explalned
by economic
the absencc the
taklng entreprc- -
neur splrlt The cult effictency
counted nnniMi a-mo- ng
A recent
Finland
Suomi Ja Suomalaiset
buaineatmen that thelr
brethren wtwild no long-e- r
tolerate Pinnl&li
dlly-dallyl- ng 'n conduct
business affalrs
some Immlgrants
adopt other less
business
from northern Furone werc
struck Immlgrants 'easy
come go" manner of llving
whlch stood Jn strong
trast the
irugaiity wnter
lng words of a far- -
that Iit rtally Is a man
earns much and
' came to the concluslön that ' a
old mlscr had
strayed Into thelr midst if one
had a ml&er going there
has slnce nature "
New York MJls
Uutl In 1904 a- -
' dlsheartenlng development
Finna In reglcn aho
1'The belng A
young man went a local
There wlll be a dance on March
20 by Club 19 at the Finnish So-cial
19 Huron The dance
ulll start at 8 and thcre wlll
be novelty dances games prlzes:
" refreshments Plenty
of fun for The
Is 25c Hring jviir friendv Every Is
welcome
1
1
1 bank and $125 glving as
cows and horses whlcli
he has at tlmes fccn around the
! rommunlty but h'ch he him- -
self has none"
On the othcr hand
tlonatc cmphasls upon the accu- -
mulation of ncalth receUed th
vpprobrlum of nnny tmmifranU
The S-- n Tuura for
example- - noted 1ST4
"the ceaseleat earch toe
kr :it or the aequsitlon of qulck
1 lj Ihe areater wU-- t m America hile a4--
-- itent oi and art
u 1 tina y ia nct greaUy hacd- -
F onomlc iceeaa moreover
i w Habllltea When an ttn- -
ti t moved up the occup- -
ladder It was tme adrlaed
1'tnrock
( l to apeculate whether
id become proud look down
' is nattonallty or ronttnue to
n ak ha national tongue "
Tlio ItkelHietl of Improper enjoy- -
lf: the blcndngs a "PrU
Kent rl aroumt constant conceni
oth aldea of the AUantlc
Innumcrable guldea werc
thcmc Fcw Word Con- -
I cerning Freedom America " In
Finland ixirtlcularly during the
pre 1914 seems to
1 have been general ngreement that
American relatlves had mis- - usl gltts The Oulu
Kaleva example dlxcusscd In
1 19(M jAmcjlcan frectlom WliU:h
I xn hc( to bc ttct Uian
' rswi „„ aihi ih imlrl " ir
1 'Alt 1I1VI aMaiv Itiuii b" "
the sad story musi- -
clans who to follow thelr
conductor lnslstlng that
now 1 free country uhcre no
one Is brtternthan another herv
has rlght to
It iK)lnted Imrnigrant
saloons and intrmixrance smoke- -
(Ulcd lialls and nolsy unruly au
dlences Other old world
llfted fingers at the dis- -
returned to haunts more
and lc&s lovln
toward thelr Ives and chlldren
The real lmpact of a "Frll
Kontri" upon the Immlgrants was
div:ernl some
The wrlter Aino Malmberg for
that
iir$t miracle was Imbuc tht!
ncwcomcrs with a sensc "youth
and power " They vemtd ex-peritn- ce
the "grtat that
moves in the world For that
reason many succc-- d thcre and
begln anew Tliey attain a
status whkh the old World !
leyond dreams"
Profeaaor IicUllä ln effect Hke--
nw! America a warm and
t'le prompUng the immigranU
grow and mature beyond
what would have txcn poatiblc
thelr naUve land ' Only America
has orxned facc to
the Finnlah Americana"
'Only America haa ahorvn
them life ln pfHltlve aspecta
only it has offered them the
of a 'Aorthy of a hu-ma- n
belng "
ln truth has been the
mission a "Frlt Kontri" Llttle
wondcr then that immlgrants
"observe with Joy that thelr chlld
ren become the cUlens of the
West's great ciUlred
Raakoja Turkiksia
Halutaan
Jos haluatte nl&naA
tuotua UbtttakU
Jack Leve
New Meses Block
Durham St S Sudbury Ont
Aapinen preparcd 1880 by an cord and and dlvi-Aposto- llc
Luthcran clergyman ' sion of Imrnigrant instituUonal
differed ln a slgnlflcant respect life the dLscourU-s- y and bLsobe-fro- m
the old countty How Idlencc of tht lmmlgraiits Amerl-ev- er
It was agreed that "this can-bor- n chMdrcn "There ha
klnd rhange could be made grown up among the Flnnsh Arne-bccau- se
of condltlons In fm ricans" was one comment "youth
America' Here and there ho do not have thi sllghtest
evidences of the Inflllrafon jense of sacred honor" Flnal
American religious modernlsm at of the ln free
least one Finnish American clerc America of the Finnish
to a Rcrlptural basls ity was seen Ihe behavlor of
for socialLm the returnt emlgrants Oulu
PrevaUmg econom'c as well as Hengellinen Kuukausilehti was
pollUcal and religious outlooks 1899 that they brought
werc llable to Lals back wlth them evll and cn-se- z fare ecnomics for example l tlrely erroneous cultural ideas"
won for Itself the enthus'astlc prodlgal sons InsinuaU-- d
of the In
decd
rompMled tosay: One thlnk
he was ln age of
Smith the
Finnish speaking
as the
of Hfe
ler to
cannot
not declsively
the opinion im
enfes Finlands economic
lts lack of freedom
of bold cnergetlc
rLsk American
of
immlgranta
lts devoteea
volume publiahed ln
Amerikan
!warned
American
the proverbial
the of
As usual pro-cccd- ed
to hono-rabl- e
practlccs Obier-ver- s
by UiO
easy
one con
to customary Finni&l
one aiter quo:- -
the Michigan
mer ho
spends much"
not
single country
or
been he
changed hls
The (Minnesota
Kotimaa reported
nother
our are
Americanlzed
to
ATTENTION:
Club St
30
as well as
ali aj:cs admlulon
borrowed
collatrral
of
dlspropor- -
newspaper
criUcally ln
that
'c held Ha
the
educatlon
lei
Amerikan Suometar
he
of of
on
prejmred
on the "A
ln
yrars thcre
the
lreedom's
for
chronlcled of
rriu&ed
"wc arr
in
no one the com-tnan- d"
to
Journals
accusing
old
haughty Intolcrant
noncthcless by
example Jndlcated Amerlca's
to
of
to
energy
new
life
in
to fer- -
soil
to far
In
life motherly
he autf-gett- cd
IU
poa-slblllU- cs
life
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of
the
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