“A Swedish teacher going abroad for study,” writes the
Karlstadt _Tidning_, “gave a patriotic lecture in the cabin of
a North Sea steamer to Swedish emigrants. After it was over a
nice-looking young fellow came up to him and said: ‘Greet the
dear old land for me when you return. I should never leave it
if the prohibition rescript continued in force. You see, I am a
drinking man, tho I have a wife and children to care for. I have
a good employment always open to me in Stockholm, but I don’t
dare take it. For a whole month under prohibition I have been a
free and happy man. If it had continued I should have stayed in
Sweden, but now I am making for some American prohibition State
where I can’t get drink.’ And he was not the only one. Other
passengers said the same thing. The five weeks had brought hope
into their life and they were going where the law helped them
rather than crusht them.”--_The Christian Statesman._
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