“Free country” is America. Whatever you might ask or require from our immigrant, there should always be someone who will respond that there is no “coercion”, there is no order because it's “free country”. And that no one here should order anyone, and everyone can do what he wants. These two words (“free country”) that our immigrants say in English, were for Svoboda and the U.N. Union a “stumbling block” from the very beginning of their work for improvement of the Ukrainian immigration in America.
Svoboda wrote in 1894 that our people mean by “freedom” the following: to drink at the saloons (taverns) until they get wasted, to play billiards at night, to fight, to quarrel, to stab each other with knifes in the streets or in the yards, to waste
Svoboda wrote in 1894 that our people mean by “freedom” the following: to drink at the saloons (taverns) until they get wasted, to play billiards at night, to fight, to quarrel, to stab each other with knifes in the streets or in the yards, to waste