1889. However, the Uusi Kotimaa was not immune to further geographical changes, either, for owner-publisher August Nylund moved it in 1888 to Astoria, Oregon, hoping to find there an even more populous Finnish community and with it greater economic support for his paper. His editor, J. W. Lähde, purchased the type and the hand press on which the paper had been printed for $200 and started a new, weekly paper in New York Mills, the Amerikan Suometar. In 1890, however, Nylund brought the Uusi Kotimaa back to New York Mills, and the Amerikan Suometar was absorbed by the older paper, which Lähde continued to edit and which Nylund continued to publish until his death in 1892, when Felix Nylund assumed the responsibility. Just before Lähde moved off to Ironwood, Michigan in 1894, he had also edited, together with John Heino, a monthly entitled Valoa Kansalle, which the temperance Raittiuslehti considered a rival. Lähde was later involved, in 1900, in establishing the Amerikan Työmies newspaper in New York City with A. F. Tanner, but that same year he also returned permanently to New York Mills.

While Lähde's ventures into journalism exerted their influence in the founding of other Finnish-American newspapers throughout the land, his own newspapers always seemed doomed to brief life and sudden death. There was, however, one exception the Uusi Kotimaa, to which Lähde returned again. In his absence, it had been edited by John Heino, then Väinö Andelin, and finally even by its publisher, Felix Nylund. While working as its editor in 1898, Andelin had also started a monthly literary paper, Kansan Toveri, which he sold to Uusi Kotimaa and which Nylund and Lähde kept alive for years.

Finally, in 1919, Nylund sold the Uusi Kotimaa to the People's Voice Cooperative Publishing company, subsidized by the Nonpartisan League. The paper became an extremely radical organ now, and Lähde left it in 1921, to take over editorial assignments with the Päivälehti and the Siirtolainen. He died in 1927. When Lähde had originally become editor of the Uusi Kotimaa, he had expressed his editorial views as follows: "You can be assured that from now on the Uusi Kotimaa will not be a party organ, that it will not be disputatious, but that it will impartially explain the parties and will bring its subscribers good and improving reading." Later, in an advertisement the Uusi Kotimaa was described as a newspaper of the Farm League, looking out for the interests of farmers and workers, a paper opposed by monied interests and the kind of speculators who went in for profiteering in their desire to get rich quickly.

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