The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1895-08-05
"WHERE DENMARK LEADS,

A pamphlet was published by the
Danish Press Club of Copenhagen on
the occasion of the visit of members
of the foreign press to that city a
short time ago. 1t is entitled Where
Denmark Leads" 1t gives some very
interesting particulars on the progress
and culture of the Danish people. We
have not space to print the pamphlet,
which has been courteously furnished
| TO us by Mr.. Orlob, of this city. but
will mention a few of the salient
points set forth therein.
In the year 1900 the population of
the Danish monarchy was about 3
100000. of whom about 100000 were
living in Denmark proper, about the
same number in Norway and 600, 900
in Schleswig and Holstein. Since that
! time Norway has been taken from the
Danish kingdom, and also Schleswig
and Holstein. Yet today Denmark and
her colonies number 100000, while at
least 100000 Danes have come to this
country. Copenhagen during the
present century has increased it's pop
ulation fourfold
It is claimed that Denmark publishes
larger number of copies of papers
according to population than any
other country. Books also are pub
lished in large numbers, only a small
proportion of which are works of fic-
ton. Students clubs have become
very common in Denmark, with even
ing lessons for working people, free
to both men and women. Free legal
advice is also given to poor clients.
Lecturers are sent into the country
places and information is widely dis
seminated throughout the Danish mon
archy.
Since 1910 the Danish peasantry
have taken an active part in public
affairs. Peasant high schools have
been established, also agricultural and
horticultural schools. The object of
these is to impart to the pupils intel
lectual culture without putting them
out of conceit of agricultural and
other manual labor. In most of the
villages libraries have been estab-
lished and the rural population are en-
couraged to become contributors to
the papers which are published in al
most every place.
In 1S49 universal suffrage was intro
duced, since which a democratic
spirit has grown rapidly and some of
the most prominent men of the Rigs
dagen are self-taught men who have
risen from the peasant class.
In consequence of the educational
progress of the common people agri-
culture has been greatly improved. A
vast amount of land has been claimed
from heather and from sea- Crops
have been greatly increased and the
average product from the amount of
seed sown has been raised very ma
terially. Collaborating societies for
the improvement of live stock are an
other feature of progress in Denmark.
Starting in Jutland, they have spread
in ten years until they are to be
found all over the country and now
control more than two-thirds of the
stock.
The cooperative system of dairy
farming is another step in the i'm
provement taking place among the
Danish peasantry. About 900 cooper
alive steam dairies with centrifugal
separators, ice coolers and all the
latest improvements, are owned by the
peasants themselves, in addition to
about 200 steam dairies owned by rri-
vate people and $50 on large estates.
The increase in the production and
expectation of butter has been i'm
mense. The greater part of it goes
to England, which obtains nearly one
half of it's total butter import from
Denmark.
Since the prohibition of the importa-
ton of pork into Germany, large CO.