New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1900-05-26
AMERICAN TRADE WITH SWEDEN.
w. w. THOMAS, MINISTER TO THAT COUN-
TRY, TALKS OF CONDITIONS THERE
HERE TO ATTEND AN
ANNIVERSARY.

William W. Thomas. Envoy Extraordinary and
Minister Plenipotentiary of the United States of
America Sweden and Norway. arrived last night
on the Hamburg-American liner Fuerst Bismarck
and Washington. In the course
of conversation with reporters Mr.. Thomas said:
Our commerce with Sweden and Norway is in a
most satisfactory condition. Only two diillcuIlleS
have arisen In the last three years and they Mere
s1200O,0o0 a year. with the balance Of trade very
amounting to ss.OO5OOO consisting of cotton. pc,
troeum sole leather pork and cereals chiefly: ana
iron continues be the best in the world and is
in the Of the he h1est
had with lard Sweden some time ago
pa te a% of s and
modify export largely. This law went into effect
American lard seized at Malmo Sweden. ex-
amned declared to be adulterated and condemned
by official notes; the other to try mider measures
at Stockholm, / represented that America made no
objection to the law relating to the adulteration
condemned and confscated, provided that II was
e hst the oq lard was n pure Th was the
under the law. and 1t would be precedent.
opened in order that the first chemist IN Sweden
might with scrupulous care examine the lard. The
DR.. Luven. professor of chemistry inthe University
Of Lund . He made careful analysis of the lard
effect the Public Prosecutor moved that the indct-
pn a he Since 81 6a ere a
trouble with the Importation OF American
lard into Sweden.
The other case American horse meat. 1t may
not be generally known that we have NUMBER OF
large slaughter houses for the slaughter and pack
ing of horse meat. which believe is all exported
On every package of this sailed horse meat the
United States inspector at the slaughter house
puts his stamp. certifying that the meat came from
thorites held that the signature of the Inspector.
instead of being stamped. should have been hand
written. This would throw such difficulty in the
way Of methods of packing and stamping as
to amount a practical prohibition On this ques-
ton / a formal note the Swedish Govern
quest, and far America is concerned to admit
the stamps OF our United States inspectors in the
usual way.
My present visit TO America is for a very pleas
ant purpose. In 1870 led little colony Of Swedes
over the ocean and with them founded the settle
ment Of New-Sweden in the dense forests of the
north of my native State of Maine The colony
numbered fifty-one souls all told-men. women and
children. 1t has grown and proSpered. and to-day
has two thousand happy, cOntented Swedish
prosperous agricultural settlement in the United
States than New Sweden On June 20 next the
colonsts celebrate the thrtieth anniversary OF the
day when led them into the Maine woods. and on
invitation l have sailed from old Sweden TO be
with them. speak to them and rejoice with them on
from King Oscar expressing his congratUla tons
the of the colony and his best wishes
for Its future l also bear with fine portrait
OF the King. signed Oscar with the Kings own
hand. which he has charged to present to the
colony
Mr.. Thomas came here alone, his WIFE, who is
a daughter OF Swedish nobleman. and family re-
naming in Sweden. and he expects to return in
about a month