Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1904-09-22
Recent Occurrences of intar,.'
in Sweden. NORWAY ard
Denmark.
CRUSHING OF FINLAND BY c.
What an American Correspon :,
ish People Indignant.
SWEDEN.
Stockholm.

ldnu. tnue the influence or eN
counselors, Of whom the late Mini
ter Plehve was one. the czar issued il
manifesto on Feb. IL. 1889, %suspending
the Finnish constitution. which was u,
direct violation of the guaranty given
by Alexander L. in 1909. viz. that
Finland's liberties and its religio
should be guarded and respected for
ever. and that the people should for
all time have the right to live under
their own constitution Of 1892 ut
this has been violated by his successor.
Nicholas Ill. During the latter part "
1899 the diet was reduced to practicai
Impotence: obligatory service or con
scription for the Russian imperial
army was set on foot: later the order
establishing the Russian language was
issued and the cruel and brutal policy
of classification began In earnest. The
Firms In Finland numbered I'm 1900,
when the language decree was issued,
about 100000 people, or 100000 more
than are I'm Indiana, n a territory
about as large as Montana. OF these
2.I0O,0O0 people, only 5000 could speak
the Russian language. but they were
all condemned to lose their own
tongue; to use Russian In their OH.
cial papers and to kill their literature.
Finland established n maintained
good schools, academies and universe
ties; their artiticers in many crafts
and trades had achieved a name for
their great skill: they were a highly
intelligent and moral people, and hit
eracy was practically unknown, the
percentage OF illiterates being probably
the smallest in the whole world.
Whatever may have been the cause
for the cruel acts on the part of Rus.
STA, the effects are plain. for 3O0,OO0
or more Films have left the fatherland
I'm the past two years, of whom the
United States has received perhaps
20O, 1000"
All classes are indignant ut the prof.
ect of the Russian government. under
the guise of a company for raising
wrecks and rescuing disabled vessels.
to master the intricacies Of the Stock
holm archipelago. A company. formed
w oB'ibt oh IL ihiN IL 'NN WIZ
coasts has petitioned the government
not only for the privilege of ~traversing
the Swedish littoral. but for liberty TO
work among the maze OF islands. UNI
der-water rocks and shoals. stretching
fan-like from Stockholm to the open
Baltic and constituting the capitals
greatest bulwark against external at
tnAB nI.ArA 10 n.Ix, xr ., \ a.
known passage through the a%rchipela-
go and all ships are navigated by pi-
lots of the Swedish government. Many
other safe channels are known only
to the Swedish navy. Should the Rus
sian vessels be permitted to take
soundings of all possible approaches TO
Stockholm the city would he practic-
ally ~defenSeless. The minister of the
navy advises the government to deny
the Russian company's petition. The
public approves the advice and de-
mands that intimation be given the
st. Petersburg government hat Swe-
den is alive to the true character OF
the scheme.
A restaurant is soon to he started
In Stockholm which is to have one es-
sential attraction TO those who suffer
from extreme hunger-horsemeat. The
restaurant will be located on Teg-
ner street and at this place will make
a speciality of serving ~horsemeat. II
is getting to be a wellknown fact that
horsemeat is being served very gener
ally I'm the restaurants OF Stockholm.
Copenhagen, Hamburg and Berlin,
and is, in addition, said to be pre-
pared I'm a way which has satisfied
even those of f~astidious taste. This
restaurant will make 1t q point TO adj
vertfse hosemeat as one of its 'spe-
cialties." Still. IL is not assumed that
prices on regular meat will In N
way depreciate.
Hon. William Widgerty Thomas,
United States minister to Sweden and
Norway. recently arrived at New York
and Immediately departed for Wash.
ington to pay his respects to the presi.
dent. He did not find the president
at home. however. and has now re-
turned to New York. where he will re-
main until the presidents return to
Washington. Mr.. Thomas has three
times been appointed minister to
Sweden and Norway, and is married
to a Swedish ~nobIewoman, a member
of the prominent Tornebladh family.
Selma Lagerlof, Sweden's foremost
woman writer, is at present living at
Gripsholm. where she is at present a
guest of the custodian of the castle.
Herr u. A. Ankarcrona. 1t is stated
Din good authority that Miss Lagerlof
is preparing a new novel, the scenes
Of which are TO be laid in old Grips
holm castle, and II is believed that
she is residing at the palace for the
purpose, gathering material for her
story.
Ex-Minister Edward Lockroy and
wife Of Paris have spent the past few
weeks as guests of old friends In
Stockholm. Nine. Lockroy was the
widow Of Victor Hugo's only son.
The butter exports are Increasing in
Sweden from year to year. During tho
past W months not less than H.