Morris tribune., 1904-09-24
CRUSHING OF FINLAND BY CAR
What an American Correspondent
Has to Say of the Matter-Swed.
ish People Indignant.
SWEDEN.
Stockholm.

! -NA' W :" as OuC, Ilc CZdI ISSUED
manifesto on Feb. Is, 1889, suspendins
the Finnish constitution, which was 6
dlrect violation of the guaranty giver
Dy Alexander l. in 1909, viz, that
flnlands liberties and it's religion
should be guarded and respected for
ever, and that the people should fol-
all time have the right to live under
their own constitution of 1892 But
this has been violated by his successor
Nicholas II. During the latter part of
1889 the diet was reduced to practical
impotence; obligatory service or con-
scrlption 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
Films in Finland numbered in 1900,
when the language decree was issued,
about 100000 people, or 100000 more
than are in Indiana, in a territory
about as large as Montana. Of these
100000 people, only 5000 could speak
the Russian language, but they were
all condemned to lose their own
! tongue; to use Russian in their Off
cial papers and to kill their literature.
Finland established and maintained
good schools, academies and UNIVERSE
ties; their artifcers in many crafts
and trades had achieved a name for
their great skill; they were a highly
intelligent and moral people, and illit-
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 100000
or more Films have left the fatherland
in the past two years, of whom the
United States has received perhaps
100000"
All classes are indignant at the prof.
ect of the Russian government, under
the guise of company for raising
wrecks and rescuing disabled vessels,
to master the intricacies of the Stock
holm archipelago. A company, formed
to operate on the Finnish and Swedish
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, I'M
der-water rocks and shoals, stretching
fan-like from Stockholm to the open
Baltic and constituting the capitals
greatest bulwark against external at
tack. There is only one generally
known passage through the archipela-
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
of all possible approaches to
the city would be pract1c-
ally defenseless. The minister of the
navy advises the government to deny
the Russian company's petition. The
public approves the advice and de- !,
manls that intimation be given the !
st. Petersburg government that Swe- !
den is alive to the true character of !
the scheme. swr~' s.spNr%0FEs + -. J
A restaurant Is soon to be started
In Stockholm which is to have one es-
sential attraction to those who suffer
from extreme acknowledgements The
restaura will be located on Teg- i
ner street and at this place will make
q speciality of serving horsemeat 1t
is getting to be well-knOwn fact that
horsemeat is being served very gener-
ally in the restaurants Of Stockholm,
Hamburg and Berlin,
and is, in addition, said to be pre-
pared in a way which has satisfied
even those of fastidious taste. This
restaurant will make it point to adj
vertise hosemeat as one of it's "spe-
cialties." Still, it is not assumed that
prices on regular meat" will in any
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
Mr.. Thomas has three
times been appointed minister to
Sweden and Norway. and is married
to a Swedish noblewoman, member
of the prominent Tornebladh family.
Selma Lagerlof, Sweden's foremost
woman writer. is at present living at
Gripsholm, where she is at present
guest of the custodian of the castle,
Herr U. A. Ankarcrona. 1t is stated
on good authority that Miss Lagerlof
Is preparing new novel, the scenes
Of which are to be laid in old Grips
holm castle, and it 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 the
past seven months not less than 10