Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1904-10-20
Recent Occurrences Of Interest
in Sweden. NORWAY ard
Denmark.
SWEDISH PAPERS IN TROUBLE
Two OF Them Convicted Of Iese Ma.
teste Against the Russian En-.
per0r-E Erroneous Dispatch.
SWEDEN.
Stockholm.

majestic against the Russian ear for
expressing the same opinion regarding
recent events in Russia that prevail In
the unbiased press of all other
European countries as well as the
United States. The convicted men
are the editors Of The veckansnyheter
weekly News Of Stockholm, and Of
The Norrtelje Tidning. Commenting
on the last named conviction. the
Gothenburg Aftonblad Evening News)
a conservative newspaper. uses this
forcible languages: For the first time
In a very long period the Swedish gov
eminent. with the assistance of a
Swedish jury, has silenced free speech
In Sweden in matters pertaining to the
east. There is no use urging that the
"seditious' articles in the Morretelge
Tfdning were coarse and tactless i'm
tone as to warrant punishment. for.
according to the Swedish constitution,
which is as firm and unalterable as
the law upon which rests the royal
throne, no printed word must he
Judged by the form or letter, but ac-
cording to the context. spirit and de-
sign of its author. Have we not all
thought and written exactly the same
thing in these matters-all of us who
are champions Of free speech whether
In Sweden or In all Scandinavia, in
Holland, in France, in England, In
Italy. In every land boasting a free
and untrammeled public press? Yet,
In a little Swedish town, under cover
OF the Swedish libel law. the only one
OF its kind in the world that Is part
and parcel Of the constitution Of the
land, and therefore was supposed to
be as fixed and firm as the basic rock.
It has been turned to the base use Of
furnishing the expression of an opinion
that is common to the free press Of
all western Europe"
A dispatch to the Chicago Daily
News, dated Stockholm, Oct. s, SAYS:
Count Obolensky, the governor gen
eral of Finland, has prescribed ffty-six
Swedish newspapers, comprising al
most every paper of any consequence
In Sweden. The only Stockholm
papers permitted to enter Finland are
the Stockholms Bladet. a Russian or
gan. and two comic papers. published
by a couple Of young men who for
some time back have been striving to
earn some Russian order. These two
editors a few days ago were invited
to a banquet given by an attache OF
the Russian legation. They attended
together with the editor OF the Stock
holms Bladet." This dispatch is err.
roneus and should be corrected. In
all Sweden there Is not n newspaper
~espOusing the cause of Russia or in
any way meriting the title of a Rus
sian organ On the contrary. the en-
tire Swedish press Is Qutspoken I'm its
condemnation Of the barharous meth
DDS and policies of the slavic empire,
and the Stockholms Bladet is as severe
in its criticism az any in Scandinavia.
The Swedish antipathy toward Rus
STA, engendered centuries ago. and
now revived by the brutal Russianiza-
ton Of Finland as well as the well
defined Russian designs on northern
Scandinavia. is such that no Swedish
paper. not even a comic weekly. could
favor Russia and keep alive.
Chemistry is a Swedish science"
was the statement made by Professor
Widman at the dedication a few DAYS
ago Of the Chemicum. the new hall OF
chemistry at the Upsala university.
The speaker referred to the claim
I Vna1n hU NNtfartz 4hn nn4I.er ~ fsYnfx
tionnaire de Chimie," that chemistry is
primarily a French science. and pro
ceeded to prove that Sweden had prior
right to the claim. In support of his
statement be quoted the renowned
chemist. Professor Baeyer of Munich.
Admitting the extravaganza of any
similar claim, Professor Widman re.
called that the science had been pur-
sued with marked success ever since
the seventeenth century. that the
worlds first chemical laboratory was
established in Sweden In 1868, by or
der of King Charles TX. that out OF
seventy-eight known chemical sub
stances, twenty have been discovered
oy Swedish scientists, and that the
system Of chemical science has been
twice revolutionized by Swedish
saaynts, namely Rerzelius and Arrhen.
ius.
The fund of 100000 kr.. subscribed
In Sweden TO endow a chair of science
at Augustana college, Rock Island
Ill, is now completed. the last con
tribution of 1900 kr. being made OUT
Of the proceeds Of last summers tour
Of the Lund university students
chorus through the United States.
The postal department report for
the past fiscal year states that 174.OO0,
600 copies Of newspapers and peri
odicals passed through the malls dur.
Ing that period, showing an Increase
Of about 100000 copies. Gubscrip-
tions are taken by the department 81
well as directly by the p~ublfshefu.
The win or. Modelune. 4 fsrmer ii
Maimohue 1ar wbo recently.
sets ssl1o 4 ii a. NJ, with