Morris tribune., 1905-03-25
SCANDINAVIAN NEWS
Items Of General interest from
the Old World and
the New.
AMERICANS AND NOBEL PRIZE
Popular Vote To Be Taken to Ascer.
tain Whom They Look Upon as
Their Great Men.
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wing appeared in
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and 81 ftN celasilfiIy infefq
u Alfred
II IS Ten. and
Rilan bpist who died sYgs' left
q tgss reduced h tax
atilons fo he.sannllial Interest
on which hedirected shouid be divided
yearly Into five equal parts ana given
as prizes. to the persons who a. h a
made the most important invention I,or
Discovery in physics; 81 had ma$ate tie
most imporltEant improvement or ,das-
scoterya in chemistry; (3lyyh9a4d p9aaasleI the
rnost'important discovery a. a. Physiology ,s
or 'inedicine;.(fs had.produced ia ltera-
ture the most distinguished work soft
an 'idealistie tendency; 90 haa% most Or
best promoter the fraternity of na-s
.tioIliis. or the worlds peace -Four dis
tributions Of. the, Nobel prizes have ia
Ken PLACE. They. have. been conferred
upon Germans, .nutchmen, ,Flenchmsn,
.Englishmen,. iSNedes,, Gapes,> Russians 3
Norwegians, Spaniards., The academies
of.Sweden: and the Swedish. oEthing,
which make the. awards: seem pot ITO
haxes been influenced. by any, national
sympa thies or :antipathies. Yet there
is not an American name in the, list
. In
worthy toSr;tRk with the toremostI'n
the; fields: of science and literatufe?
there no Anferic;Efls among the
feSAsaIf IN the cause Of, peace? If
there are. who are theET And why
are they not, given due; I, recognition?
The New York independent does not
believe th& tinted: sStates lags behind
all the Leading, coIlntrf estEof Europe in
the prt6auctionssef geHfgfs. It thinks
one reason why no great Americans
have been awarded Nobel prizes is
that their. countrymen have not yigor-:~
ously pushed tier talin1s: The people:
Of. Enrapean Countries ) conduct Or;
ganizetlsa and systematic campaigns. fo1S
Nobel prizes, every year: Arneriq Gaa
ought to do likewise. ~ ssa a. tier Eaaes
independent will take a pon1siar Hdtesss
to ASCERTAIN whom AMariefffs look sIjrl /,
aisssther great Such a. Soteiaa IA is
Of anysize, will be interesting. S9
y would be runpatriotic to question ne:
existance inrthis country of scientaSTsaSS]
idea LISTS, and workers for peace wh9s re-
abilities and use Mlness deserve TecpgiiSss,,
Hon. WHAT Is desired is u know hp p q
ffe. suffra &c. OF. tolera bly, well INFO
Americans viii be divided among, tfssfr
feilowi coultrymen who are pr6mit,sstit
Id. the fields Of action which have been /
named named When the Ballots have been
cast the next step Win. be e. Compare
thee ma names . S them with those ofsthe
eminent foreigners who. have received
Nobel prizes and to decide aunin-
auenced by national preindicea wheths
er Americans have been passed
because Of their modesty in not press
Inc. their claims, or because the for 4
eigners were more deserving IL 4
!. The following extract from an edi'
torial in the Scandal. dated March, II.
will give readers an idea of thes|
strained relations between Sweden
and Norway viewed principally from
a Norwegian standpoint: ''The ex-
PLANTATION of Mr.. Bostrom's position
can only be found in the interior pol
tics of Sweden and the reactionary
tendencies of the upper house. the
first chamber of the Swedish riksdag.
xxIb;1o ,1o,,-* +b,, s,,,ffraoo low fo,, tho
second chamber dates from the
medieval ages, it is fair to say, that
with the second chamber alone Norway
might speedily reach an agreement.
But since the 'communique' of aMrch,
1903 was agreed upon, Mr.. Bostrom
has gone back to his first love and
has thrown himself into the arms of
the first chamber, the nobility, the
bishops and some few elected mem
bers, the suffrage for members of th,s
chamber being limited to the money
class on a graded scale accorded to in
come, thus that in many election dis
tricts the mill or mine owner by his
own votes elects the representative.
And the dignitaries in this house of
lords have always feared contagion
from the democratic spirit of Norway.
1t is safe to state that Norway will
never yield to Mr. Bostrom's demands; |
all political parties stand now united,
the only question being what to do.
The Hagerup ministry resigned be-
cause they were going to slow, and |
seemed willing to wait while public |
opinion demands establishment of sep
arate .consuls by law. On the other !
hand public opinion in Sweden is very
much divided. many liberal politicians |
and newspapers recognizing the rights
of Norway. 1T is stated that other |
members of lbs cabinet sided with |
Messrs Lagerheim and Husberg, but |
that Mr.. Bostrom whipped them into |
line. The crownprince regent on a |
former occasion talked about mill.
tary promenade to Christiania with !
the Swedish army; but since then he
may have profted by England's ex-
perience in Transvaal. And as to his
upon assistance from some
Eur0Dean power Norway is believedi