Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1905-06-20
WHAT HAPPENED INEVITABLE.
The Norwegian People Never ln,cud-
ed TO Assall Sweden's
HonoG
ENTERTAIN NO BITTER FEELINGS,
Suggested That Negotiations for Final
Settlement of Affairs and Recognition
VI Norwoys New Status be Made.

CbrIltianIa. Norway June gO,-.lh,
address 10 kIng Oscar the likrdug ans
the swedish people generally, adopted
by lha slorIhmg yesterday IN reply
to the long letter which the King sen,
June 10 to the president of the Nol-
,hlng NJ Bcrnor h Of u concllialory
character AZ the Sumo time, however
II indicates the unallcrnblc determine
ton OF the slouhing to adhere to the
action taken IN dlssolyIng the union
with sweden The text Ii w follows
THE ADDRESS,
"Your majesty Norways storIhns
respectfully bcgs to address your ma.
Joely ana through your majesty HNus
denis rksdug ana sWcdcn's people MS
follows,
"Wnat has boon happening recently
In Norway ~ the inevitable result OF
combination of late political events ana
cannot be- altered and II IN certain that
neither Of the two peoples N doflrous
of returning 10 the former condition ot
union, the elorthlng w OF the opinion
that VI ought not to reconsider The vur.
Gus questions of the constitution ANA
public law that have been broush, ~
IN your mujcstys note TO The a,orthlnge
president IN connection with the rcso.
utons adopted aud on which tho
rtorlhlns aud the government have ~.
ready expressed themselves In detail
KINGS DlrFlCuLT POSITION,
"Thc slor,hing recognizes fully your
maJcftys dimcult position and never
for q moment hap doubted ma, your
majc,iy's decisions are IN Rccordohco
with what your majesty has regordod
as the rights ana dullao Of the oroNlh
AZ the same time the etorthlpg N de-
shoug of addressing an appeal 10 youi
majesty, the riladug ANA the people
Of Sweden With the object of coniilDut'
ing 10 the pencofu carrying through
of the dissolution of the union ana tho
mfcguardlnR of the friendship ana o.
cord pf the Wo peoples Of the ponlisu'
VA, The Hlorhlng has seen from o.
prpasIunH of opinion IN sweden that the
Iupolutun that the storthlng felt II %
he ~ duty 10 the fnlhoflnnd Ia ADOPT
IN declaring the union Of the two KING
doms dissolved, has In form und action
been considered morllfying To Swodeh
That has never been IT. Intention,
ONLY INEVITABLE HAPPENED
"Wha, happened and had TO happen
In Norway was merely the inevitable
maintenance ~ Nolway's constitutional
rights. The Norwegian people never In.
tondod 90 nysnil SWedon's honor AZ
yollr majesty In council Mpy 70 declared
you were unable to sanction the Ntuls
ihmg's unanimous resolution Tor the
establishment OF separate NorWoginn
consular service ana ~ no Norwegian
government could bo obtained BY your
mnlcsly the constitutional state OF Nor.
way WAS 70 far dhHjolnled lhN
the union could no long.
on be maintained, Upon NorNnys
plorthng MAS therefore Imposed the
necessity Of proourlng without delay
IA government for the country Every
other course was closed, all the more
so az your mnjegiys Swedish Rovorn'
monl had April 20 already explicitly
declined IN enter into now negotiations
with the dissolution Of the union as "a
alternative IN the event that n was
innnd impossible 10 arrive nj IN nRroo'
mont IN regard 10 a now form OF unioh'
NoRWEdIANs NOT BITTER
q. "rhc Nouhlng has already stated and
The Norwegian people do not foel any
bitterness or luminosity against your
majesty or the swedish people, Tho
statements 90 the contrary which possl'
bly, were uttered on occasions nave
wholly and solely been grounded on
dissatisfaction at NorwaSR position w
the union, and az that source OF hlt"
ternoss ana luminosity would disappear
with the dissolution " the union, rs
effects also would vanish Ninety
Years Of cooperation IN material and
intellectual mbora have awakened IN
the Norwegian people feelings ~ ain-
coro friendship and sympathy for the
swedish people, These feelings VIII
with Norway No longer occupy . pos j.
ton Offensive TO her national indepcuds
onco, once more grow Nphoo ana m
sure the entrance Of u mutual nndors
standing between tho peoples IN the
belief that tho swedish people share
thnso yIowe, the elorlhing suggests to
Swodon'H constitutional authority that
they enter upon the negotiations re-
uulpllo FOR ANAL settlement on me
dissolution NJ the union with the recuH'
milton Of NorW0y's new status and her
llphlp az a sovereign state, Tho Nlol'
thing " itself prepared 10 meet every
fllr ana reasonable wish that may bo
put forward "a safeguard tho kmR'
dom's independence and integrity, Con.
additionally the two peoples Viii
hcnccr0rwald bo separate, but nt Tho
rame time tho Noflhng II fully con-
WINGED that this VIII lead To- the de-
vclopmont Of good una true,lul rt'
lotlonshlp ior lho defense of tholr mu'
tual lnlcrcstf,
BEST T0R BOTH PEOPLE
"lf the further settlement can be OF.
tened without bitterness ana prejudice
the storhlnG IN convinced that whlt
huf happened VIII prove for the last"
inR welfare OF IN, northern peoplcM
For the sake OF the north the ptlr'
Ting addressed thla appeal to the poo
pie which by its magnunlmllr ANA cN'
Mlry has attained for itself such an
eminent place among nations ana win
which the Norwegian poodle desire
most sincerely TO maintain good rola'
'ont,"