The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-07-27
OSCAR A BULWARK
AGAINST WARFARE
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consent to recognize the new Norway,
none Of the other nations Of the earth
Washington dispatches printed here TO
the effect that President Roosevelt will
not act in the matter of recognition I'M
til the powers more directly lntereste
have acted-Germany, England, Russia
and France.
But students of world politics here
have no hope that Norway can long DE
excluded from the sisterhood of nations
DIS facto governments are readily
success of the Servian revolution with
it's bloody and revolving features. If
Europe would consent to recognize King
Peter, whose party murdered Ferdinand
and Draga and threw their bodies from
the palace window, why should Europe
refuse to recognize the results of
peaceful revolution like that of June Z
everywhere would demand it and no
government can resist the appeal Of
commerce in such a matter. So. while
Sweden might make the diplomatic path
| hard for Norway and fill it with thorns,
in the end Norway would win out, and
| the hostility between the two countries
| would be embittered almost beyond re-
pair. -....-- -
Kings Policy Gains.
And so the kings policy makes prog
ress. Even the social democrats, who
on principle, are against monarchs, have
found so much to commend in the king s
course that they are quite won over to
him for the time. 1t is promised that
the workingmen of Stockholm will turn
out in great numbers next Sunday. when
| the bridal pair comes home. and cheer
| Oscar to the echo. These are the very
men who cheered for Norway and lib
erty when the crisis first became acute.
These are the men whose sympathy for
at that moment than their patriotism.
So great a change in sentiment toward
Oscar and his policy is very annoying
to the chauvinist press. the newspapers
that are for wiping out Norway's Sin
sult'' in blood. Already they are striv-
ing to discount the coming demonstra.
tion. They are saying that too much
weight must not be given to such cheers
for the king, that Stockholders are ex.
citable and pleasure-loving and thus are
|easily led into an enthusiasm that
means nothing. ..
Three Important Questions.
+ AS have before indicated, the ques.
tion to be settled in dealing with Nor
way are principally three: :" s.a8 :,
/ First-A treaty Of peace and amity
|
the like. ~
Second-The dismantling Of the nina
tory forts on the frontier, and an agree
ment that neither nation shall ever arm
against the other.
Third.Free rights for both oyer th'
Narvik- Offoten railroad.
Over the first there is not likely tt
be much controversy, so 1T is thought
Such treaty is almost indispensable
for two contiguous countries, bound to
gether by SO many commercial, racia
and social ties The second is not 81
easy, since the Norwegians do not ye
4 trust Sweden The long and dilatory
negotiations carried on over the con
sular service question, and the far from
: have destroyed mutual confidence Il
Sweden can convince Norway that she
is honest in asking for a permanent
policy of disarmament, the second aues
tion will be easy.
Swedish Ore Transportation.
) The third is more. or less CONNER
portnat and difficult to settle. Tn,
! iron mines in the north of Sweden ar
of extraordinary richness and accessi
bility. The ore, which is partly mag
netite and partly hematite, lies in grea
! mountainous masses of inexhaustibl,
: quantity. No elaborate mining pro
cesses are necessary and the ore j
readily loaded on cars for shipment t.
Il Narvik, the ice-free port at the hea,
Of the Norwegian ford called Offoter
: From here it is shipped to England
! France, Germany and all over the WORLD
. A Very considerable investment ha
been made by the government of Swe
: den as we'll as by private capital t
+ develop this ore industry: The railroad
- - all but about twenty miles of which
: thru Swedish territory, is owned by tn
. Now, if Norway insists on putting a
. export duty on Swedish ore shippe
!. :: thru Norwegian territory, it is evider
+ that well-nigh mortal blow will hav
i been dealt to this great and CROWN
/ industry. The product of the mine
n would then have to be shipped by wa
Of the Baltic, which is frozen owe
e six months out Of every year, beside
i affording an indirect and expensiy
other alternative would be to. pay lare
tribute to Norway-which is said /
> be commercial impossibility.
a Thus the Narvik question becom,
e of prime Importance. Two years az
a a proposal was made in the riksdag
r, impose an export duty on Swedish ire
S ore for revenue purposes. Luckily #
! Sweden g own case now, this propos
e was in the end negatived, altho IL
il two houses disagreed at first and it We
y necessary to have a joint vote in o
der definitely to dispose of the pr
posal. Naturally, there is the create
anxiety among the leading busine
men of Sweden over the final settl
ment OF this and other allied question
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