The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1905-06-09

sether in equal degree or similar rela-
ton; not subordinate.
This appears to afford some ground
for the painful apprehension that Mr..
GARDINER rules establishing HER
arohy, frs, place, second place and
third place, have overruled the SUI
prerne Court Of the United States
Norway's Assertion Of Independence.
Is the dissolution Of the union be-
tween Sweden and Norway, which on
June was proclaimed by the Storthing.
or Norwegian Parliament, likely TO be
permanent:
II may seem at the hrst glance that
King OSCARS refusal 10 sanction q bill
which was passed by the S.orthinS and
which created separate consular ser
vice for Norway Afforded but an in-
adequate preteKt for secession Upon
10 more insufficient than was the ground
on which the Thirteen American Colo
MES declared their independence Of
Crest Britain in 1919. Ii is as plain TO
Norwegians as it Is TO the Swedish Gov
ereign that the demand for a separate
consular service was only an entering
wedge, and if granted would have been
followed quickly by demand fox sepa-
rate Foreign Office. Now, Norwegian
Fo-e<u Office and q Swedish Foreign
Ofi-s would Inevitably have pursued
divergent policies, Sweden having been
ProIecsionist country since 1856,
while Norway has chung perslstently
possible for the American Union 10 have
been preserved if the States forming
The Confederacy had been permitted 30
carry out free trade program while
protectlonist tariff was enforced In the
rest Of the republic: The fundamental
and far reaching disagreement brought
about by the irreoonclAbiity Of 8 free
trade and q protective system Ii EN-
phasined in the case Of Norway because,
performing a she does a relatively
large share 81 the worlds carrying
trade. she is vitality interested in obtain
ing from foreign Powers all the reGPro-
cal concessions which Is an independent;
free trade country she might GEL
Such inconpstibiLry Of economic IN
terest might, perhaps, have been en-
dured had Norway and Sweden been
connected by such strong sentimental
ties as were those that bound together
the Northern and Southern sections OF
the American Union up 10 the sixth dec
ade Of the last century. There has
never been any such Sentimental ne IN
the case Of the two northern Scandi-
nsvian kingdoms 1t Is true that On the
death Of the Norwegian King HAKoN. II
1913, his daughter carried the crown Of
Norway to her Swedish husband, and
that subsequently, Norway, with Sweden,
entered the Union Of CalnAr under 8
Danish sovereign IN 1877; but when that
pact was broken by the secession Of
Sweden IN the early par Of the sixteenth
century Norway remained with Den
mark and accepted the DANISH rlle-
with only AZ occasional show Of dissent
and resistance A modified Danish
came TO be the language Of the admins
! tratire officials and Of The Law courts;
indeed, the Morse Jolgue resembles the
Danish much more closely than II does
the Swedish and only in comparatively
recent times have the Norwegisns fel,
impelled TO develop literature Of their
Owl as distirl guished from ths, @! Den
mark
Ii should further be borne In mind
that although Norway has been po-
htioally associated with Sweden for
some ninety years, the association has
been compulsory. In 1874 Denmark
made over BY treaty Norway il almost
The character q. province 10 Sweden.
The Norwesians ret'eDed and their
Sior1hing raised the DANISH Prince
CHRISTIAN FKEpEElcK- then Governor
of NORWAY, to the Norwegian throne.
The uprising IVES promptly put down br
BERN ArorTE. however, and when be
came 10 the Swedish throne II 1913 be
gave Norway Constitution, q connes-
son DOT made TO Sweden until more than
forty Years later. For 9 time the Nor
vegiaus seemed reconcdled 20 their situ-
ation, partly because they knew them
selves 80 enjoy far greater privileges
than their Swedish fellow subjects,
! partly because their mercantile marine
I had IS yet by no means acquired il.
present proportions, and partly because
the adoptaon Of protectioniss policy by
! Sweden vas stall distant Perhaps had
The Swedish Constitution, when at last
I m 500 Il was granted been as liberal rs
Norwsy's, We might have Witnessed the
gradual disappearance Of a profound
cause for essrsngeaneni, namely, the
| FACT that the structure ID Norwegian so
csetr has hong been Democratic. whereas
the Swedish people are s1iIl organized on
aristor-atic principles The difference
/ is reflected n their organic Laws The
Norwegian Parliament may divide itkseH
/ for the transaction Of certain business,
! but for the most Inport4n; PURPOSES II
is uninaneral; the Swedish Diet. Oh the
other hand, is organically divided into
four estates OF riders. In Norway not
only every s61., MIN, but also ere1y
adult woman having an income Of no