Waterbury evening Democrat., 1905-06-20
TO KING OSCAR.
Add ress Adopted Yesterday by the Storthing and
 the Swedish People.

SWeuaS0 FeOpJe.
 Christiania, June 2O.-The address u Ming oscar and the Riksdag adopt- ed by the storthing yesterday and the SWedish people generally. in reply to
 he long letter which the king sent June Is to the president of the storth- ing, M. Berner, is of conciliatory character. But at the same time 1t indicates the unalterable determina- tlon Of the storthing to adhere to the action taken in dissolving the union With Sweden. The text is as follows:
 Your majesty: Norway's storthing respectfully begs to address your majesty, Sweden's Riksdag and Swc- den's people as follows:
 What has been happening recently Tn Norway is the inevitable result of a combination of late political events and cannot be altered. and as it is certain that neither of the two peoples Is desirous of returning to the former condition of union the storthing is of the opinion that it ought not to recon slider the various questions of the con- stitution and public law that have been brought up in your majesty's .note to the storthing's president in connection with the resolutions adopt ed and on which the storthing and the government have already expressed themselves in detail. The storthing recognizes fully your majesty's 1ifii- cult position and never for moment has doubted that your majesty's de cisions are in accordance with what your majesty has regarded as the rights and duties of the crown. At the same time the storthing is desir- ous of addressing an appeal to your majesty, the Riksdag, and the people of Sweden with the object of cOntribu- ting to the peaceful carrying through of the dissolution of the union and the safeguarding of the friendship and concord of the two peoples of the peninsula. The storthing has seen from expressions of opinion in Swe- den that the resolution which the storthing felt it to be its duty to the fatherland to adopt, declaring the union of the two kingdoms dissolved, has in form and action been consid- cred mortifying to Sweden. That has never been it's intention. What has happened and had to happen in Nor way was merely the inevitable main- OI rights. The Norwegian people never intended to assail Sweden's honor. As your majesty in council May 26 de- clared you were unable to sanction the storthing's unanimous resolution for the establishment of separate Norwegian consular service, and as no Norwegian government could be obtained by your majesty, the consti- tutional state of Norway was so far disjointed that the union could no longer be maintained. Upon Norways storthng was therefore imposed the necessity of procuring without delay a government for the country. Every other co,irse was closed, all the more so as your majesty's Swedish govern ment had. April 9, already. explicitly declined to enter into new negotiations with the dissolution of the union as an alternative, in the event that it was found impossible to arrive at an agreement in regard to a new form of union.
 "The storthing as already stated and the Norwegian people do not feel any bitterness or animosity against your or the Swedish people. The to the contrary which pos sibly were uttered on occasions have wholly and solely been grounded on at Norway's position in the union. and as that source of bit terness and animosity would disappear with the dissolution of the union, its effects also would vanish.
 Ninety years of cooperation in ma terial and intellectual labors have awakened in the Norwegian people feelings of sincere friendship and sym pathy for the Swedish people. These feelings will with Norway no longer position offensive to her independence once more grow lpace and insure the entrance of a mutual understanding between the peoples. In the belief that the Swe- fish. people share these views the ,torthing suggests to Sweden's con stitutional authorities that they enter | upon the negotiations requisite for a | final settlement on the dissolution of | he union with the recognition of Nor. | ways new status end her rights as q sovereign state The storthing Is It. | self prepared to meet every fair and | wish that may be put for | ward to safeguard the Kingdom s in- dependence and integrity. Constitu- -ionally the two peoples will hence forward be separate btu at the same | lime the storthlng is fully convinced hat this will lead to the development If a good and trustful relationship Tor the defence of their mutual in erests.
 If the future settlement can be at aimed without prejudice and bitter ness the storthing is convinced that what has happened will prove for the asting welfare of- the northern peoples. For the sake of the north he storfhing addresses this appeal Q the people which by its magnanimi- Y and chivalry has attained for ltseif uch an eminent place among nations md with which the Norwegian people Iesire most sincerely to maintain ,....i raiatiorfs