Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1905-10-18
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1.-THE s''neutral zone'' which is to be
established between Sweden and Nor
way Is Commented on as follows by
Verdens Gang: ut may be that the
public has not yet fully realized the
great work accomplished by the estab-
lishment Of a boundary zone protected
BY peace aud perpetual arbitration.
We have created something new. which
may turn out to be far-reaching
blessing, vouchsal ng peace and pros
perlty, not only to our people, but 10
other nations whose vigor is exhausted
by militarism2 in times Of peace, by
competitive preparations for war and
by the building of forts To build
forts, which continually gobble up
more and more of the returns of peace
ful pursuits. this is something which
any miiitarist can do This is nothing
new. 10, settle controversies by blood
shed, by The butchering of the young
men OF country and by the blasting
OF its prosperlty-this is not new
either. 1t is the old, well known rem
cdy, the curse Inherited from times
immcmorial. But to settle interna-
tional difficulties and controversies by
remedies which are used among iudl-
vidual citizens in all civilized com.
munities-this is new. 10 build forts
that do not swallow up what is C, Gated
by sweat and toil-this is new The
neutral boundary zone is such a fort
1t costs nothing. But perhaps this
proves to be stronger than any forts
that cannons and bombs can crush and
stain with the blood Of the best young
men Of a country. Its protection is
justice and sacred agreements en-
tered into before the eyes OF the world.
Its effect is to subdue hate. It halls
from the greatest thoughts of the
minds that are moulding the future.
It is victory for human civiliz ,tion,
which it preserves and protects
The actual presence of troops close
to the boundary line pending the Karl
stad negotiations is inferred from the
fact that as soon AS the negOtiators
arrived at an agreement the troops
were ordered to keep at distance of
one kilometer Cwo.thirds of an Eng
fish mile) from the line until the Swed-
ish riksdag and the Norwegian stor-
thing had settled upon the matter
The storthing, after a heated debate,
ratified the treaty in all its particu-
lars by vote of 1O1 to 16 and that
settled: the crisis as far as Norway is
concerned. According to our latest re-
ports from Sweden the special CON-
lnittee of the riksdag appointed to con-
slider the Karlstad treaty unanimously
reported in favor of its ratification.
The report which was presented at a
joint session of both houses also recon-
mended that the treaties to be con-
! Guided in connection with the dissolu-
ton of the union between Norway and
Sweden be drawn up in French. as
they may sometimes lead to questions
which must be submitted to The Hague
arbitration tribunal. Orders were is
sued calling home the troops and naval
reserve troops
The minorities in the scandinavian
: union controversy are interesting
! enough to be entitled to few lines
In Sweden the minority men are in 3
patriotic rage because Norway is per
mitted to become independent. which
they hold to be an enormous and ever
lasting disgrace to Sweden. Fight tt
a finish-,hat is what those gentle
men are sro:ling for. We next turr
to the Norwegian minority men: They
| are in similar mood as their Swedish
fellow sufferers, but for Numerically
opposite reasons They hold that te
tear down those ramshackle forts along
the eastern frontier would mean tc
have Norway, lost in a deluge of un'
endurable humiliation, and their soul:
crave for the bluest of Swedish blood
One Scandinavian daily. suggests tina,
those Observation-Disclosures fellows in the
two countries get together and settle
the trouble according to their OWL
notions ~,:~ - 49, ) F., $-.s
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