Morris tribune., 1908-10-31
!, Recent Occurrences of lnteres1
in Sweden, Norway and
Denmark.
EMIGRATION TO UNITED STATES
It Is Going on in Spite of the Eforta
Of the Anti-Emigration Society !
to Stop 1t.
SWEDEN.
Stockholm.

i5udge at all from their record during
Tie past year. The emigration tx
g}kAmerica is going ON at an increasing
rate again in spite OF the energetic ef
forts Of the society to stop it. 1t il
true that number of Swedish-Ameri
cans who had little money saved up
were induced to return to Sweden and
buy property there, but in nearly every
case there is keen disappointment and
many Of the former residents who
J were induced to return home last year
by the agitation for their. return, are
already selling out and making thei1
way back to America. The efforts OF
the society to make these people
change their mind and remain, have
proven entirely futile, and the society
is now, as last resort, purchasing
land in various parts Of the country
which it plans to sell to home return
ing SWedish-Americans
P. p. Waldenstrom, the well-known
leader of the Swedish Covenant church
of Sweden, jumped into the fight fol
the separation of church and state with
all his oId-time enthusiasm and ardor.
The idea of separating the state and
church has for many years, we believe.
appealed to Mr.. Waldenstrom, who
maintains that the church must be tax.
en- out Of politics and states further
y that the state church of Sweden is
nothing but a political institution. But
be it also remembered that Mr. Wal
denstrom is very much Of a politician
himself although he is a church leader
He has served in the riksdag for man7
years, and there is. scarcely no political
question of any consequence that has
I-come up before the people of Sweden
that he has not taken the liveliest in
interest in, so that it would seem that
his stand against the state church now
is a trife inconsistent.
In regard to the death sentence pro-
nounced by a Swedish court against
two Socialists, who were implicated in
the killing of an English strike break
er on. q boarding ship in the harbor OF
Malmo last summer by means Of a
bomb, the Social Demokraten makes
the following comment with com
0SBa ssion we received the news of tie
awful punishment whicIas awaits the
f leaders Of the attack on the strike
breakers ship. These men are not
criminal malefactors. Their action had
social and political motives. and all
social Democrats Join them in their I'M
dignatfon at the nationally enthusias-
tic, hurrah shouting. punch-quaffing
capitalist patriots, These capitalists
sesing about the .Sons Of Svea." but
when the sons ask for a few cents ad-
ded TO their wages, they are crushed
by means Of the ragged proletarians of
foreign countries.
The state railways of Sweden con,
tinue to do an excellent business and
i recent reports show that they have IN
creased their business aboue 5 per cent
during the past twelve months. They
are well managed in every respect and
under this system there is little or no
opportunity for any graft In this
connection, it is Of interest to note that
there is a determined effort on the part
Of the government, to improve the
transportation facilities between swe-
den and Russia. The government com
mission, which was appointed for the
purpose of looking into this question.
have been making a thorough study of
| the situation and will soon send a long
and prolific report to the king a Rus
sian commission is soon expected in
Stockholm to confer with the Swedish
authorities in regard to this important.
movements.
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The Swedish Medical Society, which
is this fall celebrating its Tooth anni-
versary, has authorized DIR. Hasse w.
Tullberg to publish a portrait catalog,
which purports to give a series of pict-
ures and biographical sketches of
SWeden's leading physicians. The
ssygork of collecting this material has
already begun and will soon reach a
successful conclusion. There are 1850
members of the society and pictures Of
all, except 148. have been collected.
The Swedish consul in Berlin, Herr
Berenkreutz, has recently been gather
ing lot Of interesting data relative to
Swede's and Swedish landmarks in
Germany. His collection of material
and pictures is most valuable under
TAXING ana aItef awhile some of these
collections will be on exhibition at the
National museum in Stockholm.
Professor A. Kolmodin, Of Stock
holm, has departed for east Asia to in
spect the mission interests there Of the
sEvangeliska Observation-Disclosures
Professor Kolmodin is an energetic
missionary and has made two trips al
ready to the Orient
Lignell, q prominent merchant who
died few weeks ago, has in his will I
donated 1000 crowns to the Swedish |
Journalist Society This organization
sas recently been receiving quite a bit
Of money through private donations.
The University Of Jena has awarded
the honorary degree Of doctor Of snledi-
cine to Professor Ernest 0verton Of
I.und University. The former univer
Isity recently celebrated Its 25Oth anni-
versary