Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1909-03-25
DEN MARK.

According to reports from COpen-
hagen, the bill appropriating 43,0OO,-
600 crowns for the national defense,
in accordance with the plans of the
commission which has been studying
the subject for months and years,
stands but little show of passage. AS
was to be expected, the members of
the social democratic party are solid
ly arrayed against the proposed meas
ure; they want disarmament and ev-
erlasting peace. The radical let's are
also against the measure, largely be-
cause they like to be in opposition,
but especially because they think the
sum asked for is entirely too large.
Some refuse to vote penny; others
are willing to appropriate four or five
million crowns, and very few of
these radicals would go as high as
fifteen million crowns, but 100000
is entirely out of the question.
The party of the right is heartily
in favor of the bill, but the reform
party is hopelessly divided. Indeed,
it locks as If this question will cause
a permanent split in this great party,
and lead to new party alignments.
The national taxes collected from
the people during the years 1866 and
1867 amounted to 75,050,000 crowns,
and the local taxes during the same
period aggregated the sum of 46,7OO,-
| 600 crowns-making grand total OF
| 122.O0O,000 crowns. 1t is estimated
that the aggregate income OF the peo-
ME of Denmark during the same pc
riod was 1000, 100000 crowns; hence
the taxes were equal to II per cent
of the peoples earnings. 1t is there
fore apparent that it is expensive to
live in Denmark, but the taxes were
still higher in former times. a thought
which may console the Danish people
somewhat.
All Danish women over twenty-five
wears of age will, after this date. have
the right to vote and come forward as
candidates in the elections for the
| Copenhagen municipal council. The
women however, display no enthu-
siasm.
There are forty-twO seats, and the
socialists. the most powerful and best
ORGANIZED of the parties, nave only
| succeeded in finding seven women can
d;dates. of whom two have resigned
on Grounds. it is alleged, of personal
| iealousv. One says that she has de-
welcomed a weakness of the heart, ana
tho second that her housewifely du-
ties are too exacting to permit her
to enter politics.
The number of men out of employ
ment still is increasing, and now IN
cludes more than 25 per cent of the
coun+rv's working classes. The last
winter has been the worst in many
wears, preventing building operations
and closing many of the harbors. the
situation is looked upon as serious
and if is expected that the conditions
will result in a large increase OF emil
!
months. The Scandinavian-Amerlcan
liners are crowded with emigrants.
Prof. julius Thomson, one OF tne
foremost chemists of Europe, is deao
at the age of eighty-three years. he
made a number of discoveries that
have been of great industrial value
He was a professor in the University
of Copenhagen and director OF the 20
nenhagen Institute of Technology
Admiral Carsetnsen, aged eighty
one. died in February. He entered the
naval academy in 1871 and served IL
the navy for half century He was
also in public life, serving IN the rigs
dag.