The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1909-08-12
TIDINCS FROM
SCANDINAVIA
News Of General Interest
from Three Countries.
TIES CUT REMAIN SEVERED
Campaign to Bring Wanderers Back to
Native Soil Proves a FaiIure-Op-
portunities in Old Country Too Few
to Induce Those Who Have Lived in
America to Leave that Land-labor
Conditions Far from Ideal.
SWEDEN.

Sweden again, but very few have been
won over to even consider the matter.
Conditions are too cramped and op-
portunities too few to encourage one
to sever his relations with America
with it's greater personal liberty and
wealth of opportunities. Verify the
work of the anti-emigration society is
Of small profit" This is telling the
truth about the situation. The induce
ments offered are so small that it does
not appeal to the Swedish-American
whatsoever. Furthermore, if he has
been here for a few days he has ac-
quired American habits to such a
strong degree that it is useless for him
to even try and submit to the old ways
again. which are practically foreign to
him now upon his return. Besides the
average Swedish-American cannot
either bow to the class distinctions
which meet him at every hand in the
home land. He is not in a country as
free as America and is not used to car.
rying his hat in the hand all the while,
and that is practically what he will
have to do in Sweden. The fact, too
that he may have a little money is not
going to help him over there, socially
speaking. So, taken right through, the
conditions are not favorable for the
permanent return of the Swedish.
American to his mother country, and
it is doubtful if the time will ever
come, even though he may be bonn.
barded with literature, however at.
tractive.
That there was actually carefully
laid plot to murder the Russian car
during his recent visit to Stockholm
can best be cleaned from the state
ment made by the arrested Russian
Ornet, who now states that the orig
inal plan was to shoot the car from
rowboat, which was to have been
placed at the disposal of the would-be
murderer at the Strommen. Selzero.
witsch and Serschan, the other Rus.
slams at present held under arrest
have admitted that this was the plan
and stated that they had discussed the
matter in detail with Ornet. Strom.
men had agreed to secure the boat and
commit the deed. Ornet was born in
Pleskau, Livonia, in 1883. He refuses
positively to tell the authorities any.
thing regarding himself and states
that his past life and the role he has
played as an anarchist and revolution.
list will never be revealed.
Forty thousand workingmen en-
ployed in the paper, wooden and other
similar industries went on strike a
week ago last Monday. It is feared
that the strike will also spread to the
iron workers of the country. On Aug
5, a general strike in these industries
was to be declared all over the coun
try. In this connection it may also be
mentioned that not less than fifty-three
thousand workingmen have been bow
cotted by the employers, who refuse
to stand for a further increase Of
wages. Those who are thus boycotteG
expect some assistance from workins
organizations in Norway and Denmark
so that it will be seen that labor con
ditions in all three countries are fa1
from ideal at present. The Swedish
government is trying to intervene. blu,
thus far its efforts in this direction
have proved futile.
An earthquake of small proportions
was felt about o'clock week apr
last Tuesday evening in Kristianstad
1t lasted about four seconds and doors
and windows ratified so that neonle
were generally frightened. The earth
quake appeared to travel from west II
east, and was accompanied bv mvs
ferrous rumblings in the interior Of thu
earth. The papers have all been civ
ing detailed accounts of it and as ar
earthquake is an unusual thing in Swe
den a great deal of speculation as r.
what caused it is prevalent.
A dispatch from Stockholm states
that the revolution in the industrial
world of that city threatens to hreal
out afresh at any moment. and s+n
dents Of the labor situation fear The
worst consequences. The young So
cialists are working like beavers anf
the city authorities are continual,
Strengthening the police force.
Owing to the prevalence of cholera
In Russia, particularly in the vicinity
of st. Petersburg, the Russian visitors
to the Stockholm exposition are mi
through careful examination before
they can mingle with the public. a
strict watch is kept all along The
border and officials are doing thei,
best to stamp out the plague.
A boundary dispute has arisen be
tween Sweden and Norway. Sweden
demands a change in the boundary
Tine between Jemtland and Norway