Morris tribune., 1910-06-10

| tries TOR century ana Half-EX-
President Roosevelt Made Profound
Impression on Norwegian People.
Prominent Danish Authority on Dali
! rying Now Visiting America.
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The statistical bureau has pub
| lished some highly important statistics
covering the period of 1751-19O0. Dur
ing the years of 1751-1840 the percent
| age making living as tillers of the
soil or in occupations closely connect
ed Herewith, remained almost station
airy. For this period of ninety years the
! average was 80.59 per cent, and at no
! time did the percentage swerve more
| than 2 per cent from this average.
| Even this slight variation may be due
! to changes in the manner of making
/ computations rather than in any &C
| tual shifting of the population from
| one kind of occupation to another.
| Roughly speaking, husbandry was the
| means of support of four-ffths of the
| people of Sweden for a century pre-
ceding the year 1910. During the same
| period 8.73 per cent were engaged in
| the industries and mining, 189 in COM
! mercial pursuits, and 8.79 per cent
made living as servants. The mu-
| tual@ variation among these Occupa-
| tiOns were at times very considerable,
! but taken together they remained sur
| prisingly constant. The year 1910
marks the beginning of a new era
which has wrought profound changes.
In 1850 the percentage of those de-
! pending on farming and closely re-
! lated occupations for a living have
dropped to 1884, and those engaged
| in mining and the industries consti-
tuted 9.15 per cent. Up to that year
there was no change in the percentage
of those engaged in commerce. Dur
ing the second half of the Nineteenth
century the percentage of the farming
population kept decreasing, rapidly and
constantly, as to the advantage of the
other occupations. In 1870 husbandry
could claim only 1857 per cent of the
population, in 1880, 6242; in 1890,
6092, and in 1900, 1857, or a little
! more than One-half of the total. On
the other hand, the percentage of those
engaged in mining and the industries
had increased to 14.71 per cent in
1870; to 1875 in 1880; to 2272 in 1890;
and to 1883 in 1900. The percentage
of those engaged in commercial pur-
suits increased at the same rate, be-
ing 500 in 1870 and 1850 in 1900. Dur
ing the second half of the Nineteenth
century there seem to have been a
slight decrease of the percentage of
those occupied as servants. Only
thirty years ago twO-thirds of the peO-
pie of Sweden were still depending
upon agriculture as means of max
ing a living. The latest figures are
for the year 1900; but as the decrease
was from 6092 per cent to 1857 per
cent during the ten years Immediate
ly preceding the year 1900, it is safe to
assume that at the present time con-
siderabIy less than one-half of the peo-
pie of Sweden are making living by
cultivating the soil.
Bishop Gezelius Won Scheele ar
rived in New York the other day,
where he was accorded royal recep-
ton on the part of some of the lead
ing clergy of the city. He at once
resumed his Journey to the West and
will speak at Rock Island next week
in connection with the fftieth ami
versary festivities of the Augustana
synod. Bishop Scheele is regarded as
the most learned bishop of Sweden
and this is his third visit to the SWed-
ish Lutheran churches of the United
States. While the Augustana synod
has no real official connections with
the state church of Sweden it is never
theIess on an exceedingly friendly
footing with the church in the home
land and stands perhaps closer in re-
lationship to the state church of
Sweden than any other Swedish-Amer
lean church body in America. The
bishop will, during his journey in the
States, visit Chicago, Rock Island, st.
Paul, Minneapolis, Omaha, Seattle and
turn journey he will give lectures in
many Eastern cities where the Swed'
ish element is predominating.
No matter from what viewpoint you
will look at it the emigration problem
continues to be the most important
one and it is just the question which
is bothering the leaders more than
anything else. During the months of
January, February, March and April of
the present year 1896 persons emf
grated to foreign lands, while last
year there were only 5,057 This is a
matter which is giving the government
a good deal of well founded worry and
just how to overcome it all remains
as ever a puzzle. There is really no
way of preventing people from emf
grating and there seems to be no way
In which to induce people to remain.
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