Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1911-03-15
SCANDINAVIAN NEWS
PRINCIPAL Events Gathered L, The
Old Scandinavian Countries
SWEDEN.

SWEDEN.
Verne Won Heidenstam wrote a
poem which was sung at the funeral
OF Gustaf Froding.
u. Svensson, a Stockholm cigar
dealer, was sent to jail for term Of
six months for selling picture cards
that were considered Immoral.
Representatives from 81 families Of
counts. IS families Of barons, and 121
other noble families have announced
that they are going to attend the reg
ular annual congress Of the nobility
Of Sweden.
Down with Hnslavement, Success
to Disarmament" was the title Of an
antt-mllitary pamphlet which the gov
eminent conf1scated at Karlskrona.
The Social Democratic young peoples
association was responsible for it.
The budget committee Of the riks-
dag voted down proposition to grant
cities and communities the right of
local option as to the liquor traffic.
Nine members Of the committee were
In favor Of local option.
Two men in Risinge parish were
next door neighbors all their lives on
the farm. In their old age both Of
them took sick, and both Of them had
to be sent to the Nnspong hospital.
Both OF them died a few days ago.
and now they rest side by side in the
same grave. ..s:...
A deputation representing the pro-
h1b11ionists Of Sweden called on King
GUSTAV few days ago to plead the
cause Of prohibition. He said that
the question of permitting the people
to vote on prohibition would have to
be decided by public opinion, tho gov
eminent. and the riksdag. Personally
he was not opposed to it.
Gustaf Froding, the poet. died in
Stockholm, and the funeral cere-
monies began in that city and closed
In Upsala. where the interment took
place. The ceremonies were very i'm
pressive at both places, and the large
attendance demonstrated the popular
1ty OF the departed bard. The pro.
grams were largely musical.
Emil Soldering, who has translated
August Strindberg's works into Ger
man, says that the Germans do not
understand why the Nobel literary
prize has been given to such writer's
as Eucken, Sienkiewicz. Prudhomme,
and Echagaray. Herr Soldering also
says that the Scandinavian authors
OF the present day make no impress
sion upon the Germans.
The executive committee of tho So
cial Democratic party has drawn up
= declaration with regard to the land
problem, and it is proposed to make
this declaration a part of the plat
form. It is declared that the land and
its riches are the property of the
working people. The following ex-
p1anatory remarks are added: "The
state and the communes must extend
their real estate holdings. The till
able soil should be let out, according
to the circumstances, either to large
concerns by renting it for cooperative
use or to individuals under safe guar
antics for the laborcrs. or to small
concerns on terms which safeguard
their existance and the rights of the
user. Private monopolies OF certain
natural resources, such as large for
ests. mines, waterfalls, large peat
boys, important water courses, should
be transferred to society. Concessions
may pave the way to specialization.
Land donations from tho government
should be procured for society. The
rural laborers must have the right of
association. Public inspection must
be extended to the large farms, and
must include the inspection of build
tngs. To those rural laborers who
wish to farm on small scale or to
apply the cooperative system, must
be opened, under guaranteed posses
sion. suitable land, which eventually
may be taken, by means of expropria-
ton, from large estates held by COM
panies or private individuals. Tenant
farmers, persons renting ground from
companies, and persons living In
houses on land owned by others, may
eventually be made free by expropria-
ton at the expense of the state"
This Is plain language, and the con-
servatfves accuse the Socialists of
trying to "stear the country. 5. /