The Bridgeport evening farmer. [volume] (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1866-1917, 1913-03-22
DENMARK NURTURES
PATRIOTIC SPIRIT
tsENTIMENT OF NATIONALIsM rs
DEFENSE FUND RAISED.

Copenhagen March 22.-The senti-
ment of nationalism is growing in
Denmark by leaps and bounds, and a
notable result is the collection of a
huge public fund for the defense of
the country. Repeated demands on
the government for additional fortifi-
cations have met with little response,
and private interests have now deter
mined to take up the work.
The subscription is headed by the
King and Queen, and other members
of the royal family have contributed
generously. The money is now pour
ing in from all sources, schools, bust
ness houses and offices contributing
freely. Several artists have donated
their paintings to be sold for the fund.
The present unrest in Europe is
largely responsible for the interest in
this remarkable measure of national
defense. The Danish people feel that
in the case of a war between any of
the great powers, their country would
be crushed unless they are in a posi-
ton to enforce armed neutrality.
No nation in Europe is taking more
interest in the opening of the Pana-
ma canal than Denmark.
The East Asiatic Company is max
ing arrangements to run a direct line
of steamships from Copenhagen to the
Golden Gate via the canal, and Den
mark expects that the new waterway
will place the fruits and wines of the
Pacific coast within reach of her
purse, as well as provide a market for
her products
The visit to Copenhagen of the Com
missioners of the Panama-Pacific In
ternationa1 Exposition aroused great
local interest, and Denmark is deter
mined to be adequately represented at
the San Francisco fair. This feeling
of neighborliness with the United
I nv
gift of RebbiId Park to Denmark by
| a large group of ham orleans.
Many Danish merchants have return
ed recently from tours of the United
States, where they went to get into
touch with the latest business meth
DDS, and the cIoseness with which
American political and financial con-
| ditions are studied is indicated by a
| number of new Danish laws modelled
on those of the United States.
Edward w. Winslow, the American
ConsuI-Gen here, declares that
American trade with the Scandinavian
countries during the past year estab-
1ished a high water mark.
America is learning rapidly that
Copenhagen occupies for Scandinavia
the same place London does for the
rest of Europe, and as a clearing
house, that the Danish metropolis acts
as a barometer of trade between the
United States and the northern coun-
tries of Europe. American merchants
find the free harbor of Copenhagen an
excellent distributing point. 1t is in
teresting to note, says Mr.. Winslow,
that there is no prejudice against
American goods; on the contrary, ey
are preferred. Denmark is now buy
ing from the United States in large
amounts corn, machinery, oils, boots,
and shoes, cotton garments, flour,
canned fruits, apples and ready made
clothing, and she is sending in return
garden seeds, sugar beet seeds, raw
hides, ocrdials, flint pebbles, dried fish,
IceIandic wool, and beer. During the
past year the Danish exports to. the
United States have increased by ST.
100000.
The tourist trade is also growing.
Hardly a family in Denmark is with
out relatives in America, and conse-
quentIy Americans are made very well
come. The Consul General declares
that not only the cordial welcome ex-
tended to American tourists is making
Denmark popuIa1, but also the fact
that everywhere in the country they
find their own tongue spoken.