Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1914-03-12

lCal question might outweigh tne ue@
Tense question in the elections.
King Gustafs speech to the $4,000
farmers and landowners, In which he
said that the problem of the national
defense must be solved Immediately
and that both the navy and the army
must be strengthened, evidently had
more serious consequences than he
anticipated, for it caused the cabinet
to resign in a huff" The ministers
took the position that In a constitu-
tional monarchy the king has no right
to express in public manner his po-
litical opinions without having previ-
ously consulted the cabinet and ascer-
tanned IL they approved of his views.
The king refused to submit to this re-
straint, and the ministers accordingly
handed in their designations, which
were promptly accepted by King Gus
taf who Immediately called upon
Baron Gerard Luis de Ger to form a
new cabinet Members of the Liberal
fee under the circumstances, and
Baron de Guer was compelled, after q
few days effort, to abandon the at
tempt at forming a new cabinet, and
King Gustaf thereupon invited the
Conservatives to take hold. While
the cablegrams do not say so positive
ly, 1t is probable that former Premier
Lindman will take up the task OF
forming the new cabinet. He was
minister OF the marine Of the cabi-
net which has Just resigned. 1t Is not
likely that the new cabinet will have
a long life. and 1t is probable also that
the riksdag will be dissolved and .
new election held in the near future.
In view of the situation, II would seem
almost necessary to take such q step
The provincial government Of Skar-
aberg recently had to attend to .
very unusual correspondence. A
farmers son at Undens, who has seen
a good deal OF the world for his age.
was SO profoundly moved By the IT,
tanic catastrophe about two years ago
that he wrote poem about 1t. This
poem he sent to the emperor OF Rus
ala. The car was 80 pleased with the
poem that he wrote to the Russian
consul in Stockholm, instructing him
to find out who the author was and
whether he was in such position that
a little ready cash might come handy.
The provincial government had TO
tend to this correspondence.
About 1875 citizens Of Onsah parish
on the southwestern coast OF Sweden,
have sent a petition to the king, ask.
ing for the construction of a fort IN
that neighborhood. The argument Ia
mainly as follows: The coast south
OF Gothenburg is absolutely unpro
tected; Onsala, on the Kungsbacka
Fjord, which Is visited almost every
year by foreign sqpadrons, is an ex
ceptionally convenient place for max
ing a landing and assaulting Gothen
burg from the rear.
The opponents Of the new cabinet
agree that all the ministers are able
men. but as their adherents will be In
the minority in the second chamber
of the riksdag there will be little
chance of the passage OF the defense
bill in support of which the new cabi
net will devote its energies. Early
dissolution is therefore inevitable
The greatest activity prevails In all
political quarters in operations fol
new elections, which will be doubtless
preceded by a heated constitutions
struggle.
Knut II. L. Hammarskjold, the new
Swedish prime minister and minister
OF war, was born February 4, 1862;
was minister of justice 1901-1902. ant
in 1909 was appointed president Of
the Jonkoping supreme court. He II
a member of The Hague conference
and one Of the ablest lawyers in sws
den.
Long live the republic!" was re
peatedly shouted by those who tool
part in the antimilitary demonstration
in Stockholm.