The evening leader. (Tarpon Springs, Fla.) 191?-19??, 1918-09-12
(THIRD INSTALLMENT.)
Weak Neutrality of Sweden.

Weak Neutrality of Sweden.
Occasionally Dutch gendarmes and
coast guards fire at stray German sea-
planes and Zeppelins, and even at u
boats transgressing the three-mile
coastal limit.
Camoufage!
The country is firmly held in the
wise of kaiserism for the very simple
reason that the people who have the
power are Germans. Wilhelmina was
a dear, plump little lady when she
married her German. And the joy
bells rang. So will little Juliana be,
one day, when she marries one of the
German crown princes sons. What
a game is the king game!
Take Sweden. Victoria of Baden,
German born and bred and daughter
of one of the founders of the German
empire, sits on the throne. A deli
cate woman, constantly in and out of
Germany on health visits to Karls-
ruhe and the Black forest. A Every
forceful personality" That she has
completely won over her invalid hus-
band to the German idea is certain.
After all, take the ordinary mortal
married to a domineering woman.
What happens? Do his views prevail
or hers? Why should it be otherwise
with such commonplace people as roy
alties usually are? Of the European
rulers, the kaiser and King Alfonso
alone stand out as men who would
have made their mark as ordinary cit
izens-the former probably as Boil
shevik. Stockholm is German city.
German flags flying, German beer
gardens, German music, German plays
at the theatre, German hotels and bus
mess houses fiourishing, German
newspaper, policemen in picket
haubes, German trained army with
!. officers of the arrogant stamp. The
writer well remembers several uncom-
Portable days spent in this beautiful
northern Venice after the Galiciar
victories of 1915 had sent the blood
red-hot to the head of the German
1t was far more uncomfortable being
jostled along the streets, placardet
with pictures of Mackensen and Hin
denburg, than it had been month be
fore strolling in Austrian Lemberg
That the Swedes had some reason o.
fighting shy of the Entente-thei
fear of Russia-must be admitted
With Poltava still lingering memo
ry, they dreaded Russian descent OF
Scandinavia via Finland That fea
has passed forever today, and still tn
Swedes affect a neutrality little les
openly hostile to the Entente thai
that of Holland. Yet the backbone O
Sweden, the working classes, are, ant
always have been, socialists avowedl.
hostile to Germany. Many demon
strations from time to time have prov
ed the fact. Ask Branting. But thi
IS per cent of the population remain
largely inarticulate. The palace a
Stockholm dictates what shall be ant
what shall not be, with the full con
sent of the governing classes, who, b,
tncessant intermarriage with Ger
many, and strong financial ties, ar
one and 81 pro-Germon.
The lady-ih-waiting of German
queen has more to say in the Europ
Of today than whole constituencies O
voters. And German queen
rear German children. 4 TIL,
cancer is deep-rooted for generation
ahead. Sweden, like Holland, ha
worked overtime since 1914 to maxi
he war pan out easier for Germany
Norway, next door, with an Englisl
queen, has done the opposite. TIL,
coincidence is STRANGE. Swedes an,
Norwegians who lived beneath tn,
same sceptre so long cannot be tw,
UGH totally divergent types that on,
hould acouiesce in the Lusitani:
rhine and the other abhor it.
Spain Has Bones to Pick.
The Swedish government stood self
ondemned in allowing it's cables t.
used for passing on German sub
1arine warnings. That the German
queen was involved in this disgracefu
reach of neutrality need hardly here
e stated.
Ramifications of the royal marriage
,art, working down through each
ckey, into the final channel!
1t is clear that in an article of this
nd, written at this critical iuncture
affairs, much must be left unsaic
st it be of service to the other side
this rule applies to Sweden, it OBJ.
inns even fore forcibly to Spain
pain is country with three bones