El Nuevo mexicano., 1920-04-29

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(By Gustave Miller in the New York Eve.
ming POST
Hjalmar Branting; the new Swedish pre-.
mier, Is the leader OF the socialist party
| which was ia negligible quantity when
BfantihB joined Il IN 1884 and now is By Tar
the strongest Of the three political parties
in Sweden.
Brantlng Ii tall, broad ahonldered and
dignified. He dresses remarkably well and
presents q strange sight At mass meetings
and conventions Of the proletarIRt.
The trAdions Of his family were far from
radical. His father, the pioneaf Of Swedish
gymnastics and successor to Hing no pro
lessor Of medicine at the KarolinAla Med
icosKiruf8iskh institut. Stockholm, was out
sppnkeniy conservative, and his mother,
wh0se maiden name was Emma at Georgii,
was an arch.reactionary, like most Of the
offspring Of the landed nobility Of limited
MEANS
FOUGHT KING CusTAvE.
II was his mother who insisted that
H5almar attend the exclusive private
school 81 Pastor Bresk0w, where he WAS a
.ciassinate OF the present Swedish King Gus
tavB, with whom he had many a fight. ana
from which Fronting. although two years
the junior Of the prince, always emerged
the victor. The story OF his fightA he once
reiated to Henrik Ibsen. who used to come
once a week to the Munich home OF Georg
Won v0ilmar, leader OF the Bavafian So
ciai democrats, who was married to a
Scandinavian.
The pious. blue law spirit Ok the Breskow
school was repellant to young Brahtihg,
who wal full Of pranks and skeptically IN
clined. When Hjalmnr entered the Stock
holm gymnasium at Is, he manifested op-
position to mysticism and trangcendental
theories. When he was graduated from
the gymnasium at-iz. he wrote a compost
ton on THE Influence of International Pas
senger and Freight Traffic on the Intel.
lectuaI and Economic life Of Nations a.
subject strange to the average pupils OF
SO youthful age. II
STARTED A SOCIALIST SCHOOL,
His parents wanted him to- become q law
yer, but during the five years he was q
student of the Usaia University, Granting
manifested nttie interest III law, devoting
much time and energy to political economy,
and history.
During the latter part Of the '70s OF the
last century the democratic movement N
sweden crystalized, TOR the first time, n q
large organization, s~Vefdandt," which
Granting Joined.
Tie became acquainted with the radical
Scandinavian writers, especially George
Bfandes. and corfesponded with Kari
Marx, father Of the modern socialist move
ment. He also came in contact with Rus
sian Nihilisfs OF the Turgeniev school and
hailed the assassination Of Car Alexander
Ii as the dawn OF q new era Ii the Musco
vite empire.
When he LEFT the UsaIa University with
having graduated he organized 2 prt
waite school, according graduates Of Grade
schools -an-opportunity Of acquiring p high
and university education That IN.
stltute was soon .kn0wn as the Red Nnt
EDITED SOCIALIST PAPER
Af n, Branting joined the socialist party
two years later, IN 1856, became editor
Of sooialdemokraten, the leading socialist
paper In Sweden. He was the frat 20
claIlst member OF tile second chamber Of
the Swedish parliament elected for the
fret time IN 1890 and reelected ever since
since 1908, be has been editor Of Tlden. the
socialist monthly, to which he had been q
contributor foF a number Of years.
Bfanting has been sent 70 prison i've OF
SIX times for political ~oIfenAee, the last
fl connection with the Swedish gen
eral strike eleven years ago. Since then
Ne haa not heen prosecuted fof bib political
partly because 81 the increasing
power d his party. partly because sMedena
FORMERLY h Jnnker state. OF the Prnssian
syre, has bern denecratfzed.