The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1920-01-29
Sweden. .Spotless Town. Of Nations

night Sum- natures majestic demonstration
or to the cool and climate world famous for her an
To hing peasant George Bernadoe
field marshal Of credited progress enlgten-
of the Swedish people Under the King Oscar
to high diplomatic and commercial One impressed
with the spirit of cleanliness shining streets of its cities and
do actually recall the pictures
clear thinker his business and pleasures energetic
business whom the English language
life Sweden forests supply with much pulp paper
and its farms and diaries give England and Europe the finest
the world Sweden to the south, lake country wonderfully
wateed and cultivated and npsed with canals great
uniting the Baltic with the North Gatenburg Stockholm
But only within the last couple of decades has Sweden been fully
awake commercial possibilities. Once powerful
European countries she devoted herself military pursuits
thoughts of her children all Losing large part
possessions Russia Denmark Poland Prussia
prestige the of the country literature
developing painters singers scuptor chemists philosophers authors
They ideasts absorbing dreaming
rather than doing practical things commercial value but all the
veopng their intellectual strength Sweden today well organized
commercially and ndusty that she avoraby with other
European countries
people saw the possibilities of Sweden from an industrial view
point before people English French
interests established themselves the dea there the
of home talent They controlled the of
between Sweden other countries lines
of transportation within its bord Then Sweden took its business
its hands and has managed with splendid results Subsidized by the
steamship lines controlled by Sweden and clear its
carrying porcelain and other products and
other lands and bringing back almost article of used
growing and people, Business unions and oganza
tons spng all the country and consolidated themselves the
with Chamber of Commerce the United States The objects
of this body markets home and abroad for Swedish
products and study markets other stimulate trade
both and imports Every industry the represented
and considerable through
out the world
especially qualified for the work
many lands there live and study and conditions of
manufacture and making frequent the home ogan
These called Commercial Stpendia and supported
by appropriations made by Parliament for that This them
freedom which enjoyed by special agents of
and enables them do their work independent of conditions
Export Associations which royalty itself the hon.
president obtains for Swedish manufactures and merchants agents
and and places foreign business houses
muncaton with Swedish 1t has fund of carefully gathered
and reliable information concerning the standing of foreign
which all nqung members without charge other than
expenses concerning foreign
their of communication frgh by land and packing
Duties and furnished with all the principal codes published
code kilograms relating business To commercial spen
DIARIES who seek establish themselves abroad also Sweds do
travel foreign countries study local markets. furnishes
letters of introduction Institutions industrial commercial and
manufacturing firms and with whom the association in
connection and has arbitration committee which has settled satisfactorily
disputes between and foreign business firms which wond
otherwise have led costly litigation and bad feeling.
Since than half the entire land surface of Sweden covered
forests numbering principal
important occupations annually float down its 5000
miles 1900 saving and planning mills The
caring for these forests well approaching that therein lies
wealth. and comps concern which cuts down trees to plant
saplings in the denuded
government has great development of
manufacturing and lind difficult
get either Railway begun
rapid the building that Sweden today has miles
takage proportion populations than other European
government itself developing the
country the work
through subsidies and special The merchants them
selves through their organizations maintain chambers of in
Sydney, Australia London and New York These bodies to the
here what the similar bodies
at home performing giving all the help that the
organization Sweden going ahead along with its Scand
neghbo The added the impulse and its agricultural and
manufacturing have been taxed their and benefited
accordingly
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