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Show SGHLE5WIG FREEDOM' 15 URGED BY DANES Conditions in Prussian-ridden Country Are Told by W. F. Jensen. TREATY DISREGARDED! Thousands Leave Native Land Rather Than Bow to German Rule. Revived hope that iheir native country may be freed from the Prussian yoke by the ultimate settlement of peace is causing caus-ing Danes, who years ago emigrated to the United States and became citizen; to start an agitation for such action by President Wilson. Unusual interest ia being taken by the Danes of Utah in the movement, deflated W. F. Jensen, president of the Mutual Creamery company, yesterday. Letters and petitions are. being prepared to be forwarded to Washington that the question ques-tion might be considered when the ultimate ulti-mate peace plait comes up. Several days ago Representative Hansen of Schleswig-Hol Schleswig-Hol stein arose in the German relchstag and made the annual address which has come to make that little land famous In history. Representative Hansen is well known to Mr. Jensen. Mr. Jensen, who is the commissioner of 'nmrniTcial economy for Utah and a member mem-ber of the Utah stale council of defense, yesterday described some of the tribu- i latlons of the Schleswig-HoUte.n people. Mr. Jensen was bom in Osterlinnet. I Schleswig, in 1S71. After Prussian occupation his fa t her was banished from the. country by the new authorities but was allowed to return niter three years although he never accepted the new government. gov-ernment. He died in 1889. Mr. Jensen's mother was left alone with her three sons to struggle with a large farm' and creamery'. I-ater the three boys earde to this country and were I naturalized here. Discusses Schleswig. In discussing Schleswig yesterday Mr. Jensen said: "The province of Schleswig-Ilolsteln, until the invasion in 1S64. had. sin'-e ftie beginning tf htstrv. been a part of Den-rmirk. Den-rmirk. This province, tying' between the i.lernian states and Denmark, has, for a thousand years, beeln a battle ground as between the Teutonic 'kultnr and Scandinavian Scan-dinavian civilization, and history records posaiblv more than a hundred contests with arms. The Panes he'd their own and maintained their independence until the coalition of the German state. The organization of Prussia, allied with Austria, Aus-tria, brought about the defeat of the ban-ih ban-ih army In 184. The Holsteln art. which Men south of the HI"! cnnal. has Always been more or less ' lerman, but the Schleswig part, lying north or the Kiel canal, has always been Parish. Undoubtedly Un-doubtedly it was Bismarck's desire for the construction of the Kiel .ana'., vmenj unites the Baltic sen with the North sea. that brought the war of 1S6. "The Panes made a valiant fight, but they were outnumbered perhaps ten b on, and it was the division of spoils be- j t ween l'rusaia and A ustrla that In 1 B6 brough t on t he mi r be t ween t hose t wo countries. Prussia was the victor in that war and became the sole possessor of Schleswlg-Holsteln. However, in the treaty of peace between Austria and Prussia Prus-sia in IBtS. It was provided that the people peo-ple In Schlswlg should be allowed to take ,i v..te among themselves and that the; should be allowed to return to Pen mark if the majority so decided. Disregard Treaty. This cisuse in the treaty of Prague i is known as article S. It has never been lived up to. Prussia has never gt anted the Danish people of Schleswig the rhnnce to vide anil thus exercise their self -determination, "The Prussian rule In Schleswig. which Is a country with about 300.000 people. Ma been cruel and oppressive, but t he Prussians have not succeded In ( ierman-Islng ierman-Islng the country. The Panlsh people of Schleswig eom from h slock of fi ee-hoMers. ee-hoMers. Feudalism never existed and the ftVhleswic I lanes are a very frugal and I intelligent people, w ith a strong concep- t ion of their right s to freedom and With j I set purpose and strength of diameter that has t ome to them, undonhtedl v. through tlm centuries of struggle (belt j little country has experienced. "With these panlsh people In Schleswig ' It became religion to keep their land. tO keep the sarred soil intact and In Danish hands until the final return to I Penmnrk. In which they have never lost 1 hope. But M years went by It became Inerenslngly difficult. The boys, as they been me young men. could not and would nol neither would lltelr parents let them serve under the Prussian Sofia in the military service of f Jermn ny. and tho voting men have left Schleswig by the thousa nds so thnt today t here nre perhaps per-haps nearly many people of schleswig extraction In the United States ns there j are In the? homo country. DifflCUltlefl Increase. "As (bene farm owneis In Schleswig became older, with their hoys mostly in America, it became Increasingly difficult to handle the farms. Then a strong as nor tut Ion was formed to buy up all land ft nin 1 Minlsh farmers which tliev could not I hemselves bundle In order lo keep the land from falling Into tho hands of the Prussian govsrnmsnt. "Prusshini found I hn t the only man nor In Which they rould ( lermanlze Schleswig was to buy Up the land every chance they had. and sell this land on easy terms to native Prussians from upper t iennany. "Hut the vast majority of these people in Schleswig, after fifty-four yenrs of PrUSSltn OCCUpStlOn and rule, nre still Danish nnd they are Still able to send to the German relchstag their own re prevent pre-vent a live, representing Danish sentiment atsi nationality nnd one or the dramatic Incidents In history is this little people's struggle "s expressed by iheir representative represen-tative In the Merman relchstag. "Onoe i yoafi for fifty-two yenrs. this representative of ths Panlsh people in Schleswig has stood tip In the i terms n relchstag and made the following statement state-ment on behalf nf his constituent!! " 'Vo nre Panes. Ws Will remain panes. We demand to be treated as Danes VVS shall never ceASe to work for the elf-dstormloatlon guarantnd to us In article (I, treaty of Prague.' "Denmark i bui a small country, one German dreadnaughl might shooi lis big aiiells dear across tho country Itself, They -I it ild nol eider t lie war nnd accomplish any practical purpose, but WS know Ihnl Danish boys try the thousand! and thou-sands thou-sands have volunteered their services and are in the army of EQngland, Prance nnd the United States for the purpose or righting the wrong dope their country in IH(I I,H |