| Show POLYGAMY IN scandinavia UNDER this heading beading the following follow as extraordinary tra article app appears ears in the new york world of feb lot 1888 66 the little kingdom of sweden and norway is on the verge of civil war rhe ibe nation is divided into two hostile cam camps S the one of which composed of the liberals fiber liberals als is fighting to in favor of the adoption of polygamy while the conservatives serva tives who are la in the minority are strongly opposed to any question of plurality of wives strange to say the women of scandinavia have all ranged themselves under toe the liberal banner and one of the most eminent divines a M nissen who is president of the national temperance union has placed himself at the head bead of the crusade the movement is a distinctly popular one ene and has already become so deep rooted and universal that the government finds itself unable to stem it king oscar attempted to the other day to show bis big disapproval by withdrawing a subscription his privy purse to a student corporation at stockholm which has last just ranged itself under M eissens Nis sens banner so great was the outcry however throughout the country that the king was forced to reconsider his determination and continue his bis subscription the leaders of the polygamist forces assert that in proportion as civilization has advanced the capacity for the procreation of the human rac race has diminished and they claim that nothing but a plurality ot of wives can save humanity from eventual extinction meanwhile scandinavia is flooded with literature professedly bearing on the subject |
