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land whose ending petty distractions would result
in the perpetual roundabout motion within the narrow
est circle, she not in spite Of hersef dragged for
ward by the industrial advance Of her neighbOrs.
Whoever doubts this, win be satisfied after perusal
Of the history of Swiss railways Were not for the
trsfc from south to north moving round Switzerland on
both sides not railroad would have been con-
structed in that country As they are made twenty
years too late.
The French invasion of l79S and the French revou-
ton Of 1890 gave occasion TO the peasanty 10 throw of
their feuda burdens TO the manufacturing and trading
population throw of the medieval yoke Of parcian and
cooperative control With this progress the revolution
Of CGHtOndi Government was completed. The more al
vanced CsnOns had obtained constitutions to suit their
Dterests This CantOna revolution reacted upon the
Central Representation Assembly and Executive. The
party vanqushed in the individual CantOns was here
strong the struggle fought over again. The general
political movement Of 1c4O-47, which everywhere IN
Europe brought about preliminary conflicts or prepared
decisive collisions was in all second and tnlrdrate
States-thanks 70 the ealOuses of the great powers
favorable to the opposition, which may be described as
the nidde-class party IL the too, IN sE.zer-
land the moral support Of Britain the lndecison OF
GuizOt the difficulties which kept Aetternch al bay IN
Italy carried the Swiss the SOnderburd war the
party hich had been victorious in the liberal CanOns
in 1890 now conquered the Central Powers The revou-
tOns Of lS4S made il possible for the Swiss to reform
their ieudal constitutions in accordance with the new
political organization of the majority Of the Cantons
and now We may ludl cNiALtfIdu has Ahc
highest political development Of which She an indie
pendent State is capable. That the new federal cOnsh
tuition is qnite adequate TO the wants OF the country
the constant reforms N the monetary system the means
Of communication and other legislative matters affecting
tho industry Of the country, abundanty show but alas
these reforms are OF nature that any other State would
be ashamed Of on account Of the of tradtOnary
nuifances and the aDteduyan state Of society the ex
istence of which, up to that date, they disclose
What at most can be said in favor of the Swiss Con
IL flof br Qtunu fha
civilized portion Of the Swiss declared themselves will
ling TO pass 10 a certain extent from the middle ages
into modern society. Whether however. they will at
any time be able to do away with privileged trades cor
poratiOns guilds, and such-like medieval amenities,
must remain very doubtful to any who has the least
knowledge of the country and who has in single
instance the strenuous efforts with which respectable
"vested interests oppose even the most mattef-oi-
course reform.
Thus we see the Swiss true their character moving on
quietly in their own restricted domestic circle while the
year las uprOCtod all the stability of the European Con
nCnt around them The revolutions of Paris of Vienna,
of Berlin of Milan were by them reduced to many
levers Of Canonal intrigue. The European earthquake
had for the radical Swiss no other interest but this
that might conservative nelghbOr by upSetng
his crockery In the struggle for Italian independence
Sardinia solicited alliance with Switzerland aud there
is no doubt that addition TO the Sandman army of y
go Swiss would have very soon driven the Ausr
ans out Of Italy When 5000 Swiss in Naples were
peced that Switzerland in order to maintain her boosted
neutrality should send equal number 10 night for
the Italians; but the alliance ec,ed and the
of Italian independence lost much through Swiss
through Austrian baOnets Then came the disasters
of the revolutionary party and the wholesale emigration
from Italy, from france, from Germany, TO the neutral
Swiss soil But there neutrality ceased Swiss radicasm
was satisfied with what il had achieved, and the very
insurgents who by holding in check the tutors and natu
ra supeTiOrs Of Switzerland the absOutlst government
~ II 4 Al. Al
internal reform Udisturbed-these very insurgents
treated in Switzerland with every possible insult and
turned out OF the country at the first bidding Of their
prosecutors Then began that series Of degradation
and insult which one neighbOrlng government after an
other heaped upon Switzerland and which would make
the blood OF every Swiss boil if Swiss nationality had
any foundation and Swiss independence any existence
other than in boast or fame.
Never has such treatment been offered to any people
the Swiss have been made to submit to by France
Austria, Prussia, and the minor German States. Never
were demands half as Illuminating made upon any coun
try without being resented by struggle for life death
The surrounding Governments, by their agents, pre-
sumed to exercise the Office Of Police upon the Swiss
territory they exercised II not only over the refugees
but the Swiss Police officers also. They laid com
ANTS against subaltern agents and demanded their dis
missa they even far to hint at the necessity
of changes in the Constitutions Of several Canons As
for the Swiss Government, 70 every boder demand II
gave an reply and whenever It's words breahed
spirit OF opposition, its acts sure % make up for
il by increased subseryiency. Insult after Insult
pOcketed. command after command was executed. until
Switzerland was brought down the lowest level of Eu
Tcpean cOntempt,-till she despsed than
her two neutral rivals, Belgium and Greece. And
now when the demands of her chief assalant Austria,
have reached that hight of impotence which even a
statesman of the temper OF VI Ducy could hardly
swallow without some show Of rcsstance-now, in her
most recent most spirited notes 70 Vienna, she shows
how far she is reduced.
The champions of Italian independence men who,
far ffom showing any wicked Socialist or Communist
tendencies would perhaps, not 90 TO the length
Of wishing for ltsly the Constitution that under
which Switzerland lycS,--men who have aud make
claim 20 the demagoelcal celebrity even of Mazzn
there treated assaSsin lncondiarie brigands and
upseuers of all social order As 10 Mazznl, the lAu
guage is OF course far stronger and vet everybody
knows that Mazzni, with all his conspiraces aud nsur
IectioLs much supporter of social order at
present constituted as NJ Drucy himself Thus the
result Of the whole exchange Of notes is that. in
principle. the Swiss give in the Austrians. How,
then, is il TO be expected they viii no, give ia in
practise
The fact is this Any bold and persistent Government
can get from the Swiss What it likes The isolated life
which the mass fthem lead depryes them Of al sense
OF their common interest SIS nation. That yilsge
OF valley q canton should stitch together is no won
der But 10 stick together as Nation for a common
purpose. De what Il may they never viii In al invs-
sons the danger becomes seriOas as in 1875
one Swiss has BETRAYED the other anton abandoned
tie next The Ausans have expelled y 900 Tessinese
tom ionbarjy, without any cause The Swiss make
great cutlery shout Is and collect money for their unor
tuuate c0nederates Now let Austria bold cut sud con
iinue TO prohibit the return of these Tessuese aud IN
very short tine YOU vii wonderful change in Swiss
opiaon They viii get tired of collecting money.
they vii say that the TesSnese algays meddlei In
and deserved nobetter IN fact they are no
true Swiss concderate hS'Re gEten genaSscn Then
Tie expelled Tessnese will settle in the other canons OF
sud turn the natives out of emplOymert