The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1903-10-25

eva Women must sometime learn that in any scheme
lnal Pretenas TO give them living without work. they
are the greatest losers they must then live on
charity and take the position of those who receive
aims. If it is question of where tbey yrrrI- +
open air is certainly the healthiest place AN through
Switzerland and continental Europe the women are
found in the hay fields large numbers Of nao-Ia a.
ways together seeming to enjoy il almost as much as
pink tea AT least il looked so TO me rThouob T
never did any haying or for that matter any ..5inl-
teas thank God! The fact that women work in the
air in Europe not seem to weaken or dageD
crate the race as European women hear more cl1iI
than American women, and this must certainly be
taken as great Indication strength and fitness
The towns of Switzerland aItbourb NOT 1s-ea o.
numerous are busy and thrifty. Switzerland like an
other nations is turning her attention largely to man
ufautre. ZuricShas long had extensive SILK mills and
Geneva is known all the world for her ieveIrv ana
her watches There are now large colonies Of these
industrial workers in all the larger Swiss towns
These worl0men are nearly all trade unionists and
take readily 70 radical ideas. The water power that
comes from the mountain torrents promises to make
great change in Swiss industry and life 1t is 0nl re-
Gently that the potential wealth Of these swiftly dow
ing streams is being recognized by the Swiss What
viii be the ultimate result no one can ten For NV
part look on these growing schemes as fraught with
great danger to these Hberty-IOving men and women
The desire for wealth is very nsdous and fatal dis
ease, and nation yet learned how to preserve
both liberty and wealth The growing Of the Swiss
water power may do for Switzerland what the cold
mines did for the Boer and still the feeling liberty
Is very deep IN the hearts of these mOuntaineers.
Above all other things the condition Of equality in
this republic impresses the stranger There is ari
stocracy There are no very rich, and although The
land is so barren and rugged still abject poverty and
public charity is almost unknown. These swiss have
their property for their national unity their indie
pendence, for their lands the Swiss char
acer and countenance gives ample proof of this hard
work
Her people arc serious and solemn There is little
life or gayety or ghtness in their manners, their APP
pearance their dress
The struggle of TO subdue the earth has al
ways been severe But with these Swiss the eternal
contest with mountains and rock and snow and tenn
pests had been dOubly hard. The great mountain
peaks reaching far up beyond the line of life and min
Cling thei- white tops with the clouds above na-s
been ever present to the Swiss peasant in his toilson
life. And these grave, silent. tracless mountain:
to have marked the Swiss life and character with
the gloom and seriousness that grow from the
Of her everlasting hills.
With all admiration Of the Swiss there must
be touch Of pity for these brave mountain peo-
pie who toiled long and hard preserve their
liberties and the independence OF their land.
still in all the of the world there been
Wanting fanatics ready suffer hunger and and
Imprisonment and death to gain liberty. and then lose
after an.
Copyright 1908 by Clarence s. Darrow.