New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1912-07-19
FEARS FOR THE KAISER
Projected Swiss Visit Likely To
Be Abandoned.

r,,eror Williams projected visit to
,-t,zarland in September to witness the
anal mannuvres of the militia army
. Tho Helvetian republic is likely to be
.sardoned for the same reason that EN-
FOR Nicholas some years ago gave up
:, the last moment his state visit to
pane for which the most elaborate ar
..rgements had been made by the Italian
.,yernment If the Russian ruler re-
no,ned away from the Eternal City on
.bst coca ion. it was because the chief of
,,s Roman police and the principal Of
s.isls Of the detective service OF the
r,oIan Department of the Interior de-
Jared II impossible to accept RESPONSE
atty for the imperial visitors safety
trom any and every sort of harm.
so il is now in the case OF Switzerland,
q ,bere the late Marc Ruchet. the chief
: q the Department of the Interior, at the
hsginning of this month resigned his Of
s,s as we'll as his membership in the
rsderal Council sooner than accept any
responsibility for the security OF the
Kaiser on his proposed visit Marc
puchet. who died quite suddenly a few
laws ago, and whose membership in the
FEDERAL Council gave him a position equal
almost with that of the President OF the
rspublic now VI. Forrer) the sover-
signify Of which is vested Jointly I'm the
ssyen members of the Council, declared
nat while laws exist for the supervision
Ar exclusion from Switzerland of aliens
o, stormy antecedents and evil repute the
1apk{ncv their
He might have added that there was also
dissemination on the part of the can
topal governments to cooperate with the
federal authorities in the matter. More
over. he laid stress upon the fact that all
attempts TO secure the necessary funds
for such an undertaking had failed. as
no, in keeping with Swiss Ideas.
II is this inability TO enforce the laws
relating 10 foreigners that has made
sutherland more than any other country
he haven of revolutionists. nihlists and
anarchist in a word, of the foes of So
city and Of the existing systems of gov
gument In England, which shares with
Sutherland the international opprobrium
Of harboring dangerous people. they are
II least subjected to a most elaborate
and relentless supervision on the part of
The police. This alone makes them prefer
Ire territory Of the republic, where. more
ever, the means Of existence are much
theaper than in England. while the alb
snee of capital punishment from the
lsgal code of most of the cantons. where
murder is usually considered as suf-
Silently punished by more or less long
Prison sentence, renders a sojourn in that
republic particularly risky for monarchs.
No one can forget that II was in Swift
Hland that Empress Elizabeth of Austria
vas assassinated I'm 1898 by an Italian
anarchist, and, alas! il is a fact that
sany Of the regicdal outrages in other
0untries have been plotted i'm Switzcr-
and by undesirable aliens" notably the
lowing up of the dining room OF the
Winter Palace at St. Petersburg as the
imperial party was about to cross the
,hreshold the assassination of Alexander
Il year later, and the wreck Of the
imperial train al Bork when Alexander
IT,. with his consort and children. in
51dng the present Car, so narrowly cs-
aped hjdeous death.
- lHt CNiSS lFStIll inc VI fS'llNt III
her country Of foreign detectives and
pOlice agents, even though employed eX-
aus!vey 10 watch alien suspects and
animals and place all sorts of obstacles
IN their way. IL is probable that the
Kaiser will yield TO the requests Of his
family and his Ministers, and. deferrihg
70 the implied warning of the Federal
Minister Of the Interior at Berne. aban-
Don his widely heralded visit.
In this connection it may not be amiss
% recall that shortly after the memorable
visit Of Prince Henry 10 this country in
W a confidential communication was is
ned from the State Department to the
American embassies and legations in mon
rchical countries, directing them quietly
% discourage as much as possible the
visits Of European royalties to the United
States on the ground that the federal
@yernment found II difficult to assure
aer safety from harm and indignity,
and that such visits entailed heavy ex
Dsndture, legislative provision for which
rss difficult TO secure without opposition
alculated TO humiliate both the guest
Nd the nation
Is not. however, the question of
saney as much as that of safety which
J zssed the issue of this communication.
FN although Prince Henry Of Prussia's
ray was so brief; there was a constant
aatct of authority between the federal
SGet Service men and the police officials
Y the states and cities which he visited.
% great was the confusion that the
asons arrested one another.