The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1915-04-11

that the Dutch, pending the arrival
Of French requirements, could OPP
pose to the enemy. The invasion
petcrcd out; the incidental attempt to
restore the old Stakeholder, william v"
failed utterly. hut on the other side
of the world England gobbcd one
Dutch colony after another, until the
Dutch flag continued to fiy only over
the little island Of Dccima, in japanese
waters And now Napoleon comes
| into the story.
Napoleon's only interest in the re-
public was material: he wanted Dutch
money, and Dutch soil as a vantage
point for the strategy Of his war with
England. In 1901, with his kind con-
sent. the Hollanders. this time with
J out revolutionary trimmings. set out
to make that precious Constitution
right once and for all. After various
7 vicissitudes the paper was submit
/ ted to the electorate only $500 Of
{ the 416.4i9 voters went 10 the polls
{ and nve-sixths of them were nays.
/ But Consul Bonaparte settled the
matter. count those who did not vote
as yeas. The yeas have it,
! After seven years of war between
! France and England. and # CONNER
: cial stagnation for Holland. peace and
reopcning of the doors of opportunity
in trade. But "A milkman who comes
around once in every seven years Will
lose his customers" The Dutch had
tried trading under neutral flags and
with neutral papers. hut in that long
war the rules of international law
] adj %, nd IA h.n
, ever England suspected ship Of being
Dutchman In disguise she took it
and sold 1t under the hammer. As
commerce decayed commercial moral
ity decayed with it. Clever evasions
were practised:
Mcssrs \ and H. honorable merchants
from Amsterdam, enter Into partnership.
\ goes to London and as an Englishmln
| enters business. stays at home.
A cquips privatcer. u loads ship
! and gets as much Insurance as he possibly
! can The ship OF leaves the Dutch
( harbor' and IL captured by the ship OF
a II is taken to England and ship and
! cargo are publicly sold. gets the profit
of his buccaneering expedition Il collects
the Insurance The partners have In this
way made twice the amount OF their
| original investment. minus the Insignia
cant loss on the ship. At the end Of the
year the Two merchants divide the spoils.
When the insurance companies
blocked that little game the only way
to do business across the water was
to run the British blockade in the
North Sea BY 1901 there was not a
Dutch whaler off Greenland a Dutch
fisherman on the North Sea- no
Dutch keel cleft the waters of the
manner OF tht N'u''e'r"nc"h' no
Dutch bottom pore gram over the
Baltic. where peiore pu'ch carriers
nau uohe iH'sh'H business me
lhaIa companies were 'hoperan'' 'd"-
ures peca'he more frequent revenue
lasgeu tar penlhu necessary running
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:. Tho nronnSi,Iop 10. VIII van hecou
= n Dcn,r,mcnt NJ France mr. acccn
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i hehold , Jcputation from tho Rata
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% ing as receiver in behalf of hanl;
d rupt nation.
! The drab narrative runs on: tn
II Bouapartes suliabhle. Napoleon in
re sisting that the FAT Dutch cattle ha