The Wheeling intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1903-1961, 1916-10-11

selves obliged 10 raalse against eS-
ports TO Germany Of certain commod-
tiles dealers exporting In Dotn couh-
tries are obliged 10 deposit the Vaiue
TT their goods as Il guarantee against
heir reaching the enemy. Even the
smallest order involves the 1llling OF
! endless forms, and sometimes pro-
! hibts delay. 4 Frcnch-Swlss acqualn'
lance shipped snails from MS larM
10 France. 1t was suspected mat lney
spoke German and the consignment
was held up at the ironuer until an
expert on Snails FROM Paris gave MS
) oninion. When at length this arrived,
the snails had long since been buried
for sanitary reasons. Another anus
ing incident which has come TO my
: atleution was that or Swiss pianist
+ who wrote TO The French publisher Tor
! Il niece of music called the Cathedraal
an arraignment OF the Germans LOT
!Ihc bombardment Of Rheims. The pub
fisher rrnlird that it would take at
| least a month 10 send it through the
is. S. S. In despair the musician then
wrote to large Berlin music mousse
land received the music demand ny
return mail.
Germany has employed this hind
france TO FranCoSwiss trade TO fur-
! lher consolidation of her economic
| hrgemouy over surrounding neutral
countries. In the season the country
. is visited by large number of German
/ statesmen many OF them leave from
! the trenches. Even at Geneva, the
very heart of French Switzerland, a
German sales society has been or
! ganized for handling the new market.
"WhaL am to do" asks the little
French-Swiss tailor who fitted my
clothes, and who is ardently for the
! French cause. "lhaye TO buy some.
where and cannot buy in France.
I"Why not buy in American" l asked
Public opinion follows closely race
lines in switzerland. The French.SWlss
are so in sympathy with the French
cause that it is jOkinely said that were
the French 10 want 10 make peace De-
! fore the defeat Of the German armies
1.-THE Lausannois would not let them.
They feared for the safety OF their
country when Belgium was invaded;
! they ragged at the reports from Lou
vain and Rheims. This sympathy WIN
France is rather OF The soul than any
desire TO share French political IN
s,itutions. Their feeling for demoC.
iracy and personal liberty is so vital
! 4 mart of their organism that they can
rot understand the more placid indli-
| ference Of their German-Swiss neigh
| bors to the turmoil. These German
Swiss, carried off their feet by their
initial enthusiasm for Germany, found
their ardor cool when the victory OF
| the "invinCible military machine" seem
cd more and more distant. They feel
a natural sympathy for Germany but
Ithcv fear more than anything else
sweeping victory for either side. Above
all they want prace--an end to a struS-
gle which seems 10 them stalemate.
Whatever the feelings of the Swiss
! for one side or the other may be, he
has a deepening consciousness of his
entity as Il Swiss. and a firm deter
limitation 10 defend his neutrality
against all intrusion. This growing
solidarity in switzerland is a small
,cxpression OF a feeling. none the less
real for want OF political substance,
lsprcadinC among neutraiS everywhere
la determination to protect this status
from abuse and rdicule from within
| as we'll as without.