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Show The Oldest Itepuhllc In this country there are 930,000 Swiss emigrants, and they are atnoog the most dcslrible of all our foreign rltliuna, these brave peoplo who como from th) ollcst npublie to catt their lot In tlio greatest and richest one. Among all tho quatlcr of a million 8nUs among us there is scarcely n paujicr or a criminal, and not a tramp In New York city alono aro 23,000 Bwlss Inhabitants. Tweuty thousand arrosU wirotnadelii the big dty hut yoar, an 1 of thueo only thirty flvo wcro of porsons boru lu Bwlt-torlanl Bwlt-torlanl Arriiats at tho port of New York from tho Utile tuountalu rliutuud republlo number b.OOO a yoar. The Swisa confederation will be 000 yeirs old this year, Sept. 8, 0 and 7 will be colsbratod tho anntrersary of tho Cuil throwing off of the Austrian yoke In 1S91. It U a wonderful story, whither whith-er Wllhilm Tell ever lived or not, tho tale of how mountaineers who loved liberty banded together, a mora luind-fid, luind-fid, and defeited the Antrlan army Mountain dwellers hue overloied liberty, lib-erty, lleilJea being tho oldest republlo In the world, blititieiland is undoubtedly the best educated oiio. Shohai tho Ust free schools of any nation. Ilcro practically prac-tically orl.in itol tho Idea of tho trade and technical school which has dono so much for f.uropenn industries. The Hwiss are tho Uit educated nation in eiltUnce and this is why they mnko suih desiXhlo cltiz us In America. Americans must novtr forg t that IouIi Agassll camo to m from Bwltzerland |
