| Show THE SWISS REPUBLIC ON sunday last the republic of switzerland was years old thus antedating dati D g by many hundred years guy any other of the stable popular governments that have existed in medieval or modern times in the latter part of the century when the nation was overrun with feudal despots and a ontie castle crowned almost every accessible eminence the peasantry easa were so ground down by oppressive taxation and petty tyrannies tyrannizes tyr annies of a general nature that slavery under the name of government was the rule this culminated in the austrian tyrant gessler placing his cap on a pole and com commanding mandin 1 the people to bow to it as a token 0 of af abject submission william tell e however did not refuse to bo bow an and thus precipitate the uprising which freed his bis country as we au alp t told id in the e readers and in literature for the simple himple reason that no such person ever existed the freedom of switzerland was accomplished by other and much less dramatic means beginning with three patriotic men 11 named amed Melch thal and furst who met one dark might bight and pledged to each other their I 1 lives I 1 ve their fortunes and their sacred h honor on determined to do or die cause ol of peasantry were secretly organized and armed and on november 15 1315 these numbering only 1300 all told went forth to meet an austrian army of 20 which had been sent to com ely subjugate them and reinstate austrian authority gessler having a long time previously lost his life but lust just how bow neither of the three men here herein in named cared to tell it they knew they vanquished the invading horde the establish ment of a republic out of the three cantons unter walden and uri ari they y prospered and grew and other cantens one oae by one dropped into the alliance until there are now awen ty two a prosperous vigorous healthful nation with a model government and an educated progress progressive iye people liberty dwells in the mountains switzerland is a living illustration of the fact nations have come and gone gene since she etie set up a republic among thel eveaj everlasting asting crags and peaks hu batata sits there with her coronet of ver frer lasting snow her bulwarks bulwa of eternal j hills bills and amid the prowess andhor and correct ples of her ber to endure end u re as long as i me tie best beat ol of bethly governments six centuries ol 01 0 as aa aued faim of government then all around aud and about her ber bas haape een ett shivered to atoms or shaken t its U very foundation stones I 1 truly re distance sis si tunce stance to tyrants is obedient obe obedi dieno euco to god |
