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Show Queer Laws. There are in force in Switzerland certain laws which, in the hands 0' the unscrupulous, may work gres! havoc with personal rights and lit'' ties. This is a point concerning nhict there can be no dispute. For instance-in instance-in most cantons men and women niV be punished not only for what tie.' have actually done in the past, but ai-so ai-so for what may possibly result in tt? future from what they have done-Suppose done-Suppose a man is spending week Iff week all he earns. Then the local authorities, au-thorities, acting in conjunction the police, muy send him to a po"3' workhouse, on the pretext that conduct Is such that he may later bi"-come bi"-come destitute and therefore be a b'Jr den to the community. Buffalo |