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Show w m i ANNEXATION GETTING POPULAR The people of Vorarlberg have just voted four to one for annexation to Switzerland. Swit-zerland. They are now a part of Austria Hungary, if there may be said to be such a country. But before the Vorarlbergers are taken tak-en in out of the cold, the Swissnust consent, con-sent, and they are likely to look the proposition pro-position over very carefully before acting. act-ing. Countries that are going concerns with a balance in the bank and no mortgage mort-gage on the homestead are likely to re ceive quite a little attention of this sort The case of Denmark is an amusing instance in-stance with a variation. The peace con ference has attempted to thrust a slice of German Schleswig upon the Danes and being a very level headed people they don't like it. Denmark has no Greater Denmark party pledged to carry the boundaries to the Mediterranean or the Urals. She had her irredenta, but the Danes are quite wise about it and more anxious to preserve their homogeneity than to gain territory. They do not care for that part of Schleswig which is inhabited in-habited by Germans and which would create a German empire, irredentism to threaten their future. But how will the vote, to be lield under the peace terms in German Schleswig, turn out? Will the Germans follow the Vorarlbergers or stand by the German ship? If annexation to Denmark means escape from the penalties imposed upon Germany the temptation to slip into the snun- Danish harbor will be strong. If this habit is catching we may be the blushing recipient of several offers. Geo-rraphical Geo-rraphical propinquity is not essential. ' There is Aremnia and Albania, who have ' no inclination to union with their neigh- ' bors. We may find them in a madatory ' basket on our doorstep any morning, but ' if not they may present themselves. Cquld our humanitarianism turn them ' away?-Chicago Trihune. |
