Part 9

Referendum, Federal, Switzerland, 21, 22 in labor organizations, 87 instrument of the minority, 22 in the United States, 72 in various states, cities, etc., 82 not the plébiscite, 29 obligatory, 13, 17, 20 optional, 13, 17, 18 what it is, 10

Rittinghausen, 16

Rockland, Mass., town meeting, 73

Rotation in office a partisan idea, 39, 83

=S=

Salaries of Swiss officials, 35, 36, 38

Salvation Army, Switzerland, 58

Schaffhausen, 12, 13

Schwyz, 8, 12, 13, 65

Senates, no cantonal, 34

Soleure, 12, 13

Stage routes, Switzerland, 52

State religions, Switzerland, 33

St. Gall, 12, 13, 65, 66

Statistics as to Switzerland, 13, 14

Summary of results of direct legislation in Switzerland, 70

Sunday, votings and communal meetings on, 8

Switzerland long undemocratic, 60

=T=

Table--Population, languages, form of passing laws, year of entering Switzerland, 13

Tariff, protective, Switzerland, 58

Taxes, Switzerland, 52

Telegraph and telephone, Switzerland, 50

Thurgau, 12, 13

Ticino, 12, 13, 59, 66, 67

Typographical Union, 89

=U=

Unterwald, 12, 13, 65, 66

Urgence, 17

Uri, 12, 13, 65

=V=

Valais, 12, 13, 61, 66

Vaud, 12, 13, 66

Vincent, Prof. John Martin ("State and Federal Government of Switzerland"), iii references to, 8, 32, 34, 61

Vote-buying, 20

=W=

Wage-workers in the majority, 106

Wages and political conditions, 103

"Westminster Review", 28, 45

Winchester, Boyd ("The Swiss Republic"), iv reference to, 63

Wuarin, Louis, 30

=Z=

Zurich, 13, 16, 20, 21, 61, 65, 115

Zug, 12, 13

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"_Mr. J.W. Sullivan_:

"DEAR SIR:--I have had the extreme pleasure of reading your book, 'Direct Legislation,' and beg to assure you that it made a deep impression upon my mind. The principles of the Initiative and Referendum so often proclaimed find sufficient elucidation in concise form. The facts that you have massed together of the practical application of these principles give the best evidence of thorough research and study. It is the first time that the labor reformers and thinkers generally have had this subject presented to them in so able and readable a manner. Every man who believes in minimizing the evil tendencies of politics as a trade or profession, cannot fail to be highly interested as well as pleased upon reading your book.

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