Note 25 — Chapter IV

The Daily News remarked in reference to this, that “every English Chaplain in Switzerland must now consider himself liable to be called to account for any collection made in the churches among the Alps frequented by English and American tourists.” But beyond this, the inhabitants of every European country are now informed by the Swiss Federal Council that they are not free, as they imagined themselves to be, to ask for money in public meetings, for every kind of social, political, or religious enterprise. They must henceforth understand that the authorities of the State have “incontestibly” the right to send a policeman to look into the money-box or purse of the collectors, and count up the amount, limit, or prohibit, as the case may be!