2 SEPTEMBER 1871, Page 3

We have analyzed elsewhere a proposal put forward by the

Internationale for a Socialist revolution in Switzerland; but must state here that the operative foroe is to be secured by a junction between the Socialists and the Demo- crats, who are very strong in some Cantons, and whose favourite tenet, that no law shall be valid until sub- mitted to a pl6biscite, is adopted by the Internationale. It remains to be seen whether a fusion of this kind, having for its object the prohibition of wages, will attract a population among which four out of every five own landed property. Our own im- pression is that the proposal to throw all taxation on to visible property would be resisted in Switzerland, as in France, by the bayonet.