[922] Dändliker, Geschichte, iii, 183,184.
[923] Id. ib. iii, 184.
[924] Id. Short History, p. 203.
[925] Dändliker, Short History, p. 204. In 1798 the French found in the Bernese treasury thirty millions of francs in gold and silver.
[926] Napoleon's sayings on Swiss politics, declaring in favour of cantonal home rule and federation, are among his most statesmanlike utterances; see them in Vieusseux, pp. 250-53. The originals are given in Thibaudeau's Mémoires sur le Consulat, 1827.
[927] Cp. Grote's Seven Letters, 2nd ed. p. 21.
[928] See Grote's account, pp. 34, 35.
[929] Adams and Cunningham, La Confédération Suisse, éd. Loumyer, 1890, p. 23.
[930] Thus the Catholic clergy between 1840 and 1850 used it to reject measures of educational reform (Grote, p. 66; cp. p. 38). Adams and Cunningham do not appear to recognise this conservative origin, pointing rather (p. 87) to the fact that the Conservatives at first opposed the application of the referendum to Federal affairs, and attributing the first conception (p. 88) to the Radicals. There appears to be a conflict of evidence. In any case the system is now accepted all round.
[931] See the opinion of M. Droz concerning the drawbacks of the facultative referendum—that is, the permissible demand for it by 30,000 votes in cases where it is not obligatory as affecting the constitution—as cited by Adams and Cunningham, éd. Loumyer, p. 80.