Canton of Bern

In several Protestant countries, particularly in all the Protestant cantons of Switzerland, the revenue which anciently belonged to the Roman Catholic Church, the tithes and church lands, has been found a fund sufficient not only to afford competent salaries to the established clergy, but to defray, with little or no addition, all the other expenses of the state.

The magistrates of the powerful canton of Bern, in particular, have accumulated, out of the savings from this fund, a very large sum, supposed to amount to several millions, part of which is deposited in a public treasure, and part is placed at interest in what are called the public funds of the different indebted nations of Europe, chiefly in those of France and Great Britain.

What may be the amount of the whole expense which the church, either of Byrne or of any other Protestant canton, costs the state, I do not pretend to know.

By a very exact account it appears that, in 1755, the whole revenue of the clergy of the Church of Scotland, including their glebe or church lands, and the rent of their mansions or dwelling houses, estimated according to a reasonable valuation, amounted only to 68,514 pounds, one shilling, five and a half pence.

A state may sometimes derive some part of its public revenue from the interest of money, as well as from the profits of stock.

If it has amassed a treasure, it may lend a part of that treasure either to foreign states or to its own subjects.

The canton of Bern derives a considerable revenue by lending a part of its treasure to foreign states, that is, by placing it in the public funds of the different indebted nations of Europe, chiefly in those of France and England.

The security of this revenue must depend, first, upon the security of the funds in which it is placed, or upon the good faith of the government which has the management of them, and, secondly, upon the certainty or probability of the continuance of peace with the debtor nation.

Also beides, ähm, freut mich sehr, ähm, dass wir hier oder dass ich so ein bisschen erzählen darf zu, zu, zu mir, zu unserer Firma, was wir und was wir bei uns, äh, so, so tun oder getan haben.

Das, äh, die letzte Zeit, ja, ich bin der Florian Stadler, bin sechsundvierzig, ähm, Jahre alt, ähm, gebürtig aus Bamberg in Deutschland und lebe jetzt das sechzehnte Jahr, äh, in der schönen Schweiz, davon immer im Kanton Bern und, ähm, genau, bin beruflich in das schöne Land hier gekommen und versuche, mich da auch stetig entsprechend weiterzuentwickeln.

Und, ähm, kannst du uns noch ein bisschen mehr zu, ähm, was macht Schenker Storen? Ähm, was ist dein Aufgabenbereich, ähm, dein, deine Abteilung und, ja, die gerade aktuell größten Themen, an dem du arbeitest?

Sehr gerne, ja.

Jean-Daniel also served as a political advisor to the prosecutor of the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia.

Uh, born in nineteen sixty-three in Moutier, Canton of Bern, Jean-Daniel studied international relations and international security in Geneva, and his book is Crimes, Hate and Tremors that came out in June of twenty twenty-four.

Jean-Daniel, um, I...

You know, it, it's interesting to me, after thousands of interviews, there are those when I do research and I, and I find immediately this is kind of the angle that I wanna ta-- I'm interested in, right? This might be my starting point.

And of course, without Switzerland, finally, after everybody else accepting to grant the right to vote to women, she managed to make a sort of a career in the service of our, of our small community here.

But maybe this is not the most important feature to explain why I became a diplomat and all that, and why I became interested in politics.

You have mentioned in your introduction that I was born in Moutier, Canton of Bern.

Now, on the first of January of this year, after two hundred and eleven years of fights, two hundred and eleven years, little city of Moutier became part of the Canton of Jura.

Her name was Elizabeth Oller.

She was born in 1848 in the Canton of Bern in Switzerland.

She was a little girl when her family crossed the ocean and settled in New Philadelphia, Ohio.

By the time she was 13, both of her parents were dead.