New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1881-10-12
NETWORK DAILY TRIBUNE WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER H. 1884,

and St. Petersburg, and had been influential il
shaping two great charters of European peace
the Treaties of Prague and Berlin. The posi-
which he finally occupied is Premiership only
in name. Each half of the Empire has its OWL
Premier, Ministry and Legislature, and the com
mon or joint Ministry embraces the three depart
ments of Foreign Affairs, War and Finance
whose heads are responsible to the delegations
elected by the Austrian and Hungarian Legis-
latures The Minister of Foreign Affairs for
the whole Empire is the practical administrator
who reg lates all the political apparatus of
Diets, Parliaments, parties, Ministers and dele
cations, and keeps it so nicely adjusted that tine
court can be brought into harmonious relations
with it. There is no position in the European
official world where tact, Cancellation, judg-
mcnt, experience and self-pOssesSon are so in
dispensable. All these qualities Baron Hay
merle possessed, and it will not be easy to find
his successor.
1t is remarkable fact that Of the three Min
listers of Foreign Affairs for the whole Empire
who have held Office since the compromise OF
1867 went into effect, one has been foreigner,
another political refugee, and the third reV0-
lutionist whose life was spared at the entreaty
Of family friend. The harassed sovereign who
after SadOwa had ntIusted a Saxon statesman
with the responsible duty of reinvigOrating the
Empire by reducing Deaks conception OF
Dual>m to Il political system, named ITS his
successors AndraSsy, who had once been in
exile, and IIaymcrlr, who in the frenzy OF the
revolutionary movement OF lSl9 TOOK arms
AGAINST the Government and was condemned to
bc shot rs "a common rebel. In Ike manner
Szlavy, one of IIaymcrlc'S associates IN the JOINT
Ministry, served under koSsuth and was con-
dnmncd to five years Imprisonment, The en-
plovmcnt of these once disloyal subjects under
the system introduced by a foreigner attcSts
the practical wisdom of u sovereign VINO mas
learned to adj ISt his policy to the political con-
ditions of his Empire. Af.er the collapse OF the
revolutionary movements of 1913 he suffered
the Camaulla to direct his policy. Ten years
of sterile ab,olutism followed. Villa Franco
marked the failure Of the teaurorratIc system
and the close of the rcactiOnary period. Stag
nation ana inaction gave place to Schmerlin@
obstructive ccntralsm, a scheme which fired
the enthusiasm of the great body Of Germans in
the Empire, but repealed MdgyarS and Slays.
Sadowa brought this transition period to an
end, and a new departure was inevitable. The
compromise of 1867 was the work of the domi-
nant races of the two KinglomS-the Magyars
with their. ancient traditions, and the Germans
with their new Liberalism. AndraSsy and
Szlavy represented race which had triumphed
after twenty years Of passive resistance, and
Haymcrle the political unrest OF the educated
Vicuncsc and the Emperor was thoroughly
consistent in ayailiug himself of their services
under system which he had accepted as the
only practical solution for the internal Difficult
ties of his two Kingdoms.