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pean State to govern well and to keep
in peace and order is the Empire OF
a-Hungary. The reason for
this is clear. The Empire is composed
of number of ancient kingdoms.
duchies and principalities, inhabited
by different and rival races, which
have interests often conflicting with
each other, and which are only kept.
together because they are ruled over
by the same sovereign.
Less is said in the daily newspapers
of AUSTRIA Hungary than OF its neigh
bors OF equal rank, yet it's history
from year to year is peculiarly inter
esting to observe and study.
Its form of government is very in
tricate and complex. The Empire is,
first, divided into two great King
doms.-Austria proper and Hungary,
each OF which has it's own Parlia-
ment, its own ministry, and control
over it's own local affairs, and in these
senses, therefore, is independent of the
other.
When the sovereign is crowned EN-
peror of Austria at Vienna, he also re-
pairs to Pesth, the Hungarian CAPT.
| tai, and is there crowned King of Hun
gary, to show that Hungary is g. sep
arate Kingdom.
But the two Kingdoms are subdivid-
ed into q number OF lesser States,
which, in their turn, enjoy a certain
degree of local government The
most important of these lesser States
are Bohemia, Moravia, the Tyrol, Sill
esia and Galicia.
The two Kingdoms are, moreover,
under one general imperial govern
ment, with legislative body called
"the Delegations, chosen one-half by
the parliament of each Kingdom, and
with three ministers, OF war, foreign
affairs and finance respectively, the
chief of whom ls the Chancellor of the
Empire.
The duty OF this central government
ID simply to guard the interests OF the
two Kingdoms as they exist in COM
| mon.
But the fact that the Empire con-
tains three leading, separate and rival
races gives rise to frequent dangers,
, and keeps it continually in political
unrest.
These three leading races are the
Germans OF Austria proper, the Mag
vars OF Hungary, and the Czechs a.
branch of the Sclavonic race) of Bo-
hemia and Moravia.
The recent politics of Austria Hun
gary have turned on the demand of
large party of the Bohemians that
that portion OF the Empire should be-
made, like Hungary, separate and
elf-governlng Kingdom, with minis
try, parliament, and the right to
make local laws.
The Czech" party, representing
the Emperor should be crowned
King Of Bohemia at Prague (the capi-
tai OF Bohemia), as he already is
crowned King OF Hungary at Pesth.
But these demands have always
been earnestly resisted by the German
element OF the Empire, and less stren-
uously by the Hungarians.
The present Austrian Ministry, how.
ever, at the head of which is Count
Taaffe, has long been trying to make
a compromise with the Bohemian
Czechs; and while not yielding to their
extreme demands, has been willing to
give them larger rights of local gov
ernment, to allow the official use OF
the Czech language, and to establish
separate schools for the Czechs.
These offers have failed to satisfy
the extreme party in Bohemia, and
Count Taaffe seems now to haveglven
up the attempt to satisfy them.
On January Twenty-sixth he dissol
we'd the Austrian Reichsrath, or Par
lament, and the elections for the new
legislature will take place in the mid
die of March. Upon theresult of these
elections will depend the continuance
of the effort to conciliate Bohemia, or
the return to the former Austrian pol
icy of relyingupon the German element
to MAINTAIN the government OF the
Austrian Empire, without making any
large concessions tQ the disconnected
race.
These facts serve to illustrate the
great difficulty which Austrian states
men have in keeping the various races
in the Empire in tranquility and ord
er.