St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1892-10-23
KOSSUTH AT NINETY.
He predicts That america Will
Rule the World in the Next Cen
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He Predicts That America Will
Rule the World in the Next Cen
fury.
st. Louis Star Sayings.
Kossuth is tolerably hale and hearty
for man of his years. Little over the
medium height, his frame in his younger
days must have been why and athletic.
His eyes grow very large and lustrous
when in conversation he discusses anv
topic which particularly interests him;
but in his moments OF silence and medi-
tation they have a far-away, melancholy
look, which warrants one in believing
that the great Hungarian patriot regrets
that he is about to die without seeing
the dazzling dream of his life realized.
When l asked him, says a Boston
Transcript correspondent, if he be-
leved in the durability of the Austrian
empire, the old man shook his head in
the negative and said:
1.-The Austrian empire cannot hold to-
gether for more than another genera
ton. 1t is made cup OF the most conflict
ing elements. Races and religions of
different kinds, and habits and customs
of a diametricallv opposite character
can no more be blent in one than can
oil and water. We have. for instance,
the duh. plodding. phlegmatic German
Austrian, who sees his only patch of
paradise in the smoke of the pipe he
smokes ana the blond color of the lager
that he drinks; the Tcheck, who is hot
headed and enthusiastic; the Bohemian,
who is careless, devil-may-care fellow,
and the hungarian, who shares few
of the qualities of the others. but who
is, nevertheless. as distinct from any of
them as chalk is from cheese. Believe
me, the Austrian empire will fall one
day, like the old Roman empire, to
pieces"
land what to your mind will come in
for lis spoilS?"
Hungary, whose population is mostly
of Magyar blood, with a pretty fair in
fusion of Servian and Slovenian, w1ll,o
course, throw off the Hapsburg yoke
and form itself into an Independent re-
public. Bohemia and Tchegueland will
follow suit, while Austrian Germany will
naturally become part and parcel of the
great German empire"
''DO you believe that republicanlsm is
making serious Roadway In Europe?'
Certainly, l do. France has now
made up her mind to Iemain republic
for all time. Switzerland has been re-
public from almost time immemorial.
Spain and Portugal will vet form all
Iberian republic. Italy will soon rid
herself of the Savoy dynasty. for Cava-
lotti and his republicans are becoming
more and more powerful in this PENN
sula. AS for England, the radical ele-
ment in that country will eventually
put the Guelphs Oh the shelf"
Asked for his opinion of America and
the Americans, Kossuth said: Il be-
lieve that the onward march of human
ity is toward the West. The United
States in the twentieth century will
practically rule the world-not in the
political, but moral sense of that term.
The Americans themselves are a Won
derfully progressive people, and if the
millennium should ever come they GER
tainly will be the first to reach it."
The old mans eyes sparKled with
lambent fire while he spoke thus. He
expressed himself in the purest French,
interpolated with an odd sentence or
two in English. In conclusion it need
only be added that despite several
drawbacks in his character his chival-
rous instincts, his career of self-sacrifce
and answering loyalty to the land of
mis- birth make him one of the most
unique and interesting figures in mod
ern history.