The Red Cloud chief., 1893-10-20
ifest to every sober minded mas that
revolution at this time, when Bohemia

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is girdtd with millions OF bay onets
and cannon, would DO a madnes,-a
leap in the dark. Instead Of anchor.
ating the condition Of the people, rev.
o%lut;on would only tighten their
chains. What course the Young
Chekhs must pursue in order to regain
our lost independence. is either to
unite join hands with clerical and
the historical nobility--and united
and seconded by the Other Slaves in
the psrl ament, there is no party strong
enough TO resist their just demands;
or they must remove the present cleo.
toral law and give one man one vote
and no more
The troubles in Bohemia are deep.
seated. They date from cur downfall
il the 18th century. Since that time
Bohemia has been cloven to death by
Hapsburgs. Fooled In their crime to
e x,c, inmate US as q race. the Haps-
burgs have missed no opportunity
since 1871 to strip us one by o Of
our constitutional liberties. Hatred
bears hatred and consequently every
Bohemian peasant regards the Haps
burgs as the a~rsh-enemies Of his coun.
try. How the present emperor loves
his Bohemian subjects, the following
incidents will show. During certain
riots which o Cured early in the sixties
Count Asrraoh went down to Vienna
to assure the emperor that Bohemian
nationalists lad nothing to do
with the riots ard that they were
organized by strikers who worked ftr
starvation wages. Before he could
finish his explanation, the emperor
said to him augrily, II want to hear
nothing ofthcse Bohemian hoodlums."
On another occasion, when Clam. Mar
tinic was pleading the cause Of b.
hemians at q private audience, the
emperor turned his back toward him
and looked indiffercntly out Of win.
dow.
Francis Joseph is the bane Of tho
Bohemian people, he is the cause Of
all their recent misfortuncs, and as
long a. he lives Or reigus they cannot
hope to recover their rights.
Frsncis Joseph has deprived the
people Of tho liberties which we're
granted them by his uncle, Ferdinand.
He has given constitutions to abrs.
gate them. He has made pledges to
his people in the hour Of need, and
when his people helped him, he disrs-
garded. He has increased the army
Of o~fice-holders and organized the
gendarmcs to sry and harrass the peo-
pic. He has msddlcd with European
sfairs without cause, arr sting the
progress Of his subjects at every step.
lie has increased the public debt
enormously bp useless wars. lie has
always chosen for counselors the most
inveicrate cncmi,s of the Bohemian
commonwealth, like b ich, Schucrling,
Msezcry, SC.
Oppresscr Of all notions, he especial
ly prosecuted the Bohemian people
One Of n greatest populists,
Charles Havlicek. was bounded to
death by him, scores Of patriots,
whose only crime consisted in loving
their u~ugrateful country too well.
were imprisoned, and those remaining
at liberty were placed under p;'ic. cs.
pionage. TO pass fer a Bohemian
amounted to treason at one tine. 10
publish Bohemian besks was prob bit
ed. During the reign Of Francis DO
seph onr children were being German.
lied, II youth we're taught 10 despise
their ancestors.
"Pay and be SILENT" Tat is the
motto Of The reienipg monarch.
For many decades the internal at
fairs OF Austria hays been 10 a terrible
state Of anarchy. One nationality j.
srrayed against the other in deadly
combat--the Magyars h~arrassing the
Slovaks, Croa,s and Roumeuians, tue \