Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1894-12-19
KOSSUTH'S GOOD WORN.
The Cause He L ,bored Tor Ia Now
Substantially Achieved
Some of the Striking Incidents of the
Hungarian Patriots Trouhloss
Career--uis Death In Vol
untary Exile

The news OF Kossuth's death has
brought back to us memories of whit
is now almost hazy past. Those
among us whose hair Is gray still re
member the appearance on these
shores of the man who, To our imagina-
ton, was the hero of q grand romance.
And q romantic hero, he was, indeed.
says Ilarper's Weekly, the mott roman
tic by for of all those made famous by
the revolutionary movements which
shook the European continent Ia the
years Of ls4S and lSio Nothing seemed
to withstand his marvellous cloquencc,
adorned with the luxuriancc OF almost
oriental imagery and inspired by
high aims. But these aims were also
essentially romantic. lie sought to
raise the Hungarians-a remnant
comparatively small In numbers, OF
Asiatfc ri s-ntion that had flooded
Europe in the dark ages--to the posi-
ton of IN entirely independent power
"a conception the realization of which
could appear probable only Mt q timo
when the imagination of men waa
heated by the revolutionary upheavals
Of ls4s, which brought forth events SO
unexpected and seemed to expunge the
word Impossible" from the dictiou.
AIRY.
1t was not the conception of calm.
ly calculating statesman, but rather
that of an ardent patriot who was ut
the same time a poet. And Kossuth's
nature was essentially poetic.
Paradoxical as II may sound, hia
cause would have been lost oven IL II
had won in the heroic struggle of lS4o
Tallcyrand is credited with the oracu-
lar saying that If the Australian en-
pire did not exist it would have to be
Invented. Old cynic as he was he had
shrewd political ideas and frequently
told the truth. The Austrian empire
as a cong)omeration OF different ma
tionalities which are not only not
friendly but in great measure hos
tile to one another, appears like mon
strous contrivanee. 1t seems almost
always on the point of flying TO picces
and dissolving itself into its constitu-
ent elements, but q look nt the map
will convince any thinking man that
the nntionalities living rndc, the Aus
trian crown In the great valley of the
Danube and its tributaries have enough
union under one general government
desirable If not necessary,
After bloody vengeance taken for the
instruction, and an attempt at severe
~ centralized rule, the Austrian gov
eminent found 1t wise to restore to
Hungary such a measure of indepen-
dent administration as would befit a
member of confederacy. and n COM
panion of Kossuth in the revolutionary
war, Count Andrassy, was for many
years the leading minister of the Aus-
trian empire.
Had Kossuth succeeded in making
Hungary an independent nation as ho
conceived it, it would, in spite of tho
brightness, generosity and heroism Of
the Magyar race, have been weak lit
tie state, torn by internal race conflicts.
insignificant in tho councils of nations.
and con stantly threatened by its neigh
bors. The independent hungary he
rejected is q substantially self-govern-
ing and most influential part of one of
the great powers of the world. But
DIS STUBBORN COHSlSltuCJ - %Su INC To-
nance of his life.
1t has not infrequently happened in
the history of the world that the
champions of great objects died as dis
appointed men, because those objects,
although accomplished in substance.
were not accomplished in the manner
the original champions had designed.
Mazzini had lived for the uni6cation
of Italy, and he died in gloom and de-
spondency because Italy was united
under king of the house of Savoy.
The German revolntionists of 1s4s
fought for united Germany, and thoy
lived to see Germany united under the
same men against whom they had
fought in 1s4S. And now Kossuth has
died in voluntary exile, refusing TO
recognize his independent Hungary
because it's independent government
recognized q Hapsburg as its king.
Still, he is and deserves to be, revered
above ell others as the hero of his m