New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1895-08-10
THREATENS A USTRIAN UNITY.
TROOPS ARE CALLED UPON TO QUELL A
MOB IN EsSEG.
CLIMAX OF A LONG SERIES OF RACE WARS IN
DIFFERENT PARTS OF THE EMPIRE-do'-
ERNMENT's POLICY OF CENIfAhi""

ERNMENTs POLICY OF CENTRALl|A-
T1oN FAILURE.
Vienna Aug a-Serious riots have occurred our
ing the last few days at Esseg the chiei Town "
Slavonia the Slav inhabitants Of the town "'s'''s
to stop the performance Of company OF huis' '"'
actors. Last evening mob attacked the auu,". Ns
as the latter were leaving the theatre ana pei'eu
them with rotten eggs and fruit. The mon theh
wrecked the Hungarian casino. The authori.'es
called on the military for assistance TO restore orue
the police being unequal to the task The troops "e'e
promptly sent TO the scene OF the rioung anu oiu.
were given for the mob to disperse. NO at'en.'o"
was paid to the orders and the military r .ns,
charged the rioters with fixed bayonets severn ,h
persons in the mob were wounded SOME u ''
ringleaders were arrested.
The national or ''particularist." as they say III
Germany. character OF the Esseg riot VIII increase
the fears OF the Austrian patriots In regaru u ~
maintenance OF the unity OF the Empire IL co'nes
upon the heels OF the violent protests OF the CZec"s
in Bohemia the Rumanians In TransylVahla' "'e
Italians In Istria and OF other natonaites "h'e"
the patient diplomacy OF the Vienna HoVe'hi'e"
has succeeded in keeping under the same 7oep''e
The Hapsburg Emperors had seen their khs"o'i s
cess,vely enlarged. not by conquest but mainly py
the results of matrimonial alliances as indicated ~
tho famous saving: "Et tn Felix Austria nube.
They had grouped into a sort Of imperial federdt'on
all the different peoples. which formed h'Au "
Kaleidoscope of nationalities. and promised 'hei"
customs and manners. But they were soon SUI"
ieced TO a system of centralizaton highly dispieas
ing to the annexed nations. Resistance 10 that s!s
TEN began in Hungary in 1si9 and that country.
though crushed and subdued promptly secuieu
finally its autonomy, after Austria had peeh ue
feated at Sadowa in 1866.
The Old historical Empire was then diVlueu' az"
some of the provinces abandoned 70 duhsi
utb which they had no national aih.,dtio''
than with Austria proper. The Hungarlans, lol
ting the origin and OF their own einanSpa,
tor have not sufficiently respected the u ia nd
asnirations of the Croatans, Transyiv 900 ao 90
other people whom they governed ne S'S,v y,'o
Rumanans of Transyvania were forDidneh ~ na ~
school teaching in their language, anu te a,
cent state trials at K,ausenburg and HermaIslau'
have shown the extent Of their oppression: hean
whie the Italians OF Isria have resorted 70 rio.s
as well as the Siavs and Sovenes OF Croa.la an an
SiavonIa in order to defend the bits OF autonomy
which had been left them. either by the vienna o
bv the Budapest Government In the hua.i,t" aii,u
nrovnces OF Slav Soven. or ltanan hatonaI,ty'
the dqht has been mainly directed against the Ger
man element and the German oficiais, az Powerit4
in the Imperial Council. The same kind OF opposl5
ton was and is still prevalent in Bohemia; anu
quite recently there an animated dscussio. II, u,
the Reichsrath Of Vienna on account OF gran. VI
,nonev 10 a gymnasium at CHI. where the Aus'ro
German deputies did not want 10 nave II p.scsu
under the direction OF the native teachers ne
nredominance of the German Liberals at vienna
tbrow NJ the Plener- -Windischgraetz Cabinet and
,urhu,ent dispositions OF the Bohemians nave peen
assuaged But the Budapest Government mas not
changed its policy toward the several dinerent ma
tionaiites submitted to its rule. ana TINS explains
the riot at Essey. in S.avonia.