The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1897-09-25

quit their offices, service and dwellings,
because OF their language. Bohemian SEN
timent has been publicly Knocked ana
abused, and matters have gone so far
that Bohemian sermons have been for
hidden in the Bohemian churches. II Is
an incredible fact that people belonging
by birth to the great historical Bohemian
nation have been hunted out Of por-
ton OF the Kinkdom Of Bohemia. II can
be no surprise that the excitement which
has seized upon the Bohemian nation
can no longer be held in check"
CRAWLING AND RIOTING.
The newspapers, both German and
Czech, bring every day stories Of some
wretched brawl or semi-riot in this b.
hemian lingual war. In Reichenberg, a
large mining town, broken heads are OF
frequent report and these broken are for
the most part Germans. But the Bohe-
milan Uranium is just as likely TO be the
sufferer in the next village if the Ger
mans happen to have the advantage in
numbers. In Reichenberg the Germans
when in full authority refused 70 permit
inscriptions in Czech Bohemian TO be
chiselled upon the gravestones, and in
Prague, the capital Of the country, the
Czechs succeeded in erasing German in
scription from the monument Of Czech
national hero. In Prague / made the ac-
Quaintance Of very intelligent and Gull
tured Czech, whose children are not per-
mitted to learn even the rudiments OF
the German language. This seems the
heighth Of absurdity, but this ingua!
wsrfarehas developed fanatici1n that
resembles more than anything else the
religious feuds Of the Middle ages be-
tween Catholics and Professionals, though
In this case both parties are Catholics.
In some villages the German language Is
interdicted in the schools altogether. In
others the Bohemian Is tabooed. Yet
there are cases on record where the two
nationalities have agreed 20 live in har-
mony, and several Czech villages have
requested that the children be permitted
to receive instruction in German as well
as in Czech.
BOYOOTTING AS A FINE ART.
Let us glance at Saaz. There the Ger
man Ultras determined to boycott the
Capuchin monastry because the Capuch-
ms had dared TO give divine service IN
Bohemia. The Burgomaster called upon
the head of the Czech religious order for
an exDatloii, but this not being salts
factory TO him his German friends de-
termned to take desperate revenge-to
cut off mis- nose 10 spite his chin, as the
saying is. Attached to the monastry
there was a kind Of hosiery famous for
Its good wines, and this has been de-
sorted by the Burgomaster and his
friends and is now left in the Nocturnal
possession Of the Czech.. In Eyer quite
a desperate state Of affairs exists. There
the Czechs are using the boycott against
the Germans, refusing TO serve them in
and beer halls or TO rent
houses to them. One case IL recorded Of
a German official who has to walk sever
al miles a day 10 get his meals or go
hungry There is a little village called
Bohemia somewhere or other" says the
Godenbacner Zeitung. "Of late all these
seats and benches have been occupied
by the CZechs, to the exclusion Of the
Germans, who recently, however, rose up
in their wrath and drove the Czechs in
10 their homes. In the districts around
and about Eyer the CZechs are getting
much the worst Of it. Czech workmen
and servant girls are being dismissed by
the wholesale. Czech householders are
being given notice to quit in large num-
bers and Czech railroad officials have
found life unbearabel. so that they have
petitioned 60 be removed from Eyer TO
Zhechovein. 'Devoutly TO be hoped says
the illnatured Rumberge Zeitung, that
this request Will be granted, so that
eventually all Wenzelslausen Cousy Sain,
Wenzelians) be swept out of Eyer.
II is 4 monstrous condition Of affairs
that exists all through the prosperous
land of Bohemia. This condition is a nat
ural Jesuit, however, of the political de-
during thelast three decades
OF the Czechs as national power in the
of peoples that make up
the realm Of the HapSburgS