The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1897-12-01

sin cerely sympathlzed with him in all
his SORROWS. But the Emperor is now
old, even more so in body than in years !;
and what is to ensue in the empire when
he dies or when the passions of tie
natlonal!'les assume more serious as
pect, as is indicated at the present time?
The helr-apparent is o sick man and Is
led entirely by Influences not popu ar in
the State. In case Francis Ferdinand
should die, abdicate or be otherwise dis
posed oil. matters would be still worse, ior
his brothers would then be next in success
sion, and these young fellows have always
led such a disgraceful lite that they are
despised by ali mankind-even by their
own families. There has been some talk
OF revlving the pragmatic sanction, so
that ArchduChess Elizabeth, the daGg hter
of the late Crown Prince, could succeed TO
the throne; but there are almost unsur,
mountable difficulties in the way, and
even if ii could be accomplished the people
would not tie satisfied, for the times OF
Maria Theresa are past and a solution of
the dilemma could not be found in such a
proceeding.
Adv ces Just received from Austria lead
us to suppose that the ties between people
and Government, as well as the ties
which though loosely. still to some ex-
tent exist between the different nation
alitIes, are on the very point of being
snapped asunder. Without attaching e any
undue Importance to the boylsh and
scand alous scenes recently enacted in the
Reichsrath, they must still be considered
as furnishing a good illustration OF the
feeling OF the people. If only the men,
bers of the Reichsrath would quarrel
among themselves and call each other
names not fit to be heard outside of the
slums, no great harm would be done, but
the trouble is that the antagoniStic nation
alities are promoting discord in all parts
OF the empire and seem even more eager
to cause a rupture than the representa-
tives they have sent TO Vienna.
During the last five weeks attacks OF the
Czechist students and mobs on Germans
in Bohemia, Moravia and those parts of
the Alpine provinces populated by Slavs
have occurred almost every day. Secret
societies are being formed with alarm in q
rapldity, the Jew batting in Upper and
Lower Austria, in Styria and CorInthia is
resumed with unusual vlgor, and the
Anti Semitic party, with the Schoenerer
group Ito which the Iatelv much but not
favorably talked-o of DR.. Wolff belongs), is
becoming more powerful and aggressive
than it ever was before. The Czechs are
intriguing with Russia and France against
Austria, or at least against the German
element in the country, and the Hun
garians will have rothing 10 do with
either the Germans or the Slavs or the
Poles. More threatening 10 the security
of the pire is the tendency of the Ger
man National party, of the students and
of many OF the turner and singing socie-
ties 10 make covert oveItures in favor of
the German empire whenever an oppor-
tunity presents itself.
The most surprising and at the same
time most alarming feature of all these
affairs is that they are enacted by the edu-
Gated classes. Country people take part
in them only in so far as they are led 10 it
by agitators, while the mobs in the cities
participate in them as they would in any
thing that tended TO satisfy their appetite
for riotous and disorderly conduct. So
far The Government has been sble to sup
press all aggressions before they acquire
consi dera BILE dimensions, AID every thing
is done TO keep matters from be-