The age-herald., 1898-04-24

the press was unknown. and political news papers were a myth. Social and literary questions could only be preached with the greatest preoaution and in the proposal to. 1 form an academy of science in Vienna the word history had perforce to be omitted, l lest it should clash with monarehial sus- ceutibilitfes. The system of oppression ex- 1 tended itself to literature. The most inno- I cent works were placed under the ban of | the public censor, books from abroad were l prohibited, and shops and warehouses ruthlessly searched for Illegal" goods. 1 The public had little or no voice in the city i councils, the cry of the poor poor and the l thousands of unemployed went unheard, | until there came the counter-cry of "the 1 city for the people," followed by an cleo 1 tion of a corporation modelled on that of 1 the Lombardian council.
 l From an inner and limited political move
 ment 1t was not long before the influence 1 of Paris had made itself felt throughout
 Austria and Germany, and the public had
 recognized in all it's magnitude what they 1 had missed as a nation in their hitherto l blind devotion to a tottering monarchial I and feudal system. Only few thought or substituting a republic But the French I revolution had the effect in South Germany of rousing the peoplpe to acquire by force l the constitution which they needed limi- I tation of the power of the petty princes and | the representation of the massaS in parlia- | ment. Above all, there was awakened the
 old imperishable desire to see united Ger
 many, either in the form of a great repup7 l lican state, or, as at present, united eTn-. pire. Those were not the days of Prussia'S l undisputed might, and her claims to leader- 1 ship of the proposed united Deuchsthum were divided with Austria. But on one 1 point the German mind was unanimous. l there must be a common parliament, whose 1 members should be elected by universal sui | frage. Tn Vienna the movement for reform l commenced with a perceptible fermentation l among the students and working classes, l the latter being, without doubt, worked up
 by foreign agitation. A rise in the price of l meat, the universal poverty, and the l wreched social conditions, generally facil- itated the work of the agitator The peo- 1 pie became threatening, and during the | progress of a ball at a rick Jewish bankers l the ominous cry was heard from the street, l "One should not dance while the people are without meat"
 | On March 13 the revolution broke out The students marched in body to the l Landhaus and demanded, among other ' things, liberty of the press, the abolition of restrictions on knowledge, the right of as- sembly, a national parliament with re- | sponsible ministers, and trial by jury. Dep l utations proceeded to the palace to gain the l ear of the emperor and his crimnally ,re- l sponsible minister, Prince Metternich The | government had had ample time to be pre- | pared. Foreign dip,omatists had warned | their respective governments week be- l forehand, but Metternich coolly resumed 1 his whist-playing whenever anybody ven- tured to hint at the coming storm The. l police minister, Count Sedenitzky, consid- l cred that he had done enough by slightly l increasing the number of secret agents. It l was not until late in the afternoon that | battalion of Hungarian Grenadiers was dis l patched to clear the streets. The students | and workmen attacked; the soldiers replied l with ball, and the first martyrs in the l cause of freedom, including Jew, bit the l dust The demonstrations included at it's l preliminary stage many of the better l classes that waggsh chroncler of the l time described it as a revolution in fine | linen and kid gloves"
 | On that day sprang once more into being | the national guard, or Burgermilitar, which | had held privileges since the great Turkish l invasion. The guard had the right to as- l sume arms on all great public occasions. l It's officers consisted of rich burgers who l purchased their commissions, had the en- l tree to court, and wore the golden porte l epee.i The mayor was the colonel of the l corps Thousands of all classes and condi- l tons flocked into the ranks of this, the odd l est and most composite body in the world; 1 indeed, it provided rare material for tte l cartoonist and grotesque humorist of the l day. In the evening the mob, infuriated by l the treacherous action of the soldiery, ! broke into open anarchy and burned and plundered wherever they could. The next 1 day the revolutionists had obtained certain l empty promises, and the kaiser, as he 1 drove through the streets, was received with exclamation. ., l The public however had been armed l from the arsenal, and state of siege was l proclaimed, with Prince Windischgratz as l civil and military governor of Vienna. l Three days after the same tragedy had l been enacted in the streets of Berlin, and l tn propaganda of the international revolu- l bad yai a fOOtipp in hOth l the German capitals.
 l By May the citizens saw for the first l time for 300 years popularly elected Vii | enna corporation. But other demands | forced themselves into the foreground l constitutional freedom, liberty of the press and the elections of the Pan-Germanic l parliament. to meet in Frankfort The l working classes, too, clamored for redress and the social disturbances continued. The l first great concession was the overthrow of l the Metternich, who fled to England, and l the removal of the court to Innspruek. The attempt of the government to dissolve the l Academic Legion led to the erection of l baricades and more bloodshed, until the city was finally in the hands of the people, l An army was raised in order to recap l ture the city, and, the proffered Hungarian l assistance being rendered out of the ques- l ton by the defeat of the Hungarlans at | Schwechat. the fall of Vienna was only l question of time. The government took l fearful revenge. Men of rank and learn- l ing were given short shrift, and hanged or l imprisoned. But the revolutionists had not | spent their blood in van Kaiser Francis | the victim of the unwise counsels, wisely l refrained from resisting the spirit of the l times with which he was never in sympa- l thy and abdicated. On December 2, 1S48 l Francis Joseph I. ascended the vacant 1 throne with the avowed task before him of
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