New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1899-05-12
AyT1-ROuAyISM IN AUSTRIA.

Religious agitation Is now added TO the racial
lingual and other clements OF poiitcai unles'
I'm Austria 1t Is conducted not AT all lor iai'i'
mr. for conscience sake. but purely as meane
70 a political end In that respect however
Is Inv no means unique In the hlStor! Vi ie
Ngious agitstlons, a large proportion Oh winch
have been polItica In origin and aim. WHAT Is
extraordinary about Il Is that II occurs i'll AUS
trla one of the very last countries IN WHICH
such q movement would be expected. Yet there
II ,s and In that ultra-conservauve' uiua-
Romanist country the cry of NO Popery Is
sounding in full vlgor, and people or all classes
ore renouncjng Catholicism by thousands anu
,,rorossIne the Evangelical Lutheran faith Inc
movement Is to be noticed In all parts or the
rmnjre. It is least strong in Vienna thoush
even there the propaganda Is openly MADE ana
many converts are announced. II Is most strong
in Bohemia. where 1t has attained the proper
,,ons of n revolution And it Is there that It's
po)itical character is most clearly ana most
mcnacingly revealed
The movement Ind its origin Just three
ronths oco. 1t grew directly out Of the con-
diets between the German and the Czech Gle
n,onts vhIrb have ragged so fercely in the
Reichsrath at Vienna for year or more. And
- founders
faction in those conflicts, Herren Wolf and
Schoenerer Those gentlemen were last year
foremost in the attacks on the Badeni Ministry.
When tie resOlute and somewhat ruthlcsS
Czech. Count Thun, became Prime Minister
they were Infatuated. and resolved upon tnis
extreme measure. They raised the cry OF
Away from Rome" and persuaded thousands
OF their fellow Germans especially IN boheiia'
49, tc N
that political emaDcipation-that is, uerinoh
nscendency over the Czechs--was 10 pe lounu
only in secession from the Roman Cathohc
Church and In utilization with the Lutheran
Fvanrellcnl II Is the latest and perhaps the
laEt move in the great struggle between Yer
msn and Czech FOR the control of the ancient
Kingdom of Bohemia, II not Of the whole
Cislcthan Empire.
Rut how will revolt from Rome promote the
German cause? The answer is easily found IN
tho words of Herren Wolf and Schoenerer
themselves They have openly declared their
intention of becoming subjects or the German
Empire. They make no secret OF the fhct 'h"t
tho movement Is not only away from Rome,
but IN eonsl measure toward Berlin Every con-
wort N Professionalism Is therefore presumably
IN favor NJ accession from Austria and annexa-
ton 70 Germany This is openly proclaimed
and while It causes much disQulet at Vienna II
excItes no surprise 1t does not provoke from
the .Czechs any denuncations OF German dls'
LOYALTY. for The good reason that the Czechs
themselves were first guilty of such move
ment. only theirs was, Of course. for union with
Russia. They openly threatened TO revolt and TO
appcal to the Car Cor aid and protection II they
were not allowed 10 rule their German fellow
subjects. Indeed, the Pan-Slav propaganda is
stiIl being pushed in Bohemia. AND II the Pan
Slav why not the PanGerman?
Tho attitude Of the German Government
toward the movement Is not yet disclosed
Many OF the dignltares Of the Lutheran Church
| In Prussia, and In Berlin itself. are openly sym
potnizing with and encouraging It, and the Gov
eminent has not rebuked them for so doing
But them they are, at least ostensibly, con
cerned with only its religious aspect. From one
point OF view II would be fine thing for Ger
many to acquire the great Kingdom OF Bc
hemIa and perhaps some other OF the com
ponent parts of the Austrian Empire. Yet from
another It would be most unfortunate for Ger
| many herself TO have the Austrian Empire
broken I'D. II would tremendously disturb the
balance o. power II would eliminate from the
Furopean problem the great composite factor
that has most powerfully made for peace. II
would remove the buffer State and give Ger
many far greater abutment upon Russia--S
thing not desired at Berlin. And 1t would hur
| into the international problem new ana un
known factor In the form Of the Kingdom OF
Hungary, freed from the controlling partner
ship of Austria. 1t is scarcely conceivable tha
the German Government wants such things u
happen. If 1t does not, II will not encourage the
anti-Roman movement In Austria; and II 1t vii
| not annex them the Germans will not seced'
from Austria. Meantime. pending some Gov