Washington sentinel., 1899-01-14
THE CRISIS IN HUNGARY.

Excited accounts come from Budapest
representing the situation there to be
well nigh desperate. Perhaps the most
remarkable feature in the present phase
of the situation is that the opposition
have completely failed to spread the
agitation against the Government to the
provinces. The constituencies are quiet
and are likely to remain so, with few
Insignificant exceptions. Outside Bud
apest and one or two Of the large towns
the population is Indifferent to the
heated political strife in the capital.
The state oi affairs is such as to render all
attempts at prophecy absurd, but there
IS gOot reason to believe that the Crown
IS still unmoved in the determination
not to sacrifice the Cabinet to the
ianaticism Of the obstructive minority.
1t is possible that Baron Banlly may
resign office, but unless there be a
complete Tevulsion of opinion in high
quarters he is not likely 10 do so as long
as the opposition persists in its tactics
OF violent obstruction
The subJoined passage from the
austrian Protestant is now making the
rounds of the Clerical journals -"Let
us uniurl the banner of the German
Evangelical faith, that victorious
standard which sIavish fear, cowardlY
hesitation, and a false couce )tion OF
patriotism have taken down. five face
the ranks ofthe hesitating and irresolute
with the manly intrepidItY of Luther
and the Reformers, giving expression
to the sentiments with which cur hearts
are filled, we must succeed"
Referring to the foregoing challenge,
one Of the leading provincial Clerical
organs. the LINER IokF5blaH, observes.
Those Protestant circles which nave
so eagerly seized the German Radical
bait appear to overlook the fact that
the y are on the point Of incitiEg a war
OF religion, the development Of which it
is impossible to foresee. 1t is to be
hoped that the more judicious section
OF the Protestant community will sue
ceed in bringing their excited fellow
worshippers to reason. For the moment,
at least, we Catholics have also 70 be
reckoned with, and IN case Of necessity
we would not hesitate to make our
presence felt. Moreover, Austrian
PrOtestants ought to be shrewd enough
to recoe uize that the German Radicals
who are so anxious TO renounce their
own religion have as little respect and
attachment for the Evangelical faith as
they have for the Catholic Church.
Their aims are Of quite q different kind.
Under the pretext Of an agitation in
favor OF Professionalism they desire to
entice the Germans of the Empire and
foreign Protestants m general into
making large pecuniary contributions
for the promotion of their own political
ends. Thus far the result Of their efforts
would appear to have been encouraging.
They therefore continue zealOuslv 10
exploit the shoTtsIghteduess Of Protest.
ants and their aversion 20 the Catholic
Church In our opinion, to which we
have given frequent expression,
considerable quantity Of PrussIan money
is in circulation in Austria at the present
time. The German Radicals, however,
seem to consider that the supply is still
too limited"
One Of the Czech organs inquiries, #
Protestantism be stamped as 'the Ger
man national religion" what is the
position of the Slav, and particularly Of
the Bohemian Protestants2 What have
they to do with German national
church,