Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1900-04-07
THE ENFORCEMENT OF AUSTRIA.

THE ENFORCEMENT OF AUSTRIA.
IT was the same in Germany as long
as Austria formed a part OF the Teutonic
confederation. Her rival. Prussia. made
what grangers call Intensive farming"
by energy. intelligence and superior tao
tics, but had to stagger along the path
OF progress like Sinbad the Sailor, en-
numbered with the Old Man of the Sea.
To tighten the load Frederick the Great
knocked the dust out of his incubus. but
got himself SO battered In the scuffie tina
the doctors bills absorbed half the rev.
snue or the next twenty years. At the
outbreak Of the French revolution the
" rivals were still black with sticking.
piasters, and both went down like Grip
pies before the s~ledge-hammer blows OF
the Gorslcan Titan. The Holy Alliance"
q holy terror to taxpayers, effected a few
years truce, out before the death OF the
First Napoleon Viennaaand Berlin were
at daggers drawn again. and. their rem
fesentatives at the Federal Diet made it
a rule to thwart each other, with or
without the pretext of conflicting inter-
esta: To progressive statesmen of the
nortnern section the weight Of the handi-
cap was finally becoming unbearable.
ane mere Is a strong probability. that in
stein 1mbroglio for the. deliberate pur-
pose OF picking a quarrel with Austria.
ninging her bodily across the fence
or the Bund.
The experiment succeeded, and within
four years Prussia had SO strengthened
ner dlsencumbered arms that she could
knock France out of time in a rush and
floor the intriguing Guelphs with a side
blow.
BENEFITS OF THE SEPARATION.
And more noteworthy yet austria her.
self prof1ted by being enabled, Or rather
nnInnn1JAd ~ nrI = 1~~ ~-.,- y
her financial status improved, and her
army. once the punching bag of every
military pugllist. is now reorganized suf-
nciently to hold the passes Of Eastern
Europe against the legions of the de-
Vouring Russ.
Her great difficulty is the heterogen-
eous composition of her. remaining pop-
ulation. The Austro-Italian provinces
never paid the expenses of administra-
ton; for every penny OF collected taxes
the suppression of the everlasting revolts
cost a dollar or two, and the transfer of
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS was emphatically a
good riddance. But the remaining 49,
O0o. 900 inhabitants OF the empire still
comprise eleven different nationalities
and about as many Reichstag factions.
bantering, bullying, ~denouncing and ev-
cry now and then even. kicking and clap
per-claWing each other.
Just now the main bond of union ia
the personal Influence OF a venerable
ruler. whose death will probably be
speedily followed by the birthday Of half
a dozen independent states. But here.
TOO. a part viii, in one instance, at least.
outweigh the mass of the whole, and a
completely independent kingdom of the
valiant Magyars will prove as invincible
as self-reliant Sweden in the Thirty
Years War.
The Austrian monarchy. however. may
get m~etamOrphosed into an Austrian cor
"Danubian") confederation. with as
many different capitals as the great re-
T1lhIio H1r3Coo1ln3 Ito E0~3Af-l -..9-
Home rule in Bohemia may mean the
expulsion Of. all German residents, and
the old Austrian crownlands may recip-
rocate the courtesy, but, on the whole.
the game-park. Of a new Bund far more
amicably than in the menagerie cage or
q paternal monarchy.
cisco, the Hannibal Of the Hussites.
had, indeed. no doubt that an army Of
Bohemian peasants THE s~toutest in Eu-
rOpe) could hold it's own against all COM
ers, and a republic or the Czechs might
! thoroughly rid itself of the leading
strings OF its Vienna ~pedagOgues.
FINLAND'S UNHAPPY FIX.
For poor, bullied Finland there is no
visible hope of that kind. Russia, with
all her Zoo of mutinous captives, has the
advantage OF an enormous homogeneous
population. Some 65, 900, 600 of them pure
East Slavonians, and Is. OOO,O 900 of the rest
more than half-assimilated West Slays.
With a bear-force of that strength, the
fur-clad autocrat can crush a revolt OF
Calmuck Tartars as. the Caesars STAMPED
out an Instruction of Hebrew malcon-
tents, and the only explosive mixture
that could shatter the organism of the
Colossus would be a combination or
Eastern and Western Mussulmans. All
In all the car now governs $4,000 follow
ers of Mohammed, some of them as war;
like. as the Circassians that deied the
military levies Of all Muscovy for more
than sixty years.
The next D%anubian campaign might
d 5000, 900 Turks, and, together. with
the menaced natives of A~fghanistan.
these allied Unitarians might effect an
Asiatic declaration of independence.
But a confederation, of that sort re.
quires intelligence, and Russia has the
additional advantage of being a SEMI
barbarous state. Her p%rocurator of the
| Holy Synod. wrote a treatise for the
special purpose of refuting the heresy
that the purnose Of government is the
greatest possible happiness of the great
est num1er, AID the cars dread of ed
vocational reforms resembles the precau-
ton OF an Oriental polygamist, wins
guards his gates against book peddlers
or prefers to monopolize. his library from
a shrewd suspicion that the intellectual
emancipation of his harem slaves might
lead to a demand for divorce.
THEIR QUEUES.
The following gives the origin of the