New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1902-09-14

called CroatS there are at the present moment
in the United States. In Pennsylvania alone
they number considerably over 100000, most OF
them being affiliated with the labor union at
Pfttsburg above mentioned, which has branches
and agents throughout the mining and Oil field
districts. In Illinois, Iowa and Michigan there
are at least a couple of hundred thousand more
is difficult obtain definite statistics about
the matter except through the immigration au-
thoritieS at Ellis Island. For the Austro- HUN
garian Government disCountenanCes to such an
extent the emigration OF its citizens ana puts
SO many obstacles in the way or their lea'ihs
the land of their birth that when they reacn
this country they a general rule careful
to avoid their consular officials, feeling That
they have acted III coming to America contrary
10 the wishes of their monarch ana nave con
sequently lutte to expect from his representa-
tives. True. the latter are ready To support the
emigrants from Austria Hungary TO the pest
of their power but they are seldom appealed to-
just because the immigrants feel themselves
rerniss and there are no foreign Consulates in
the United States that so seldom called upon
to pay for the repatriation OF their fellow couh-
trymen who have fallen by the wayside over
here those of Austria Hungary
Then. too, the major portion OF the 1mml-
grants who enter the United States under the
generic denomination of "Croats. and who COM
prise Dalmatians Istrians Carnolians, SERBS
and Slavonians, Iterate. and IN conse-
quence thereof experience considerable dlfhculty
in acquiring American cltlz' nshp lhoeSu'
there whole communities OF them IN tne
mining districts of Pennsylvania VINO not only
never learn to read or write. but actually nFe
English language. SO that the only means OF
keeping track of them in any way is through
the labor unions 10 which they belong ana
through their clergy. The latter are dispatched
to this country by the primate and religious or
ders of Croatia, Independently or the Austro-
Hungarian Government, and they. too, as d
rule, by reason of the remoteness OF their neluS
OF labor from the cities in which are located the
Austro- Hungarian consuates, rarely come INTO
contact with the latter, In this they differ from
the priests of the so-called Greek rite. For the
latter, who are supposed to look after the splr-
ltual welfare of the Serbian element of the
Croatian immigration, are suspected, not with
out good reason, of pursuing pan-Slavist prop
uganda on behalf of Russia among the flock,
under the direction of the agents of the Musco-
Vite government here and of endeavoring not
only TO convert the Croatian Catholics to the
Greek Church but likewise to induce them to
look upon the Car both their spiritual and
temporal protector and sovereign.
With regard to Croatia itself, it is autono-
IL mas its separate Diet, is represented In both
houses Of the Hungarian Legislature and has at
ITS mead Governor, Banus, VINO although
the representative of the Emperor. is nominated
by the Hungarian Government and subject to
the latter. This subsection to Hungary is a
source Of bitter discomfort on the part of the
Croatians, who, like the CZechs of Bohemia
are anxious for far greater degree of home
rule than that which they now enjoy. and yearn
for the restoration of the old kingdom of Croa-
tia. with Emperor Francis Joseph their King.
and bound only to the remaining portions of his
empire by dynastic ties. This feeling is not al
together unnatural, when the fact is recalled
that at the time of the Hungarian insurrectlon
in 1S49, the Croatians under their ban. JeIlalich
marched against the rebels and contributed so
largely TO the suppression Of the revolutionary
that for their services Austria de-
clared Croatia Independent of Hungary When
however, twelve years later, the policy of Aus
trl6 toward Hungary was changed. and the
Ma gyars, thanks to Deak Tisza Andrassy and
other patriots, recovered not only their auton-
omy, but likewise national constitution dis
tinct from that of Austria. Croatia was in spite
Of the protests OF its population once more in
in the reconstructed kingdom of Hun
gary. in pursuance of the policy of Austria to
IN every manner possible the Magyar
nation
The Hungarian Government is keenlv alive
10 this nationalist spirit. which prevails through
out Croatia, and seeks by every means in its
power to suppress it. Indeed, its rule of Croa-
tia is to say the least. strict. There is only
little endeavor to conciliate the Croatian and
On the least prstext, such any conflict be- !
tween rival factions Of Croatians or between |
The Croatians and Serbs. military law with all /
The seventies which that expression implies ia /
At once proclaimed by order from BUDAPEST
n the district where the trouble has taken |
place 1t is hardly necessary to say that the
-,roatians have plenty of differences among |
hemselyes There are. for instance the Croats |
proper who divided into at least four polit-