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

ing to be IN position to impose their demand:
for complete autonomy both at Budapest ana at
Vienna For the present the Slavs of Bohemia
and the Slavs of Croatia are far apart Ihere
is, indeed, only one power that ever expects 10
unite them for purposes OF her own, ana that IS
Russia, who has the agents of the Pan-SlaV AS
ISOLATION busy at work in Bohemia, as in Gro
alta bent upon the fulflment of the openly
avowed programme of the Pan-Slav AsSocla-
ton namely the freeing of our brethren from
German and Austrian tyranny, and the lorna
ton OF a great pan-Slav empire. or federation
of Saw states under the sovereignty or the
Gar 1t is because the Austro- Hungarian Gov
eminent has long been aware of the pan-SiaV
propaganda being carried on within Its borders
that il has always endeavOred to represS rather
than 10 encourage the Slav nationalist Idea, and
why it set its face so strongly against the late
Bishop of Deakovar MonsignOr Strossneyer,
who was one of the most powerful ana innuen.
tial champions of the great Croat ioea ana OF
the SIav nationalist movement Although a mem
Der of the Austro- Hungarian Episcopacy, ne car
ried his natonalism TO such an extent that ne
made a point of talking nothing but the Croa-
tian Language. or else Serbian. aosoiuteiy re-
fusing to speak sing Wora OF 1erIllau "
HUNGARIAN The cathedral which ne erscted at
Deakovar a gem of the purest GOTHIC art, pears
an inscription over It's central portal 70 uns
effect that il has been designed punt ana
sculptured for the greater glory or SIoo s1-
clusiveIy by Croatians" No one was ano"eo 70
put his hand to the Wq h,Ho9 roTsing through
his veins For several consecutive years the
Bishop kept men travelling through the county,
collecting all the old SlaV iegehus' p opsuiH1
songs noems etc which. after being careiuiIy
lN
revised by himself. printed and dstr,ou.eS go
gratis everywhere in order thaI Il, on Ionear sy
the Bishop the people might be no longer eN
posed to hearing those hate1ul ueI hfn T ht
Hungarian songs, which contain Loe,,,s s ,Ssa
curses for Croatia This will convey soIIS iues
of the strength of the great Croat .oeS SI IN
of the intensity of the nationalist leenhs
throughout Croatia as we'll as the Ill viii OF the
population thereof toward HuhsaIs anu -
minor degree of course, toward Austrh;
While the Croatians may be always a.. Hapsburs
dYnestv as they have done for hundreds OF
years past they bound in the natural oroes
Of things to continue to prove as mucn source
of trouble and anxiety to the autnoriues at
Vienna. but more especially at Budapest, as
the Irish are to the government OF Great 6Tltain
And as time goes and the revival OF the olu
Croatian literature, poetry and iegehaary Iore
becomes more pronounced. the feeling or dlscon-
tent with the present condition OF atIalrs VIII IN
crease fomented as in the past by RUSSIA, Whicn
naturally sees her advantage IN carrying OUT
the programme of the Pan-Slav committee at
Moscow and of fostering every movement tnat
can tend TO harass or weaken that particular
power of Europe which constitutes the prin-
cinal obstacle to her designs upon tonstanti-
,ania EX-ATTACHE.