Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1903-05-08
AUsTRIA's FUTURE.


The present situation In the Balkans
renders the opinion Of leading Austrian
politicians on the future Of the AUS
trlaa empire, of interest II Is general.
ly assumed that on the demise Of the
now aged Emperor, the Austrian em-
plre Bill speedily dlslntegrate,a Euro
peau statesmen, Il Is believed are shap-
Ing their politics With that eyentuality
IN view But this opinion is not held
by mr.. Gessmon, leader Of the so-calied
christian Social party In Austria. In an
article recently published ON the subject
he expresses the conviction that II
Austria ala not exist she would have
to be created, for she fuhls the func'
ton Of a uniner Of the various rival
races Of Central Europe He does not
think the internal vlyalry of races
threatens the empire for though the
various races contend for supremacy
none of them seek union with the ada
cert empires, Pan-Germanism he
says Is impossible The Austrian Poles
do not want secession The Austrian
italians similarly DO not want union
with Italy, which is Itself almost as
little united state as Austria. Or.
Gessnann sees a final bar to Austrian
partition In the existence Of Hungary.
lie says that In the event Of partition
Russia would nave to annex Hungary
and this being so, the Hungarians
would be the first to resist the partition
Of the empire
Another Austrian statesman, DR.,
stransky expresses similar views, At
the same time he forecasts what would
happen, should Germany extend her
boundaries to the Adriatic Germany"
he argues with her new frontiers
stretching to the Adrlatc Sea, would
be by far the most powerful state in the
world An increase Of many millions
Of citizens would carry with It no mean
advantage, but, above ALL the geo.
graphical position Of the enlarged EN-.
pire would render It irresistible. swltz-
erland. within whose precincts PAN
German Influence is already noticeable,
would find Germany on It's eastern
boundary. ana be compelled TO become,
not only Intellectually, but politically,
a province Of the Fatherland. Mistress
of Trieste and Pola, Germany could ex-
erclse so great pressure on Italy that
the latter would have to accept her
rule. or, In order to eyade this lncon-
venienee, to declare herself the yassal
of France. England would have found
a new rival IN the Mediterranean, for
the occupant OF Pola could easily
threaten the Suez Canal. But more
than this, Germany would thus have
reached the much coveted frontiers Of
the east. The Hungarlans- they
preferred 10 be merged in the Russian
emplre--would have to act, however re-
luctantly, as the outpost of Germany on
the eastward march The commercial
and diplomatic influence Of the German
empire at Constantinople-alr very
be irhmeasurably lncreas-
ed when once the German navy Is In
possession OF new Kiel or Wilhelms-
hafen within IS hours steam OF the
Turkish roadstead. In Athens, too,
German pressure would be brought to
bear"
II II IL true that pan-Germanlsm
would mean the formation Of a new
world power. spreading It's wings across
Europe and overshadowlng Asia Minor
and the country on the banks OF the
Tigris and Euphrates, Germany GER
tainly viii work for its accomplishment.
The principles Of unity must finally tri- |
umph in the world Those that result |
IN dlsintegratlon must fail Gathering, |
not scattering. is the tendency Of the
lge In which we live. For that reason
pam Germanism has more prospect Of |
future success than has the strife that
IS continually being waged In the dual
empire by the Danube, The present |
organization is impossible. There must
be a change sooner or later.