Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1904-11-17
HUNoARYs INDEPENDENCE
Historical Sketch of the Ancient Mag.
var Kingdom and Its Po-
litical Struggles.

Ancient Pannonia was occupied b.
Romans, Huns, Goths. Avars ant
Slavons, but these peoples did not sue
coed in holding 1t long. The Magyar
Prince Arpad founded there 1000 year,
ago the constitutional Hungarian state
which, says Emil Zerkowitz. editor Of
the Budapest Export Review, became
in the year 1000 the apostolic kingdom
which has held together all Its terri
tories and populations through ter
centuries in the same boundaries. tint
same national character. nay the SAINT
political organization. Until 1926 thii
kingdom had an Independent life, anc
under the kings, Saint Stephen, Louis
the Great and Matthias Corvinius 1t wal
a leading state Of Europe. In the six
teenth and seventeenth centuries the
invasion Of the Osmanlis compelled the
country TO ally itself with Austria, but
Il never abdicated It's national inde'
pendence sanctioned by treaties anc
laws. In the war Of Rakoczy, the Mag
yars rallied to the princes of Transyl-
Vania and fought against Austria fol
religious freedom. From 1890 to 1915
the whole nation struggled for polit.
zeal reforms, and the glorious war OF
Kossuth in 1848 and 1S4s was fought
for the liberal constitution obtained
by those struggles. The offensive pow
er of Kossuth was broken down by
Russian Intervention, but until 1861
the nation displayed an indomitablt
passive resistance, and succeeded In
1867. by the wisdom and prudence OF
Francis Deak, in restoring It's indie
pendence.
In that year the relations between
the Austrian empire and the Hunga-
rian kingdom were fully regulated by
the compromise Of 1857 According to
this agreement the two states are per-
fectly independent of each other, pos
sessing each its legislative power and
its executive departments.
The close political connection sub
sists through the identity OF the SOW
ereign and the community OF foreign
affairs, military and naval affairs and
finances relating to these common af- |
fairs.
In the sense Of the compromise the
two states freely agreed to have the
same system OF coinage Of weights ard
measures q joint Issue and common |
commercial representatives (consuls) |
abroad. Legislative power relating to
common affairs is exercised by the par
liaments Of both states, the delegations
being only committees of the two par
liaments, having the right to Ak the
expenditure for common affairs.
In all other matters Hungary Is an
independent state. living under the
reign OF its own king, having It's own
government, its own parliament; this
latter being not diet, but legislature
coordinate to the Austrian reichsrath.
The customs union with Austria is
the freely consented treaty Of two in
dependent states, similar to the Gus
toms union which the German states
had before 1866. The ustro-Hunga
rian customs union, freely renewed ev-
cry year. failed to be contracted anew
In 1899 and has ceased in principle.
For certain political and economical
reasons it has been in fact maintained
as it seemed not wise in the present
critical state Of the general economi-
cal relations to try the bold experiment
of placing Hungarian economical life
upon wholly new terms.