Arizona republican., 1905-07-03
Direct Cause of Austrian
 Hungarian Deadlock
ITS MANY OTHER PHASES
Review of the Quarrel Between the Parts of the Dual Monarchy, Re- Sulting in the Formation of the independence Party.

Buda-Pesth. Hungary, May 27- | Correspondence of the Associated
 Press .)--The existing political trou-
 ble in Hungary, which is in substance
 a contest between crown end parlia-
 ment, arouses a limited amount of in i terest in so far as t effects, in one way or another, the internal affairs of 1 Hungary or the minor relations of the component parts of the dual monarchy,
 Austria and Hungary but when it be- i gins to threaten the mutual existence, | as national unity, of the dual mon
 archy. the matter then assumes a much broader importance and wider interest. | The possibility of the esta blishment in 1 central Europe of an independent state with treaty making powers.
 must be reckOned with as important in
 its possible effect an the mutual com mercial relations of the present states : of central Europe, and it is not with
 out its important political bearing on 1 the complex situation which centers
 in the Balkan Peninsula, for Hungary borders on Bosnia. Servia, Roumania and Russia and there is reason to be- | lieve she would not be averse should l she become a free state to Russian in- i fiuence in the Balkans or at Constan-
 tinOple.
 l
 not be followed or studied without ob-
 serving in many of it's phases evil dences of a strong and growing ten dency toward a national life distinct
 and independent from that with Aus | tria. As matter Of fact the trouble 1 centers today in certain national de-
 mands upon which the nation insists
 and which the crown refuses to grant | The greatest of these is that the Hun l garian language be used, for the word of command in the army in Hungary.
 by all officers holding the rank of ma
 jor or lower rank. German being used
 as heretofore bv all officers of rank higher than major.
 kOsSUTH's SPIRIT.
 That the Hungarian people have been animated by a strong and deep desire for an independent national life needs no further argument than the fact of the Magyar revolution of | 1S4S rendered notable by the appeal of Louis Kossuth to England and the | United States. This failed, but the spirit which prompted that movement remained alive and is alive today It l finds its expression in continual eff fort to obtain from the crown conces-
 siOns toward a national existence in- l dependent of Austria. in constant bat 1 ting in the arena of political control against any and all effort on the part | of the crown to impose it's will against | the will of the people or in any way whatsoever to abrogate any of the rights granted to the Hungarian na- tiOn under it's constitution. Tn the words of prominent Hungarian lead CT. the struggle is, in its broader out lines. an energetic affirmation of pop
 ular rights against an undue preva- Trv,
 pOrtunity to further the Hungarian ideal is grasped with avidity today and the following reason certainly is not least among the impelling motives. Franz Ferdinand, who will become king of Hungary upon the death of the present King Francis Joseph. is comparatively unknown quantity
 He is generally credited with being ti-Hungarian and if the Hungarians have eventually to contend with him they want to get into their hands just as many weapons for defense as they can.
 A SACRED DOCUMENT The kings of Hungary must agree
 to accept and observe the Hungarian constitution, and to the Hungarians this instrument is their most sacred
 inheritance. It is a thousand years old and it is cOnSecrated in the blood of countless thousands of brave men on many fields of battle.
 Political strife between the Hunga- Tian nation and the crown is no new thing and interest therein is often only local, but when, in the course of such strife, the constitution is threatened the nation awakens to defense and az
 gressiOn; and when the strife reaches out to such lengths, then the possibil- ityv nf iD1arD,dn,,ro TF Inc comes to the fore in a series of na- tional demands.
 Such demands are being made today.
 as has been recorded in the Associated Press dispatches. Since the efforts of the crown to force upon parliament q ministry of the minority after the op- position was elected last January by an overwhelming majority, since the crown has refused tEe demand of the majority for the use of the Hungarian tongue in the army, and since the Hungarians declared their constitu- tiOnal rights were being infringed up-
 on by the crown as an outcome of the
 political strife arising over the will
 of the crown on one side and the op- position and demands of the nation on
 the other, the question has become pregnant with interesting and impor-
 tant possibilities.
 A POWERLESS PARLIAMENT.
 Nor is the matter without it's se- riOus complications internally and eX-
 formally. The Hungarian parliament is today an imperative body. The ministry is discredited. the premier powerless, and legislation is impossi- ble. The country is without respor- sible government, in a condition of ex
 legis. and there are important mat ters ahead of the dual monarchy which require the cooperation of the Hun garian parliament for their fulfillment. There are several commercial treaties between Austro-Hungary and foreign states which lapse on January 1, 19O5.
 New commercial treaties with Ger