Perth Amboy evening news., 1906-03-16
SOME LIGHT
ON HUNGARY.
Historical Sketch of That COun-
try Which Celebrated Its
Freedom Thursday.

In commemoration of the a%nniver-
sary of the liberty of Hungary, yes
terday, the following historical sketch
OF that country has been prepared for
the EVENING NEWS:
hungary, the country of Hungar-
ians, or Magyars, without any dues-
ton, is the most beautiful. the most
picturesque as well as the most fer
tile country of Europe. A glance at
the map will suggest its geology.
exhibiting a wide stretch of low
lands, damned and protected on the
north, east, southeast and southwest
by the Carpathian and the Illyrian
mountain ranges, resembling, in out
lines, a wash basin. The bottom of
this basin is a rich alluvial deposit
of soil, the like of which can be only
found in Illinois, and generally, along
the Mississippi river. The chief art
cry of this wonderful land is the
Danube, navigable for vessels of any
size or draught from one end of the
country to the other, offering cheap
transportation facilities and an
abundance of water in very portion
of the country. While the wintry
blasts of the north and east are eff
fectually warded away by the snow
clad Carpathians, the south is open
TO the warm and gently flowing
breeZes of Africa, tempered by the
tepid waters of the Mediterranean.
What wonder if Hungarian wheat,
Hungarian wine, Hungarian fruits,
timber, horses, cattle, sheep have at
all times been the most sought after
products in Europe? What wonder,
indeed, if people engaged in cultiva-
ton of such soil; producing the
worlds most famous food stuffs,
should themselves be jovial,, light
hearted, hospitable beyond measure,
generous tC a fault, should love their
country with the passion of a Rom
an, and be unsophisticated, frank,
outspoken and heroic like a Roman?
The Magyars are not related with
any of h European races known as
Aryans, their nearest kindred are the
/ Firms on the north, and the Turks
on the south. all three being classed
as altaic or TOuranin. The Magyar
tongue is as distinct from all known
languages as those who speak it.
There are no genders in the Hungar-
ian. no verb, Il have" no lis" no
d~eclension, no two consonantS W.
begin a word; on the other hand, it
is the only language using Roman
prosody and its conjugation surpasses
everything known in all other Ian
guages, Greek or Latin not to be
mentioned alongside with it. 1t has
poetry, oniy to be compared with the
Roman.
The ancestors of the Magyars have
invaded Presens, Hungary, in about
$50 A. D., subiugating the various
Slavic tribes and laying waste much
of Europe across Germany, France
and Italy. In A. D. LOCO, Magyars,
under Stephen the Saint, their first
king, have embraced christianity,
and continued TO live under their
kings of the Arpad DYNASTY until
1901. During all this time Hungary
has seen no tyranny, no n mans
rule for all. Freedom men have
equally participated in the National
Assembly, presided over by the king.
However, in 1922, five years after
the date of Magma Charter, formal
constitution was drafted wherein the
prerogative of the king were even
more restricted and circumscribed.
In 1871 King Uladislas was accosted
by an impoverished Tyrolese count,
Rudolph by name, ~beseeching him
to come to his assistance and help
him in his effort to get elected to the
throne of the Holy Roman Empire.
The king unhesitatingly followed
suit, slew his antagonist with his
own hands, sending him to his en-
emy's head. Rudolph, a descendant
of a bishop in Tyrol who had built
for himself a castle on the top of a
lonely rising precipice called for its
appearance "Habichts Burg" a
Hawks Hole, has become the grand
sire of the famous Habsburg dy-
nasty.
In 1926 the king of Hungary was
slain in a battle by the Turks and
has left no issue. The Reformation
then causing a split among the peo-
pie. the Roman Catholic party has
invited Ferdinant Art Duke of Aus
tria, brother of the mighty Emperor
Charles ", with the expectation
that he would surely help his broth
er to eliminate the Turks from the
kingdom. The Rasburgs did not do
so for two centuries. Instead, they
considered Hungary their own, try
ing to GermaniZe same. In the mean
time they conquered Bohemia at the
xpense of the empire and made
in their own. always mindful of the
time when they lose the imperial
lob. and building a nest for them
selves. Every century brought forth
nj least one revolution in Hungary
against the peridy of the Habsburgs,
always ending in solemn pledges by
the monarchs but never kept. When
Napolean in 1906 had abolished the
Holy Roman Empire, the Habsburg
ruler, only an arch duke now, ex-
pecting for his dignity as king of
Hungary, had proclaimed himself
Emperor of Austria" without con
sulting the Hungarians.
The boldest attempt the Habsbnrg
monarch to embody Hungary into
his ill-gotten empire was made after
the suppression of the revolution of
Louis Kossuth in 1S49 by the aid
of Russia. Hungary was then to be
GermaniZed and made part of the
imaginary Austrian Empire" How