Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1906-04-15
Government Was Ready to Exercise EspiOn-
age Over Letters and p
WEKERLE is THOUGH
Only Man WhOr y eople a Ruler
II,
WOMEN CAUSE END OF THE TROUBLE
Threatened Boycott of All Things
from Austria when Made by
Hungarian society Had
Good Eject.

VIENNA, April 14-(special Cablegram
TO The Bec)-Just what the treaty of peace
between the crown and the Hungarans
and the appointment Of Alexander Wekerlc
as premier will amount to It is dihicuit
TO forecast DR. Alexander Wekerle is a
man Of considerable breadth and force
Of character, and II any man can form IA
cabinet that will in a measure conciliate
Hungary this ought TO he the man
Now that the trouble is supposed 10 be
at end It IS worth while at least to call
attention to the manner In which the pres
ent condition Of affairs was brought about.
While Colonel Sell was premier Of Hun
gary in 19Ol-l903 the Austrian government
asked the Hungarian parliament to make
considerable Increase in the quota Of
army recruits to be supplied by Hungary
and augment the annual money grant to
the crown. The Hungarans declined 10
agree to the Austrian proposals and
eventually their opposition to them in the
Hungarian Parliament developed into oh
struction and later into a complete dead
lock. The Hungarians also made counter
demands on the crown, which were re
fused. In October. 1904 the then premier
OF Hungary. Count Tisza. made a success
full attempt to abrogate the rules OF pro-
cedure under which the obstruction was
I carried on. He applied the closure. Soon
after this the Hungarian Parliament was
dissolved and in January 1905 the Hun
garian government went TO the country in
a general election. with the result that the
ministerial party was everywhere over
whelmingly defeated and there came into
existence the combined opposition of to-
day. known as the independence party
Of Hungary, whose members insist on the
use of the Hungarian language and the
Hungarian flag in the army Of Hungary,
which the crown has peremptorily refused
] to agree to.
Radical Plans Suggested.
1t was perhaps fortunate for both coun-
1 tries that matters ended Just where they
did For the liberty of the press had been
| suppressed, the right of public meeting
( had been limited. and an edict had been
issued by the minister of commerce en-
powering the courts and the police to CON
troll the dispatch 81 the letters. documents
postal packets and kilograms OF certain
persons. The opposition is being sup
pressed with a stern hand. Apparently
quiet prevails. A significant symptom in
connection with the movement leading up
to the present condition Of affairs has been
the participation Of women in a country
where women are seldom found mixing In
politics. Aristocratic ladies, for instance
at whose head is the Countess Batthyany,
| daughter of the late Count Andrassy,
formed a society called the Tulip league" 4"
The task of the Tulip league" was to op-
pose the present government everywhere.
! Everything coming from Austria was to be
boycotted by the women of the league.
This boycott, striking right at the heart
of the commercial interests of the two
countries, is supposed to have had more
to do with bringing about the end of the
crisis than any one thing. The sympa-
thizers of the boycott openly wore tulips
the tulips were everywhere seen, and
Baron Fejervary openly declared that the
women of Hungary were giving the men,
bers of the cabinet more trouble than the
men were. This declaration was made in
connection with the holding of immense
meetings, in which all Of the women, rich
and poor, offered their jewels in case they
should be needed to continue the struggle
with the government. Demonstrations OF
this sort convinced the cen-'al government
that the Hungarians were in deadly
earnest.