The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1908-07-19
BOSNIA NOLDLANDMADENEV
AUsrRIA's LATEST eMovE rs TO
PERMIT A PARLIAMENT.
women to Have 4 Part In Its Formation
Once Overrun by Brtgands, Now
Fast Learning Modern ways-Speciai
Police VINO Befrierbh and Supervise.

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Fast Learning Modern Ways-specIaI
Police VINO Befrier and Supervise.
VIENNA, July s.-As one OF the conces-
sions OF Emperor Francis Joseph's jubilee
wear celebration Bosnia In to have a Parlia-
ment OF It's own, and as II this were not
enough of a favor to a people ordinarily
associated with brigandage and revolution.
the women of this erstwhile Turkish province
are TO have a voice In it's formation.
Europe looks somewhat surprised nj this
latest development Of self-government in
the Balkans, but things have boon going
recently at such a queer pace in this Near
East corner that cven diplomats who pro-
fsss q knowledge Of what is taking place
are Kept guessing. 1t was not 30 very
long ngo that Prince Nicholas of Monte
negro, who most people supposed had
things about as much his own way as any
autccrs,ic ruler could wish, gave his people,
without 80 much as the asking, a constitu-
tionsl government. with a Constitution
framed and e~ngrossed and a thoroughly
neat, shipshape Parliament. 1hon Austria
startled every European chonoellcry by
announcing that she vas going to build
a railroad through Macedonia. inc so
bf'tlIt " AioSSNc'seh "NS'h - h"NhShy
throwing the calcium light on 1t.
But this latest intention OF Austria to
give Fosnia a Parliament has so many
striking clements about II that every ono
concerned has been sitting up to take
notice. Not much more than a quarter
OF n century ago, after Turkey had done
almost everything to BOSNIA that IL could
do. the Powers Of Europe told Austria to
move down there and sse what she could
do In the way Of Strengthening things out.
The Pashas and Peys rolled up the Star
and Crescent, packed their trunks and
bags AMI get out, and the Austrians brought
down the double headed eagle and a lot
of tents and set up housekeeping. Soon
the tents were replaced by stone buildings
and the Anstr;ans now appear too firmly
rooted to DO pried loose.
The Bosnian in the early days OF Austrian
rule was about Us tractable as q Comanche.
He had bsen harassed. downtrodden and
whipped 30 much by the Turks that he
could not carry on an honest business If
he wanted to-. So he took to brigandage
and the hills and became ar expert In that
particular line. A lon man with 80 cents
in his pocket who left one tow without
a military escort had about az much chance
of getting through to the next as h pro-
verbal SNOWFALL. Along the Montenegro
border, where business limits were defined
and things. were we'll enough established
for the chiefs to have fortified strongholds,
the natives met and robbed each other
in OF seasons When the Austrians came
along the mountaineers ~playfully cut of
the soldiers hands or ears. and sending
49,. l.. - kho oor,poonlan NJ ~ tho roaraef
post invited him to come and get what
was left Of the victims.
When the Austrians put on a diligence
line through the southeast there was as
much glee in that section as there was
among the Indians when the first wagon
train went west over the Santa Fe trail,
Every brigand chief tried to excel in his
collection Of ears culled as mementoes
from drivers and guards. So 1t was that
readers OF a quarter Of a century ago were
very likely to shudder at the mere mention
of the name Of Bosnia. A German traveller
about that time in writing to his home
folks said. Bosnia in a province where
one can travel only with the greatest diff
Guilty and with no less danger than in the
wilds OF Kurdistan; where the intolerance
and hate against the Christians is more
living and active than around fanatical
Damascus: where the intolerance OF the
Aghas is more arrogant than was ever
that OF the Egyptian Mamelukes. and where
the condition OF the subject people IL more
abject and hopeless thar that OF the fella-
heen upon the Nile
Now, after a quarter OF a century, people
are wondering what has happened that
Bosnia should have a chance at self-gov-
eminent, and are asking what powerful
influence has been at work that would en-
title II to have a Parliament OF Its own. 1t
is the result Of the administration OF an
impoverished land and people by the Aus
TRANS under entirely new methods. The
system has been working out with the
world scarcely knowing a thing about 1t.
As soon as the Austrians had either cap
tured or driven out all the brigand chiefs
they set about the development OF the
country, aiming to uplift the people and
at the same time advance the material
progress OF the land. They opened up
mines Of salt, iron and copper and gave
employment to the natives. They estab-
lished stud farms in different sections
and sought to improve the breed Of Bosnian
live stock. On a plain where the Turkish
Beys used Z o hunt with falcons they estab-
lished a chicken farm, where a peasant by
the mere askisg car get q setting OF eggs
OF any domestic or game fowl. They
orchards to show the people how
to grow fruit. They turned the stony
wastes around Mostar into vineyards for
the Improvement OF the native grape and
the production OF a milder wine.
Before the occupation there was not a
road for wheeled vehicles in the country.
Now every village Is connected with its
n~eighbors, while between the principal
points are highways like city b~oulevards.
There was not even an inn in the whole
Of Bosnia during the Turkish days, but
now the State has. through subsidies or
other methods, built a good hotel at every
town, while at the mineral springs
in the mountains 1t has established and
summer hotels with all the fea-
lures of modern resorts. At Ilidze around
a sulphur spring it has laid out several
hundred acres as a park. Here. from all
over the Balkan lands, Serbians, Albanians,
Montenegrins, ~Slavonians, Turks and
Macedonians come to drink the waters.
talk politics and watch races on the State
track under State supervision.