Omaha daily bee., 1908-12-28
BOHEMIANS FOR EDUCATION
Four Hundred 0mahans, in Meeting,
Condemn Austrian Federal Policies.
FUND RAISED TO SEND ABROAD
Election Laws of Bohemia Severely
Criticised as Being Unjust
Aid Giving Unfair
Advantage.

Protesting against the reservation of the
American flag and the invoking Of mar
tial law by the Austrian government by
which great injustice is done the native
Inhabitants who are far In the majority In
the home country, Bohemians residing in
Omaha met n the Ted Jed Sokol hall Sun
day afternoon and passed strong resolu-
tions expressing their outraged feelings
and sympathies.
Over 400 attended the meeting and adj
dresses were made by a number prior to
the passage OF the resolution. Afterwards
a collection was taken and $3.50 raised,
which will be forwarded to Bohemia to
help alleviate the suffering there.
The resolutions adopted by the "Ameri-
can citizens OF Bohemian birth or descent,
painfully embittered by the oppression,
persecution and injustice perpetrated upon
the Bohemian people" of the country OF
their birth. are as follows:
l. We denounce the action OF the Aus
trian government. which without any other
reason, but because of street disturbances
lnstigated and caused by the German stu
dents, who persisted by their psrades or
"bumls'' to provoke the Bohemian public,
constituting nine-tenths Of the Inhabitants
of the city of Prague, has put the lives
and property Of all the Inhabitants In
jeopardy in putting them at the mercy OF
the military by martial law.
2. We denounce the injustice Of a govern
ment, which uses even such extraordinary
methods in Bohemian towns, while in towns
Of mixed n~ationaiit.es, whore the Bohem ans
are in the minority, 1t allows without
hindrance their persecution and leaves UNI
punished every disturbance and trespass
alA-raNsAa IL .I,-.ta rn1z1A 1ANnn
nothing whatsoever for their protection, as
have taken place at Olomouc, Brno, Ouch
GOV, Most and numerous other places.
3. We denounce the injustice of the gov
eminent for Withholding to the Bohemian
people the opportunities for higher educa-
ton. refusing to establish Bohemian uni
versities where needed, while the German
population has more than enough of them.
4. We denounce the injustice of the ov-
eminent for Withholding the opportunity of
common education to the children of Bo-
hemian parents, so that sixty private
schools and fifty kindergartens must be
maintained in Bohemia by private sub
scription and the children of the 800, 600
Bohemian inhabitants of Vienna are denied
the establishment Of a single Bohemian
public school.
8. We denounce the injustice Of the Aus
trian government for curtalling the rights
of the Bohemian language and people in
every possible way and for attempts to
cause a division of the country.
6. We denounce the injustice of the cleo
ton laws for the election of the Bohemian
Diet, In which the minority German in
h~abitants, with the aid of the lords, have
a large majority over the majority Bo-
hemian population.
Z. We denounce the unjust election law
by which 36 per cent of the German pop
ulation in Austria has as per cent rep
resentation in the Austrian Parliament
s. We denounce as American citizens
the insult done to the American flag in
Prague on December 2, when the police
in Ovocna street, near Vaclavske square
tore up the American flag, treaded 1T into
the mud and broke up the pole, and we
respectfully request our representative
in congress-, Hon. G. M. Hitchcock, 70 in.
quire of our Department of State al
ashington II satisfaction was given fol
this great insult TO our flag and ouI
country by the officers of the Austrian
government.
3. e assure our brothers in the ole
country of our sincere and heartfelt sym.
pathy with them in their persecution ant
suffering and encourage them to con,
tinue to defend their rights and th'
rights of their nation in the conviction
that their just cause must I'm time obtair
the sympathies of all progressive people
: and all enlightened nations of the Who'll,
world and that they must be victorious
in the end, as we believe that the truth
right and Justice must prevail. We as
sure them that we shall in the future
as we did thus far, closely observe will
undiminished interest the uneven strug
gle in which they must be engaged, ant
our sympathies will be always with then
in the times OF persecution and injus
tice and we shall always rejoice at ever!
stage of their success.
X. w. Bartos presided and delivere
the principal address at the meeting, ad
dresses also being delivered by DR.. 10
seph Percival, Rudolf F~ivinger. Otoka
Charvat, Charles Sadilek and Vacla'
: Fuks. The Rudolf Fivinger orchestr
furnished music. Miss Maria Meek playe'
l a piano solo and recitations were give
by Mrs. Kalal and Stanley Sarpan.
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