The morning journal-courier., 1908-02-25

! The Hungarian man is not happy ] The Hungarian woman is not happy i You will be surprised to know why they are not happy. They are not happy because of America-the United States of America" They don't like Americans ?"
 1 Don't like Americans. America is the one place on the earth that the 1 Hungarian loves. Every Hungarian l has a brother or sister or son or a daughter now in America. And dur | ing the last years every peasant has 1 learned something about the great 1 land where schools are free and a man is helped to learn things and to do things"
 The New Hayener smiled the smile of superior knowledge but meekly asked: How then does America make Hungarians unhappy ,"
 By nlaking them see that their rights as men anG as women. have been stolen from them. lis great show you say about BudapGsth say so too. But most of these fine men and women here this afternoon most of them can neither read nor write We taxpayers pay large taxes, very large, but the money goes to make this great show that you en- joy-palaces, the parliament build ings, the artistic bridges, and the fine drives, and the fine parks, and the great army and the throne, but none or almost none for schools for the people. The Hungarian brain is good brain and learns easily. It is study i ing America-studying it hard. A Hungarian is not like German. The i German who goes to America ana ! prospers may send some money back l to his family or may come back ana ! boast stolidly about his success but 1 the Hungarian who goes to America, l and in night schools makes up for the l schooling that has been denied to i him at home-when that Hungarian 1 comes home and gives away some American money he also gives away large amounts of American political l doctrine. He causes unrest wherever
 he goes His indignation at the H.
 literacy of his brothers and sisters and nephews and neices soon comes
 to the ears of the police and he has to leave quick for America again
 But the police can never blot out the results of his visit Many of the poor people in the country know more i about some American cities than they l do about parts of Hungary. l know ] places in the country where the peas ants have clubbed together to learn 1 English during the winter evenings
 peasants who can't read their own
 language
 That's a remarkable state of af- l fairs" agreed the American.
 "Yes, it is remarkable as you, say,'' continued the other And the more ] remarkable Is this. Oh so much more l remarkable, it would seem to you If ] you only understood the Hungarian
 love of his own. It is more remarka-
 ble I say to learn who is the most
 popular hero of Hungary to-day. You
 do not know? He is an American Yes,
 an American No; not President
 Roosevelt. Not Dewey. Not Hobson. I Oh. you make fun now. Come, not | another word. l will show you"
 The New Havener followed his friend into the waiting carriage. Af- | ter a few minutes drive they alighted l in one of the best groomed sections of l the park and picked their way through groups of soldiers and their
 sweethearts, to little knoll protect
 ed cn three sides by tall spruce trees
 and surmounted by an imposing mon
 ument. About dozen of the natives
 young and old were viewing the mon
 ument from different angles and dis
 cussing 1t.
 It was a statue of George Washing
 ton. dignifed, calm, conventional. h.
 scribed in large letters, on one side of
 the base in Hungarian, and on the
 other side In English was the legend