Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1909-07-24
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gions, and according to the
political textbooks, twenty-seven dis
tinct political parties. are watching;
with intense anxiety the death-struggle
between the Hungarian Independence
party and the Austrian Crown. The
expression 1Austrain Crown no long
er implies the Conservative. placable
and comLlaisant Kaiser Franz Josef.
who has sat for 60 weary years on the
dual throne of the Habsburge. Aus
train affairs today are in less yielding
hands. For two years past, the real
ruler of the dual monarchy has been
the old kaiser's nephew and heir
Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria-
Este. who though only a few years
ago known as an insignificant and
consumptive reclGsc. has suddenly
similar state of health--to be re-
garded with almost superstltious dread
for his courage, resolution and astute
policy Austrians today are quoting
Napoleon's dictum: Europe can stand
only one great ruler.''gand asking, now
that the German Kaiser has practical
~ abdicated from that role, whether
the heir to the Hahsburg throne Is
to prove that one great ruler.
ARCHDUKE FERDINAND'S AIMS.y
The personality and aims Gof the.
Archduke Franz Ferdinand are the
subject of enbittered dispute between
his CLERICAL allies and his Liberal foes.
But on one point all are agreed. Since
4 he seized this sreins of state, Austria
Hungary has thrown overheard the.
self-effacing meekness which she has
shown since her defeat by Prussia in
1866. However mistaken the aims of
the archduke, however hazard Gus the
plans he is suppressed to harbor, they
S are at least not the aims and plans of
a weakling; and they are being car
ried out with skill. The annexation
of Boznia- Herzegovina executed in
the teeth of opposition from England,
France and Russia, is sufficient proof
of that.
Today Archduke Franz Ferdinand
2 IS taking in hand a much greater pro-
blem, the problem of arming Austria
Hungary to the teeth, the problem of
resisting the centrifugal tendencies of
her turbulent races, finally the
problem of carrying out an active, re-
solute foreign policy which may bring
her back to the proud position claim
ed by the Habsburg Kaiser Friedrich
Ill. who first adopted the famous
motto austria will be the last sur
viving of states upon the earth.
ARcHDUKE HATED IN HUNGARY.
In Austria, .Archduke Franz Ferdin-
and is not popular as an individual;
and he is hated in Hungary. The
: burgherseof Vienna4ten 4 story which,
Illustrates, they claim, the unsympa-
thetic side of his character. When
his father, the present emperors bro
Their, Archduke Karl died, his three
sons stood beside his bed. The young
est threw himself on his fathers body
in passion of grief; the second. Otto
the horse-,nad, rushed TO his stables
and wept out his sorrow on the neck
OF n favorte hunter The eldest son,
Franz Ferdinand. calmly read his
fnther's will. gave orders for funeral
in accordance with the dead princes
wishes, and cold-bloodedly sent for his
major domo to submit the family ac-
count books. This story is told by
foes as characteristics of the heirs CALI
ollsness. But admirers interpret it as
r9uI>f OF a certain calmness of head.
a certain logged devotion to tiresome
duties which inspire the archduke in
all his doings: and which enabled him
to bear with patience the painful and
hnmiliating apprenticeship which he
was forced to undergo before being
judged by his uncle Franz Josef to be
capable of managing the affairs of the
monarchy.
THE OLD EMPERoR's THEORY. i
The old emperor's theory was that an
heir was an under-secretary. When BY