Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1909-07-24
AIighiere," and other Italian 1rredentist
and leagues.
HAS FANArIcAL ADMIRERs.

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Franz Ferdinand has his fanatical
Austria, which comprises practically
all Vienna and a great proportion OF
the provincial Germans, Bohemians and
slavs, Is on his side. Even his Liberal
foes admit his brilliant gifts. From
friendly quarters pour forth pamph-
lets and articles acclaiming him as
the destined restorer of Anstria's one
friends, a certain Baron Won Falken-a
egg, has circulated pamphlet in
Germany in which he describes the
future kaiser as rightful heir to the
Roman Empire of the east: and ar
CUES that as sole living representative
of the famous Italian house of Este
he has inherited gifts of diplomatic
tinesse with which no other European
ruler is endowed. The Clericals go
oven further in mystical hero-worship.
Some of them affirm that the goddess
in the machine is Franz Ferdinand's
morganatic wife, the Princess Sophie
Hohenberg, born Countess Chotek of
Bohemia. The princess. say her friends,
Is a woman of remarkable gifts. all
of which are devoted to the service
of the Catholic church. She Influences.
by her letters, it is boosted. even the
Kaiser Wilhelm II. She urges consis-
5tently on her husband that it is his
duty and privilege to restore the
glories of the MISUNDERSTANDING dyn-
.asty. Her enemies ascribe this politi-
cal activity to desire to shine as legal
empress of Austria. Her friends go
to the other extreme which is even
ridiculous. as the following instance
shows
Nearly four hundred years ago. the
Habsburg Kaiser Macmillan enter
tanned at Vienna the kings, Sigismund
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gary and Bohemia, and at a great fes-.
tival arranged the marriage of his two
children. BY these marriages at a
stroke the Habsburg came into pos
session of Bohemia. Moravia. and Hun
gary which form the greatest part
of their empire as 1t exists today.
Thereupon was circulated the famous
Latin saying:
BELLA gerant alii, tn felix Austria
nube;" meaning "Other states have
to wage war to gain territory; all
happy Austria has to do Is to marry"
A fanatical admirer of the arcllduke
has just published q pamphlet to prove
that this saying was prophetic and
referred to the affairs of today. BY.
marrying such a clever woman as So
rhie Chotek the archduke. he argues,
has been inspired and nerved to add
Bosnia and Herzegovina to the Habs-
burg domihions and to restore the
dynasty to the glorious position 1t oc-
cupied three hundred years ago when
the Emperor Charles v. claimed to
rule the world.
f {FERDINAND'S WEAKEST POINT. 4
His critics declare that Franz Fer
dinand's weakest point in his ambition
to strengthen and unity Austria Is
the opposition of the Liberal Germans
to his Clerical associations and allies.
The archdukes admirers retort that
he uses the Clericals as his tools and
that they will never become his mas
tiers. But both PARTIES agree that
whether it fails or succeeds the new
policy will not be supine or inglorious.
The archduke's strength lies in his
logged Indifference to facts. He ignores
internal discords. He refuses utterly
to accept Bismark's SAYING that AUS
tria renders her greatest services by
merely existing. We do not want her
to live" TO make Austria live is his
determination and even if the life be
brief one. it will be liyerlier than
the colorless existence led since the
defeat at Sadowa 43 years ago. 1t
WAS this defeat which condemned Aus