Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-01-30
HUNGARY IS H0PELESSLY DIVIDED.

Recent cables from Vienna announce
a temporary solution Of the Hungarian
ministerial crisis by the
Compromise formation of a new min
~. istry The reports are
AiAAssAy. contradictory as to the
minister to whom is confided the port
folio of premier, but whether Count
khuen Won Hendervary or DR.. de Lu-
caco it is quite immaterial; the minis
try is one Of compromise and formed In
the vague hope of a solution of Crisis
which has dragged along since Septem-
Der %, 1900, when DR.. Wekerle resigned.
Hungarian affairs are in a hopeless tam
gle and beyond the power of any Hun
garian statesman to unravel. The nerv-
Gus state of the Hungarian mind is ex-
emplified by the furry created in Buda-
pest a few days ago concerning the
resolution introduced in the United
States Senate by Senator Lodge Of Mas
sachuSetts authorizing the publication
of correspondence as to President Zach
airy Taylor's plan to recognize the in
dependence of Hungary in 1S49. In
Budapest first. and then in Vienna next,
there were tempests in patriotic and
diplomatic circles which were Gained
only when the senator explained to dis
tant correspondents that we sep
arated from the revolution of Louis
kossuth Ly more than a half century and
that his resolution was merely to OBJ
tain historical data with no intention
to encourage or support the independ-
ence of Hungary.
The truth is the socialistic victories in
Austria and the granting OF universal
suffrage have reacted upon the Hun
garian public, composed, as it is. of
much more infiammable material than
that of Austria, which may not be cited
as model of intiammability. The Lon
don Times some time in 1907 expressed
the conviction that the socialist vic
tories in Austria were signs that the
people of that country were awakening
to the futility of racial discord.' This
may prove true as to Austria, where So
cialists have remained Christians. but 1t
cannot be said to be true of Hungary,
divided by implacable race hatred. which
Is progressive.
~
The author of an article in the West
minister Review, Mr.. Joseph Maiath.
whom, it. may be assum-
FriendlesS ed, is a Hungarian. says:
No. I'VE Magyars, who have
1"5J "A'' no kinship among the ma
tons. who today stand friendless, wedged
in between foreign nations; we. who in
stead of supporting one another, tear
one another's Threats, shall be able to
save our race from determination and
our state from final extinction only if
on the one hand we modify our policy
as regards the nationalities by giving
to them that which is theiD due, but, at
the same time. inexorably suppressing
those who attempt to wreck the unity
of the Hungarian state
This last proposition shows the state
of mind of the Magyar, who would in
exorably suppress those who attempt to
wreck the Hungarian state" and this
confession proves our proposition. name
ly, that Hungary is hopelessly divided
by race hatredS which are inexOrable and
implacable.
But it is not race prejudice alone that
exists in Hungary. There is also
envy, malice and hatred within the
party. the Magyar party itself. as mani
tested in the recent breach in the in
dependence party at Budapest.
The independence party represented by
NJ. Francis kossuth on the one hand
and by NJ Louis Hollo on the other has
broken into two camps on a question OF
polity. In conference at Budapest NJ.
Hollo, who represents the extreme left
of the party, presented a resolution de-
claring that the party could no longer
accept the indefinite maintenance of the
common Austro-H Hungarian Bank and
that it would henceforth support no other
government except one chosen exclusively
from the ranks of the Independent party.
This party would assume the obligation
to create an Independent Hungarian bank
before January 1. 1911. and likewise in
troduce universal suffrage in Hungary.
Il
NJ. Kossuth. who represents the con-
Wi NJ ia limit cd c
a counter proposition that
KOSSuth'S the independent party
p..,..l consider the economical
Aopo0oA' independence of Hungary
as its first duty and employ all consti-
tutional methods to the creation Of an
Independent bank. The motion presented
by NJ. kossuth was rejected by 12O
against "a. Thereupon M. Kossuth and
his seventyfour partisans left the con-
ference and proceeding to another hall
organized party to be known as 1.-The
Independent Kossuth party Of 184S," and
NJ. Kossuth was unanimously elected
president
The action of the Kossuthists was fol-
lowed by reunion of certain conserva-
tive elements Of parties, including the
clerico-populists, which declared their in
lCHtlOi " Co"OpcIdlc Will the hOSSuIl-
lists. This proposed combination will thus
form bloc which constitutes a majority
of the chamber. Thus there is exempli-
tication of the saying that 1.-The more
things are changed the more it is the
same thing
NJ. Francis Kossuth, interviewed on the
proceedings by the correspondent of the
Temps, said that the breach had been
caused by question of detail He had
constantly labored for the economical in
dependence of Hungary. But the king
emperor. in recognizing Hungary's rights
In the matter, was decided not to create
the bank at this moment. NJ. Justh and
NJ. Hollo desire the creation of the bank
January 1, 1911, which would be vetoed
by the king emperor.
The Budepesti, Kossuth's party organ,
publishes the manifesto of the new party
and denounces NJ. Justh and his partisans
as disturbers of the political peace of
Hungary, who by the lack of harmony
expose Hungary to conflict between the
crown and parliament.
NJ. Rene Gounard, professor Of political
and social economy at the University of
Lyons writing on the
European Problem of Hungary" in
rr,or,o. the Edinburgh Review,
eA 'e' affirms that very little is
known of Hungary even in Europe. a fact
of which the Hungarians themselves COM
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