The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1911-02-13
COUNT APPOINTS MISSION.

Americans everywhere will be glad to
hear Count Apponyi Of Hungary, who
is here bearing A message of peace. If
he shall be able to create anything like
the attention, not to say furore, that
his illustrious fellow countryman, Kos
suth created in this country something
more than half century ago, then his
visit will certainly be one of wonderful
success.
1t is good to hear from Count Ap-
sage of peace to the rev. Still, one
would hardly have thought it. from
the cold facts that are known to every
one. Here is Great Britain, for in
stance, feverishly anxious lest her navy
will suffer in comparison with Davles
of other countries of Europe on the
old rule that the British navy must
be more than a match for any two other
European navies. Here is France, strain
ing herself to the utmost TO keep up an
army that will be something like a
match for the German army, so that
Germany's aggression can be checked
in case il becomes too pronounced. Here
is Germany with standing army of
more than half million men, and a
war force that may be swelled to five
millions of men who have had military
training sufficient to make them effec-
tive soldiers when put into the ranks,
and so seryiceable at once. Here is
Austria, determined to engage in the
! :lding Of Dreadnoughts: and Italy,
exercising her utmost powers to keep
up both an army and navy that will
preserve her national existence no mat
ter what upheavel may come, Here
is Russia, also, the terror of them all,
with population and soldiery almost linn
itless, with immense boards of gold, and
with an autocratic power that can
bring to bear at any one point the
whole strength of the empire, nation
aggressive, restless, and bent upon ex-
pansion.
Is there not here enough to cause
one to pause before accepting the mes.
sage which Count Apponyi brings? But
coming closer, we see that the Hunga-
rian parliament in which Count Apponyi
was at one time a presiding officer, is
the most turbuent body on earth, not
even excepting a New England town
meeting. That parliament has TO ad-
lourn frequently in confusion; the mem
bers shv inkstands at one another and
paper weights, and indulge IN free-for-
all fights on the floor. And besides, the
points of rupture between Austria and
Hungary are always raw, and there may
come the battle test for Hungarian in
dependence. almost any year, And it is
the constant effort of Hungary to keep
her forces in such condition that they
will be Immediately available on the
coming Of that struggle.
And so, while we give full faith and
credit to Count Apponyi in his amiable
and peaceful intentions. we can hardly
accept his message of peace as from any
other source than his own Christian and
peaceful trend of mind. He is undoubt-
edly philanthropist, philosopher, an
eminent and helpful citizen of the
world. But he is not a messenger OF
ocacc from the old world TO the new.
On the other hand he is certainly not
a messenger of war. and he deserves to
be received with all the .ionors due to
his professions. Undoubtedly he will
receive, these in full measure in Amer
s:a: and Americans To whom he will