The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1912-06-09
WAR IN AUSTRIA
FREELY PREDICTED
Civil Strife Almost Sure to
Come With Death of En-
peror Francis Joseph.
FORGIVES HIS ENEMIES
Successor Has Decided to
7 Compel Magyars to Accede
to Terms He Dictates.
FORGlVES HIS ENEMIES
Special Cable TO Tho Tribune.

Special Cable to Tho Tribune.
BERLIN, June SIN Austria it is
now an almost certainty that civil war
will break out the very moment the
aged Emperor Francis Joseph dies, an
event which as he himself said when
he heard OF the death Of the king of
| Denmark cannot now be many months
off. Personally, Francis Joseph has
forgotten the unspcakable indignitles
hurled at his head in the lower house at
Budapest, but his successor is firmly
| decided to show the treacherous Mag
| vars that they must either keep faith
with Austria and contribute her share
of the national expenses, or lose their
present independence and become a
mere province.
| That the Magyars cannot be crushed
except by force Of arms is a foregone
conclusion, but it is equally certain
that they will be speedily defeated, for
not even in Hungary are they popular
because Of their constant tyrannizing
Of all other nationalities within the
kingdom. and these downtrodden peo-
pie number 100000 out Of the 90
100000 people in the kingdom.
Politicians Control
The rest of the population Of Hun
gary is made up of Slovaks, Crovats,
Serbs, Roumanians, or rather Transyl-
vanians, Ruthenians, Germans, etc;
and since all the franchise and all the
political power are by dint Of political
hands of certain corrupt Magyar ma
chimes, parliament and the political ele-
ment at Budapest in no sense Of the
word represent the people of Hungary
as q whole. Far from 1t, for wonder.
| full to relate, the antagonism Of the
Hungarian nation at large to the Mag
var legislature and administration at
Pesth nearly caused a rebellion immedi-
ately after the insult to the emperor.
| The Croats are an intensely industrF
Gus nation, which the Hungarians are
not, and they have been noted for two
characteristics; one is their unsweTV-
ing devotion and loyalty to the reign
ing house Of Hspsburg, and the other Is
their deep-rooted hatred of the Mag
vars. When the emperor dies, should
the Magyars put into execution their
long and loudly promised project OF
proclaiming Hungary's complete sep
aration from Austria separation as
thorough as that of Norway from Swed-
en-or should they attempt to stir up
any trouble against Vienna, they would
find themselves overwhelmed by the
ID, ,0oo, 900 people of non-Magyar race
in Hungary, people who abbor every
thing that is Magyar. and who will be
only too glad to fight for the empire
no longer dual, but unified.
Receive No Sympathy.
Nor will the Magyars receive any
sympathy from the remainder of the
dual empire. For the aversion in which
| r. &snta mol
Vienna rs public nuisances, and as
frothy- demagogues, devoid OF
all sense of public and private honor
is beyond all conception. The Magyars
are even still more hated by the 30.
hemians who in the first place resent
the idea that Hungary should have
complete autonomy, whereas the an
cient kingdom of Bohemia should be
administered as mere province. There
is not one atom of sympathy between
the two nationalities, and If anything
were needed to add to the bitterness
of the Czechs against the Magyars it
is the tyrannic treatment by the latter
Of the sIavs in the south.
The Poles in Galicia would hail the
opportunity Of marching against the
Magyars; and indeed, with most OF
the Hungarian militia more loyal to the
dynasty than to the parliament at
Pesth, a Magyar rising, promoted by
the professional politicians who have
been causing SO much trouble and dis
turbance at Budapest during the last
three or four decades, will be short
lived indeed.
Intense Hatred Exists.
1t would be useless for Hungary to
look for any sympathy outside, Ger
many might be relied upon to accord
to Austria all the moral and material
support that might be needed if any
were required. Between Russia and
Hungary there exists the most intense
hatred which has lasted ever since
Museovite Cossacks were employed to
crush the Hungarian revolution in
1S49.
Roumania, with its 1no army so
splendidly organized and equipped by
its Hohenzolleru king would soon
ovcrrun Hungary. her forces being
Joined by these Roumanians who are
still under the cruel and oppressive
sway Of Hungary. Servia would fol-
low tho example of Roumanin, having
MANY bitter grudges, not only politi
cal but also economic against Hun
gary; while any tendency which Italy
or even the Italian speaking provinces
of Austria might manifest towards
helping the Hungarians, would be
quickly stopped in Difference to hint
from ST. Petersburg.
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