The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1914-08-02
n, ruI>tE LNZNRONICH HREBE-
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I'o,merI, Of the Austrian General
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small ncighboring independent
Kingdom Of Scrvia under pre-
text hardly less fimsy than get out
OF your place want it," cynically
.hroving all Europe into peril of uni
,srsal blopds ed. is war not only
agains. the Servian kingdom but against
the Scr,lau race; "a war of extermina-
ton 30 nns been called in German news
p7per. u is the logical outcome of a
situation and conditions in the Austro-
Hungarian Empire which are funda-
mentally unsound and perniclous.
Aus,ria-Hungary is conglomeration
broush, about 10y conquests of terri
tories and bits OF territories inhab-
tied by fragments of nations whose
racial and national centres. with but
= Two exceptions. lie outside Of Austro-
HUNGARIAN borders in neighboring States
on eas, west. north and south
This courlomcration ~ peoples and
ands " thnut common interests is ruled
By and for the sole benefit OF one
4 family the IIapsDurg dynasty. whose
Impersrc Orhi Universe" austria has
,he rieh, 90 rule the uniyerse)-a motto
found Inscribed on the palaces OF the
Hapspurrs in the letters "A. f.. I. o. T."
and whose policy was always guided
BY taat principle Of divide ct impera"
IN plain English. divide To rule" For
10 PIT one nationality against another
encnecru- perpetual animosities. has
4, "A - Ia,
tanng the balance of empire
Mr.. Stccd in his recent book on the
J. Austro-ilungarian monarchy. speaking
Of Austrian patriotism, tells a story
related zoo him by high Austrian. official.
Of man whose services rad been of
great uso G. the people of the monarchy
ami who was proposed as worthy Of
public reward. when that proposal was
submitted To- the Emperor Francis JOS
eph the mans patriotism was especially
emphasized, to which his Ma jesty re-
piled Ills Austrian patriotism may be
all right but Is he a patriot FIR me?'
This simple sentence Indicates what the
nature of Austrian patriotism is ex-
pected 20 he. a conception differing from
what patriotism, devotion to country and
people mean in all other countries OF
4
4 generally expressed in Austrian parlance
II is he back-yellow meaning the i'm
perial colors. as distinguished from the
national colors, of each of the different
races and fragments uf races that com
pose the Austrian monarchy.
The Hapsburg monarchy. frightened
with feudal traditions and ideas, IL to-
day par cXcellence--and solely among
u xll Of ha
med. ieyal conception OF a State as being
dynasty and its possessions, in oppo-
ston 20 he natural and present day
occupations of n State. as being the eN-
preston of national will and entity.
Austria represents the idea which
found rs expression in the absolute
s,a.es ~ tho eighteenth century-an
idea against which the American Dec
laraton II independence was the first
! fuumpc' blast of the assertion of the
Stat as the possession of the whole
peoplc, and lis government as he eX-
preston Of that peoples free will. That
assertion NJ the rights of people
found echo first in France and then in
the rrmut,>t corners OF Europe
vsS active .n the making of modern
Germany and modern Italy. Both
Ithese nations were unified through
wars AGAINST Austria. II is an irony
Of fate that those nations, Italy and
Germany. whose history only fifty
years back Is a close parallel of what
now happening concerning the Ser
vans are To-day the allies of Austria,
against whom they had TO wage war
70 assert their national will and become
nee and independent States.
The iiapshurg monarchy the result
ld Centuries Of piccemeal conquests by
'ihe sword, comprises in the north.
>!our million and half OF Poles, who
Y nave not Yet forgotten that there ex-
lS'ed Poland, and who hope and work
ioF the rocrection or their ancient
Nngdom. Further in the northeast the
monarchy is inhabited 10y four million
russians who IN sentiment and re-
Nslon have their sympathy on the
y 9'her side ~ the border, as the various
y Was for high treason only this
"Si year amply showed In the south
"eS' there are about 100000 Italians
COOKING toward Rome In the east
me Htpshurg monarchy is inhabited
over three and a half millions of
Numanans, populatlng Pennsylvania a
country which is tucked close within
I N"'N'H isulldnldn hlnBdOm, Ike "A
I cnlld IN Oh" lap Of it's mother.
seven and half million of Tcheko-
Mo'aNs lnhabit the crownlands OF
oohoina, Noravia, Silesia and the
uF'neru part Of Hungary. Nine mil
non MaS>ars In "A compact mass &C.
,.pF the central plains Of Hungary.
mere are ten million Germans in the
I,frn part OF Austria. the crown
S sanus or Lower and Upper Austria,
2I'a 'aiantania, Tyrol and along the
"u'lS ~ BOhemia--two millions of
un'Un ar" within Hungary in numerous
1'd" groups In the south Austria
u.Sa'y Is Inhabited by six and half
"'un'n ot Serbo- Croats and Slovenes.
me Slovcncs inhabit Carniolia and
~, H'"ldl The Serbo-Croats popu-
'foa'h, SlavOna, Dalmatia, Bos-
ma end Herr Govina and Banat and
''cnNa IN Hungary.
Nj 'Nos" national groups. with the
.Fpton ~ Tchcks and MaGyars, are
.aHm'n'7 Of adjoining mother ma
,,F whose blood is in their veins,
use IN rptge they speak. All those
''"n' we're at one time or another
'ulc W.
maidstone said Austria cannot