Evening star., 1914-04-19

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Political Horizon. go nress ar.
especially stirred up over the agitation
that reigns among Roumanians in Trans
sylvania- Also over a rlmor more I'M
portant still that Prince Carol. son OF
the crown prince of Roumania, is in ST.
Petersburg, where it is said "A marriage
is being arranged with the daughter of
the car Also that If this alliance is
consummated Russia will return to Rou-
mania that part of Bessarabia which she
annexed after the war of 1877.
Bessarabia, it is said, has already peen
the object of certain gracious measures
on the part of the crown; the Roumanian
language has been re-established in the
schools and orthodox priests have been
authorized to otficiate in the Roumanian
language.
All this eXcites the ire of the Germano-
austrian press. which has not abandoned
Its attempts to force the revision of the
treaty of Bucharest, although it goes
without saying that Europe could not
sanction such a revision. even IL Rou-
mania would. but Roumania will not.
Roumania, in her role rs the arbiter of
the destines of the Balkans, could i'll
afford to consent to Austria Hungary s
desire to revise the treaty of Bucharest.
How much less. then. would Roumania
be willing to listen to Austria Hungary's s
proposition. having become affiliated with
Russia by the marriage of Prince Carol
to the cars daughter
Doubtless Austria employs diplomatic
ballons d essais-balloons. otherwise
b-uns-made to entrap the unwary. For
example, few persons versed in diploma CIV
were deceived by what appeared in the
Vienna journal Die Information. entitled
Austria and the Triple Entente" Re
ferring to Germany. 1t said: Not content
with not having seconded Austria's efforts
in the Bulgaro-Roumania nian negotiations
and after the peace of Bucharest, Ger
many permitted certain journals to
spread the worst kind of insults to the
monarchy. The remark of German
statesman is quoted: Germany should
do what seems best to her without re-
gard for Austria Hungary. which will ex-
ist only so long as it may please Ger
many"
| But turning from the field of specula-
| tion, which is a wide one, to the more
| restricted one Of fact there ie a serious
cloud in Hungary. in Pennsylvania. con-
cerning Roumanians who would seek the
bosom of their mother country in Rou-
| mania a poet of Transylvana, NJ Oc-
tavian Goga, has written drama en-
titled 'Domnal Notar,'' or Mr.. Notary
| The story in poetry is a revelation of
the life of Roumanian in Hungary. a
| story of oppression and wrong which
has stirred the soul of the brother in
Roumania. The poet has awakened the
instincts of an entire race and NJ Goga
has thus proved himself revelator of a
| new period.
| in Bucharest. the poet answered:
| In Pennsylvania, where the struggle
| to preserve our nationality is ardent, II
Is natural that writer must also be a
| tighter. My work is the cry of a people
| which suffer. You have understood me
and the message is heard on this side OF
the Carpathian. You have seen that the
| Roumanian race has only one body and
| that his soul Is not only word, but a
| reality
Dispatches from Vienna announce that
the Hungarian minister would have the
government at Vienna communicate a
note protesting to the government a,
Bucharest against the organized agitation
among the Roumanians of Transylvania-
| agitation, 1t Is charged, organized al
| Bucharest
The relations between Hungarians and
Roumanians are strained, unquestionably
| There are 100000 Roumanians in Hun
gary4.0O 600 sprung from the same
source as those who founded Wollachia
and Moldavia. which formed In 1851 the
actual kingdom of Roumania.
When Austria was defeated by Prus.
| sia at Sadowa in 1865 she adopted the
dualist government by dividing the power
| with Hungary. The interior history OF
the empire henceforth has been an in
| CesSdlt race ana II mas Deen
said of Austria Hungary that she has
neither geographical unity nor national
unity
Transylvania, an autonomous country
was attributed to Hungary and placed
| under the authority
Autonomy OF of Austria. The
r Hungarians have at
tempted to denat-
uralize or magyarize the races submitted
to them. but the attempt has proved
| futile, for race antagonism is implacablt
| and superior races never assimilate. AL
| kinds of pressure are exercised over
| these subjugated Roumanian people to
| force them to abandon their language
and adopt that of their magyar masters
| The Roumanians are recalcitrant and re-
fuse with energy and there follows ami
mosities that finally threaten serious
| trouble
| The Hungarian treats the Roumanian
with the same rudeness and severity
meted out to the Slav Slovak and Ru-
| thenian. The Hungarian is completely
isolated among Slavs, Germans and
Roumanians and in order to assure his
| own existence he must do SO at the
| expense of those who are not of his race.
| The cry of persecution has been echoed
| across the Carpathians-
| In the inception of the war agains'
| the Turk, Roumania had a presentimen,
| that If the allies were victorious the
| equilibrium Of the Balkanic states would
be broken. and she undertook to mobilize
| with the view of assuring for herself GER
| tain advantages. Above all she would
| obtain a rectification of frontier on The
| Bulgarian side which would assure to hel
| the possession of the Doubroudja. Austria
| Hungary, which did not wish to prevent
| the war, induced Roumania to remain
| quiet, promising her that when peace
spected. Roumania, confident in the as
| surances Of her powerful ally. not only
did not mobilize, but countermanded the
military maneuverS which were ordered
| for the Dofbroudja and which would
| have annoyed the Bulgarains. The con-
duet of Austria-Hungary indicated clear.
| ly that she favored the Bulgarians. The
| end proved it to be SO. The confer
ence at ST Petersburg. to which Rou-
mania appealed to obtain rectification
of her frontier on the Bulgarian side. ac-
corded her only the fortress of Silistria
and with d radius so small that the forti-
| fcation for a fact was at the mercy OF
| the BulgarianS. The aid that Austria
| Hungary lent to Roumania, her so-called
| hidden, for Austria Hungary had no IN
| terest to protect Roumania at the eX-
| pense of the Bulgarians
1t IS quito easy to comprehend the rea-
sons of Austria's attitude. 1t may be
seen in the foregoing, also in the exist
ence in the Hungarian kingdom of 1000.
coo oppressed Roumanians and 10000
| Roumanians nearby which constituted for
| the former a center of attraction and con-
| Sequently for Hungary constant peril,