The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1914-08-02
Crush Out Servia

tempt Of the Hapsburgs to-day to sub.
Jugate Or cXterminate the indepen,ent
states of Servia, Montenegro and Ru-
mania be the signal OF a new thirty
years war? Every nation OF Europe
took part in that war. and every ma =
ton Of Europe would he n party on
one side or another in the war Of to-
day. VIII the IIapsburg lust for
! dynastic possessions and domain he
once more the cause Of untold misery
and bloodshed. the laying waste Of en-
tire Europe and perhaps bringing war
even across the seas? Europe after the
Thirty Years War was desert, OF
burned ruins. untitled fields famine
! and pestilence-to-day our means of
communications have brought the ends
of the world together so that in regard
to distances 1t is AZ the Europe of
those days. In that age travel from
one end Of Germany to the other took
the same time AS to-day from the west
| coast of America across the Atlantic
and Europe to the borders of Russia.
The fights for freedom Of the Mag
! vars are known: the name of Kossuth
is familiar to every one And familiar
also are the names Of Garibaldi and
Mazzlni. whose work in the cause OF
united and liberated Italy in its strug-
gle against the Hapsburg domination
is to-day repeated by those who strive
! FOR the erection of a united and free
Servian state. which includes the effort
TO free Servia, Croatia, Slavonia, Dali
malta, Bosnia and Herzegovina from
! iiapsburg rule and unite them with
the free and happy kingdoms OF Servia-
The present war against Servia IL a
I IA - al a -.
crush out of existence a brave and free
people before the wounds they re-
ceived in their victorious wars for the
liberation Of old Servia have had time
| 10 heal. Twenty years ago a high
Austrian official said To the writer:
THE existence Of an independent.
| Servia and an independent Rumania
| is perpetual menace to the Haps-
/ tend To the conquest of Servia, Monte
| negro and Rumana. When Austria,
after the battle of Novara in lS49, left
Sardinia independent it was one Of the
Rravest errors ever committed at
| Vienna. Sardinia was able to make
| united Italy at Austria's expense, ana
though Italy IL our ally to-day. that is
true only so long as Austria can pre-
/ serve Franco-Italian friction in the
| Mediterranean"
| He also said that the conflict in ITALY
between the Vatican and the Quirinal
/ and the efforts OF anarchy against or
! ganized society are Austria's best allies
| in Italy.
During the ObrenoVich regime AZ
Belgrade II was said In Vienna that
Austria could tolerate the existence OF
an independent Servia only 30 long as
: Servla kept the terms OF King Milan's
secret treaty OF 1852 by which Servia
was made virtually dependent Of Aus
/ tria whose commands were conveyed
to the Scrvan Government by the
Austrian Military Attache at Belgrade.
When King Alexander of Servia un-
/ dertook To free himself from tina,
treaty which his father had made.
/ Count Gouchowsky, the Austrian For
/ cign Minister. said in the month Of
/ March of that year 10 SerVian eX-
/ Minister OF State, one who afterward
/ had Intimate knowledge Of the inner
workings Of the tragic events Of Bel
I grade in 1903: You Scrvians are dis
satisfied with Alexander: Austria has
! ceased 10 trust him. II is a matter Of
| Indifference To us what YOU do with
, your King; Austria eXacts only that
! his successor shall rot be a Monte
I negrin or a Russian"
/ What moro was said by the Austria
! Foreign Minister on that occasion
/ though interesting to history, has no
/ place in the present discussion SUB
| sequently. prior to the determination OF
the Obrenovlch dynasty. when thu
! terms OF the traitorous Milan treaty
! became generally known to the Servian
/ people. many OF whose ministers even
/ had been unaware of its existence
/ their resentment knew no bounds, and
! no Servian Government from that day
TO this would ever have ventured to
consider for a moment the renewal In
! any gulse OF such relationship between
Servia and Austria.
! The history of Austro- Servian rela-
tons has since then been an uninter-
ruptcd series OF attempts to enforce
! that subsection by threats, economic
/ pressure. closing of frontiers to Ser
| Wan exports. defamatory anti-Serb
/ propaganda throughout the European
! press, and all known veXatory methods
of war in peace.
The Servian unifcation movement
has ts seat not in Servla. but outside
Of II, in the hopes, the dreams and the
! desires Of all the Serbs who form the
/ unhappy population of those Austrian
/ provinces making part OF the Serb
block within the Austro-H Hungarian en-
/ pire. The "Narodna Odbrana," the 80
ciety of National Defence" in Belgrade.
! IL Servan society for the gathering
| OF funds and the organization of the
/ country for one purpose--the defence
/ Of the kingdom OF Servia against that
eventuaity long foreseen by all Serbs.
the attempt by the Hapsburgs to extend
/ their rule over that kingdom. The
/ Pan Servian movement is not in need
Of agitation or Indictment from Servla.
| The glaring contrast between the eco
! nomlc. social and political conditions in
| the Serb provinces in Austria Hungary
and the condition In the kingdom OF
| Servla furnishes the best propaganda.
| Herbert Vivian called his book on
Servia 1.-THE Poor Mans Paradise" and
the most authoritative statistical hand
book. the "Statesman's Yearbook"
I states: There Is no paupcrism in Ser.
via in the sense In which 1t is under
stood in the Westthe poorest have
some sort OF freehold property. There
are few poor people in Belgrade, but
neither their poverty nor their number
i