The menace. [volume] (Aurora, Mo.) 1911-1920, 1914-10-31

Of Austria should have passed
on.
The Victim Of Ambition
At Vienna the aged Franz Josef
was the head Of a conservative
bureaucracy content to leave well
enough alonei but the adventur-
Gus and aspiring spirits rallied
around the young Archduke who
became the center of a clerical
and military circle which reached
beyond Austrian territory and
embraced such allies as the Cath
olic party in Germany.
A fanatical papist himself,
Francis Ferdinand had the sup
port Of Rome from the beginning
in his scheme to re-establish the
Holy Roman Empire. AS Com
mander in Chief Of the Austrian
army and navy he was in a posi-
tion TO carry on diplomatic nego-
tiations with the Catholic states
Of southern Germany and lay
plans for bringing under his in
auence, and finally under his
sway, all the Slavs of the Balk-
ans and adjacent territory.
This program, of coure, in.
cluded the absorption of Servia
and its incorporation with Aus.
tria; and aroused ell the resent.
ment and opposition Of the former
The Servians were still sore over
the Austrian capture Of Bosnia
and Herzegovina; and, as the
plans of the Arcbduke developed,
their fear and hatred turned from
the inactive Austrian government
to fall with all its wrath upon the
heir to the Austrian throne.
First among re allies of Fran
els Ferdinand vas the pope and
church. The Sorvians are over
whelmingly Greek Catholic in
their church afliliation, a connec-
ton which allied them more or
less with Russia and drew them
away from Roman Catholic Aus.
tria. To. remove that hostile
condition the effort to introduce
Romanism into Servia was made
which eliminated in the Concor.
dat. There were evidently Ser,
Wan traitors who winked at OF
connived at the scheme and
helped perfect il in the hope OF
personal gain. On June "a, 1914
the Concordat was signed at the
Vatican by the papal secretary oi
state and by NJ Vesmtch, a Ser
Wan ambassador.
The infamous document aroused
all the patriotic jealousy of the
Servian people. They felt thai
they had been betrayed by theil
own government; and they knew
that Austria was not so much tC
be blamed as the young marplot
who was heir TO its throne. AL
the resentment and hatred Of {
patriotic people, trieked by ,
schemer, was directed at th,
young militarist; and on June %
1914, four days after the signinG
of the Concordat, he fell at III,
hands of an assassin, the victim
Of his own ambition and the jus
resentment of a threatened people
Text Of the Concordat
A concordat is nothing more ol
less than a treaty entered into by
a government with the papa
government at Rome. The Ser
Wan Concordat is composed o
twenty-five articles, all of whicl
are reproduced below, as copie,
from numerous translated re
prints in Roman Catholic mags
zines and papers. They print j
gladly because il was a papal vic
tory; but all Europe is now pay
ing the price of that victory. Tn
document is as follows:
"Artiele L-Ths Catholic, Apostoli,
Roman Religion shah be freely and pub
hely exercised II the Realm Of ServiI
"Artiele Hs--kn the Realm Of Sci
via is constituted IN Ecclesiastical Prov
ince, composed OF the Archdiocese o
Belgrade, with ifs seat in the capita
Of the Realm, and having as its teri
tory that which IL comprised in the lin
its Of ServiA, a. Il was before n
Trsaties Of Londoa and Bucharest; IN
If the soffraean Dioesss Of Uskub. Wit