Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1914-08-04
What it is Ali About
Roots of the Enmity.

Roots of the Enmity.
The enmity between servia and Austria has like
everything human double root and is the product
Of both economic and psychologist forces. We can
readily understand the first by putting ourselves in
servia's place
Imagine country about the size of Maryland
but with twice the population. though without Mary
lands mineral and maritime wealth: q mountainous
country, four-fths OF it uncultvated much OF II oak
forest II is decsptated country; the upper classes
Killed off, driven away proselyted during Otto
man occupation princes OF either the monarchicai
or mercantile kind capitalists or great land own
ers such dominate neighboring RunanIa. II is a
land OF peasant proprietors; "A Poor Mans Para
disc the scribblng tourist is fond of calling IT,
though 1t is doubtful whether the poor enjoys
living In such a country much as he does where
there Is more money going. though he does not
have much of It others. The people are
Slavic by Aslac by culture four-fifths Of the
adults ilterate Greek Orthodox by religion. frugal
hard working. independent, democratic and patriotic.
Given such people in such country what are
they TO do for a living? Obviously much except
TO grow grain and meat for export. Hogs can f1nd
their food in most OF the oak woods fattenea
on the of the fields but where can they be
sold? Not to the southwark for the Mohammedans
OF Macedonia and the Jews Of salonfKa do not eat
pork. But 70 the north Just Danube is
big. rich country. inhabited mostly By Catholics
who have aversion to swine flesh except day
OF the week Austria Hungary is thea the natural
market for servan products and here they mostly
to please Hungary all II has to do is raise the
tariff rates transit anubian produce or prohibit
the importation OF Servian pigs poultry by
tine rules the ground OF some suppositious dis
ease BY the practice Of such tactics called by the
German writer's chwein-pOlitlk Austria has reduced
servia to condition of economic dependence from
which servia is striving itself by securing
outlet to the and to the wide world market.
But far Austria has checlmatec tnis endeavor.
Last year at the sacrifice Of 1000 men serva
to
shut out from the by the Interpolation Of the
Albanian principaty manufactured for that purpose
Industrial Dependence of servia.
But the chief grudge OF Servia against its big
neighbor the river is the Illustration its
tional rather than its Industrial development sera
remembers-with the aid Of the glisiar and his
strnged fiddle-that there time. Some coo
ago. when Serb chieftain Stefan the Daring,
conquered nearly all the Balkan peninsula and as
sumed the titles OF emperor Of the Ronlans as sue
Caesar and GEAR of Macedonia" as sue
cessor to Alexander the Great thus combining in
person the gories OF both ancient Greece and Rome
But Austria again has destroyed the possibility of
such a Servian empire or even one including the
serv1an alone More than half the Serbs live
on the north side of the Danube in Bosnia and
Herzegovina, which placed in the power of
tria by the Congress OF Berlin in 1878 and formally
annexed thirty years later
Whether the Serbs under Austrian rule are better
off than their independent brethren the south side
OF the Danube disputed question. The tourist
usually reports that Bosnia is prosperous than
Servia He tells of the establishment OF agricultural
colleges and experiment stations the erection OF fine
public buildings the building OF railroads. the open
Ing OF the country by handsome hotels in picturesque
the development OF manufactures the improve,
ment of TRADE and tho equalization of taxation. Bot
the contentment of people is not 10 be measured
by commercial statistics How the Serbs themselves
feel about 1t shown in issue Of July Is by
Prof. Pupin Of Columbia, the most distinguished of
his in America The Serbs in Bosnia complain
that taxes much higher than they used to be
under the Turkish regime that they being stran-
gled by the red tape of the Austrian bureaucracy
the schools under control of Catholic priests
Wand they cannot sing the old that their press
is muzsled. and that the government discriminates
IN various ways against the Orthodox Serbs and in
favor OF the Catholic Croats.