The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1915-02-28

both are under the same flag and the
same monarch. Francis Joseph being En-
peror in Austria and King in Hungary.
Delegations frOmst the two national legts-
latures. controlling the ministries OF for
eiSn affairs, OF finance, and of war. meet
alternately in Vienna and Budapest. but
sitting and celebrating apart: each dele
CATION debates in its own language and
communicates with the other in writing
Joint sessions are held only when there Is
failure to agree. and then the de-
cision is reached by a majority vote Of
all.
Throwing Over the Germans.
When the German aristocracy threat
ened him in Austria, Francis Joseph
threw the suffrage there wide open to
the masses and checked the Teutons
Lament was divided into COMPARATIVE
helplcssness. and the Emperor gained a
fairly free hand IN that country.
But in Hungary. where the suffrage is
still narrowly restricted. a Magyar
oliGarchy controls the kingdom. Hun
Sarians. therefore. have the advantage OF
powerful influence in the EmperOr's
counsels The hungarian premier. Count
'TizZa, is virtually the premier of the
whole empire. and Is the dominant force
German Won Berchtold lately being dis
missed as the joint minister OF foreign
affairs because he could not work with
Meanwhile, the excluded masses in
Hungary are seeking to profit by any
misI ortune that the war may bring upon
the government. Hence We have heard
of Russian prisoners being pelted with
flowers in Budapest and of the RoU-
manian subjects, of Francis Joseph well
coming the invaders of Pennsylvania
This latter detection has become so
serious, II reports are trae. that the
German Emperor has interviewed in an eff
fort to gain some notifying concessions
to the Rournanians. But apparently tho
Magyar magnates arc stubbornly deter
|, mined to maintain their monopoly OF tho
government
The Old Kaiser ut His Desk.
At the center of that teeter board Oc
the dual monarchy is the throne of tho
Hapsburgs. with its shrewd occupant al
ways watching to see wnicn wav to lean.
The saying is that the subjects OF
Francis Joseph get up with the sun. but
sun. When the Vienna shop clerks are
hurrying to their work through tho
vaulted passages of the Burg. the vener-
able Kaiser already has been ut his desk
for two or three hours. When they re-
turn in the evening on their homoward
way, lie is still at his tasks.
At the noon guard relief in tho Franz
enplatz. the curious crowd may sonre-
times catch II glimpse of him at the win
dow while he momentarilv p2uscs IN his
duties to look down on the familiar scene.
But no toiler in his capital keeps longer
hours than the Emperor.
The Goal.
Democrats are likely to be pltIicss in
their view of monarchs. But the years,
the labors and the sorrows OF Francis
Joseph should be title to the respect
of all men.
Though he may be the last OF tho
Hapsburgs. as prophets have foretold no
shadow of doubt can rest upon his faith
fulness to his heritage, and IL Is not to
be question that In serving the dynas-
ty he has believed that he has served the
empire He has had no public opinion to
enlighten and guide him, and only con-
fiicting race feelings to confuse and baf-
fie him.
A few squares away from the EN-
peror's desk generations of Hapsburgs
are sleeping in the gloom of the dusky
cellar of the drear old Capuchin Church.
There where Marie Louise and Napoleon's
poor rAiglon lie In their metal collins
on the floor. a blue-eyed. blond-bearded
monk in sandals led me among the stony
touches of the imperial mausoleum. dole
fully whispering of Francis Joseph's
younger brother. Macmillan. who was
shot by the Mexicans at Queratero: OF
the Empress Elizabeth. the guiltless vic
tim of an assassin. and of the Crown
Prince Rudolph. enshrouded in the tragic
mystery OF his horrible death, all walt
ing In their tombs for the aged man In
the Burg to Join them when his work Is
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