The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-05-25
'eHuRCHMEN, STIRRED BY WORDS 0F HUNGARIAN MINISTER, SET
 FORTH SLOvAK CONDITIONS

We offer s5.00o.oo to a charitable purpose of this city if any one can point out just one. purely Slovak high CT school or college toIerated by the government for almost 100000 of Slovaks in Hungary. NeyDne dares to erect a SIovak High school, as such act of treason in FEungary. The last effort made for three Slovak gym nasia (col1eges) which x had been founded by private donations, was in 1888. They were arbitt.aEtly dissolv- ed by the government and their en- tire funds were confiscated. They looked at first for Panslayism as 8. cause to dissolve them (If you tell. your child: our language Is g. gift of God, you must love tt-lt Is pan slavisn,. the great crime in Hun gary). They did not find. that cause, so they dissolved 1t on a. petty and manufactured. excuse, t11at the buildings were damp. Since then the progress and culture of almost B. 0Q0.000 S1ovaks have been deli hbeFate- 1y stifled by those whose duty 1t is to mete out equal justice to all races Of the country. The few undtscourag- ed advocates of Elovak liberty and equality as guaranteed by law on pa per only, have been branded as trat- tors and Supporters of Russian de- spotism, and have been either driven by persecution to- quit the country or subjected to repeated trials and i'm prisonment (see D. 15T and . 65 sProb- 1en1s of Hungary pub1ished: Arch. Constable, London@. Simultaneously an effort was made by the R. c. Bishop Moyses to found SS1ovenska- Matica,s' a purely literary and educa- tfonal institution by private subscrip- x His Majesty the Emperor, endowed the institution with a liberal dona- ton. When they saw that all creeds floeked around Bishop Moyses as a father and cIarnpi on Of Justice and adopted a more Schauviniatfc attitude towards natl onaHties. In1875 the ss"Ma,tica SIovenska'' was dissolved. Thus the government deprived the rising generation of SloxaksT of the most necessary means of education on which the progress Of national cul- ture depended. The entire funds of the .tMattca, fncIuding the Emperors own subscripti tion, were rbitrarfly confiscated because there IS no Slo- yak race in Hungary" g. jusdncat4on given by Prime Minister Tisza- The unique SIovak Museum and library was alHe setzed. They had absoiute1y no cause. but they made ip an am zbiguous excuse that it was not up to government standard.
 It is true the S1ovaks have some primary schools. But glance at the official statistics and you must form your own opinion of the liberty and Justice towards SIovaks in Hun gary. (See D. 487 Racial Problems of Hun gafy,z Londens)
 Tor sirnplicityes sake. we limit the statfsHies to ten counties where over half the population is Slovak, though in other counties the contrast Is even more striking,
 The countries are: Oravae Trench, #zvofen, Iaurec. Nttra- sav1ss Spfs, Tse- kov, Presporok.
 Total population in these counties. 1888. .452s percentage of slovak popu- slatIon 74iS; percentage of those who undertsand Hungarian language, I7.66s total primary schools in these coun- ties, 2e6S; S1ovak primary schools in lthose counties Cor 75 per cent. of p,), SIS; Hungarian primary schools in these counties Cor r per. cent of p, 1,219;. mixed Slovak and Hun ngarian schools, 626.
 This needs no commentarys It Is in ttse1f a sufficient refut tation of the flair play as understood there. Pure ly Hung garian population is only lit- tie more than 81-5 conapared to that of SIovak By what process can we ext plain that Is populaEibn should have their four schools for every one school of the AS Of the Slovak 1a.tdonalfty ? Let the intelligent reader form his own conclusion.
 s Now glance at the statistics of high schools and colleges in Hungary.
 According to Hugarfan offFeial cen sus the percentage of Hungarians in Hungary Gncludfng S4ovaks, who in fear of being branded and persecuted professed themselves Hugarians1 is other nationa1ities), 4s.6; Slovalss alone fT1f.fs,1 1~vNi .E111 Q 5. Now mark we'll the relative percent age of schools s
 Hungarian primary schools. soy; non4Hungar1an schools, IS; S1ovak schools, sI3, ~
 Percentage aof grarnraa sschoois.
 Purely Hungarian S5.5; non-Hunga- rian, 4-5; S1ovak,s none.
 Percentage of commercial and in dI1striaf schools.
 Purely Hungarian. s1.8; non41Iunga- rian, S.7; S1ovak, none
 Percentage of gymnasia (edufvaIent to our colieges93
 Purely Hungarian. s1.7; non4Hun1 ga rian, 8.S3 Slovak, none.
 Percentage of real schools:
 X Purely Hungarian, s2.s; nonzHunga- rian, IT; S1ovaE none.
 Here. we see the statistics of the country itself lsee D. 42S Racial Prob IeFns of Hungary9. An fndipidual es- pecially if he be a renegade can be biased, but facts speak for themselves The fair minded Arnericansk look for facts as a basis on which they form their judgment Let anyone visit the Sfavoniane. They will tell him that in zaIla. and Vas, counties, in which the Slovenian population is over 15o, 600, they have not even one primary school. Some will tell him also, how their children, speaking to others in their mother tongue, were penalized by being forced to write one thousand times Az iskolaban es unindenut csak mayyaruI Ken beszelni'' Gin the school and everywhere only Hungarian must be spoken.
 Some one by comparison may think differently. But there is no compar1- son between the conditions in Hun gary and in this country It is like heaven and earth. Tn Hungary reigns