The menace. [volume] (Aurora, Mo.) 1911-1920, 1918-06-08
SOLDIERS OF DEMOCRACY MUST
PARTITION AUSTRO- HUNGARIAN EMPIRE

IT'S VAssALs MUST be SET FREE
BY GILBERT o. NATIONS
President Free Press Defense League.
81 Bliss Bldg, Washington, d. c.

Roman bishops were given large measure Of con-
troll over the public schools
These outrages perpetrated their father
land by secret diplomacy presently became known
to the Serbs. Four days after the execution of the
concordat, Archduke Francis Ferdinand heir to the
throne of Austria Hungary and leader of the des-
potlc and papal intrigue against Serbia, drv-
ing with his morganatic wife public street of
Sarajevo, capital Of the subjugated state of Bosnia
when Serbian student, naturally exasperated by
the wrongs imposed on his country, drew his gun
and shot them both to death.
Diplomatic intrigue between Vienna and the vat
lean Immediately redoubled its activity Serbia
was condemned to pay for the Sarajevo tragedy
with the last drop of its life blood. By perpetrat-
ing Serbia the outrage that provoked the tragedy
the pope was primarily responsible for the war with
its awful carnage and devastation. The imperial
government at Vienna demanded permission to send
armed forces into Serbia to exterminate those who
resented the papal and imperial designs and aggres
slons against their country-a demand no nation
could grant and maintain its independence The in
ability of Serbia to grant this impossible demand af
forded the desired pretext for the subjugation of
that country by the mighty Austro Hungarian en-
gines of war;
The subsequent events of the war in its outward
aspects are known to the world But the torture
and determination of its Jugoslav subjects by the
AuStro- Hungarian empire, favorite imperial nstru-
ment of the pope, is without parallel. That empire
is the ripened fruit Of a thousand years of Roman
Catholic culture
In the month of June, 1917, Jugoslav members in
public speeches in the imperial parliament described
the frightful suferings of their countrymen at the
hands OF the government of which they were sub
jects and slaves. Though the official censors have
not permitted the most shocking portions of these
descriptions to reach the public, few brief ex-
cerpts from the speeches as reported will give some
conception of the conditions disclosed
On June 6, DR.. Anton Korosec spoke in part as
follows:
Tha dc of
A sea Of blood and tears has flooded our Jugoslav
lands. From Bosnia and Herzegovina ever more
despairing cries for help reach US, the cries of
ruthlessly prosecuted people"-The SLovenec of
Ljubljana, June 2S, 1918.
On June 26, Dr. Otokar Ribar remarked:
"Our own authorities have wfully ravaged our
country; they have ragged against everything bear
ing the Slav name, and that in such fashion that
Europe has not seen the like since the battle of
Kossovo. Our unhappy nation is banished:
from some districts the very children, women and
old men have been driven off into slavery."-Id,
June 80.
But the most frightfu revelation of brutality
worthy OF demons was made in great Grafton de-
hvered October 10 by DR.. Ante Tresc-Pavicic
which included these words:
I'm Mostar, the prisoners slept in basement on
the floor crowded one on top of the other together
with thieves, cut-throats and gipses The famous
bucket was always full and overlowed on the floor
upon which they had to move sleep and eat. (Cres)
The greatest horror of this dungeon the gaoler
Kaspar Scholler This individual armed with an
iron crooka which he nicknamed the Kronprinz
used to call on his unhappy charges more often
than the latter found desirable, and belabored them
reckessly about the head and shoulders with his
kronprinz, while the blood ran down the faces of
his victims. | refrain from dwelling upon the in
suits, the gross beastality of his invective, his
fendish yels of rage. Money alone could for
moment pacate the ferocity of this Cerberus and
close his jaws. of Zagreb, October "a
25
This speaker tells of an Orthodox priest that was
beaten to death with the Kronprinz for sharing his
meager rations with his starving fellow-prisoners
he also tells how the most cultured and prominent
OF the prisoners were taken as hostages by the
authorities and foully murdered by hired Turkish
assassins without any cause whatever.
According to press reports the Magyars are re-
moving their Jugoslav subjects from their homes
along the southern border Of the empire to more
interior but unknown points, probably to perish of
famine and abuse, while their homes are delivered
over to the possession Of Magyars The pretext
for this ingenious brutality is to prevent nterco-
muncation between Jugosav subjects of the empire
and their knsmen in Serbia,
The cup OF despotism In this Roman Catholic
empire is full to overfowing No other country
has been dominated 30 long and 50 cornpletelv bv
the spirit and teaching Of the papal system. Here
Romanism has produced its Aniahsd product. A
power capable Of yielding such results should be
banished from tho EARTH It Is foreign and hostile
to Christian civilization. 1t is other than Anti
christ
Laden with the brutal tyranny Of the Middle
Ages, the Austro-H Hungarian empire has forfeited
its right to exist 1t should be partitioned. The
chlvalrous peoples that have been so long outraged
and devoured by its inherent cruelty are entitled to
their liberty.