Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1918-10-29
WHY AUSTRIA IS DOOMED
TOLD IN VIENNA PAPER
Articles Were ut First Prohibited
but Later Government
Withdrew Ban.
PRESENT REGIME a FAILURE
Conflict Between German and Non.
German Elements Declared IT.
rcconcilablc-Only Union of Free
Peoples Could Form Federation.
[Ry International News bureau

The Vienna Arbeiter Zeitung pub
fishes two sensational articles by Fried
erich Ausierittz on National Politics
ten for the kampf. hut not unnaturally
prohibited, The ban was withdra WI
and they appeared in the August num-
Der. Their significance lies not so much
in What they say as in the fact that the
"n he , is allowed nF to say t.
rs the conclusions he draws. The sum
of the matter is that the Austrian en-
pre- is doomed it cannot exist in it's
German and the ncn-Cerman elements
is irreconciable. The Germans stand
rooted in reaction and privilege; tho
non Gernans in democracy and free
dom The state dare not favor either
section At the expense o. -" other.
1t cannot fe,ain the loyalty Of either
Withou; satisfying its demands. The
Germans regard the empire as some
thing necessary in the nature OF things:
the non Germans look on change as
an Indispensable condition.
The defenders of the present regime.
he says. are its severcst Judges. In
their view ii cannot be The express
must he their prison." The writer then
turns aside from his main arguments
and points out how strange it is that
matte devotion TO the principles of ma
i"nalttN..as witness her actions in
Poland. Finland and the Ukraine, and
her attempts To found Flemish state
Should stop short at the Austrian
frontier
Herr Austcrlitz next demolishes the
argument that the subject states have
thrivcn because they formed part of
a great and noble whole: that Austria
has fostered their growth. and if lef,
insgniticance and sink to a lower level
of civilization: lie adds:
y federated safe can be a moral
form OF the union of nations. But only
IL II Is union of free peoples, q union
which is not content with seeking its
Justification IN the past, and bas!ng its
existence on force.
AS an example of what true fed
Grafton should be, he points to The new
Russian democratic republics. in whose
future he seemingly has unooundcd
faith
GERMANS STAND At
THE PARTING OF THE WAYS
The Germans stand at the parting of
this ideal, or they can exhaust them
selves in the struggle 10 remain the
predominant nations struggle fore
doomed to failure, because i! is con
they have refused to contemplate a real
creative" national policy, and hence
the Crisis has no solution compatible
with the continued existence OF the
present emp. re. I ne tragedy, the writer
continues, is that Austria ana Germany
are blind TO the facts.
Universal Suffrage. which is a nee
csSarN poStilaJc Tor the CXechS is for
the Germans as red tag 10 4 bull; the
NellHaNs 90 not knO v ll--and perhaps
honestly deceive themselves with talk
OF their unsc!iish efforts TO preserve
Austria; but the ruth IS:
austria cannot rnmain as 1t is, for
many national ana AL democratic nee
,ss!.irs nsa, against it. Hence there
Is only one right Rational policy: that
which has no consideration OF Austria.
Such consideration would have TO do
with II dying effcte Austria. and would
n!"uer ,ne Li"th OF the new Austria,
Wn,un must bc a better one Free ia
lt,HS a.. re- Il, s.l 81 al ,l,s
can no longer be her footStool.
IL is refreshing to md :. German pro-
cas-, few home tru.h; and to put il
into It's proper place. even though he
Is ready 10 pos ,.i"-.G the operation till
after the war. an .hc Nossische lei
berg. in al article headed political
Meh.aiiiy.' argues that Germany has
no politics me governments pursues
either military or economic objects ca
prlciousiy in turn-but the economic
and the military mind is At best only
substitute ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS all the
Weaknesses OF substitutes. pn the one
hand, IL - i boon that the war mas
destroyed the tctisn OF the economic
the military dol, and thus, the pro-
hercsy has come into being.
The military mentality is indeed as
the momcn, Uf the saving of the state
the proper representative of the whole.
but when the danger IS rast II de-
scenGS once more TO the level OF
partial mind, ana ;,l!'tniltthfy acts and
Ideas that pess beyond the limits of
the momen. have only a professional
value, and cease TO be representative.
Hence, he says, it is NEST unhealthy
that no one should b .lccmcd TO be
representative except :hr soldier and
the commander. j; is significant that
such things should he allowed TO APP
pear; one would hardly have expected
10 read them year ago II Is pity
such ideas are held only by "isolated"
thinkers. We were NAIVE enough be-
fore the war TO think they We're gen
eral. Had they been, would there nc Il
world war noN?