El Imparcial. (San Juan, P.R.) 1918-197?, 1918-11-08
THE BIRTH
OF A NATION.

what skill any human enterl
theless fails, the schemers a
1.-THE. other hand, whatever bl
educting some business, if in
managers are wonders, real
That great humorist, Benja
his associates at one of those
Declaration was framed: &c
together, or they will hang
ii' Let os not incur now at the
the real value Of the Declars
new Czecho-Sloyak Nation, a
al Government of the newly
inw S'IseAxls sass .s', .tr
"At, this grave moment, when
the Hohenzollerns are offering
. peace in order to stop the victor
ions advance of the allied armies
and to prevent the dismember-
'ment of Austria-Hungary and
Tukrey, and when the Hapsburgs
are promising the liberalization
OF. the Empire and autonomy to
the dissatisfied natiOnalities COM
mitted to their rule we, the Cze-
cho-Slovak National Council, re-
cognized by the allied and Ameri-
rican Governments as the Provi-
siOnal Government of the Czecho-
Sloyak State and nation, in COM
plete accord with the declaration
of the Czech deputies made in
Prague on January, 1913, and
realizing that liberalization and,
Still more, autonomy, means
nothing under a Hapsburg dynas-
i.ty Edo hereby make and declare
this our declaration of independ-
ence.
- "Hapsbmg Mock Federation.
"We do this because of our be-
lief that no people should be
forced to live under sovereignty
they do not recognize and because
of our knowledge and firm convic-
ton that our nation can not freely
develop in Hapsburg mock fede-
ration, which is only a. new form
of the denationalizing oppression
under which we have suffered for
the past 800 years. We consider
freedom to be-the first prerequisite
for liberalization, and believe that
the free nations of central and
eastern Europe may easily fede.
rate should they find it necessary
"yVe hake this declaration on
the basis of our historic and na
,tural right. We have been an in
dependent State since the seventh
century, and in 1926, as an indie
pendent State, consisting of Bohe
mia, Moravia, and Silesia, we joiu
ed with Austria and Hungary in
. a, defensive union against the Tur
!. kish. danger. We have never vol
unfairly surrender our rights as
an independent State in this con
federation. The Hapsburgs broke
their compact with our nation by
!. illegally transgressing our rights
! and violating the constitution OF
!, our State, which they had pledged
themselves to uphold and We
therefore refuse longer to remain
4 a part of Austria Hungary in any
form. = 4&faAi
j. ,.<4 Rights Of Bohemia. -.
s>A,.,s s.i iE S
"We claim the right of Bohemia
!, to be reunited with her SlOval
brethren of Slovakia, once par
; of our national State, later tori
:. from our national body, and 81
! years ago incorporated in thu
!, Hungarian State of the Magyars
who, by their unspeakable violen
.ce and ruthless oppression of theil
i subject races, have lost all mora
and human right to rule anybod.
but themselves.
la saThe world knows the history O
our struggle against the Hapsburs
oppression, intensified and syste
,nlatized by the AustrO- Hungarian
!, dualistic compromise of 1867. Tb'
!. dualism is only shameless organ
ization of brute force and exploi
i, tation of the majority by the mi
,nority; it is a political conspirac.
Of the Germans and Magyar
againts our our own as well as th'
other Slay and the Latin nation
!, of the monarchy. The worl'
knows the justice of our claims
which the Hapsburgs themselve
dared not deny. Francis Joseph il
the most solemn manner repeat
sJedly recognized the sovereign
rights of our nation. The German
and Magyars opposed this recogn
iti0n, and Austria Hungary, bow
ing before the Pan-Germans, be
; noma n oolonv of Gormauv and N