The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1919-09-03

coming 10 them
John Eethea acted as potsEtate in the
absence of j. H. Heineke. whc was
kept at home " illness, an1 presided
cver the opening ceremonies, Past Pc
tentate Frank Sal epard presidsSover the
initiation.
Another pilgrimage is to be held at
Admission, September Is, at which time
about 150 candidates will me. initiated
into the Shrine. A special train viii
be run from Birmingham to Admission
on tins occasion
lied and associated powers, It's impos-
sible to admit the plea ofAfhe Austrian
delegates that the people of Austria do
not share the responsibility of the gov
eminent which provoked the war, OF
that they are to escape the duty or
making reparation to the utmost OF
their capacity to those whom they and
the government they sustained lave so
grievously wronged. The principles
upon which the draft treaty is based
must, therefore. stand.
Until the signing of peace, he peo-
pie of Austria are, and will remain, an
enemy people; upon it's signature they
will become a state with whom the al
lied and associated powers hope and ex-
pect to maintain friendly relations.
PEOPLE ARE TO BLAME
az The Austrian delegation have fur
Their protested against the arrangements
under the treaty governing their rela-
tons with the new states formed out Of
the late Austro Hungarian monarchy.
1.-THE allied and associated powers feel
bound to point out that the disabilities
from which Austria will suffer will arise.
not from the provisions of the treaty, but
mainly from the policy or ascendancy
which its people have pursued in the
past Had the policy of Austro Hungary
been one of liberty and justice to all its
peoples the upper Danube states might
have remained in friendly economic and
political unity. AS it was, the policy OF
ascendancy produced one of the cruelest
tragedies of the late war, when mil
lions of the subject peoples of Austria
Hungary were driven, under pain Of
death, to fight against their will in an
army which was being used to perpet-
uate their own service, as well as to
compass the destruction of liberty in
Europe.
Many Of these peoples protested
against the war, and for their protests
suffered confiscation, imprisonment or
death. Many more, who were captured
or escaped, Joined the armies of the allies
and played their part in the war of lb-
Grafton But they are now, one and
all, determined, and rightly determined,
to set themselves up as independent
states.
They will trust Vienna no more The
policy of ascendancy has borne its in
evitable fruit in the fact of partition,
and it is this partition which lies at thu
root of Austrias troubles today
Vienna was made the &c, omic and
political center of the empire; every
thing was artificially concentrated there.
Outlying districts and railways were
starved in order that the capital might
thrive The breakup of Austria Hun
gary, cutting three centralized filaments
in two, can hardly fail to infilct the Sc
verest blows upon the state of Austria
and it's capital.
But the dissolution Of the monarchy
with it's consequences is the direct out
come of that fatal policy of domination
for which the people of Austria are them
selves principally to blame.
NO ILL WILL
49, The allied and associated powers,
+, however have no wish to add to the
| hardships of Austrias position. On the
contrary, they are anxious to do all in
! their power to assist her people to &C
| commodate themselves to their new po-
| sition and to recover their prosperity
provided always that it is not at the ex-
i pcnse of the new states formed out OF
| the late empire.
I THE break up Of the monarchy ha.
given rise to many difficult problem:
in the relations between the new state:
/ which, under the treaty are it's heirs
1t has been recognized as reasonable
that the relations between the citizens
of the succeeding states should b.
regulated in certain respects differently
from the relations between the citizen
of Austria and those of the other al
lied and associated powers and. il
view of the observations of the Aus
trian delegation the allied and asso
ciated powers, while adhering to tn
general lines of the treaty, have mad
considerable notifications in its eco
nomic provisions. The property of Aus
tria nationals in territories ceded t
the allied powers is to be restored t
it's owners free from any measure o
liquidation or bans. forbidden since tn
armistice, and is guaranteed simila
freedom from seizure or liquidation
the future. Contracts between Austri
nationals and persons who acquire, un
der the treaty. an allied nationality ar
maintained without option of cancella
ton.
provision is made to insure Aus
, tria supplies of coal from Czecho-Slo
vakia and Poland, upon which she
, | dependent, in Seturn for reciprocal oh
} obligation to supply certain raw mate
rails. Outstanding questions affectin
nationals of Austria, which require SCI
Element between Austria and it's II
, heriting neighbors, are to be regulate
} by separate conventions and these cor
ventions are to be drawn up by a col
ference to which Austria will be ad
mitted on footing of equality wit
, the other states concerned.
"Details Of these and other conces
sions will be found in the annexed re
f, ply. Finally the reparation commissio
will be instructed to carry out IL
, duties confided to it in a strictly h,
y manitarian manner. 1t will have du
regard to the vital interests of tt
. community and will permit any mitig;
tions which it may conider required
1 the food situatiin.
NO BOUNDARY CHANGES
"(4) AS regards the territorial lin
/ it's established for the republic of Au.
tria, the allied and associated power
! | afe unable to admit any modification
in the decisions already communicate
!! These decisions were arrived at aft.
many months Of careful examination
and the observations furnished by tt
= Austrian delegation have found to cor
" tain no arguments which had not bee
considered by the conference.
'"rhe allied and associated pows
endeavored to determine the boul
:, daries of the states formed out of Il
|" late Austro- Hungarian monarchy
such an equitable way as to bring
4 lasting peace to central Europe. TIL
they have drawn for Czecho-Slovak
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