Evening star., 1919-04-02
CzERN|N ADVISES
LOYAL IRON HAND
To Archduke Ferdinand He
Quotes ''The Voice of the
People Is Voice of Cattle" :"
DEPRECATES POLITICIANS
BY A. u. DECKER.

BY A. u. DECKER.
| Special Cable to The Evening star and
! Chicago Daily News. Copyright. l..
1919, in the United States and Euro
| peI1 countries.
PRAGUE, Bohemia. via Paris. April
1.-The following installment of ex-
tracts from the private papers Of
| Count Czernin. seized in Prague. is
! continuation of the orandum
which he prepared for the late Arch
duke Francis Ferdinand concerning
the best way to bolster up the power
OF the crown in anticipation of the
archduke's accession to the throne.
| In it he discusses the character, abil-
! ity and fitness of the men most likely
to be considered for places in a gov
ernment designed TO administer the
/ rigorous policies recommended.
1t troubles my conscience to take mp
! the time of your imperial hi%hness
with such a long treatise. but hav"
! to explain my reasoning. which points
| to the following: The first and most
| important qualities Of the future ad
| wiser of your imperial hiehness is to
! walk along the outlined path "c"ute
| que coute" regardless of the cosD.
/ The emperor outlines tn" Cours"
along general lines, but the details
have to he taken care of BY the min
| listers. No emperor can know the
! laws in all their details and no mon
arch can be present at All the reEo-
! Liations The ministers are here for
! that To make this a success the
ministers must be of one heart and
| soul with the emperor. They must
| know only the words "to win or to
| fair; the smartest men who are cow
| ards or false Will spoil everything if
| they are in responsible positions.
Without hlindly devoted advisers no
| emperor can win political battles. |
| therefore believe that the first and
most important qualification of the
| future men is that they recognize that
u-avering or hesitation is the greatest
| crime and that energy is the only
| hope. They must recognize that in
Hungary as well as in Bohemia the
political course has to he decided upon
| in time. and that then it has to be
! followed out to the end. no matter
what happens.
Loyal Only to One Master.
From this it follows that the men
of the future, so I think. have to be
of an entirely different quality. They
must not be "brilliant parliamenta-
frians," spirited phrase makers Ia
! koerber, P1ener and Baernreiter, but
| they must be men who are honestly
devoted to their kaiser. who are will
ing to list themselves for their mas
! ter and their empire and who ar"
ready to take the risk of ruling
against public opinion and against
! parliament and for their kaiser.
1t is certain that during the first
Lyears they will have all the pubic
| opinion against them. Whoever minds
-; q
the German kaiser. told me once that
J should remember for all my life that
"Vox populi voX rindvieh' Gnstcad OF
the peoples voice. Gods Noicc-the
kaiser said 'the peoples voice Is the
voice of cattle"). Those men who will
some time be the servants of your
| imperial hishness must remember this.
Second, it follows that such men as
are riskine- their families and their
wealth should be .placed in an excep-
tional relation with your imperial
highness They should be blindly de-
voted to YOUR imperial highness in
any circumstances. Your imperial
highneSS has to have confidence IN
them and hold them even as there Will
be unavoidable hard fights that will
have to be fought out.
Bismarck and the Kaiser.
Bismarck had the whole world
against him from 1862 to 1866 and, if
in spite of this. Kaiser Wilhelm had
not held him. he never would have
become the great statesman. If the
kaiser had discharged him before 1856
| because of his many seeming non
successes he would have been tried
before the courts. And he himself
says in one of his letters "he would
ha ardly have escaped the penitentiary.
Mote by Decker-There follow some
notes in parentheses. Go take un-
pleasant things up to protect the
kaiser). (Assaults-northern Bo-
| hemia)1
Third, it results from this that, as
I fear, men of such qualifications are
not too numerous in Austria. One has
long ago forgotten such things in our
country parliament" and public
opinion" according to the ideas of our
politicians. are more important than
anything else. A certain sort of idola-
try with the "Sovereign people has
become common.
In Hungary. in my humble opinion.
the prime minister of your imperial
highness must be d black and yellow
1.-THE Austrian colors] general. Surely
he will need helpers for interpreting
the laws and for negotiations. Such
! individuals as kristoffy and other men
taken from the nation" must form
the first cabinet. l think. 1t seems to
me that kristoffy is one of those
smart and skilled, but absolutely
characterless. men who are able to do
good work only under an iron hand
But then they may become very use
full. The iron hand would have to be
| the general.at the head.
Needs Strong Military Man.
The more I think about Austrian
conditions the more ] am convinced
that here, too. the prime minister of
| your imperial highness should be
general, devoted to your all highest.
l really do not know of any profess
sional politician Of our time in whom
/ would have confidence and who
would take for his only guidance the
power of the crown and the welfare
of the monarchial empire-two COM
I prehensionS which to me are identical.
/ They are either nationalistTcally
| prejudlced. popularity seekers. or al
! though true and dependable, are so
politically uneducated that they
would stumble at the first steps.
Among these. I am sorry to say. are
! my best friends
| 1t is probable that the general, who,
according to my opinion. should be at
! the head, will also be politically un-
educa ted. but this would not be his
| object. His task would be to direct
the main course which your imperial
| highness would have definitely out
| lined This he