The Washington herald., 1919-06-01

Washington Herald)
Berlin. May 31.-when the snow
masses heaped in Europe by the
blizzard of the struggle for power
shall once have melted, history will
book as principal events of the
world war the modern passing of
two peoples hardly. noticed today
the disintegration of the Hapsburg
Dual Monarchy and the hurting
back OF the Turks into their own
former Asiatic homes.
The empires of the Hapsburgs and
Of the Ottomans were, according to
Bismarck. the Assesses of Europe.
Since 1854 the cause of all wars lay
in those countries. including the
war OF 1870. As the crowds cried
IN the Paris boulevards for revenge
for Sadowa, so dio the ministers ard
the generals of Louis Napoleon wish
TO wrest again from the feared Prus-
slams their barely won preponier-
ance in Germany.
In the old Austria lived a finely
cultivated and lovable people.
blessed by the Muses. and the
Graces. Beside them sprung Up as
political partners a race of people
hot in blood and impulses. who tag
ged and fretted like thorough ored 8
when the reins of restraint were ap-
piled to them. r" this unhappy
mating the old Czechisn Bohemia
was forged into German province.
the Jugo-Slav race was robbed of
room for it's roots and deprived of
the warming sun, the Italians were
denied the cultivation of civic and
cultural life.
Only Polish Galicia was favored.
because its political manipulators
looked out for comfortable majorities
in the Reichsrat, tied themselves to
the Austro-Germans in Russophoby
and flattered every whim of the
Kaiser family.
Led by the Kalksburger Jesuits and
guided by wire pulling father con-
tessors. Hungary, a little island OF
Mongolians in a sea of Slavic and
Wallachian peoples. asserted itself by
the wild impudence and the tyranny
OF Its rulers. depressing the CroatS
and Rumanians within its own bor-
ders and not permitting even in Aus
tria a just policy toward the Slavs.
In order that Serbia might remain
weak and unattractive either for the
orthodox brothers in Bosnia, the Ro-
man Croats or Catholic Serbs, the
Magyars barred its access to the sea
and manipulated the products of its
agriculture and of its cattle industry
into markets In which it could not
compete with the large land owners
and hog raiskrs of Hungary.
Austria was thrown out of Pied
mont by Italy. out of Germany by
Prussia. and out of its position as
the first power in the Balkans by
bloodily tortured Serbia Every
where the treachery and corruption
of its system of government had
brought to it hatred. In order to
Illustrate the embrace of the Adriatic
by its ally, Italy. it trickily circum-
vented the alliance. forbade the self
willed assertion of power in the Bal
kan sphere. and then broke into
howls of rage over the Roman
breach of faith.
Austria Died I'm Intrigue.
In order. thorough Serbia's body.
to strike at Russia, it's great rival,
it drove its people, the richest in
creative strength in music, art, lit
erature and science. like a horde of
will-less slaves, into a fight against
their religiously and nationally
close relatives. and then avenged
their natural resistance against this
shameful misuse of power with the
gallows and the musket against
fathers, sons. wives and children.
As a league of states, on the
American or Swiss model. in which
each member of the body u She
empire had freedom Of activity and
each people retained it's language,
Austria Hungary might have be-
come both sower and reaper in the
field Of civilization. In the dryrot
of airless, thick -curtained intrigue,
the national policy and system died.
having been hardly altered from
Beust to Czernin.
The races it held in its iron claws
can now freely take root in the
earth, grow and spread heavenward.
creating their own value and there
nv increasing the credit of human
ity.
Turkey n "Robber Nest.-
Such a thronS of peoples on free
ground sowing and harvesting in
freedom. we hope to see also as heirs
of Turkey, which in its best days was
an armed camp advanced toward Eu-
rome and In its worst was a robber
nest. Never a nation in the modern
sense of the word, a usurper even in
Islam. never achieving anything Of
permanent value in any realm of hu-
man endeavor, in natural or cultural
sciences, in arts, technology. agri-
culture, industry or trade, Turkey
spread her red half-moon over the
most splendid of lands and bled to
death the most industrious of the
Rajah states!
May the robber chieftains. the
Diemals, Envers and their fellows
who, unmoved, saw thousands done to
death on the streets and heard their
death rattle. squander their noun
tain-high heaps of German gold in the
Caucasus or in another climate. Their
world that was can never be again.
It will appear to our grandchildren
only as one of the dark atrocities
from a chapter of the Thousand and
One Nights.
Kaisers Were Servants.
The abscess of Europe has burst
Our Orient is rid of pus: A way to
the. sea has been opened to the
Serbs. The Helenes. the new Ro-
mans. the Armenians again have
their farms. their grazing grounds.
their workshops. markets. wharves.
harbors and hinterland. And the
Mongolian Magyars and Bulgars.
possessors of estates. who might
have helped the peasants and have
been heped by them in community
OF interest, are now in modest
adaptation to the Cosmos, in a state
Of pure morality. forced into com.
munism.