The Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 191?-19??, 1919-07-12
Honeymoon Of Revolution Passes
and DisilIuSiOn Comes
Upon Them.
THREE ELEMENTS IN NATION
Ne" Government So Far Has Recou.
nized but One of Them in Rule
-Magyars and the Peas. ~
ants Are Ignored. n 4

NNeSSDurS, olOVaKla, B0hemia.-9H0s
orally speaking. the situation In So
vakia, formerly province OF Hhn.
gary, now annexed to Czecho-Sloyakia.
is not without dlsquIeting features.
The honeymoon Of the revolution has
passed and some of the disilluslonment
bound to follow the Introduction of A
new regime has set In. The Magyars
and the Magyarized elements have not
as yet been recOnclIed to the new re.
gime. and the peasants have recovered
from their first enthusiasm. A difficult
task Of reconciliation remains to be
performed by the Czechs.
The population Of SIovakia Is made
up of three elements-Slovak inteIli-
gencla, which has always been very
strong for the union with Bohemian
the Magyars and Magyarized Germans,
and the peasantry. The intelligencia
has been completely satisfied by the
CzechO-Slovak government. The ad-
ministratiOn has been handed over
completely to the very small number
of SlOvak doctors, lawyers, authors
and professors that could be mustered
for service.
Magyars Ignored.
Meanwhile the Magyars and Mag
yarized elements have been quite ig-
nored by the government except where
the government could not find a Slovak
to nll the job. Intense loyalty to the
old Hungarian rule characterizes these
people. They could be reconciled to
new conditions were they taken into
the Czech administration. But the
government at present prefers to- fill
the vacancies left by the SIovak intel
ligencia with officials from Bohemia
and Moravia. This naturally angers
both the Magyarized element and those
SlOvaks who are unfit but would like
TO occupy all the Jobs.
A decided sentiment for real local
autonomy is making itself felt. On,
the whole, the government may not be
opposed to granting an Outspoken de-
mand for home rule in the province.
The peasants do not take much inter-
est in theoretical politics. They cop-,
plain that the republic lasted only;
three days. BY this they mean that
they were allowed to plumber the Jews
for only three days in the interval be-
tween the withdrawal of the Hungar-
ans and the arrival of the Czechs.
During this time the peasants had
very free hand. There were very
ew towns or villages where they did
lot completely clean up the Jewish
who are the skopkeepers
md small traders, and at times les
ors of estates. Now the peasants have
10 longer the Jews to plumber their
interest in the new state has dimln-
shed. They were kept in a state Of
by the Hungarians and
herefOre are by no means ripe for
cal self-gOvernment. However, Just
Ow they are very bitter because they
lain the Czechs take their food sup
lies away.
5oISheVlsm Not Popular.
BOlshevism has not taken a great
rip on the peasantry. Slovakia is
rgely an agricultural district and we
NOW farmers are always the most
element. In the few In
lstrlal communities in the more
north and east a certain
mount of unrest has developed. In
ASSAY, far eastward, the large mills
e not working and the food situation
very bad, as 1t is In most Of the In
lstrlal districts. Here the wOrkmen
I'D meetings and grOwl in bolshevlk
ne. Naturally Kassav is rather near
e Hungarian border So that boil
levism there would be natural. In
e other industrial districts the work
en- seem to have taken out their
ass-consciGusness in making big de-
ands upon their employers. Not IN.
ual was it for workmen to come to
cir employers and demand that they
ceive a percentage Of all profits &C
ued since the wars beginning. With
this discomfort the food situation
very much involved. The mountain
$, which happen to be the industrial,
5tricts are mostly very short Of food
d clothes. Many factories where
lther and other products of the land
9 used function part time, but the
IN have not enough to keep them
ives and their families in food. IN
me localities there are not even
ough potatoes. Hence, as in some
,tricts of Bohemia, the trend Is to-
lrd bOlshevism.
Generally speaking, Slovakla would
t be the first province to go up in
archie flames. For the time being
2 bOlshevlk overturn in Hungarla
s had indeed a rather quieting eff
It on Slovakia. The wealthy or
IL to do who were most attached
their old fatherland now do not
ish the idea of returning to a Hun
~ which win take all their property.
Now They're Married.
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