The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1919-09-18

They have the same arched nose. deep
ly suuken eye aud long hair" Il
Faget Hungary and Trans,-l sauia." yoI.
H. T. So
And again:
The more think Of the matter the
more 1 am convinced that the majority
OF the Wallacks (Roumanians) are true
Dacians-" Il. Paget vol cit p. 74.
Now would the Hungarian take the
ridiculous position to say that they
We're in Transylvania before the Da-
clans? 1t is very clear that the Rou-
nanians are the real owners Of the parts
OF Hungary named: Pennsylvania ard
Banat. and not only by the right or
first possession" but by an absolute ma
Jority
The country is inhabited by the Hun
garians or the Magyars who establish
ed themselves there in the 9Th century.
and by other races which immigrated
there later" says the Hungarians
The other races immigrated there2
But If we take in consideration the fart
that There is. among the waIiacks
peculiar tenocity TO localities. which
besides maintained them IN this land
where Goths. Vandals and Huns. in vain
tried to gain a permanent footing. stiIl
attaches them. notwithstanding the in
Jurles and injustice TO which they are
exposed. so fofcibly to their native
villages. that if 6 possibility of exist
ance remain, they rarely quit them >"
tPaget. ibid. D. 81. This is directly
opposite TO the Hungatians' theory of
immigration. This tenacity is an i'm
portant fact. and ought TO make the
zMagyars very cautious how they at
Tempt 70 force prematurely any reform
IN language. religion, or custom. on
such people IS the advice Mr.. Paget is
giving the Magyar chauvinists A
refutation Of the immigration theory as
per Mr.. Seton-Watson The Rise If Ma
tionality in the Balkans" he saws. per
maps thempest proof that the Roumanians
tide did not set from south to north as
Magyar apologists argue. but from north
TO south, is supplied BY the position Of
the various capitals In Walacbja tbe
original centres were Cimpulunr and
Curtea de Argos. which have superseded
hrst by Tirgovistea and finally BY Blu
curesti, while the capital Of Moldovia
was transferred from its original seat in
Suceava Tin what is now Bukovinal to
Jassy. In each case il is a gradual de-
scent from the northern mountains into
the plans Of the Danubian system" %
3d. In the times of barbarian inva-
sions. the only place where the Rou-
manians could find refuge was the
Carpatian mountains. or in other words:
Iransylvania-" SO the Hungarians
immigration" theory is very fictitious
Life and time mingled the various
races in Hungary necessarily Other
minglinEs were accumulated during the
18th century and as one finds there now
side by side Protestant Catholic Jew
and Orthodox. similarly there are in
Hungary. in the same region members
of five or six nationalities." further
argue the Hungarians. This mingIing
business is not q natural one. but arti-
fetal The Hungarian masters. in their
criminal attempt in order to Suppress
and ,extinguish other nationalities have
planted Hungarian colonies through
Pennsylvania and Banat Evidence can
he found in the Hungarian parliament
tary record; but the attempt failed and
instead of magyarzing the other ma
tionalities the Hungarian colonists have
drowned in the seas of non MaEyars. So
the minorities of Hungarian people from
these territories are the result of
criminal attempt on the lives OF Rou-
manians. Slovaks and Serbs. and these
nationalities can not be blamed for this
They say further
of course imperialism manufactures
it's own apparently just reason TO ea-
plain its unprincipled pretensions. Hun
gary's neighbors claim that the nation
ahties in Hungary have been oppressed
There is no space available to refute
this accusation. But what sort OF an
oppression could it have been that made
IT possible for all these races TO increase
in number. to keep their language and
national individuality? ="
We have to admit that this is appar-
emily very logical lie. How h%e We
kept our language and preserved our in
dividuality2 Very simple BY our
numerical power. The Hungarian which
are. as we saw. 2 minority in their own