YoungstownskeÌ SlovenskeÌ noviny = Youngstown Slovak news. (Youngstown, Ohio) 1910-1940, 1935-06-07

ten your Fifteen inch plaque will also in for bit
of bantering As for your citation that should be the
piece de resistance Of the work. especially the last para
graph of which pays tribute to Masaryk for what he did
to maintain freedom of speech freedom of association
freedom of the press and freedom Of conscience in the
Republic.
A whole volume might be written about Masaryks
brand of freedom of speech and association but shall
confne myself to the remark that though almost two
years elapsed since the Mira celebrations in
moraon of the eleventh centenary of the building of the
first Christian Church in slovakia Of Slovaks
still being tried fined and imprisoned for daring to
else these rights that glorious occasion.
The best way convince you that there freedom
of Press in for the Slovaks to send
copies of censored Sovak newspapers. That am doing
Sovak periodicals censored confscaed and
pended for periods long six months at time slovak
editors jailed and fined for the most trivial of
Within the past three months Karol Sdo the editor of the
SLOVAK, official organ of the Monsgnor Andrew Hnkas
PEOPLES PARTY (Cathoic) spent weeks in jail
Within the past year, the NARODN1E NOVINY official
organ of Martin Razus' SLOVAK NATIONAL PARTY pro
testant) drew month suspension Previous to that
both the NASTUP and the SLOVAK, the sei-onthly
magazine the other daily were suspended for
six months. In week when the prediction issues
of Of Sovaka's newspapers reach shall show
you the sort of freedom Sovak enjoy when
they engaged in the most sacred duty of journalism in
democratic State: the duty Of enghenng electorate
so that it might vote inteigently.
Of course, there is way to enjoy the blessings of
Masaryks democracy-the way of weakness the way of
dupcit the way dishonesty Praise the "Czechosovak
Republic in and out of season, Defy MASARYK
make genius out of Benes harping the
virtues of the Czechs-and all will be we'll with your
periodical: the Czech will forget that you exist
and the dispensers of state subsidies will make point of
remembering that you do. On the other hand tell the
truth insist your rights defy Masaryk and his henchmen
to make you Czech Czechoslovak, and you stand
good chance of going to Jail the poorhouse Possibly
to both, in the order named
Speakinp of Doorhouses reminds me to quote few
statistics apopos Of your statement that Masaryk struggled
increasingly for the rights classes against social in
justice and exploitation" Do you know that oneten of
all the workers in the Republic get weekly wage of $3.50
less? That onehird of all the workers get $3.50,
less? That threehs of all the workers get week
ly wage of $780, less? With such low prevailing
it any wonder that mllionares thrive and multiply in
Surely Masaryk could not have put up
much of struggle against exploitation if employers
their aborer rs cents for days work and get away
with it.
AS Slovakia is considered Czech colony, need point
out social economic and political exploitation has
been particularly rampant there In fact bad have
conditions been that during the decade from 1923 to 1892
of the people who left the Republic to seek their
fortune elsewhere exactly 143,351 lover ha were from
Sovaka. AS the population of Slovaka is less than
quarter of the total State population this figure for emf
grafton from sovaka to the outside world is convincing
proof that besides being the paythng of Czech politicians
Sovaka considered legitimate prey for the States worst
expoiters The only possibility of Improvement of con-
the Czechs decidedly against that for autonomy would
the loss of thousands of jobs to the Czechs the end
Czech domination the shaerng of the Czech dream
that some day in the future Slovakia's two million
Slovaks will become Czechs and like it.
A word about freedom of conscience. Does that
exist in Czecho Slovakia? is true that believe
wkst likes and to any kind of Church one likes If
that constitutes freedom of conscience Masaryks Republic
has it, However, considers that the State for
the part Catholic and the government is overwhelm
ingly Marxst and Christian is forced to the con-
cusion there is something seriously somewhere
Suppose that the atmosphere in Czech political cir
ces deadly conscences, it is unhealthy for Papa
Legates, and let it go at that Il
To conclude Thomas G. Masaryk will undoubtedly
go Czech history the greatest Czech since Jan
Hus but in our histories he will be described as
man of undoubtedly great natural abilities who despite
unparalleled opportunities for helping his people, al
ways failed hem when his character put to the test
And so to Slovaks he will always remain ct G. M: THE
CHARMING BETRAYER." The SLOVAK who betrayed
his people and did everything his power to humiate
them and their language degraded in official school
books to the rank Of Czech dialect! The CATHOLIC
who betrayed his religion for of philosophical abb
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