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Show j Stephen Morris. o br-f t. r ... - 1 I 1 1 i carta IIS 1 1 -foe of the well-to-do edu- krs proper. I" H'- i - xe will hf si r'' i - t r. 1 1 1 - ijlgary and Austria so long as eph, Km;" r'.r A i: I I I l ' 1 1 -jbgafy. I" alive f&m ll -v I nv,. b i " spoct WKoseph; l i ' feci Inn mil'-h K for the old man.'' said a Magyar, twenty-six years In this country, to mo a rhy ' Bt"to count' ii. 1 1" any move- j Rig as IK. i 11 "Hi 'II-By 'II-By from Austria, as Norw Hfrve been dh nrrr-d Hal to allow I .- ll-.- of the Hruc In ci' iiiu liimr.nd- to Kucnl? li t'j be rcgrettnd; 1L j Of us Kill v.' I . in. ii,l. r Hfitine: i" i." "i.i i1'. Hf' a Mi ' 1 1 . v. 1 1 1 M i Krc know Ih.vv many, personal Hm has had to suffer and W" Hffflth a good deal more than lira wllhu.ii .nl' ... .".'.us a ft-' ft-' Spy other r i.inii...inry inove- howcvi, will ho the rlgnal 1 hftits which uuisi li nlt either jVlce for Hungary or ennccs-HtMagyars ennccs-HtMagyars which will satisfy ad. IjBmla us nr.. dissatisfied, too; the 1 1 .j n ga n.i i - .u' auxjnus Hwparit. ii.ili"ii.il life or e-HtSSl'.ns e-HtSSl'.ns of virions kinds. IB (Magyars; mid Boheni- p ians (Czechs ) 2 mnm races 1 i r- on TKincar-BU TKincar-BU ma ho divided Into four Hps: Hungarians proper or jllH - i 'I lit llerl Slov- 9End Gipsies. People ,.f sev-Hbces sev-Hbces live within the hounda-ooinilr;. hounda-ooinilr;. . Init they .ire not mi- ; Hjgh to mention scparateK In L:. fitl'v Is i .it !! Morn .1 ..IT dil'fer.' 1 1 1 ia. . - M.i." ' and Gipsies being K m l SScthoiigh the li ii ill. ry irnmO- 0llll'lill-' 1 '.'.'ll ' - 1 ' Kill . - I much larger proportion of real Hungarians Hungar-ians or Magyars than are to he found elsewhere I should add thai triors are many Czechs wo pronounc e i 'z.och alrrmst as If speUed 'check' or Bohemians proper, prop-er, living In Hungary hut there are pm!-:ib!y pm!-:ib!y not enough of thein to count for 01 against any movement, either for Independence Inde-pendence "r for greater recognition. Tho Sympathize With the present fioluiK for a separatt Hungarian national existence and Hungarians sympathise with Bohemia Bo-hemia in her a spirit ions for Bohemian recognition "To po Into Hungary's grievances in detail would take too long. Their general nature is easily explained. This recent flurry .ihnijt Francis Joseph's refusal to allow the use of the Magyar tongue in giving orders to Mip'nr soldiers la 'P1 cal. "We believe that the empire of Austria H mgsiry WOUld be knit still more flrmK together If this demand were to be conceded con-ceded It would certainly add to the et-nVi'-iirv rf a Hungarian regiment actively active-ly In the Meld If the soldiers could hear tiv h own language from the lips of the commanding officer and we bciiev,- it would add to then? patriotic fooling also. Fran c!lii Joseph doesn't, and Hungarj rc- . him too much to Insist. The Magyar Tongue in the Schools. "Hungary now enjoys many things that wore denied to 11 not many years ago. 1 recollect very well when It was first made p sslble for the school children to be taught t'no various branches from bonks print' d In the Magyar language by i achers who spoke the Magyar tongue. I whs only a schoolboy then not 10 years old hm the memory Of ni first day In a t school whro Magyar was spoken and n ad Is as fresh to me as yesterday. s :i boy 1 lived In Pesth. anil the school was supported bv the city, not hy i the nation. Tonaj all the municipalities in Hungarj support fine eohools for their i hlldren but if you liver In the country and wish your children to po to school you must hire your own teacher. "If you are a rich man you will hire a private teacher set aside -i room In your house for the teacher and your children, who may be joined In th-'-lr studies by the children of some of your neighbors, to whom you may wish to extend the eour-i eour-i jy of an Invitation to do so, or who nmv wish to help bear the expense. "If you are a poor man you and your neighbors wii club together and shar the oxpons--" amo'ne 'bu 1 was the t--.. h- er In a lit 1 1 village school when I was i bo in my very oorty t . ns M father wa8 poor, and If I went any further in ' my studh s had to go ,,ut in the country school teaching to earn the money It would cost for me to go on I had seven or eight pupils all the children of the village in which l taught, and I drew not , a penny or my pay till I had been teaching teach-ing a year nnd a half Then I had quits i a bundle, and was able to continue my studies iu Pesth. Hungarians in America. "Wo estimate that there are about 00,- 000 natives of Hungary In New yrk, of I Whom 0,X0 are real Magyars, and 60,000 I are Jews. Slays and others Tlvro ore about 100,000 natives ,f Hungary In the United States outside of New York. Most , of the Slavs from Hungary are (o he found ill ihe com I mining regions of Pennsylvania Penn-sylvania They an- not at all of the same i glade us the Magyars, though I hope pou ' will not think mo UhdUlj narrow for say-I say-I ing so. 'It Is a fact that, while there arc no prouder people alive than the Magyars, there Is no country In the world d. spite the various ric s which Inhabit U. where people of different nationalities get along ' i together better than In Hnngarv. There i la no antl-S mite t. ding there as there Is in some countries at least, there wasn t ' wh' n 1 was a boy at home, linl I have not heard thii an such feeling ha .h - VGloped there nlnce. "Magyars Slavs. r"zoeh and Hebrews get along together admirably, each fully conscious of the peculiarities of- the others, oth-ers, and all tolerant quite ss tolbVanl as In the CTnited States. 'If riot more sq. Ami, of course, all toh rate the GlpBles. ' Tin different nationalities do not In- j Icrmarrj very much I should sav there I is less amalgamation there than in this country, for, while there Is tolerance, there Is also r.-n e pride in plenty, and. as 1 have said, race pride Is a very Important Import-ant characteristic of the Magyar. The Magyar, unllkt most Europeans, lints not Ilk'- to speak any tongue but his own; he doean'J like to read books printed in anything excepl Magyar, and he hkes his newspapers t be of his own language. lan-guage. The Magyars Are Progressive. "I hope you will not think the Magyars an unprogresslye race fim this. I. as a Magyar, naturally believe thr-m to be un-UKually-progressive, and we are, all proud of Budapest, one of the best-governed cities In the world, wlfere progresslveness nr.d ihe development of municipal beauty go hand In hand, as any traveler will tell you. "By and by we hope tho Hungarians Will be able to point proudly to an Inde- I pendent Hungarian state; s state whose government shall be. In Its way as satisfactory satis-factory as the municipal government of Pnda .t st Is today. "In this hope we take great account of Fjrancls Kov.-,uUi. who, we. trust, will prove himself a worthy son of his father. Louis Kossuth, honored repeatedly by the people of this country. "But. while Frnncls Kossuth seoms to premise, well, WS do not yet know how he w ill develop I taring all his father's life the younger man kept out of Hungarian politics, living with him In Italy, since, the elder Kossuth's death he bas been active, and, as you havo seen by recent cablegrams cable-grams In the newspapers, he i now a very big factor In the affairs of Austria-Hungary. Ho like all patriotic Magyars, Is particularly Impressed by the Injustice of the unequal shore of the Imperial military and other expenses Hungary ha.s to bear, but we bell.-ve that, like tho rest of us. he does not think it would be ni ell to presS for a decslVfl crises while Francis Joseph lives." The Wonderful City of Budapest. What tho Magyar quoted above, says about the beauty and the progresslveness of Budapest Is quite true, though, singularly singu-larly enougn. comparatively few Americans Ameri-cans know about It. It Is composed of the two ancient cities of Buda and Pesth; Buda lying or. the I v.-f stern and Pesth on the eastern bank of the river Danube, a little more than a hundred miles beyond lenna, and a little I to the south of east from the. Austrian I capital pesth Is tho old-time capital of Hungary, and within the past fifty years the united cities have taken a place pi tht front ranifB of th.-- world'js municipalities. Hungarians living In America who have done well financially make Budapest the Mecca, of their homeward ollgrlmages as often as possible ond their tales of Its progress, Its benuty and Its growth nil their compatriots who cannot return for . a visit there with homestcknesn such as , produced by in, other cause. Prom a material point of view it may be I ssld for Budapest ihat its development f i ihe electric surface railway W3 earlier and more complete than in any other clty ' In the world For one Instance, the underground un-derground conduit system was practically Introduced upon its trolley iin s long before be-fore a similar system was operated successfully suc-cessfully In any city of the United States, the country which, as s whole has made by far the best use of electric transportation transporta-tion Budapest was operating trolleys with underground conductors , -..rs before New "i ork. the only city on this .side, savo Washington, not given over to the overhead over-head trolley, was able to sobn the problem, prob-lem, in fact, the Budanest underground trolleys had been operating a long time when the ptreot car authorities of N'.-w York were offering J 100 000 for a de ce that would make underground trolley conduits con-duits practicable, and finally the N'.-w York authorities did the obvious thine, nnd. with modifications, adopted the Budapest plan. Budapest's Beauty and Industry. Budapest has outdone or ot least j equaled this country In another line In Which America is commonly supposed to be far ahead ol" all other countries, and that Is In the milling of flour. Our own ! Minneapolis Still exceeds the Hungarian capital in Its output but experts who have Inspected the llmirlng mills of Huda- I p-t ssy they are Ir. advane of njny- U I thing on this side of the water In eror.o- H my and scientific constiuetlon. ' H In manj other lines of manufacture H Budapest has shown wonderful pro- ; gress. adaptation there of scientific. I knowledge to pra"t.-.il mnnufacturfs Is I remarkable and the cv's Industrial growth of tate vr-ars ban been correspond- H ingiy noteworthy Al the time the authorities of Budapest, more than most other Kuro- peah cities, including Pari, even, hftVS seen to it that the ido.il of a beautiful city shall never he lost sight of. no ma'-I ma'-I ter how milch Is accomplished In the WSy H of material progress or expansion. Now H I If Budapest wore to hmld an elevated I railroad, the structure while larking no element of utility and strength possessed I by the elovntnl strictures in New York. H ( I.i. ago or Boston, would under no rlv- H CU instances t.e unsightly to the yo H I as are the elevated lines In those cltlo.s It might b.. urged for the American lH rltle probably, elevated lines run jH through their 'r.-.'ts at the present tlnm would he built with mote of an eye to beauty of structure than were Ihose H which now disfigure their thoroughfares. H But the fact is that the elovarod struc- H tures, now n caring completion. which H form a part of the new rapid transit H lines iu Hew York, arc even more ugly, H If that is possible, than the trest'.es of H th iglnal Manhattan lines. The dr. - H oration of the NTcw York subway sta- B tions is beautiful :i any municipal H work in the world, but wherew'r the H link is built the open air all idea of beauty of structure seems to have been H lost Sight of completely. As to cleanness of streets. Budapest It ols the cities of all the world. Copyright, 19)5. by McClurc. Phillips Co. |