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Show THE SUBJECT-RACES. The Literary Digest contains an interesting in-teresting symposium of the opinions expressed by American newspapers representing rep-resenting the subject-races of Kurope aud Asia Minor. It la entitled the ' ' Veioe of the Little Peoples, ' 1 and conveys as accurately as newspaper comment can, the opinions of the sub ject-raees regarding the war. In Europe Eu-rope the iron ce-is.urshipp have made the subject-races dumb, but in "free and glorious America,'' to use the phrase of a Bohemian editor, they voice their opinions and sympathies through their racial press. Quotations are given from papers speak i ng for the Poles, Finns, Croats, i VeHis, Letts. Rnthenians, Armenians, Syrians, etc, The papers that speak for the Armenians and Syrians are unanimous against Turkey, but they represent only the Christian Armenians, Syrians and Arabs. Tn Kurope I he most remarkable protest pro-test of any of the subject-races comes from the Bohemians, racially described as Czechs. They have been under the heel of the Hapsburgs for about 4U0 years, and if their papers published in the United States are to he taken as a criterion, they are as little satisfied with Austrian rule today aa ever. Tlrey are outspokenly for the allies and hope that Austria-Hungary will .be defeated. One of their papers informs us that Bohemian regiments have refused to fight with Austria, and that they have been decimated and dissolved. The Poles, whose ancient kingdom was divided among Russia, Austria and, Prussia, are divided in opinion. Many of them favor Austria, which has treated the Poles much better than has either Russia or Germany. On the whole, however, the sympathies of the Poles are with the allies. The Rnthenians, Rnthen-ians, although a Slavic people, appear to have little use for Rijssia, and as they have been granted many liberties by Austria in Galieia where they have the center of their civilization, they favor the Austrian cause. Ou the other hand, the Letts or Lithuanians, although al-though there are millions of them iu the Austro-Hungarian empire, are, for the most part, desirous of seeing the allies win. The southern Slavs, those who occupy Bosnia, Herzegovina and Dalmatia, all Austrian provinces, are divided in their sympathies, but it can be said safely that an overwhelming number favor the allies. Many Dalmatian Slavs, who look forward to Italian rule as undesirable, unde-sirable, raise their voices for Austria. The state of mind of the Croatians is described by oue of their editors as follows: ' ' In the United States twenty-two papers and periodicals are published in the Croatian language. One daily, four weeklies and a monthly favor the Austro-German cause. Ou the other band, two dailies, nine weeklies, one semimonthly semi-monthly and oue monthly support the allies. It is noteworthy that three of the four pro-Austrian weeklies have been started since the outbreak of the war. One of these is published by the same people who issue a pro-Austrian j daily, while the source of the support of the others does not need any special mention, in view of recent ambassadorial ambassa-dorial activities."' It will be seen that some of the editors edi-tors are suspicious that their fellow ! editors have been subsidized by Dr. ' Dumba. The Slovaks, who are the nearest neighbors of the Bohemians, are unanimously unani-mously anti-Austrian. The Finns, who are subject to Russia, do not show much sympathy for Russia, Rus-sia, aud yet some of their papers in this country express the hope that the allies will win. They fear Teutonic domination and see little hope from that quarter. In view of the state of opinion nmong the people of Austria-Hungary, the outsider out-sider can only marvel at the fight which the dual monarchy has made. |