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Show KLPUBLIGS FACE HUGEFIMS Conditions in Former Dual Monarchy Now Chaotic and Dangerous. Becoming More and More " Difficult to Maintain Semblance of Order. j VII-J.VXA, ThurhIa. Nov. J 8 (By the' A?:jor.Hti' Prftss). Two bly problems ; cinfront the republics which h.ivc ari: cn from thn rulnd of tho I hip-burg empire. '"irst; It l;j becoming 'hilly more difficult to maintain ovder within the republics tuilll thf! )r-nrrt crinfr-rence, and. second, v ill the d.ciKlon "f tho peace conference I'.illy .solve thf: rarial and comnwrrhtl fpiM Ions, which urw are more urgent than ever? The flrt problem involves internal eondilloiiH in cacli republic and also between be-tween the republics. KelatiotiH between ihf: KovernmentH and the situations within with-in each rr-puhli'" depend on innt, coal and living conditions. The tnitnn j.onpM flu not yet understand Hint order ami ircfiloui are synonymous I-titis. When It fiiif.s their pniitieal cutiven-)in-r the resuhmtM of the furnier i-ni-pirc rf.'idilv deelaro Hiey are adltu; ae-eoidiu;: ae-eoidiu;: to the .spirit of iTesid-'nt Wil-H'hih Wil-H'hih niciiaKCH, imnh ho that the P'smjiI;;, who (Tcnerally are a bard-h'.-adfd iinrl coilMTva t Ive. lot, have begun in think that democracy means boetaliLin or anarchy. iSuffgcstcd Assassination. A stale employee, who wa.s cxeitt'd by e-entM m IWlin, anked the correHpon-ri'-nt. if, according to Amerieau ideas, it would not. b a good tiling to assassinate the ruy;i 1 family and also to overt urn f"tv ihiy the Austrian republuan guvern-n guvern-n rents that are too conservative. It wa.s with difficulty that lie w;f.s made to null nu-ll 'is t;i rid t hat America obtained Eovern-inental Eovern-inental changes by orderly voting. Some ohsL-rver.s here insist that it is tho duty of the i'nited States not only to scatter a few military officers throughout the empire in the Kiiise of .misHions, hut also to send Amerieau citizens with blood t ies in the former .empire and .speaking the various torurucs for the pin-pose of undertaking propaganda propa-ganda to explain how American politics are guided by reason and not by force, and also that republics do not fight with each other. Otherwise, these observers fay, the peoples of tho former empire, will imver settle down. It is pointed out that during the best days of the empire the llapshurps kept order only with the greatest difficulty. Recall Old Mistake. The delegates of the Gorman-Austrian government at the peace conference probably will endeavor to obtain permission permis-sion to form some wort of a commercial federation within the limits of tho old empire. They have dropped tho plan of joining the German federation since they fool that tho allies are not willing to permit per-mit this. They declare that one of the mistakes of t ho old rulers of Austria- II ungary was to compel the use of the German language In Aust i la and tho Magyar language in Hungary. This mistake, they say, should be rectified by granting autonomy to each race, as well as separate, sep-arate, schools and separate churches. Tho 1'anuhe federation has been al-t al-t ered .somewhat. As outlined now, it would be a purely economic arrangement permit t lug the continuance of the new governments as political entities, but with the Czecho-Slovaks, German-Aus-trianp, Rumanians, Hungarians and .lugo-Slavs all joined commercially in using xne nanuuc route to me iueuuer-ranean. iueuuer-ranean. The federation also would take over the port of Trlcst If the peace con- fereuce insist a that it be neutralized. Unwilling to Forget. U is explained that such a federation would have been formed before the war had It not been for the Hungarian agricultural agri-cultural party, which throttled agricultural agricul-tural eomirerco with Rumania and Sorbin, Sor-bin, particularly Serbia. This caused agitation, agi-tation, which played a large part in events leaning to t he aspassi nation cf Archduke Francis Ferdinand. It is pointed out that such a fedora -t ion is demanded by the internal tnuie Of the former empire, since Czeeho-Slo-vakla needs a market for its coal, iron, sugar, glass and leatiier, while Gerinan-AmMrta Gerinan-AmMrta has industrial organizations to use these raw products. Vienna is also a banking center. On the other hand The Huncariars and .Intro-Slavs will have foodstuffs to sell to the other republic. y Some leading German-Austriana declare that the organization of such a federation should be settled at the peace congress because, they say, it would be impossible, to secure an agreement among the republics repub-lics if they were permitted to settle it among themselves. An American resident in Vienna says that one obstacle to an aurrecnient between the new republics Is that the populations are unwilling to forget for-get things that happened a century or two npo. He says ihat the population of the former empire is no more mixed than are the European peoples who have gone to America. |
