Show UC SLAVIC EDITORS PROTEST AGAINST I COUNT II APPO YI I CHICAGO Feb 16 Decided Decided opposition opposition tion Uon has been raised by Bohemian Slavic and Polish editors and citizens of at Chicago to tho the Invitation extended Count Albert G. G Apponyi ApponI former Hungarian minister of ot education to speak on Uni Universal versal venal Peace at tho the V. V Washington birthday birthday birth birth- da day celebration here A memorial has hns been presented to Chairman Alexander A. A McCormick of the he Union League clubs club's special commIttee commit commit- tee tee In charge chargo of tho celebration signed h by the editors of all papers In Chicago printed In tho the interest of or Slavic lo people asking that the Invitation be withdrawn Tho reasons assigned In the memorial copies of which also were Vere forwarded to Theodore Roosevelt and Andrew Carnegie Carnegie Carne Came gie ale are briefly that the count Is a representative of ot Hungarian governmental governmental govern govern- m mental tyranny and as minister of education edu cation led Jed tho the opposition of oC Slovaks In that kingdom The memorial says sas Object to Apponyi's Presence We the editors of the Slavic dailies dallies and weeklies published In Chicago as 1 tho the representatives of ot Chicago citizens of ot Slavic origin while approving the plan to celebrate tho the memory of or George Washington Washington Wash Wash- ashIngton ash ash- ington by a a. mammoth meeting at which all citizens of ot foreign birth aro are to be In Invited In- In deem It our duty as liberty loving citizens to object to tho the presence of ot Count Apponyi at that meeting Our protest against aJ him Is based on tho following facts Count Apponyi as minister of education education education tion was responsible for the tho fusillade at where so many man Slovak peasants pea ants died Innocently His report In tho the Hungarian Hungarian Hungarian Hun Hun- garian parliament made mado after the massacre massacre mas mas- sacre cro that there Is peace In that village vii vil lage Inge rather entitles him to be bo the propagator propagator propagator prop prop- of or the peace of death than of or ortho the tho high Ideal of universal peace Three million are arc not allowed to read or write In their mother tongue in the public schools which Is tho the cause caus of or an artificial degree of or illiteracy among this people Representative of or Tyranny There are more mOTe than citizens of ot Slavic origin resident In Chicago Inthe In Inthe Inthe the name namo of all aU these thue Chicagoans we wo protest protest pro pro- test teat against the outrage on freedom dom and liberty which would be perpetrated If It a representative of tyranny were permitted to address this meeting Former President Roosevelt wax was sent a a copy of ot the petition on the tho ground that he he OB as a a. speaker and generally understood understood under under- stood atoo to l' l bo be responsible for the Hungarians Hungarian's Hun fun garian's garlans Invitation ml might ht heed tho plea pies and refuse t to t l speak with I Apponyi Carnegie's Car Car- Carnegie's negie's COP copy was the result of the Iron Iron- maste masters master's 8 Interest In the subject of ot the counts count's address Universal Peace Twenty Slavic newspapers were represented represented seated in the sl signers ora The protest was wu re received lv d with surprise cur sur prise by Chairman McCormick and came cam almost simultaneously with a me aeo o from morn Count Apponyi re regretting the Hungarians Hungarian's Hun Hun- garian's garlans to accept tho the clubs club's Invitation Invitation invitation tation to speak p ak Count said sald other engagements would prevent his beIng being boIng be- be Ing In Chicago to take part In tho celeb cele cele- b bration ration This of cour course obviates an any n necessity sit sity of ot taking action on tho the protest said Chairman McCormick uVe Ve bad had Invited the count to speak h here bore reThe re The Invitation was as extended after a a. committee meeting at which of nearly all European races In Chicago Chi Chi- I cage cago sere rero present and no delegate delegato from tho the Slovaks expressed J d any objection when whon tho the name namo was wa presented I |