Show FOR UNIVERSAL SUFFRAGE SU FRAGE iI i I I iI The demand for tor universal suffrage In Austria which the government seems Inclined to grunt grant as a 0 moans of ot recon recoil reconciling the opposing elements element means menns a II great doal nun a than Ihan appears at lit first night Ight Ily By universal 11 suffrage the tho legis power will actually bo shifted from froll a I small class clau of oC favored citizens to lo tho people generally Tho fhe Austrian parliament consists of ofa n a particularly upper house or senate und I i lower house which should represent the people but which does docs not 1101 on Oil account of tho Intricate election 1 As All now constituted 1 It has Jias 85 Si representatives of or the large landed ot vari various OWl ous chambers rs of ot commerce US of the diles HH 1111 cities 1 9 of or tho rural tural dis districts In III which the tho peasants atilt and small lire are the th voters and an 1 only 7 j jot nf ot the whole body bolly of uC citizens That Thill Is s to nay Ha the electorate of ot voters oters chooses only 72 memo mem members bers of ot parliament while quail lied voters In III the cities cI us It will be he that universal suffrage UH understood In modern countries will transform the a II democracy U will It Is thought diminish the Ger German German man Influence In III Austria and 1111 the Mag Magar ar 11 i 1 ner Ir In and nerve to 10 strengthen th union Whether thU result will follow folio remains to bo wen ell though Austria belong both holh logically mid i historically ull tn the Got man federation Originally It II wan WUI hilt but a 1 buffer state be he between tween and nn the Asiatic horde that thai to overrun Germany The rhe decline of ot the German be he dime opportunity for tor Independent dent development hilt but Its It mission Is 18 done dOlle and 1111 Germany has hn risen to mort than former Importance Kv BU ry seems to point to a II of ot Ger German man Austria to the tho the of af the rather w ak union with Ith the tho Somehow differ different ent nn en do not nol militate with Ith one olle an another another other and union Intensities rather than it The fhe Idea of or n II universal brotherhood has not taken very er deep root among the sentiments of or nations And until It does strife will continue Universal will not terminate the th struggle In the dual 11 empire The U I a 11 treat mixture of diverse flein the spoken languages alone there are no noI leas I than nine nille group Tho ho German or Teutonic the Moravian and BUn Slovak k who together list u the Czech language the PoU h the the Slovene ta Servian Selan and nil Croatian the Italian and speech leech Is II a corruption of ot the Latin the and the Magyar Rich of these groups grou ll Is n separate entity In as IS thought and nn l ns regards many of aC them In geographical location Then sprinkled Among the population lire are Jews Swiss Turks Hos nos nil Greeks Greek and among I each other still other languages In such n II country It Is III Inevitable that unrest agitation should l be strong Hitherto tho ono controlling factor actor hus been the th personality of the l Francis Joseph Hut he Is an old ohl mun AM All the tho worM world has hall prophesied that when the Ih dies there thero will be u n Krent breakup In Austria Hut nUl I makes It doubtful whether the ph can bo averted a 1 tow few more mors years even will tell I |