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Show ISLOVAK EDITORS ! RAP APPONYI J I CHICAGO, Feb. 13 Decided opposition oppo-sition has been raised by Slovak and Polish editors and citizens of Chicago to the invitation extended Count Albert Al-bert G. Apponyl, former Hungarian I minister of educatiou, to Bpeak on j "Universal Peace' at the Washington birthday celebration here. A memorial memo-rial was presented today Chairman I Alexendera McCormlck of the Union League club's special committee in charge of the celebration, signed by the editors of all papers in Chicago printed In the Interest of Slavic peo-nle. peo-nle. uslcintr that the invitation be with drawn. The reasons assigned in the memorial, memo-rial, copies of which were also forwarded for-warded to Theodore Roosevelt and Andiew Carnegie, aro. briefly, that the count is "representative of Hungarian Hun-garian governmental tyranny," and as minister of education "led the opposl-tio opposl-tio nof Slovak in that kingdom." The memorial says: "We, the editors of tho Blavlc dallies and weeklies published in Chicago, us the representatives of Chicago citizens of Slavic origin, while approving tho plan to celebrate the memory of George Washington by a mnmmoth ' meeting, of which citizens of foreign birth arc to be Invited, deem it our ! duty as liberty to ioretgn citizens to object to the presence of Count Apponyl Ap-ponyl at that meeting. "Our protest agalnsi him is based on tho following facts: "Count Apponyl, as minister of education, edu-cation, wns responsible for tho fusl-lado fusl-lado at Colnova, where so many Slovak liersons died Innocently. His report in the Hungarian parliament, I made after the massacre, thnt 'there is peace in tho village,' rather en- titles him to be the propngator of 'the I peace of death" than of the high Ideal of 'universal peace.' "The three million Slovaks are not allowed to read or write in their mothor tongue or public schools, which is the cause of a degree of illiteracy among Its people. "There are more than TiO.OOO citizens of elavlc oiigln resident In Chicago. In the name of all these Chicagoatis wo protest against the outrage on freedom and liberty which would be perpetrated If n representative of tyranny ty-ranny were permitted to address this meeting." Former President Roosevelt was sent a. copy of the petition, on the ground that he, ns a speaker and generally gen-erally understood to be responsible for the Hungarian's Invitation, might heed the plea and refuse to speak with Apponyi, Twenty Slavic newspapers were rep-lesentcd rep-lesentcd by tho signers. nn " |
