DAUGHTER OF AUSTRIAN EMPRESS
EXPOSES PRIVATE LIFE OF ROYALTY
In Austria the whole social life of
the community is dominated by the
spirit of militarism. The Emperor
Francis Joseph was himself a soldier,
i.eart and soul, hence the man who
followed in his footsteps was regarded
as a patriot. All the archdukes—
and there are t>0 or 70 in Austria—
receive a military training, and a
number of them are educated at mili
tary schools for officer’s sons. Thus
the spirit of militarism has its source
in the highest class, and from it is
communicated to all the others.
Every archduke at the age of 19 is
made a sub-llcutenant, and from the
moment he is never seen In public ex
cept in his uniform.
Some of these archdukes are pur
posely put in to Infantry regiments
in older to impress military people ■
with the idea that all regiments are
equal, but all this is but political play
to the gallery.
Only too often the consequence of in
troducing a young archduke into such
a regiment has been a court scandal.
Leopold Wolfllng, who was formerly
known ns Erzherzog Leopold Salvator
the eldest brother of the ex-crown
princess of Saxony, is a striking ex
ample or the effect of such an ap
pointment. The society of his gar
rison town was very little to his lik
ing; the women were of a particularly
uninteresting bourgedse typo. He
felt no need to consider his actions.
His manner relaxed. To annoy the
silly snobs among whom he found
himself he fell into the habit of drink
ing, and was not ashamed to exhibit
himself in an Intoxicated condition.
Finally when he tired of shocking
his little society he turned his atten
tion to the strolling companies of ac
tors who visited the garrison town, and
thus he met an actress of somewhat
d9ubtful repute. Miss Adamobltz, for
whose sake he even gave up his title
and adopted the name of Mr. Leopold
Wolfllng. This Is the worst scandal of
the archduke set, and one from which
the late Emperor never fully recov
ered.
All the archdukes being ‘active” offi
cers, their mode of life, their sur
roundings, suites, and servants arc
also military. Kven their valets are
ex-sergeants with the military disci
pline behind them, and thus imperial
princes are spread all over the coun
try in the different garrison towns
where they maintain their little
courts. These have naturally devel
oped into centers of militarism, since
tlie military spirit has gradually be
come an essential part of court eti
quette—unwritten itself, it is stronger
than any written code.
All the military class believes them
selves to be in some way connected
with the court, though their wives and
daughters are never admitted unless
they are of noble birth, and the offi
cers themselves only to certain func
tions of trilling importance.
CAVALARY REGIMENTS WORST
Cavalry regiments, however, have a
worse influence in the country than
the others. Their members are im- j
bued With the same conceit and ar
rogance, while they possess in addition
either private means or unlimited
credit. The orgies which take place in
towns where cavalry regiments are
gariisoncd are often beyond the power
of description. It is not uncommon
for several regiments to be stationed
in one neighborhood and in this ease
they entertain one another at sump
tuous banquets.
At Brunn, the capital of Moravia,
Dragoon Regiment No. 11 gave a ball
in honor of the Indies of Maria-Schul.
After a night of revelry the officers
ordered the propriutor of the hotel in
which the hall was given to bring in all
the china and glass which he possess
ed. All sorts of toasts were proposed
and drunk, and Anally every piece of
china and glass were smashed to
atoms by the way of honage to the
Indies. The eost of this little extrava
gance was $2,500.
The festivities came to an end about
6 o’clock in tiie morning, after which
I he officers' horses were saddled and a
wild ride ensued through the streets
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ol' tho town up to the market place.
Hero the peasant women hail just ar
rived and set their goods butter, eggs
trim and vegetables. In less than a
moment the wild cohort conceived the
idea ot galloping through the crowd of
frightened women. Swiftly it was put
into execution, and eggs, butter, cab
bage and apples flew around the mar
ket place to the huge delight of these
tine gentle me a.
At a banquet which one regiment
gave, Archduke Otto, one of the near
est relative of the Emperor of Aus
tria was the guest of honor. When the
banquet was well advanced and most
ot tne guest were seeing double, the
archduke loudly demanded a drum.
His behest was speedily obeyed, and
he then offered a prize to the guest
whose performance on the instrument
should be most successful. When
every one had tried he awarded the
palm to the colonel of the other regi
ment.He then ordered champagne to
be brought, and cutting the drum open
at one end he filled it with that bev
erage to the brim. Ceremoniously, he
advanced towards the unfortunate
prize winner to bring him his reward.
"Don't get up!” the archduke shouted.
The cologel, never imagining for a
moment what was gding to happen,
sat still while the archduke poured the
entire contents over his person! i
Hut the incldetns are hurmoss com
pared with some of the acts of Franz
Ferdtnand, the heir-presumptive to
the throne, whose death at Sarajevo•
precipitated the European war. But
tie became more than ever ufra'td when
Frantz-Ferdinand used his influence
to obtain the position of inspector-gen
eral of the army. Frantz-Ferdinand
who all his life had accumulated
wealth at the expense of tho commun
ity, now used his ncwly-acquired nii'i
tary power to make money even out
of the soldiers. He knew only one
code—the code of his own interests.
He actually took whole regiments of
soldiers from their military duties to
make them work on improvised es
tates which lie bought oa speculation
and put in order in this inexpensive
way!
While the Emperor was fully
aware of this gross abuse of tho im
perial inspector-general's authority,
ho had no way* of stopping it. Jle
himself had all his life been a ruthless
Conservative, strictly opposed to the
Liberal hopes and ambitions of the
Austro-Hungarian middle classes, and
it is a regrettable fact that the noble
men of Austria, landed gentlemen pos
sessing grent estates, are tho most
greedy of all the classes in Austria.
They have cultivated their property
with selfish ends alone in view, and
using accumulated wealth of centuries
and their outright posssesions of over
half of tho land of the empire they
have become thoroughly commercial.
They have formed themselves into a
sort of a trust which presses heavily on
all classes, and especially on the poor.
They have stopped the Importation of
practically all food and commodities
which they themselves can furnish so
as to keep prices up and competition
down.
Lt us call this whole business by Us
right name. The high Austro-Hun
garian nobility are sharks, and, while
I nit and write hero, I feel like shout
ing "Down with them!" It is idle to
contend that the Austrian nobility
are such charming people with such
easy-going manners, that they are ne
plus u’tra of breeding and refinement.
A rea! aristocracy confers an Inesti
mable benefit on a country. It gives
tho people a high standard of manners
and propriety. But in Austria this is
not the case; tho aristocracy are de
generate, not so much physically as
morally. They imagine that a nor-1
ehalant sm'ile, a little Jest, a few af
fable words, make up the stmt or *heir
social duties. They are perfect en
tertainers; but so Jar as they are con
cerned, mankind ciares to exist r*c!ow
the rank of baron. Ail other classes
are "crapulc.” Yet they wMl not hesi
tate to snatch the broad out of the j
mouths of the "canaille”—to recognize
them when it is a question of grab* I
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Tin worst of these aristocratic,
uiouu-sucKcrs wore t'nnce ruersten
ber, i i nice Truutmannsdrof aud
i'nuce iaccntenslein. Since the Kiii
peror mused to listen to the advice
of ,his few more liberal minded
councillors and to slop the crushing
monopolies with which the aristo
crats were buulening; the rank and
tile of the people, he could ill afford
to interfer in thu dubious practices
of Franz-Ferdinand.
Franz-Fnlinund gradually succ'ed
ed in replacing all of the format high 1
oiHcials by his own creatures, the
most notorious of whom was the g. n
eral of the staff, the ill-famed Con
rad you Hoctzendorf. These indi
viduals, of course, never attempted to
oppose the man to whom they owed
their elevation.
In June, 1913, the whole world re
sounded gvith the scandal of Stuff
Colonel Handel's suicide. The colonel
had been living at a very high rate.
He had had many liaisons in Vienna,
culminating in his connection with a
strikingly finduonable foreign iladyy
whom he provided with motor cars, a
costly furnished Hat, and all the other
luxuries demanded by her class. How
did the colonel manage, with u sal
ary of about 300 pounds to support
all this expenditure? He was not the
only otttcer living at such a rate, unit
at last the newspapers took the mat
ter up. Colonel Ftaedel's flat in
Vienna was raided, and a voluminous
correspnodence with Russia was dis
covered. There was no getting away
from the man who was actually mak
ing plans for the Austrian campaign,
was in the pay of Russia. Rut the
matter was not to end there. After
the colonel had been arrested, an
olllcei- brought him a revolver and
made the wretched man uderstand
what he wigs to do. A trial was 'im
possible, as too many prominent of
llciuls were involved in the scandal!
1 have heard from a man close to
the emperor that when In- discovered
this crushing disgrace on the army
which he had loved all his life, he
broke down and cried like a child.
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