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AUSTRIAN PEACE TALK
There is Austrian peace talk. There has been moio
or less Austrian peace talk since last March. Entente
and American satesmen have apparently paid but little
attention to it; and for obvious reasons we may be sure it
has not lieen emphasize* 1 at Berlin.
The latest we have to this Austrian peace talk etl’ect
is the undenied report that Count ( zernin. the Austiian
foreign minister, is nut satisfied with the vague reply giv
en him in response to the request that the German chan
cellor plainly state Germany's peace terms. The report
adds that Count Czernin will no longer negotiate with any
Chancellor, as. upon the matter in hand, clearness and
frankness are imperatively necessary.
One should not be amazed that the leaven of peace
agitation should be at work in the Hapsburg realm. That
realm is a jumble of eight or nine polyglot peoples, cooped
up in space smaller than Texas, paying allegiance to a
common severeign, but each race living its own life, mak
ing its own history, producing its own literature and strug
gling unceasingly in its own way to dominate its neigh
bors. The nation as a whole has a question—the Bohe
mian question—that is not unlike the Irish question in the
United Kingdom of Great Britain. There are many Ger
mans in Bohemia, and their position there is said to be
precisely that of the English and Scotch in l lster county.
Against these is opposed the inflammable Slav who until
recent!v feared the Russian czar more than he did the
German kaiser.
But the Bohemian trouble is but one of the troubles
of the Hapsburg empire. There are others that involve
racial ferment. There is bitterness between the Roles and
the Ruthenians; between the Germans and the Italians in
the Tyrol; between the Hungarian Magyars and the Slav
races. There are almost innumerable differences of re
ligion and social and economic interest. There is anti
Semitism, and the conflicts, familiar elsewhere, between
land owners and manufacturers, between aristocracy and
the people, between clericalism and liberalism. Above all
there is the ever increasing antagonism of interest be
tween the Germans in Austria and the Magyars in Hun
gary. A veritable, many-tongued chaos is the Austro
Hungarian nation in which the Austrians and Hungari
ans themselves can see but little more than a half light.
The fear of czardcm, the power and influence of
Prussian imperialism, the strength and statesmanship of
the late Franz Josef have been the factors which held all
these antagonistic elements in national cohesion. These
factors plunged Austria into war without knowledge on
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the part of the people that th< prime purpose ol that war
was to advance Prussian interests and serve Prussian am
bitions. It has been a bitter price that the people of the
Hapsbur.tr realm have paid.
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The Maximalists, who according to yesterday’s press
dispatches, have seized the government of Petrograd,
which is practically that of all Russia, are to the better
class of Russians, what the Industrial Workers of the
World are to the better class < f Americans. The I. \\. W.
members in the United Statis are working against the
United States owing to Germ m influences, and the Max
imalists of Russia, ditto. This latest revolution in Rus
sia has thrown a crimp into the European struggle and
the end is not yet.
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Who was it that started the mid-winter carnival
scheme to he held in Seward? Why can t il he started
attain and carried out successfully?
General Richardson’s letter, printed in yesterday’s
Gateway should have been read by all Alaskans and di
gested. Good substantial fac s and good substantial rea
sonings. Gen. Richardson made good and there are few
in Alaska who will not regret lis leaving the territory and
his roads.
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