AUSTIIIA HTXGAKY. 



penalties they incurred by their failure to maintain 

 tt* service. Th company rvfu^tl to mince the 

 working day from i< 



rvanu more than 85 cents a .1 

 .nt them more than four 



m Th SeTtJectoral Uw added a fifth ettai.- i,. the 

 four already represent.-! 



with HO rvprvx-niiiincH. the 

 of Conimercr ami Induct M ). -Jl. i he 

 district* with II". nn.l Hi.- MM., 

 with 199. In the fifth <<"<! only : T:( 



filled by 



p every 600 mh. 



dirwt election the Chr: ulists 



' votes and the >c.cial D 



witti :I.".INN. the (i. rman Nationalists after 

 with'M.m*'- 5 Czechs with 1 -' 



In the 11. ~ i-'d I*' 1 '" 



polled the highest numU-r. ami after them Young 

 Czech*. Poles, KM tli : fhri-tian 



On April M the municipal council of Yienna. 



vote of 98 to 89, elected Dr. l.m-er for the 

 fifth time burgomaster of the city. When elected 

 on May 80. 1895, by a bare majority, he dcdii, 

 accept office. He* was elected again ..n <M. .. 

 once more on Nov. 18 of the same year, and for the 



i time on April 18,1806. but each time the 



ministry refused to ask the Bmperor to confirm the 



Anti-S-mitic agitator. When Dr. 



iach was chosen burgomaster Dr. Liiegcr ac- 

 cepted the office of vice-burp uua-ter. After the 

 success of the party at the noils Dr. Strohbach re- 

 signed in order that his chief mi^ht be elected 

 once more, and this time Dr. I. :;._'-? made none of 

 the threats against the Jews, the Hungarians, ami 

 the Cabinet that had formerly rendered him ob- 

 noxious. The Emperor sanctioned his appoint- 

 ment, and he was sworn into office on April :20. 



Rare War In Bohemia, In the session of the 

 Bohemian Diet in February Graf von Coudenhove, 



.r. ur^ed (ierman- and f/echs alik 

 to disturb the peace by mutual mistrust, promi-nu' 

 that nothing in the nature of educational or na- 

 tional legislation would be undertaken without 

 previously consulting th' : the 



two nations. A representative of the feudal land- 

 lords promised that they would assist in promoting 

 a final settlement as soon as they found a harmoni- 

 ous feeling .growing between the two races. Heir 

 Lippert declared that the Germans would readily 

 support any efforts for the establishment of friend- 

 ly NiHioits; previously. -l.e i.o*jti.,n of 

 tnc German -sneak in i: population would have to be 

 clearly defined. Dr. t he name 

 1 that so long as equal rights 

 WWB not given to both languages over the whole 



l<im they could make no concessions. Tl 

 sistance of the Germans to the d f the 



Czech* removed the last differences between the 

 Old Czech party and the aggressive and uncom- 

 promising Youiiff Czechs, whose organization had 

 already swallowed up the bulk of tho <,)d party of 

 modermtiofi and compromise, the remaining leaders 

 of which now accepted the defiant programme of 

 the stalwart champions of the restored liohrmian 

 nation. The combined f the general 



election put forth a firm demand for the ..flic 

 Czech language in the c..urts and ad: 

 trative offices ravia, and Austrian 



Silesia on exactly the same footing as German. 

 They also urged that the Km|cror. when he cele- 

 brated the fiftieth anniversary of his ascent of the 



throne, should e.me to Prn.irue and solemn: 



:md the dignity 



of Kn 



In ' -alii the united C/tcli- f..niied 



a more powerful and numerous ^roup than the 

 YOIII: ha<l in the la-t. ami the Kudeni 



mini-lry wa.-* more dependent <ui C/.eeh suppnri 



than It eVW had Iwell. Hence the 1..1IL' e\|,rrled 



and halfway proini-ed decree ..f lin-ual e.|iiality 

 c.-uld no Longer be n-fu-d. An admiiii-ti 

 ordinance was issued^ directing ill.. ...uM 



:iplo\cd on an eipialiiy with (ierman I 

 il and judicial lan^uap- throughout the i 



loin of Bohemia and the ' 



The Y..UIII: < idfl their support of the 



ni ministry comiitioiial on the Hill co-onli- 

 I the two languages, Czech aiul (ierman. 

 in tin- judicial and otlicial admiui-irat , 

 hernia, fount Hadeiii th- 



aooording to which, after a peril d ..f M-\CH 



rnnient ollicial in I'-ln inia mii-t be ac- 

 miainted with both lan^uap-s. ami jm. 



dispense justice in either lomrue at th< 



the parties concerned. The (ierman Deputi. 



l.'.hemia declared this to be a gross infringement 



on the inteiv-ts ( ,f the (i.r: P.ohe- 



mians, and the (ierman landowners, upon whom 



fount I'adeni had reckoned. refii-<l i 



fnun the otl-r (n-rman I'aeti.,! 



ministerial decree \\a- i--ue.l providing for the OOO* 



current u-<- of both languages. 



The f/echs have \\..rK.il anl striven hanl for na- 

 tional iveo-jnitioii during the thirty years thai 

 elapsed since Count I'.eu-t UM promised, 



Iowa, t" u r i\- Moheinia her \irtual iudepen 

 and l-'ran/ .Io-ef planned to ! 



Bohemia and rei-n over a triple in-'ead of a dual 

 monarchy. Count A mini y piv.-erved the dual 

 monarchy, and f..r a |..n.i:liine the f/edi amliitioii 

 \va^ thwarted. During these years of deferred hope 

 the f/echs have earned the racial and lingual su- 

 premacy that they have j. radically ach: 

 cially and industrially they ha\e ijsen t,, the lev. 1 

 of their (ierman competitors, and in political ear- 

 nestness and discipline they have excelled them. 

 Kveii in intellectual life they are the equals of 

 their former teachers and political ina-ter-. They 

 ha\e not only built up a jK>werful political jiarty 

 and shown the capabilities of their formerly 

 lected and tle-|.i-ed tongue for oratory am! 

 nalistic warfare; th.-y have cr.;iie.| a lit. : 



..iid even a mii-ical school of their own, and 

 in the fields of s-ien -hip. ami philo-oph} 



the Germans can scarcely still maintain that the 

 . i- not a Cult- a literary Ian- 



theless the Ian linance of the 



trian ministry permitting this language t-> be u-ed 

 in courts of 'law and public ofl 



ich a pilch of uncontrollable fury ami 

 violence as the Youn^' f/edi- m their wild ] 



rm and - 1 ' had ili-jilayed. The lan- 



guage war between the two population* was^al- 



rfl eliollirll o\er t lie (|Ue-tion of .lljcat foil. 



me di-tri-t- (J.Tinan-. in otln-i ould 



: ; :eir children taught in their o\ui lan- 



who had received their 



whole education in (ierman would not have their 

 children n it- nidiim-nt-. In 1'; 



(ierman inscript ions have been erased from monu- 

 ments ami that la- seldom heard. In 

 many village* it i- interdicted in the public schools 

 under the law that require- the lai:^uaL r - of in- 1 ruc- 

 tion to \te the one prevailing in the di-trict. al- 

 tlmujrh there are several Czech village- which have 



hat the children permitted to ! 

 i'-tion in (b-rman as well as in f/ech. In 

 other villages Bohemian is bani-hed from the cur- 





