. War echoes; or Germany and Austria in the crisis .. . d AustriaPast, Present and Future AUSTRIA AND THE NATIONAIililBEBTIES OF HER PEOPLE. The Vital Issue. Dr. Irwin Klein. From many quarters attacks havebeen made upon Austrias ruler asthe oppressor of Servias , these attacks have nottaken into consideration the fact thatAustria is the only land enjoying per-fect national freedom and equality,and that Emperor Francis Joseph isas a matter of fact the founder andpEOtector of this national freedom,and that his policy of protecting thevarious races combined in the Aus-trian Empire
. War echoes; or Germany and Austria in the crisis .. . d AustriaPast, Present and Future AUSTRIA AND THE NATIONAIililBEBTIES OF HER PEOPLE. The Vital Issue. Dr. Irwin Klein. From many quarters attacks havebeen made upon Austrias ruler asthe oppressor of Servias , these attacks have nottaken into consideration the fact thatAustria is the only land enjoying per-fect national freedom and equality,and that Emperor Francis Joseph isas a matter of fact the founder andpEOtector of this national freedom,and that his policy of protecting thevarious races combined in the Aus-trian Empire against agitation hashitherto been a guarantee for the in-terior peace and for the freedom ofhis people. To be sure, the United States is acountry guaranteeing the freedomand equality of all races and yet anyone asking for the establishment ofgovernment schools in which the lan-guage of the teacher shall be that ofthe majority of the foreign-born pop-ulation settled in any particular lo-cality, would be ridiculed. In Aus-tria now there are government. Franz Joseph—Austria-Hungary schools conducted in the German,Czech, Italian, Ruthenian, Polish,Roumanian, Croatian, Turkish, etc., languages, and these are not element-ary schools, but most of the national-ities represented have institutions oflearning corresponding to our Ameri-can colleges. The population of any town has theright to demand that court proceed-ings be carried on in their own lan-guage provided that the number ofpeople speaking this languageamounts to 25 per cent of the wholepopulation. Almost all the above-named languages are admitted toparliament as a vehicle of communi-cation. This is indeed an absolutenational equality. In Switzerland there are similarconditions, but there the situation istar more simple since only three lan-guages (German, French and Italian)come into consideration and more-over since these three nationalitiesare settled in locally separated dis-tricts. Austria (with the exception of fourwh
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