. Transylvania; its products and its people. With maps and numerous ills. after photographs. malgamated with the Wallack inhabitants in everythingbut religion, at last adopted that also. An acquaintanceof mine, who told me the fact, was present when theparties professed their new creed, at the same time givingup the Saxon for the Wallack dress. In S. Bonyh: . , S. Csavas, the population was originally oflSaxon; but now it has dwindled away to a minority. At Erked there were formerly but five Wallack families; now they form one-third of the population. Bnt g<where you may, it is the
. Transylvania; its products and its people. With maps and numerous ills. after photographs. malgamated with the Wallack inhabitants in everythingbut religion, at last adopted that also. An acquaintanceof mine, who told me the fact, was present when theparties professed their new creed, at the same time givingup the Saxon for the Wallack dress. In S. Bonyh: . , S. Csavas, the population was originally oflSaxon; but now it has dwindled away to a minority. At Erked there were formerly but five Wallack families; now they form one-third of the population. Bnt g<where you may, it is the same;* and on their numericalsuperiority the Wallacks found continually new claims.* It is very remarkable how, in South Tyrol also, though probably notfrom the same cause, the German element is gradually being supersby another—the Italian. It is pushed back to Salerno, where it once formeda compact mass, but which, now yielding, has taken its course into Ilateral valleys. Distribution. ancL Density (per cent) of iike German TopiilatioiLinTransylvania ^^ l«TOTti a map fcawn \fE A Eiel. kiwUuJi^ii TJncfrccv-ea NEMESIS. 277 The number of their representatives in the Transylva-nian Parliament is so great, that they carry every mea-sure by an overwhelming majority; for as the Hungarianparty still holds aloof, the Saxons stand alone. Thus theWallacks have become tie facto the ruling power in theland. They seek office with avidity, and—partly frompolicy and partly on account of the dearth of civil officers—all the different departments are filled with them, fromthe highest to the lower grades. Most of these men arein every respect unfit for office, both as regards generalculture—I might almost say civilization—and special edu-cation. In the numerous judicial cases, in which theyhave to decide between Saxons and Roumains, theSaxons go to the wall. The merited retribution for aheavy offence against nature and morality has fallen uponthem. They expected that while their numbe
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