Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 170, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 July 1919 — LAND OF KOSSUTH Mixed Races Make Up Population of Hungary. [ARTICLE]

LAND OF KOSSUTH

Mixed Races Make Up Population of Hungary.

Country Long Under German and Austrian Domination Until Magyar* Secured Political Emancipation— Has Immense Mineral Riches. Hungary has a population of 20.000,000. The area of Hungary is about equal to that of the state of New Mexico. Hungary ia unusually rich in Its mineral deposits. Its mines contain almost inexhaustible quantities of gold, silver, lead, copper, iron, coal and rock salt Hungary, like Austria, is inhabited by several distinct races, but since the ninth century, when the Magyars invaded the region from Asia and conquered IL they have controlled the government. Self-government through parliament In Hungary is of ancient origin, being founded upon a charter called the Golden Bull, which dates back to 1222, and is thus almost contemporary with the Magna Charta of England. Budapest, the capital city of Hungary, consists of the sister towns of Buda and Pest. Lying on either side of the Danube, just at that point where it definitely sets south. Pest spreads itself out over the flat sandy plain on the left bank, while Buda occupies a series of small and steep hills on the right bank. Empress Marie Theresa Germanized Hungary as completely as she Germanized all her alienated Austrian provinces, and German flourished as the official, bureaucratic, scientific and society medium in Hungary until the Magyars broke loose from Austrian thralldom and secured their political emancipation. Then German went to the wall, and today there are millions in Hungary wholly ignorant of the German language. The great national hero of Hungary was Louis Kossuth, whose memory is revered by Hungarians as that of Washington is revered by the people of the United States. KosSuth visited America in 1851, and it is a matter of history that no foreigner save Lafayette ever received at the hands of the American people such marks of esteem as were bestowed on the Hungarian exile. After the failure of the Hungarian revolution, of which he was the leader, Im 1849, Kossuth sought refuge in Turkey. Austria and Russia demanded his extradition, but the Porte, resisting all threats, declined to give him up, in which attitude Turkey was supported by England and France. At length the intervention of England and the United States secured his liberation, and at the beginning of September, 1851, he was permitted to avail himself of the invitation of the United States to come to America as the guest of the nation. In Ney York, where he landed, he was enthusiastically received. He attended meetings and received deputations in Philadelphia, Baltimore, Washington, Boston and numerous other places. At the national capital a great banquet was given in his honor by the members of congress.