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WHO IS BRANTING ? LEADER OF THE SOCIAL DEMO CRATIC PARTY IN SWEDEN. Hjalmar Branting is the leader of the Social Democratic Party in Sweden. He
On none of the Slay peoples of the Dual Monarchy has the Russian revolu- tion made such a deep impression as on the Poles. The equilibrium of their na Luckily for the Allies there are other tionai mentality has been broken up From what has already been said it destructive forces z work on their side. thereby, and its fragments are rearrang #lows thai, despite the new circum Tha conflict of idens botween the belli:ing themselves in a very differentis is the editor of the Kneial- Demokraten, Line
gerents, although less noticeable, is no bination. The present attitude of stances, which are visibly exoking new
lexa real than the clash of arms, and people would
faith, not by considerations motives, there is not the faintest ground ever since the Russian revolution, the end en to be inspired by the leading organ of the Swedish Labour Alrendy the sub-of faith that brings into organic relaKaiser that he was the one standing fer supposing that a separate peace with caso of the deneracion has been making of party. It is that constraining wotive Party, and he recently informed che
perceptible headway. the Habsburg Monarchy is aniɑngshe con- ject of the Habsburgs, and a lesser dious 1 each other all the elements of Abstacle to pene. It is to Branting that extent those of the Hohenzollerne, are the national mind, just as the magnet pondering over new ceptious, examin- thrown into regular curves the filing of the Socialists of Europe have been pay- ing latter-day ideas, striving to unseala magnetic metal. The Poles, heretofore fresh sources of political life and vigour, the staunch allies of the Central Governing visits at Stockholm--with little results And the ferment among the former is ment of Austria, and therefore of the so lar tremendous. While it would be rash to German elements there, are now the coru
to pass unheeded the ominous shadows the common adversary.
Hugo Vallentin, in the Fortnightly
about this interesting man who may at an early date he the Prime Minister of Sweden. He has been a member of the Swedish Parliament since 1896, and is the father of Socialism in Sweden.
tingrucies that we may reckon upon or even-hope for. Indeed, there are many and weighty Frasom for distrissing the notonga chinerical. Neither sie could
This change of ́› tontofsaid, this kee The Empense; (who I forecast the outrong, it would be unwiserades and helpers of the Czechs nga Review, tells us some interesting things
peaks and for both halves of the of coming events as they are successively front shifts the political centre of
fung arross the half-hidden scene of the gravity, and renders the continuance Monarchy, is, and feels himself to be, a
ramshackle Empire. How soon and is the Habsburg Monarchy on its present German Prinre, what however reignedly what forms the revolution, which is as basis impossible. Universal suffrage, in yet visible only to the eyes of political troduced in the year 1907, despite the de The may undergo the irksome giressure of a political necessity, will ever allow intuition, will be consummated, may not foetes that impair it, gives the Slavs a be foretold. But the entastruphe cannot mujority in the Reichsrath, and this Mindrive,him into the camp hostiletto his be warded off and the Cabinet Councils majority was, as we saw, converted into This sowy kith and kin. One of his shorbing in Vienna and Budapest, at which pre-a miturits by the complet entered into "rearys in the mintenance of the unity of sentive measures are mooted and fashion by the Poles with the Germans.
ed, are haunted by the grim spectre of covenant is now broken, and the Blavs VÍ
Austin cannot be governed any longer i "the" empire and its preservation against revolution and disruption.
the corrosive forces which latter-day de
the old methods. And the adoption of cucious new methods will of necessity Therein lies the essence of the most com- amount to a revolution.
and serious situation through which the Austrian Empire has yet pass remediai plan can be devised de foras and Czechs remain stead: fast
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CONVOKING THE REICHSHATH
A MAN OF 410CKHOLM. -- Karl Hjalmar Branting was born in Stockholur on November 23th, 1860, the only child of Professor Branning, the principal pupil and follower of Ling,
the famous founder of the Swedish syn-
King of ten of gymnastics. He went to a private school in Stockholm, where, it is well worth noting, the present Sweden. Ginstaf V., and his brotiters were at the same time also pupils.
the
He has supported the Liberal Govern- ment in Parliament only when he has con- sidered such action pofitically sound and aiding the use of progress generally, reproche, and never compromises with his He is a Social Democrat sus peur et SANA convictions.
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2] When the general elections autumn of 1911 resulted in the returning of 101 Liberals, 65 Conservatives, and 6 Social Demeruts, Mr. Karl Saaf, the Liberal kader, offered seats in the Cabinet he then was called upon to form to the Socialists, but Mr. Branting and bis colleagues refused.
The final chapter of the history of its vinooney, hins let feree against it. And he croention is simple Down to a few years percrisis the most effective of all preserva- before the outbreak of the war, the mental state of Austria's peoples was but partial tives to the enginned predomice of they favourable to the growth of political freedom. The old system had struck deep Garman" fignent in Austrian of the strong Foot, and elements fatal in
with Magyaruip Hangary. Those to nation the development of the new one permented It was frst the
The
Having gained the white capi alis, powerfully aided by the Jown, the policien atmosphere.
entrai turpean Federation itself can trave, he is convinced; comented the variety of the United States into the war, and themes of Hungary and Germany.
then the Russian revolution, that brought
amination-be passed on to the Univer ous ethnic fragments of the empire and the democratic idea inte clore and fruit not be fixed if the statesmen of the symbol of passing the matriculation ex- ful selation with national suvements and two empires full to vviate by policy the sity of Upsala, where he turned his mind mostly to the study of mathematics, and
·kept them together until now." Hence he
But Hjabar party policies. Now that iden renders changes which are threatenet by revolu
particularly astronomy. In this estimate one takes it for granted sowes them gratitude for their past sev-1 inapplicable the methods by which the 190-
Branting was not to spend his life among that the Sins of the Monarchy will stand
integrals and servations of erratic - vices and consideration fork these which Central Government has hitherto con trived to keep the untionalities toge
together, prom agamat violence and
comets. The stars themselves had decided The
Emperer Karl's various they can render in the futures This conher.
otherwise. The early years of the righ cagotery. And the postulate seems prob with
exceptiona ཀrilt
ties saw a kind of upheaval throughout ideration might fitly take the shap of petes.
Sweden. Europe knocked at her dows Azamerifies, were these indispensable to desinf the Germans, are, awaking to a sense able. The Poles and the Czecho Slovaks of the humiliation and decay involved in appear possessed by those generous illu BIORS a revolutionary idealis which
and at her windows. hiding of their hegemony in Austria-the surrender of national initiative and transform the aspect of a world, move a
self-rusquet to a political connection in Hangags. In this way- self-interest and which the real interests of none of the nation to put away material interest, and its Tife Patriotism has become a reli- active nationalists. especially *ality effjointly move him to co-operate members but the German count for any
thing. They are becoming aware that in 4 with the Germans and the Magyars to their political energies must ever be ab-among the Czechs, are potential martyrs, heroisms. Upon them the electric charge suppress, check, or retard by jery means worked by an unreasing effort to keep the capable of unseen feats, of unapplauded & people in his power these national movements incongruous partnership, from falling to
pieces, and that no positivy, useful end which sometimes transtigare
It has required the utmost patience At the Poles: Cechs. Stovenes; Routan Can I pursued, much less achieve, and marks off epoets in history may at
any moment play, and confront Europe and a political insight of a very high The State no longer appears
miracle wrought. by with yet another
urder, plas great personal influence, to Kas, md has which threaten Clad thereby
to them as a living organism with inter
collective faith. No one who has cast bring the party to the position it holds Monarchy with dismemberment and Gerdependent relations among its VAZIOMEM
even a cursory glance at the state of Fres that line of parts, but simply as an aggregate of or-
Riksdag. At the present moment it is Many with defeat,
gana sundred from different entities, and things in Bongmin, where Czeebs has to day, both in the country and in the been arrested by the hundreds accused of stronger than ever, and Hjalmar Brant lity he cannot be expected to swerve.
incapable of growing together and form.
imaginary crimes, and sentenced sun- But it is not only to his own formaushjag, a harmonious whole.
marily death, can help admiring the is its strongest man, although he does not conform to sen's formula in so far chat the Antring Emperor forks beholden:ki Impregnated by the now spirit, Ans-lofty sense of right, the high resolve, and that he does not stand alone.
"His fine character. his undoubted The German Empire bas figured repenteria camiot long be governed by force the stern fortitude of that people. It is Present wielded as hitherto by the Central Govno exaggeration to describe the
ola honesty of purpose, his great sacrifices Juring this war as the dispenser off Lernmypt. Neither can she be ruled by mood of both these Slav races as revola-
to the Habsburg Mon-the German element, which is the only tionary. It would be rash to foretell such for the cause have won him the confidence, alternative. There are grounds for bean uprising there as will paralyse Aus- loyalty, and one might almost say the artby, the reseller of the hard-pressedy fjeving that if the Germans assured tria's effort, and constrain Germany Jo worship of die rank nad file in his own Austidans-enki Magyars, the champion of power in the country to day the imm bring her concessions into harmony with party but those qualities, combined with revolt of the our war aims. But such a consummation, personal charm, comparable with that the plural principles of which the two diate, result would be a
other nationaliti
if it came, would nowise surprise me. passessed by a famous English politician, have also gained for him the respect and All the lenests of a revolutionary move ́empikres are the embodimert. There havel
ment have long been accumulating, and admiration of many who do not share his beru streTILA when Austro-Hungarians!
Count Clam's resignation was followed are now waiting only for the spark to political and social opinions. feared in Ah was lust, uments when
by a purely bureaucratic administration, i explode, and sparks enough are flying Germany, having in choosi betaren the consisting of a pithless, colourless body from the Russian forge and falling, rain
a military of civil servants, whose only solicitude drop wise, on all European countries. unkinth red
is to transact current business and give mchean, and the amieting of door ally's ap
Du trouble. A Government of this charne-
The Emperor Karl has at last dingnused ter cannot long emlure; its scope is low) prehendetes, fended for the latter on
For it cannot be gainsaid Darrow its motives are too interested, its the situation correctly in we may judge methods, too odious. It is the begation of by the suddenness and completeness win
But the triennial general elections an that, whateter her molives, Germany has constitutional liberty, of national aspira which he has altered his policy towards stood faithfully is her friend throughout tions, of equality among the peoples of the main sources of discontent-die Czech coming round early this autumn, and they the Monarchy. And all the non German and the Fates. The question may stand this war and given themt of ber best un
them already now. peoples of the Monarchy
mare over whether the expedients by which may be said to throw their shadow before atintingly The cation, asp. is pre especially the Checas and the Poles, aphe hopes to obtain good deliverance from calated at present, the Social Democratic posterous that the recognition of this debt pear determined to make short work of a parious plight were devised by himself Farty will then return at least as strong. the system as soon as the psychological or. as many Czechs assert, werp dictated probably very much stronger, than before: of gratitude by Aug ria-Hungary depends
hour bas struck. Their standards of by the tierman General Staff. There is and it will then not be able to shirk any
A strong presumption that the amnesty longer the responsibility of power. on the waywardness, of one muna raprice tolerable gaverunner in Austrin are no
The Pales Czech political prisoners was first sug- or that those who les cfted misy in got to longer what they once were.
in especial have undergone a change of gested by the military authorities in Ber- geratuate black trepchery as an aid gattisude: the character and extent of which as a leans of essing the tension which
"If the outcome will be a Coalition pa suicide. The Germass and have rat yet been grasped by any body menerd Austria with civil strife and Mates are still the dominant el ments of sun onssile the Dual Empire. That was answerable for wholesale surrenders Government composed of the Strcial D in the realm, and if we get them down policy, hitherto shaped by party consid and sabotage by Stav contingents at the socrats and the Liberals an arrange.
the front. as klaves we cannot at the ante Literations-Healpolitik is no longer
But by whomsoever 11 was firstment to which strong objections have been raised by the uncompromising left wing assume that they are also ample result of cool calculation and hard bar mooted, the mirasure has come too late to
gaining for economic, puncial, and prove efficacious in the Emperor's sense. of the Socialist Party or an undiluted political privileges. It is an emanation its main effect is to emphasise the Peae Social Democratic Cabinet, is difficult te But, anyhow, then the great of the new spirit which the Russian lelopean policy of the Vienna Government. But if Austria-Hungary cannot strikemocracy is diffusing throughout Europe.
From March, 1914, until the end of May, hour of trial for the party will strike, and up a bargain with her enemies, withont In Austria the soil had bra gradually 1917, the peoples of Austria were ruled it is therefore a matter of congratulation the foreknowledge of her friends, neither prepared for the new idea. The seed of without the co-operation or cognisance for the Swedish Socialists that they have ran the Entente Powers come to un gr democratic principle had been sown there of the Reichsrath, Paragraph 14, which at their head a man of the quality and the rangement with the Habskurg Monarchy by Westerners The Slavs there had confers full powers on the Cabinet when character of Hjalmar Branting." at the cost of their stausch allies the always gravitated towards the age was the Parliament is not sitting, was fructi
And during those And that is of the Russian Empire, but this tendency fled to the utmost. Serbs and Roumanians. what a parate peace would involved was neutralised by the repellent impulse
rested, imprisoned the trusted leaders of thor, the my motive they could set before imparted by Tsurisat. One and all, those results is Government silenced, ar- the Vienna Cabinet to tempt it to this Slavs who owed their culture to the West the Czech, Ruthenian, and Yuge-Slav villainous apostasy is the preservation of felt repelled by the crude substitute for nationalities. the Habsburg Monarchy.
Those deeds of violence were merely And this serfdom which the all-powerful Russian
Their was to break would entail aur abandonment of the bureaucracy had devised. This system of means to an end.
debasement. political down opposition to the project of Ger- just is of our Balkan friends, who individual have sacrificed their national existenes by emasculation, for which they could hardly anisation, drafted by the Teuton clement Austria, Hungary apppress their loatlong. effectually and approved by the late Franz Josef. fighting on our side
hindered the cordial partnership of the The Slay majority in the country was to the incarnation of the rains d'état
The be pernuncatly reduced to a minority in a principle diametrically opposed to that various branches of the Slay race. of nationality. Our once strong feeling Poles, on other grounds as well as these, Parliament, where the German element for the political ends of this war must were drawn into a hostile exop, where was to dominate. Polish 'Galicia, which' have vanished, leaving to tree, before they have tarried ever since. The Czech, has eighty-three deputies, was to be en- we can ask the Serbs to acept as its satis geographically further distant from the tirely excluded from the Reichsrath by a factory but one that simulera of inde-Tandem, fraternised with its progressive degree proclaiming its autonomy, and pendence which they refused as illusory elements, but regarded its governance of German was to be the State language of the people as a set of mischievous and the Empire. This comprehensive scheme an July, 1914.
humiliating arrangements unworthy of would have mullified the political, in- . However people may regret, from zor: man.
Auner of the Poles. And it would have Seamental point of view, the necessity for Austria's dismemberment, one canot The barriers which thus kept the Busbeen carried out but for the entry of the eleny that it is a peremptory necessity if suns sundered from their kindred in United States into the war and the up Eurone is to be reconstructed as a soned Austria fell with the fall of Tsarism, rising of the Russian people agai ast thre When its realisation became basis. There is no other solution of the Since then the various Slay peoples have sardom. European probles. So long as the Habsbeen able to join hands and work together impossible as it did after those two world burg Monarchy holds together, the rema on terms of equality and mutual esteem.events, the measures intended to usher is cratic principle for which the Allies pro-Hyponditions of their intercourse. They Chievous, and had to be set asid
Hypocrisy and simulation have ceased to in were not only perfluous, but mis fess to be fighting will remain disem- bodied.
and even their coneret, aims are no longer need sacrifice their convictions April the Sovereign decided to convoke Sarkin and Koumania ean or argue themselves out of their con the Reichsrath. The German element in not be restored and consolidated, the selences. Henceforward, the main politi Austria protested, and clamoured for the Balkans will still be the seismic danger-cal ends of each and all are virtually realisation of the original scheme in centre of Europe, and err tremendous identical. The right of peoples to shape virtue of
But they were trying
Bimans.
are
POSITION OF THE EXTENTE POWRIS
a
but
Last
sacrifices will have been made in vain, their own lives is the pith of the gospeling of Parliah 14 before the regel-
The unfailing test of victory and defeat, which the Russian uprising has revised for the moon. The temper of Austria's therefore, is the trim in which Austria- and spread. Doubtless this experiment Slay soldiers at the front was already Hungary emerges from the ordeal, If bas also shown that peoples, like indivi- matinous and the number of prisoners the Allied leaders had fully realised this duals, are subject to the law of causo and who surrendered ominous. The German- at the outset, or during the first two years effect, and that if they be ignorant, isation scheme was, therefore, left in abey-1 of the war, and had organised a formid greedy, ill-prepared for the great work anoe and the Reichsrath was duly open- able offensive in the East at Alexan of self-regeneration, the results will be ed, the president of the German National drette for choice--the outlook would pres congruous with those defects of under- Uniou, Dr. Gress, being elected Speaker.*
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