HUNGARY’S PLIGHT.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 1602, 24 August 1916, Page 4

HUNGARY’S PLIGHT.

The Hungarian newspaper Az East recently published a striking article on the condition of Hungary, lit said: '‘Every mouth in the country is open with complaints. The air is full of black birds, boding evil disasters and injustice. Everywhere a, heavy cloud of depression weighs upon the country. We live in great, almost general, destitution, which even the war cannot excuse. Wt* are punished for the sins and neglect and the carelessness of (he past. The tempest is blowing- away our national institutions, which are falling like houses built on sand. Our houses, in fact, are without gutters. They art 1 patched up hastily a'ml fall to pieces. What was welded together again falls apart. Our badly-healed wounds break open again. Our country is in a dcjdorable slate of exhaustion, and every conscientious man musl look forward with serious anxiety lo (he future. The mistakes and negligence of the last thirty or forty years make ns feel revenge. We are suffering from (he sins of (iovernments and the sin of Parliaments. Countless dishonest acts have been committed against Hungarian interests that give pain and make our bodies smart- now. May everybody •who suffers, who endures complainjngly or observes in heroic silence, recall our past to his menial eyes, and when this terrible blow is past, when we shall have swept away our ruins and commenced to build again, Jet ns not fall inlo mir old mistakes. Let us entrust our national interests to men who know life, who love our people, and know what they need; because our present misery is three-fourths due to the fact that we delivered our and our country’s destiny into the hands of those who are unworthy of it.”