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RACIAL PROBLEMS

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HUNGARY

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SCOTUS VIATOR

Appendice 14

 

 

 

 

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APPENDIX XIV

PROGRAMME OF THE ROUMANIAN NATIONAL PARTY OF HUNGARY AND TRANSYLVANIA

(voted at the conference op hermannstadt, may 11-14, 1881.)

The National Party takes action, within legal bounds, to obtain the following rights : —

1. To regain the autonomy of Transylvania.

2. To introduce, in accordance with the law, the use of the Roumanian language in all districts inhabited by Roumanians alike in the courts of justice and in the administration.

3. To employ only Roumanian officials in the districts inhabited by Roumanians f as for the non-Roumanians, only those are to be employed, who can speak and write the Roumanian language, and know the customs of the people — the existing practice which admits unknown persons ignorant of the people being thus super­seded.

4.  The revision of the Law of Equal Rights of the Nationalities, and its genuine and loyal execution.

5.  The maintenance of the autonomy of the churches and denominational schools, considered purely as a national question. The provision in the Budget of the resources necessary to the Roumanian schools and other institutions for national education, with regard to the monetary sacrifices and the blood tax to which the Roumanian nation contributes on behalf of the fatherland : the abolition of those laws and decrees which are an obstacle to national development.

6.  To draw up a project of electoral reform, to be based on the principle of Universal Suffrage, or at least on the principle that every citizen paying direct taxes shall receive the franchise.

7.  Since the prosperity of the State depends upon that of every citizen, and since the protection of one nationality and the repression of others excites the discontent or disturbs the tranquillity of the citizens and fosters mutual hatred among them; the National Party will combat the Magyarizing tendencies displayed by the organs of the State bath directly and indirectly, regarding them as unpatriotic tendencies.

8.  The National Party is determined to ally itself to all other parties of the country, which, having regard for the interest and well-being of the people, interest themselves in questions of public liberties and necessary administrative reforms, as also in economic and financial questions and such public charges as have become insupportable.

9.  The question of Dualism not being one of practical politics at the present moment, the National Party reserves to itself the right of returning to it at the right occasion.

(From Programmes Politiques des Roumains de la Transylvánie et de la Hongrie, Bucarest, 1894.)