Excerpt from Count Albert Apponyi
"Whatsoever ye would that men should do unto you, do ye even so to them."
To our American Fellow-Citizens:
This booklet is issued for the purpose of presenting to you a few facts about the record of Count Apponyi with a view to showing you how little his conduct at home in his own country, entitles him to pose before the world as an "angel of peace." "By their fruits ye shall know them." The outrages against civilization, such as the Csernova massacre, which is reprinted in this booklet, are a part of a governmental system in Hungary of which the Count is one of the leading exponents. At the time of this massacre, Count Apponyi was minister of education in the so-called Coalition Cabinet. In this booklet we have cited from the works of non-Slavs their condemnation of Apponyi and all that he stands for. As our witnesses to the truth about the persecutions and outrages to which the non-Magyar people of Hungary (and in many instances the Magyars themselves) are subjected, we refer you to the statements of the late Bjornstjerne Bjornson, the grand old man of Norway; to those of R. H. Seton-Watson, a Scot; to those of Geoffrey Drage, an Englishman, and Louis Leger, a Frenchman.
"Nothing that is human, is foreign to me," said the Roman of old. The cause of liberty, of justice and humanity is woven into the warp and woof of our American lie and being. As exiles whom oppression and suffering, and the consequent economic and political conditions in Hungary have caused to flee to this land of traditional liberty and justice, we ask our American fellow-citizens to peruse the following pages. And if perchance, the story of our wrongs has gained your interest, we ask you to read "Racial Problems in Hungary," by Seton-Watson (Scotus Viator). Then you, too, like Bjornson and Seton-Watson, will revise your opinion of a people who, like the Pharisees of old, hypocritically parade virtues which they possess not, and the mask of Magyar "chivalry" will fall to disclose the hideous face of cruelty and barbarism, and perhaps another idol of former days will fall shattered into merited oblivion. We appeal to the enlightened public sentiment of America.
This booklet is issued in the interest of justice and peace on behalf of the non-Magyar immigrants from Hungary by The Slovak National Committee. Cleveland, Ohio, February 15, 1911.
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