English Translation

Y X -25 - 38 Revolution in the minds and hearts of the Czech people can ascribe. When the newly founded magyar clerical party in Slovakia began to agitate for the elections l896, our people also came to consciousness. It turned out that despite all the magyarian atrocities something was still done. In these times, Prof. Masaryk already established relations with the members of the association "Detvan" in Prague, and a new work programme in Slovakia was established. In the year 1988, under the direction of Dr. Paul Blahos, the monthly publication "The Voice" began to appear. by his sharp criticism of the principles and working methods of the "National Newspaper" and the intelligence a powerful intellectual current in the direction of more progressive views on the world, the Czecho-Slovak question and the practical political and national work in the people. Hurban-Vajanský leaned sharply against the new direction and he was angry with the new critics also because they rejected his too topical and romantic view of Slavicism and, above all, of Russia. But many wise and cold-blooded followers of St. Martin liked to see how Iust and young people began to work in the people and how a group of good employees formed in the area of Skalitz and Kosenberg. The "voice" did not have many employees, but the ten to twelve young writers and journalists knew how to win the sympathy and cooperation among the farmers and craftsmen, The energetically pronounced prögram Dr. V. Šrobárs in the I, year of the "voices" read: "We want above all, and above all that the Slovak man is morally changing. We do not want ourselves to be a lie, but rather truth, not selfishness, but work for the best of our neighbour, not hatred, but human love." It was obvious that the young Slovaks were not satisfied with the lives of many intellectuals, whose patriotism often consisted in the fact that they took off the "national service", and from time to time donated a small alms for the V purely "Živena" or the "museum society". - 26 -