English Translation

S2a - 8 - brought to them the memory of the old humiliations and slavery the blood into their faces. And when they sometimes returned to the homeland after Jahron, to visit the old country, the first thing that struck them cheekily in the face, that terrible relationship of the bureaucracy with the people, that horrible exaltation of the imperial servants over the little ones and the needy, they returned into the New World with even greater and burning hatred for that system that would have preferred to speak Slovak and Czech only with maids and day laborers who appreciated neither the heart or spirit of man, nor his personality, but only his ancestry, titles and di- .plon beside the holy caste, which rejoiced in the monarchist state of a now incomprehensible attention to him, that was for the Slovaks Budapest, for the Czechs Vienna. Perhaps among us and the Slovaks there were also people who were too used to the old squa- ry in order to be able to forget them; the old sklavish relations remained faithful, but the superior majority felt hostile, the relationship with Rome was largely connected with these feelings, in the mass, namely, in which the dependence of the state and the The Church and vice versa were connected in the old hated empire, but there were also men among the Czechoslovak Catholics in America who, both as laymen and as clergymen of the Catholic Church, had long since found their relationship with the Habsburgs and regretted that Rome could not find any other way to the people than through Huyns, P_ařvaš and similar to them. Thus the noble Slovak priest Stefan Furdek, as well as his perfect successor, was the pastor Old. Zlámal in Cleveland, such were Stefan Brož, Petlach; Msgr. Bouška and others. Ignatz Dostal, the most important Catholic journalist, writes in his paper "The Voice" ("Hlas") for the appointment of Huyn as Archbishop of Olomouc in 1916: "The Catholic Church, however, is not a national church, but it is a church just to all peoples and only the Germanic feudalism enslaves it. Well, perhaps this terrible war will destroy this feudal bastion in Vienna and the Catholic Church in our homeland will fall the chains of hands." -6 -