He states that the Magyars, however, have never allowed it to be
understood how the various races have been distributed in the kingdom,
and he elucidates this as follows:
Hungary consists of several provinces, each of which is inhabited
by a separate nationality, homogeneous and compact. Of these
provinces one of the most important beyond question is the
Hungarian Pousta, situated on the banks of the Theiss and the
middle Danube, and inhabited by 7,000,000 to 8,000,000 Magyars.
The remaining 1,000,000 to 2,000,000 Magyars are scattered over
the other provinces, forming the ruling caste and providing
officials, magistrates, and police. Their business is to dominate
the nationalities of these provinces and bend them under the yoke
of the Magyars.
In these other provinces each race is at home, and is as compact
and homogeneous as the Magyars in the Pousta. Transylvania, for
example, with the neighboring plains of the Banat, of Chrishana
and Mamaramuresh is peopled by 4,000,000 or 5,000,000 Rumanians,
among whom there are to be found here and there small bodies
of Magyars. The Southern Slavs in their turn dwell in compact
masses of between 5,000,000 and 6,000,000 in the southern part of
Hungary; and there are at least 2,000,000 Slovaks in the north,
who also form a compact group. The Magyars are determined that
the 7,000,000 to 8,000,000 of the Hungarian Pousta shall rule
the 13,000,000 of non-Magyars in Transylvania, Jugoslavia, and
Slovakia, and that these nationalities shall disappear, losing
their language and individuality and adopting those of the
Magyar people. It is nothing less than national suicide which
the Magyars demand from these races, and, since this is refused,
the jingoes of Budapest, enjoying carte blanche from the Emperor
and the European powers, have for sixty years been carrying out
a veritable campaign of murder against the non-Magyar races of
Hungary.