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THE ROUMANIAN QUESTION

IN

TRANSYLVANIA AND IN HUNGARY

REPLY

of the Roumanian Students of Transylvania and Hungary

"REPLY" MADE BY THE MAGYAR STUDENTS OF THE HUNGARIAN ACADEMIES TO THE " MANIFEST " OF THE UNIVERSITY STUDENTS OF ROUMANIA 

WITH AM ETHNOGRAPHICAL MAP OF AUSTRO-HUNGARY AND ROUMANIA

VIENNA, BUDA-PESTH, GRAZ, CLUJ

PROPERTY OF THE AUTHORS

1892

Table of contents

Preface

The Roumanian question in Transylvania and in Hungary

To the students of the Magyar universities

Notions on the ethnography and statistics of Transylvania and Hungary

        Origin of the Roumanians

        How the Magyars are multiplied

        Origin of the story relative to the « 9 » millions of Magyars

        Territory of the Roumanians in Transylvania and Hungary

The annexation of Transylvania to Hungary against the will of the majority of the inhabitants of Transylvania

The exceptional electoral law for the Roumanians of Transylvania

Manner in which the Magyar constitutional government elects its deputies

The law upon nationality is a parody of law

Public instruction employed in furthering Magyarization

        Elementary schools

        Secondary schools

        Refusal of the permission to found a Roumanian high school at Arad

        Refusal of the permission to found a Roumanian high school at Caransebes

        Magyarization by force of the Roumanian high school of Beiuş

        The universities

        Persecution of the Roumanians in the Magyar schools

        The persecution of our didactic literature

        Magyarization of children by force

Plots carried on against the autonomy of our churches

        i. Election of the archbishop

        ii. Obstacles put to the meeting of the national ecclesiastical congress

        iii. Violation of the right of jurisdiction in the question of ecclesiastical and scholastic discipline

        iv. Subsidy given to the clergy out of the budget of the state

        v. The funds for the pensions of the professors

        vi. Military schools of the ex-confines of the Banat

Injustice of the government against the Roumanians

Justice…

Refusal of the right of association

        i. Refusal to sanction the creation of a « Roumanian agricultural association »

        ii. Refusal to sanction the formation of the literary society « opinca romana »

        iii. Refusal to the Roumanian students of the university of Cluj, the permission to establish the academical society « Minerva »

        iv. Refusal to sanction the creation at Arad of a literary society the « Progresul »

        v. Refusal to sanction the creation of an association of the Roumanian ladies of Cluj and its neighbourhood

        vi. Refusal to sanction the creation of an association of the Roumanian ladies of Satmar

        vii. Refusal to sanction the creation of a society of Roumanian professors in the county of Satmar

        viii. Refusal to sanction the creation of a Roumanian casino at Faget

        ix. Refusal to sanction the creation of a society of Roumanian workmen at Alba Iulia

        x. Refusal to sanction the creation of a society for Roumanian workmen of Blaj

Persecution against the Roumanian publishers

Barbarous acts committed against the Roumanians by Magyar gendarmes

The Magyar society

        The societies of Magyarization

        Proofs of Magyar civilization

            i. Demonstration of the Magyar university students against the Roumanian society the « Julia »

            ii. Brutalities of the Magyar university students towards the Roumanians

Fanaticism of the Magyar press against the nationalities

Oppressions of the other non-magyar nations

        Slovaques

            i. The Slovaques ejected from parliament

            ii. Political liberty

            iii. Literary institutes

            iv. Rapt of Slovaque children

        Serbians

        Saxons

The Daco Roumanian irredentism

Conclusion (without title)

Bibliography of the Roumanian question