What more could you expect?
What were the Austrian demands? Servia sympathized with her
fellow-countrymen in Bosnia--that was one of her crimes. She must do so
no more. Her newspapers were saying nasty things about Austria; they
must do so no longer. That is the German spirit; you had it in Zabern.
["Hear, hear!" and applause.] How dare you criticise a Prussian
official? [laughter,] and if you laugh, it is a capital offense--the
Colonel in Zabern threatened to shoot if it was repeated. In the same
way the Servian newspapers must not criticise Austria. I wonder what
would have happened if we had taken the same line about German
newspapers. ["Hear, hear!"] Servia said: "Very well, we will give orders
to the newspapers that they must in future criticise neither Austria,
nor Hungary, nor anything that is theirs." [Laughter.] Who can doubt the
valor of Servia, when she undertook to tackle her newspaper editors?
[Laughter and applause.] She promised not to sympathize with Bosnia, she
promised to write no critical articles about Austria; she would have no
public meetings in which anything unkind was said about Austria.
"Servia Faced the Situation with Dignity."
But that was not enough. She must dismiss from her army the officers
whom Austria should subsequently name.
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