The Austrian Reichsrath is urging on revolution at a rather
breathless pace. In one morning (October 5) it decreed the im- movability of the judges, the exemption of the people from "admin- istrative control," and the subjection of all soldiers to the ordinary tribunals. Next day it ordered all officials, "Kaiser included," to take the oath of obedience to the Constitution, and three days after decreed that everybody should be admissible to every function, that letters should not be opened en route, that Austrians should have the right of meeting, that the press and education should be free, and that everybody should talk any language he liked. All that is very nice and proper, only those decrees have to pass the Upper Cham- ber, which will reject half of them, and then be submitted to the Emperor, who will veto half the remainder, and what can the Reichsrath do? It has no hold over any but the educated middle class, and the attempt to place them under the law will mortally offend the Army, which is now a caste, with separate privileges which it will not willingly resign.
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