Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1882-09-08

by race kinship she forfei,s by her
tyranny. POsen may hesitate in his
choice, Ii choose it must, between the
Slavic banner and the Teutcnic, seeing
no prospect of independence in the
victory OF either; but Russian Poland,
grooming under a CALLING yoke, will
readily join even German invaders,
unless convinced that they mean to
extend their Prussian border, as such.
to or beyond the middle Nistula, or al
iured by timely Russian assurances of
vital concessions; and as long as Rus
slan Poland does not unequivocally de-
clare for the Panslavic cause, which
she would do only after revolution in
Rus 'ia, or at least in the Russian
policy. the Poles of Galicia will stand
firmly by ustria-Hungary, defending
TO the last the cause of their nationality
and church against the deadliest foe OF
both, the Russian power. Galicia con-
sders herself now the nucleus of fu-
ture independent Poland, and as such
She is kept in provisional allegiance to
the Ausiro-Hungarian monarchy and
its Hapsburg dynasty. The dynasty,
the Hungarians. and the German
Austrans will have no hesitation in
letting that province go free. to be-
come. with other parts of Poland,
rampant against Russia, the weak, OBJ
Jectlvc PORT OF whose constantly men,
aced attack it is now. The opposition
OF the Czechs and other Slavs OF the
monarchy 10 such diminution of its
Slavic strength will easily be overcome.
Let Bismarck speak out the word res
toration of Poland" and all the land.
from the Carpathians to the Baltic.
will be ablaZe, and the real Eastern
question virtually decided by the Polish
nation breaking the Panslavic phalanx.
instead of joining it.
That Bismarck, while doing his best
to keep Posen firmly attached to Prus-
sia, and dealing roughly-perhaps os-
tentatiously so-with his Polish oppo-
nents il the German Reichstag and
Prussian Diet. may yet harbor the
thought of one day playing out that
word as great trump. perhaps his
greatest in European politics. has long
been suspected. His Boswell, Moritz
Busch. has divulged the fact that he
once seriously advised the Crown
Prince of Prussia to have his sons
taught Polish, as thing that might be
useful in the future. Could Bismarck
have thought of an independent Poland
under Prussian secundogenitureP An
independent Poland under an Austrian
secundogeniture has been the desire of
the Polish high nobility since 1881,
when negotiations were entered into
with Metternich with L view to placing
the Archduke Charles upon the throne
of Poland. But of late the report has
gained currency in wide circles that
Bismarck meditates the creation of
Polish throne for the Saxon dynasty in
exchange for Saxony. which would be
annexed to Prussia. Two electors of
SaxOny reigned in Poland, as kings,
from 1898 To 1868. and King of Sax
ony was Duke of Warsaw from 1907 to
1913. The Saxon dynasty has re-
mained Catholic since Augustus the
Strong adopted that faith. in order to
gain the Polish crown.in 1897. Protest
ant Saxony would hardly object to the
change rulers, and this change would
be great step in the uniiication of
Germany directly under the Hohenzol-
Tern scepter. Poland remembers its
Saxon monarchs with kind of chari-
table complacency. The scheme is
very rational-and perhaps not merely
bene tr0rato.-N. y. Evangelist.