New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1883-12-26
oLGI DE YoJIK0FF on POLAND.
Eom Ia. ~ VA Gafell..

Writing to rs from Berlin. Madame Olga de Novi-
kot sends as the following explanation OF the three
difficulties with which, rs she remarked m her re-
cent article on General Gourko, Russia has To con-
tend IN Poland
"The first resembles one Of your difficulties in Ire
land. The Roman hierarchy, THANKS 10 that most
unfortunate COncordat which has been agreed To
between our Government and the Pope, has been re-
established with all its power for mischief intact,
and no attempt made TO introduce the Russian
language ia Catholic churches, even in places where
the majority of the inhabitants are not Poles. We
have no eumty to the Roman Catholics such
We have many officials belonging to that faith but
10 the Roman Catholic bishop, rs organizers of dis
affection and dirloyalty' rs the advocates OF the
acknowledgements aspirations OF the Poles, Rus
,ia Ohrct, with reason. Yet 10 these men the Coy
eminent with almost incredible blindness has
handed over the full control OF the Polish Church.
without oven taking measures to secure the use of
Russian ~ the services. IL Is n dyplorablc mistake
which may have very tragical results.
The second difficulty II that Of the jews Poland
j. q nest oil Jews; there have always been Jews in
Poland, but there were never so many "a there are
today. r. lslG they numbered only 2i2,ooO, 20
day there 100000. and the proportion To the
non-.lcwsh population has risen from - PER 1000
to 1872 per 1000; that is 10 say, II has nearly
donbrd N nan efnl"y "ht ss ISM means bnso you You
Jews and those of the best kind can never under
stand We know it only too well. remember a
high Official attached TO the late ioycrnor(ieneraIs
staff telling me once that lac had tried and tired IN
vain to sell horse at Warsaw without propltatng
the Jews. II was Of no usci the Hebrews had the
whole town mapped out in districts. and 80 severely
did they boycott all who tlansgicsscd Their un-
written law that business was impossible except
through jewish monopOllsts. II that was 50 IN the
case of u high Russian Official, what must be the
hclplcssncss of the poorer propc' The Jews are in
Poland u closely organized guild. with their own
peculiar laws, rules regulations and penalties; in
short they constitute u powerful secret society,
against whom the peasants and the mobiles are
almost helpless.
"a tGird difficulty is the constant influx of Ger
man coloniSty who are allowed To buy land, but
who do not become Russian subjects, and who,
therefore. are not subjected TO Russian laws The
Germans il is true talk much of Russian dcspotisn.
but that does not prevent them from noCting In
evcr-ncTcasng numbers across the Russian from
tier Oar tariff has led German manufacturers 10
establish their factories within the Russian bound
AIRY; they bring their worlmen with thcm and the
German Hood advances ever eastward. The lands
of the Polish mobiles are bought up by German coll
onists. In the last twenty years three hundred
great estates in Poland have passed into the hands
of the Germans. In 1893 there were only $4,000
Germans in Poland; to-day there are more than
half mlion-that Is to say. out of q population of
5000 900, there are 100000 Germans and 500 900