Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1884-10-26
THE CAPITAL OF POLAND.
i City Of Solid Pregress-Peculiar Pc
sition of It's Russian Citizens.

\ City CT Solid Pregress-Peculiar Pc
siion of Its Russian Citizens.
Outwardly Warsaw, like the rest Of Pc
land, says the London Globe. is pacified
and prosperous, 10 city in Russia can
aoual II for solid progress, none maintain
such a high levail of commercial pros
peritv, in spite OF the depression prevail
ING throughout the greater part of the
Russian Empire. In population 1t ranks
third In the list of Russian cities, St.
Petersburg coming first, with $4,000 peO-
Mo. Moscow next, with 5000, and War
saw third, with 100000. In appearance
there is little that is Polish about the
place: it has not that national look pos
sessed BY CraCOw. The lofty, solid,
whiteWashed houses deposited in blocks
along uniform and regular streets, with
horrible cObble-stOne paving and rafting
droskies, reminded one Of an inferior st.
Petersburg and Berlin. Barracks and
government buildings thrust themselves
upon the gaze everywhere. The streets
swarm with soldiers and officials, but,
none the less, there is plenty OF gen
nine business in the place, and in that
respect renders Warsaw more ike Mos
COW or Mini NOvgOrod than st. Peters
burr Efforts have been made by success
siye governors to Russlanize Warsaw,
aud give it the orthodox whitewashed
TOULOUSE appearance, Russian names
aud signs have been insisted upon, Polish
! monuments and buildings destroyed, and
Russo-Greek churches reared upon the
SITES of Catholic ones. With all this they
! have not succeeded in rendering warsaw
/ a place that Russians admire and love,
nCr have they rooted out the YeneratiOn
/ which the Poles entertain for city every
| inch of which contains associations cal
| cuIated to move the deepest feelings of
/ the patriot. For the ordinary Russian it
case of exile to send him to
~ - instances Siberia
I i,.o1sII 10 II n I%eE the nus
sien has three net aversions-the Jew, the
| German, and the Catholic Pole. Warsaw
/ is almost entirely made up Of these ele-
/ ments. In the villages the Russian comes
| i'm contact with sour-faced Polish peas
( in the towns all his business has to De
| transacted with Jews and Germans. the
| Russian is thus everywhere IN a false
| pOsi;iOn. He dominates, but it is at the
/ expense of mutual detestatiOn. Inc worst
is that he feels he is losing ground. The
Germans and the Jews are oyerrunnlng
the country; out of population OF i,OOU,-
OC0. 100000 are Jews, and nearly oOU,OOt
Germans. Thus one out OF every uNe
persons he meets is a Jew or German
1t can be readily understood that with
large expanse of splendid country, un
cultivated and awaiting colonization
stretching south of Russia to the eau
casus. the Muscovite should avoid settling
down in Poland. The climate an'
soil of the Steyropol plains beinl
Infinitely better than Poland, ant
the land considerably cheaper, th'
oyerplus of the middle Russian pro
,, vinces yearly makes for the Black sea
instead of moving west to the Vistula
To encourage the latter movement tn
> Russian Government enacted in4S64 tina
! | no Pole should sell his land to a fellow
: countryman. There being no Russia
: BUYERS. however. the Germans haV
. swarmed in, and Russia, having wo
Poland from the Pole, is now in danger
|, losing il to the German. At the close
: the last century Warsaw was Prussia
= possession. What is now the Nlstul
!, province was administered from Berlin
! Germans have pTOverbially long meme
= ries, and have displayed conslderab
: tenacity in sticking to their programm
: of extending the Kaiser's rule to wherevC
Il il was once acknowledged. With Wa
+ saw converted into second Metz, &c
a many would be as powerful on her easter
Il Il frontier as she is now on the west.