Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1884-11-27
THE CAPITAL or POLAND.

warsaw is Prosperous 0utwardIy.
but There are Secret Powers an
work.
London Globe
Outwardly Warsaw, like the rest of
Poland, is pacified and prosperous.
No city in Russia can equal it for solid
progress; none maintains such high
level of commercial prosperity, in
spite of the depression prevailing
throughout the greater part of the
Russian empire In population il
ranks third ia the list OF Russian cities.
St Petersburg coming first. with $40. :
600 people; Moscow next, with CPS
600, and Warsaw tl-ird, with $40, 600.
In appearance there is little that is
Polish about the place it has not that
national look possessed by Moscow.
The lofty, solid, whitewashed houses,
deposited in blocks along uniform and
regular streets, with horrible cobble-
stone paving and rafting droskies.
remind one of an inferior ST. Peters
burg and Berlin. Barracks and gov
eminent buildings thrust themselves
upon the gaze everywhere; the streets
swarm with soldiers and officials;
none the less, there is plenty of genu-
inc business in the place, and in that
respect renders Warsaw more like
Moscow or Mini Novgorod than st.
Petersburg Efforts have been made
by successive governors to Russianize
Warsaw, and give it the orthodox
whitewashed LIGHTHOUSE appearance.
Russian names and 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 aod love,
nor have they rooted out the venera-
ton which the Poles entertain for a
city which contains associations calcu-
lated to move the deepest feelings of
the patriot. For the ordinary Rus
sian 1T is case of exile to send him to
Poland. In many instances Siberia
would be preferred. The Russian has
three pet averslons-the Jew, the Ger
man, and the catholic Pole. Warsaw
is almost entirely made up of these
elements. In the villages the Rus
sian comes in contact with sour-faced
Polish peasants, protesting religion
he hates, and in the towns all his
business has to he transacted with
Jews and Germans. The Russian is
thus everywhere in a false position.
He dominates, but it is at the expense
of mutual detestation. The worst is
that he feels he is losing ground The
Germans and the Jews are overrun-
ming the country; out of a population
of 1000, 600, 900, 600 are Jews, and
nearly 5000 Germans. Thus one
out of every five persons he meets is
a Jew or a German. 1t can be readI-
ly understood that with a large ex
panse of splendid country, uncultivat-
ed and awaiting colonization, stretch
ing south of Russia to the Causasus,
the Muscovite should avoia settling
down in Poland. The climate and
soil of the Stevropol plains being
infinitely better than Poland, and
the land considerably cheaper, the
overplus of the middle Russian pro
vinccs yearly makes for the Black sea,
instead of moving west to the Vistula.
To encourage the latter movement
the Russian government enacted IN
1864 that no Pole should sell his land
to fellow-countryman. There being
no Russian buyers, however, the Ger
mans have swarmed in, and Russia,
having won Poland from the Pole, is
now in danger of losing it to the Ger
man. AT the close of the last century
Warsaw was a Prussian possession;
what is now the Vistula province was
administered from Berlin. Germans
have proverbially long memories, and
have displayed considerable tenacity
ia sticking to their programme of ex-
tending the kaiser's rule to wherever
it was once acknowledged. With
Warsaw converted into a second Metz,
Germany would be as powerful on her
eastern frontier as she is now or the
west