The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-12-03

the Interior, has set up the doctrine
that passport only secures the right of
travelling in country, but not the right of So
journ Mr.. Rolla Bartochovsk a gentleman
who obtained his naturalization in. England in
1881, left for Prussia, in 1865, with a Foreign
Office passport. signed by Lord Clarendon, and
has been living ever since in the Duchy of Po-
sen. Notwithstanding his great age and his
status as naturalized Englishman, he has now
been ordered away. Count Ladslas Zamoyski,
q French subject and formerly an officer in the
French army, has been expelled with his mother
and sister. DR.. Cholkovski, member of the
Austrian Rechsrath, received notice to leave
within four weeks, and among the other Aus
trian exiles were several officers of the Austrian
Reserves
WHAT'S stranger still, a great many Poles who
had served In the Prussan army and were
classed in the Landwehr have been treated as
aliens. Herr Won Puttkamer in his circular to
the Landrathe, enioned that some consideration
should be shown to men who had served IN the
Prussian army; but this has only obtained for
some or them a short extension of time. In no
case has an order OF expulsion once issued been
rescinded. At Breslau there was a non COM
mlssloned officer who, having been twelve years
IN active service. applied for leave to enter the
reserve. His application was granted but he
received an order of expulsion along with his
discharge.
The population of some rural districts has been
literally decimated by the prescriptions. From
the district of Innovroclay, 5000 have been ban
little town Venopno, sixtytwo families have
been exiled, from neighboring village of $50
Inhabitants. $50 have been sent away, and from
kaovice 200 The prescription has fallen very
heavy on some of the mining districts, and work
has had to be suspended owing to the wholesale
expulsion of pitmen; but even the great cities
outside Posen have not been spared. More
than 1000 Poles have been expelled from Bres-
lau, while at DantZig which is the chief center
for the corn trade between Russia and the West,
great losses have been occasioned by the eXpul
sion of mercantile and banking clerks Most of
these are Jews, and the result of their departure
is that very few clerks now left who know
the Polish and Russian languages, so necessary
in commercial intercourse with Russia.
Some of the hardest cases, however, have been
those of workmen who had for years been mem
bers of mutual relief societies and had paid
regular percentage of their wages to secure a
provision for their old age. These men now
makes the matter worse is that many of
them had been longin Prussia that they
could speak only German and would, conse-
quently, find it difficult to obtain employment
on going to Poland or Russia Moreover, many
of these men, having served in the Prussian
army, had acquired lawful status as Prussian
citizens. military service everywhere cOnfers
the rights of citizenship.
AS the Lemberg PrZeglond says: "IIistory
has condemned as heinous political faults and
crimes the expulsion of the Moors from Spain
and the revocation of the Edict of Nantes.
What will it say TO this new act of inhumanity
and injustice. perpetrated just two centuries
after the expulsion of the Protestants from
France by the State which claims to be at the
head of European civilization and cultures"