Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1885-01-16
The Capital Of rsland. !. a !.

Outwarlly warsaw, like the rest Of
Poland. is pacified and prosperoua No
city in Russia can equal it for solid
progress. none maintains such a high
level Of commercial prosperity In spite
of the depression prevailing throughout
the greater part of the Russian Em-
pire. In population it ranks third In
the list Of Russian cities, St. Peters
burg coming first. With $40, coo people. :
Moscow nexf, with 625. coo, and War.
saw third, with $4,000. In appear.
ance there is little. that Is Polish about
the place; Il has not that nationai look
possessed by Cracow. The lofty, solid.
whitewashed houses deposited in blocks
along uniform and regular streets, with
horrible cobbie stone paving and rat
ting droskies, remind one Of an iufe-
rior St Petersburg and Beriia.s Bar
racks and Government buildings thrust
themselves upon the gaze everywhere.
the streets swarm with soldiers and
officials; but none the lees. there Is
2 plenty Of genuine business in the place,
and in that respect renders Warsaw
more like Moscow or Mini Novgorod
than St Petersblrg. Efforts have been
amade By successive Governors 10 Rus
sianizef Warsaw and give it the i'ortho.
dox whitewashed lighthouse appear
ance. 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 War
saw place that Russians admire and
love, nor have athey rooted out the
veneration which the Poles entertain
for city every inch of which contains
associations calculated to move the
deepest feelings of the patriot. For the
ordinary Russian it is q case of exile to
send him to Poland. In many Instances
Siberia would be preferred. The Rus
sian has three pet ayersions-the Jew,
the German, and the Catholic Pole
Warsaw Is almost entirely made up of
these elements. In the villages the
Russian comes in contact with sour
faced Polish peasants, protesting o re-
iigion he hates, and in the towns all his
business has to be transacted with
Jews and Germans. The Russian is
thus everywhere in q false position.
He dominates, but it is ut the expense
of mutual detestation. The worst is
that he feels he Is losing ground. The
Germans and the Jews are overrunning
the country; out of population of
1000, 600, 800, 900 are Jews, and nearly
500, 900 Germans. Thus one out of
every five persons he meets is jew or
Q German. 1t can be readily under
stood that with a large cxpanse of
splendid country, uncultivated and
awaiting colonization. stretching south
of Russia to the CaucastIs. the Musco-
vite should avoid settling down in Po-
land. The climate and soil of the Ste
vropol plains being infinitely better
than Poland, and the land considera-
bly, cheaper, the overplus Of the middle
Russian provinces yearly makes for the
Black Sea, instead of moving west to
the Yistnla., To encourage the latter
movement, the Russian Government
enacted in 1864 that no Pole should
sell his land to felIow-countryman
There being no Russian buyers, how.
ever, the Germans have swarmed in,
and Russia, having won Poland from
the Pole, is now in danger of losing IL
10 the German. At the close of the last
centpry Warsaw was Prussian pos
session; what is now the Vistula prov
ince was administered from Berlin.
Germans have proyerbiaily long memo
ries. and have displayed considerable
tenacity in sticking to their programme
OF extending the Kaiser's rule to wher-
ever II was once acknowledged. With
Warsaw converted into second Metz,
Germany would be as powerful on her
eastern frontier rs she Is now on the
west. Gto6c. ai l9 atI 81