Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-05-31
| NOBILITY OF POLAND.
Count Bozenta Has Stirred Up One
of His Lively Countrymen,
WHO QUOTES PREGNANT FACTS
To Show the Galician Hebrew Has No
Chance These Latter Days.
HE MUST CHANGE HIS FAITH OR QUIZ

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weeks ago. 1t was a Polish nobleman. My
idea was always that noblemen are not
much cared for in America, but recent
event convinced me of the contrary. Errdre
| hunanun est. You are allowed to say
everything bad of your Clevelands and
Harrisons. but you must beware of telling
anything unf1attering-even if it were the
purest truth-of foreign nobleman. Should
you ever have such temptation, why, L
am sorry for you, for your good name will
be gone, your veracity will be doubted and
press in the worst way.
Such case happened in our city.
L refer to an article I read recently y
| in one of your contemporaries. The article in
| question is signed Charles Bozenta Chap
| owslli This is the name of a genuine Pol
ish nobleman who stopped in our city for
| few days.
In his contribution Mr.. Chlapowski con-
siders it his duty to answer letter of Mr..
Wakeman from Cracow, published in THE
DISPATCH April "a, the letter being, in
the opinion of Mr.. Chlapowski, "a whole
fabric of SANDER" and compilation of ac-
cusations against an entire class-the nobil-
ity of Poland. Belonging to that GLASS; but
forgetting that qui s'excuse, s'accuse, Mr..
Chlapowski deems himself justified in
speaking in its behalf, and even presumes
to have the right to brand the absent corre-
spondent with the strongest name that ''ap-
plies to a willing talsifer of the truth. 3"
The Correspondent All Right.
have read with attention the letter of
Mr. Wakeman so attacked, and, as a native
of Cracow myself, cannot but most en-
phatically deny the statements of the e1-
ceedingly eXcitable aristocrat. 1 did not
notice any exaggeration on the part OF Mr.
Wakeman, but did notice leniency. The
Frenchman applies to person whose love
of truth cannot be relied upon, the saving:
''Ii ment CONNIE un arracheur de dents.
(He lies like dentist) Even if I should
admit that Mr.. Wakeman has tried, in some
points, to embellish his statements by aid
of imaglnation-which, however, 1 do not
perceived could not, for the sake of truth,
help observing that Mr.. Chlapowski has
also-it the Americanization Of the French
saying be allowed-eyinced in his reply
great aptitude for dentistry.
Mr.. Chlapowski considers it his duty not
only to impugn the veracity of your cor
respondent in relation to his description of
the mobiles of Poland and of the condition
of the Polish Hebrew, but also favors the
Austrian army. I will follow him-using
tactics somewhat differing from his. He
principally denies, while answering; I will
both deny and correct, but sometimes also
affirm.
1t would hardly be in place to give here a
full description of the character of the aver-s
age Polish nobleman. It sufices to say
that his chief feature is incompatible con-
servatism, the cultivation of luxury and an
indescribable aversion to all that is under
stood by the words "business activity"
which requires some exertion of brains.
Too Proud to Work.
Mr.. Chlapowski says that the Polish
mobiles are, as a rule, very poor business
men. NV experience is that they are as
much endowed by nature with the pos
session of the attributes necessary to make
a good BUSINESS man as any other class of
people OF any nationality, but as said be-
fore, they shrink from all business activity,
mercantile business especially being con-
sidered by them a great humiliation. A
nobleman engaged in commerce is something
you never come across. Not one of them
could forget himself so far, as it would be
terrible disgrace for the family he is 4 men,
Der OF For the family? Nay, a disgrace
for the whole country! A stain never to be
washed off, step against the laws of nature.
Besides, they are addicted to e1cesses of
various natures, as for instance gambling.
That they cannot be beaten in drinking has
become provcrbial.
1t is clear that possessing such traits they
cannot fail to work their ruin and are either
compelled to accept some position in the
service of the Government, the bulk of
such Offices being held by "played out"
noblemen, or if he is handsome enough, he
makes mercenary marriage. Otherwise
he commences to go from bad to worse
becoming a parasite and a burden to the
community. Approaching ruin sometimes
makes him sometimes democratic and he
does not care so much for the good name of
his relatives He then tries to improve his
finances by engaging in some industrial
(never commercially enterprise, and in
dulging from time to time in daring or un-
lawful schemes A case of this kind was
tried in Cracow not very long ago and re-
suited in the sentence of the defendant,
Count Rey, owner of large flour mills, to
Jail.
A Little History Thrown In.
I suppose it will not be superhuous to OBJ
serve that history attributes the fall of Po-
land to the corruption of its nobility, and
that if it had not been Tor the great Thad-
deus Kosciuszko, the Polish Lincoln, the
emancipation of the white slaves, the mobiles
would still be the owners of the peasantry
From the statements of Mr.. Chlapowskiit |
further appears that among the members
of the Galician Legislature (Sejm) sent |
from Cracow, there are several" Hebrews. |
AS matter of fact there is not one. In all |
there are four delegates sent to the Galician |
Sejm from Cracow, and I am therefore at a |
loss to understand how Mr.. Chlapowski can |
speak of several Hebrews as members of |
that body. This shows the assertions of |
Mr. Chlapowski in their proper light, and |
offers a sufficient proof as to his veracity. |
The following are the names of the dele |
gates: Dr. Adam Asnyk, Leo Chrzanovski
and DR.. Ferdinand Weigel. He speaks also
of Hebrew professors in the 'univers-
ties" True, there are two Hebrew
professors, Prof. DR.. Joseph Rosenblatt
and Prot. Dr. Albert Adamkiewicz, but /
to my great regret-they are of just one
university. called the Jagiellomical. And
again he speaks of Hebrew professors in the
high schools, I presume he means by this
the gymnasia and the schools for mechanics,
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