The morning call., 1894-09-30
TO FREE POLAND.
Patriots Now Plotting
Busily.
WILLIAMS HAND OF IRON
Cannot Keep Down the Old
National Spirit
WHERE VAN CAPRiVI FAILED.
Germans Feel That 1t Was a Mistake
to Abandon the Policy of
Repression.
WHERE VAN CAPRiVI FAlLEl


ferred to, So the difference, If 1t really
exists. is not in regard tn that particular
question. Emperor Williams speech at
Thorn last Saturday is now known to
have been impromptu. 1t continues to be
canvassed bOtly and is held by the op-
pOnents OF Chancellor Won Caprivi to indi-
cate that the Emperor shares the Prussian
Premier's views in regard TO the Poles,
especially as the Imperial Gazette omit ted
to publish the text of the speech.
Won Caprivi is now residing a Branden-
burg aud no decision regarding the policy
to be followed In regard TO Poland is likely
To be arrived at before lie returns to this
city. The enemies of the Chancellor are
doing their utmost to make an impression
upon the public in regard 10 Poland before
the Reichstag reassembl bles, and they also
count upon his known WEAKNESS of in
trigues in the political arena and his
preference for the more simple life OF a
soldier to induce him to retire from politics.
The Polish question is becoming more
and more of special interest TO the PTus-
sian Government, and this fall and during
the coming win ter a number Of measures
are to be Instituted to stop the rising tide ot
Polish natiOnalism. 1t is well known that
Chancellor Won Caprivi has adhered since
MS accession to power 10 the exact Oppo-
site course in dealing with the Poles of the
provinces of Posen. West Prussia ana
Upper Silesia, TO that which Bismarck
followed during his long regime. Instead
of severe repression, conciliatory policy
was inaugurated by Caprivi. OF late,
though, it has become apparent that this
policy. If further persisted in, will lead to
serious complications.
The movement in favor of the re-estab-
lshment of a Polish kingdom has gath
cred great strength within the past four
years. The Lemberg Exposition has
shown that plainly. and a number Of
significant incidents must be similarly
construed. During the recent Kossuth
anniversary public speeches were made in
the Polish districts of Prussia melting the
people to disloyalty and rebellion. a
wealthy and Influential Polish magnate,
owner If vast estate near BIomberg.
POseD, made use of the following express
sion in addressing his guests:
"You have no King at present, and, in
the absence of one. you must look upon
your Arch bishop as the head of cur nation.
The time will come when you. as of old,
will seize the sickle, the scythe and the
fail to defend the rights of your nation
al ty."
Attacks and numerous assaults commit
ted by crowds of Polish peasants upon
German excursiOnists and German trav-
elers are once more becoming alarmingly
frequent The pupils of German
Protestant school at Posen, while on an
outing with their teachers but few
hours distant from this city. were as
saulted, and some of the children were
dangerously wounded by a number of
Polish fanatics. Such incidents as these
are vigorously commented upon by the
whole opposition press as so many proofs
Of the futiIity of Caprivi's system of con-
ciliatIon. A high Prusaian official. who is,
in these things, the right hand of Caprivi,
informs the correspondent of the Asso-
ciated Press that severe repreSsive meas
ures are henceforth to be adopted against
the perpetrators of such outrages.
The anarchistic literature distributed in
Marien burg during the Emperor's recent
visit to that West Prussian city, en- the
occasion of the maueuyers of the First
and Seventeenth Army Corps. was of
highly inf1ammatory character. directly in
citing to regicide and approving of the
assassination of the late President Carnot.
Immediate Investigation was order ed, and
a number of the shrewdest detectives were
there from Berlin. 1t has been impossible
thus far TO detect the guilty parties, but it
was known that private soldier of the
Seventeenth Army Corps. Pole named
Powlaski. was implicated in this latent
anarchistic plot. The Emperor, therefore,
ordered the immediate arrest of all the
private soldiers of that name. and in all
some sixteen men were taken into custody.
They are now in close confinement, while
the investigation is still going on. How
ever, in 81 lite of socialistic, anarchislic and
Polish agitation, there Is no doubt that
when the Reichstag meets il will be spe-
cially shown that Won Caprivi still pos
sesses the Emperor's complete confidence.
At Posen, since the Emperor's speech at
ThOrne, an appeal has been issued by the
leading German citizens and by the owners
of large estates for the formal ion of a
central society for The protection of Ger
man interests in the province. Simul-
taneously with this the Imperial Bureau of
Statistics has published q return showing
that the number of German-speaking resi-
dents of Posen has decreased within the
past five years.
Direct connection by rail between the
cities of Lower Weser. below Bremen, and
Berlin will be established during the next
two years. GeestemuDd, opposite Bremen
haven, is to be most benefited thereby.
The new road is to be forty miles long, and
then to connect with existing trunk lines.
Geestemund lies in Prussian territory be-
lon pinp In Hannypr and that iS whv tba
Prussian Government will gladly do what
1t can II further the shipping interests to
this port, which is becoming annually more
and more nf a rival to Bremerhaven.
Besides, direct communication by tue new
line will shorten the distance between
Berlin and the North Sea by fifty miles.
One of those crimes swhose tauthorship
is hardly ever traced. and which usually