Waterbury Democrat., 1903-02-16
A FUND FOR POLAND.
Movement for National Resurrection
 Now Very Active.
Assessment of One Cent a Month Laid on Every Pole in All Parts o& the World, old and
 Young.

GruSSla the FOllSn ad1onai movement in the United States, and indeed all over the world, has taken on increased activity. The movement has never en- tirely died out in this country, states the New York Sun.
 Chicago, Baltimore and Washington have always been active centers for Polish agitation, and the large Polish population of New | ork is now taking a new interest in the movement. The gathering of funds for the furtherance of Polish national resurrection has periods when the Polish movement at tracted no special attention.
 An active supporter of the movement says that his people have learned the futility of insurrections under ordi- nary conditions and have determined to await the ortunity that gem eral European war or some special conditions in the states that have par titioned Poland will afford. While awaiting this movement the Poles are preparing for it. They know that when the opportunity comes it will be too late to prepare.
 
 Polish movement is the assessment laid on every Pole in whatever part of the world. The assessment is only one cent month, but falls upon every man, woman and child of the Polish race, and very few refuse to pay it, while many contribute much more than the regular assessment.
 1t is held that the movement will profit most from an assessment so low that even the poorest can pay it, for thus the largest possible number of Poles can be kept interested. The money thus collected is forwarded through secret channels to Switzer- land, where the treasurer resides, and is used as seems best to the managers of the movement.
 Probably some of it has been used to enable Poles to buy back the estates in Prussia bought by the German gov ernment some years ago and sold to German colonists. Other appropria- tions are made for various objects bearing directly or indirectly upon the national movement.
 Money for these purposes flow in freely, and if there seemed an early prospect of special activity the sub- scriptions would be enormously in- creased. The obtaining of money is the easiest part of the propaganda, for the Polish national movement is furthered by great variety of organi- cations.
 Shooting societies, athletic societies, beneficial societies of various sorts, all 11a o1,4 II movement. At the same time the Pol ish Catholic priests in this country and throughout the world zealously foster the national spirit in their congrega- tions. No people are truer to the Cath olic church than the Poles, and the priests respond by being peculiarly sympathetic with the national aspira- tions of their people.
 There are some very successful Poles in this city and elsewhere in the coun- try, and the solidarity of the resident Poles is remarkable. Noble and peas ant come together in pleasanter inter- course, and are at one in their desire for the furtherance of the national movement.
 National customs and the national urcSS die PICSCiscu dS idI ds PoSsiDlc, and in their interest in these things poor and rich are alike. A lecturer who was seeking to borrow for pur- poses of illustration woman's cloak of the Polish national pattern asked for such garment at a Polish shoe makers shop which she visited, and soon afterward received an inquiry on the subject from 8 Polish nobleman living in this country.
 The Polish nobles, indeed, are often engaged in the hardest kind of labor in the land of their adoption. A few are employed as linguists in this city and in the departments at Washing f0u