New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1904-12-12
POLISH WOMAN'S APPEAL.
Prayer to American Mothers to Help
Toward Universal Peace

Direct from Poland and from the heart Of a
Polish woman comes an impassioned appeal to
stop the in the Far East, which is being cir
culated by the Polish Literary Society OF this city
The appeal IS apparently inspired by the prospect
Of d second peace conference and the remem-
brance of Russa's activity AT the last one, at a
moment when she said TO be preparing TO
crush the hapless Firms and Poles. and is sent out
in the hope that the widespread publication Of
these facts will by arousing the Indignation OF the
civilized world be Of the utmost help 10 the mill
ions OF relentIessly prosecuted, suffering Polish
people"
1t is entitled An open letter to the friends of
peace and the women Of all countries"
It reads IN part:
When several years ago, at the wish of Car
Nichols IL the 1trst peace conference gathered at
The Hague II was received by the friends of hu-
manly win enthusiastic applause. IL seemed 10
herald the dawn OF
The Gar announced peace. indeed, but in his own
Nahd lheIe was no cessation OF 5hlerna str!1 Az
the time Of the conference at The Hague half the
provinces were under martial rule; and now. while
a second conference is about to take place on the
initiative OF a leader Of the American people, Rus
DaraIieled in the history OF me world
You do not know that women throw themselves
Iatfves TO the Far East; that cases of sudden
death and madness occur every day; that in the
cities Of PultHzk. CzanstOchowa and LOdz soldiers
fired into the people and killed many. In Gostynin
siating reserves. the colonel. Dzwonkowskt Pole,
shot himself IN 'front.' OF MS regiment ~,
In Kutnow the women, maddened with despair,
threw themselves the Russian OflCers, then
knelt upon the tracks raising their hands and
calling the vengeance of Heaven upon the Gar
According 70 government report. one woman died
Of broken heart in EOsnowiCa during the depart
Ure of the reserves. There are many hearts tina I
breaking in Poland to-day.
The Russian government lies when it saws they DO
call the front married and fathers OF
families They take even the fathers Of very
large families. They take W1dOwers upon WhCm de-
wolves the care of families and small children
It IS untrue that the government Of the Car Is
Russia It is false that Russia is Russia Only a
small part Of II is real Russia. Russia is Poland,
Finland. Lthuania. Armenia, Georgia. Russians
are Tartars. and Kurds. YakUts and many other
peoples, who are harassed under the yoke OF
It is false that crowds Of defenders, 7ot Of The
willingly and eagerly; and die in the ecstacy OF
patriotism The patriotic fervor is absent, even
among Russians themselves.
In the first lines Of battle are placed. not Rus
SLAMS but peoples maltreated and prosecuted by the
Russtans-Poles. Jews Flnl7nde-s- our brother
Poles constitute 20 per Of the first Mancnurlln
/ army. Amid the groans and prayers OF the dylhs'
our Polish tongue heard on all the ploody pat
| tefeiGs
Women Of all nationsl Let your mothery hearts
be filed with the s4GprinGs Of Polish mothers, Let
your voices echo their complaints ther desperate
| appeals
You have a voice. Your lips are not sealed ny
the censor Your homes are not surrounded oy
gendarmes and spies. You can move tue conscience
en- end 10 this horrible massacre TINS bloody m
justice which on the tVeil4etH century III us
I infamy brand or shame
II you will not do this. u our voice rouses no
/ ings. the-e is only silent uhpgnGed desert on
which hyanas dwell Then the proposed Congress
Of Peace 10, Ike the first pe. 4gi coinedy. 2
PROCLAMATION, dertsion OF the suIie'"s ana uhlold
misery OF a wretched people
The appeal is signed "A Polish Woman"