Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-06-27
FOR A NEW POLAND
The Forces That Struggle for 1t
Today.
SWEEPING ASPIRATIONS
Uncertainty Of Russian Hegemonic
Command.
WHAT SIENKIEwICz SAYS
Object to Turn Russia's Plight to Adj
vantage Of Polish Peasant
What It is.

A rehabilitated Polish nation Is one of the
pressing issues of the future both for Rus
STA and for Germany. according to many
officials of those two nations 1t has, fur
thernore, been shown by the Developments
that have followed the opening of the Rus
sian douma. A strong factor in the future
well-being of Poland Is the rapid Industrial
and commercial growth of recent years, and
the number of united Jews who are thor
oughly identified with the Polish spiri, and
let no opportunity slip by to give evidence
Of this feeling. There are two classes of
parties that really direct Poland today-the
social and the political, but the former is
regarded as of the greater Importance.
National Parties.
Among these parties there are several
which are more or less general and impor-
tant. said prominent diplomat There
are many Of them-in fact they are SO
numerous that 1t is impossible to keep track
of them. The most important party is
known as the 'Ugodowce,' and constitutes
the national-Polish section of the demo-
cratic Jewish-Slavonic party. The plans of
this society can be only understood In the
light of the pan-Slavist ideas. The western
mind cannot grasp them from its own point
Of view.
THE Ugodowca hold out an attainable
end Unlike the object Of the pan-Poles.
who cry for Utopia, they want a father
land from sea to sea. Its members have
formulated their political aspirations. They
are sweeping. but altogether within reason.
According to their ideas. Russian Poland,
along with Galicia, La to form part of a
great Slavic confederacy of states, in which
the empire Is to assume hegemonic COM
mand. Within the limits of this confederacy
the language spoken shall be Polish. Rus
sia is not In any way to interfere In any OF
the inner concerns of the state. The COM
mercial end would not be forgotten in these
places. While between dependent states
ly developed industries Of Russian Poland
make 1t necessary for her to depend upon
Russia. This. at least. to be SO until there
viii be wholly Polish export harbor. from
where 1t could send out its productions into
the markets Of the world.
No Faith In Russia.
This would make the reacquisition OF
Posen-once the capital Of Poland and now
a fortified city of Prussia-only question
of time, and something to be peacefully
achieved by the proletarians whose hands
are now working in the interests OF Ger
man industry.
'aThere are some Poles" continued the in
formant, who firmly believe that Russia
could not be trusted with exercising tne
hegemony in Stav state, because her ol-
rection could never be anything but dorni-
ueerfup and autocratic. And the Poles are
lust fichting to get away from this very
state of things.
Russian Sympathy Enlisted.
aside from this, there is another COM
plicated question. Should another Slavic
group, outside Of the Poles. assume this
leadership? The Ugodowce declares no. Ac-
cording to this society the only thing for
the Poles to do is to remain faithful to
their country and customs, and to enlist
the sympathies of the Russian educated
classes, which are advancing, II slowly, In
the direction desired by the Poles.
Henrik Sienkiewicz, the noted writer and
patriot, is the only Pole who has SO lar
succeeded In holding the attention OF an
Indifferent world to the abnormlty or the
school In Poland He believes that the
school is the first thing to organize. be-
cause 1t will develop future citizens that
must know how to conduct and maintain
their own country. He said on the subject:
No Bloody War.
".On the courage Of the Polish commu-
nifty will depend the further course of this
educational movement. The community
should not submit to the government; the
government will have to yield to the ma
ton. This will be a struggle for rights in
the full sense Of that expression It will
be possible to raise and wage many other
struggles of this kind, without piunging the
those struggles there will be sufficient
number Of dramatic episodes, opportunities
enough for the manifestation of herolsm,
victims and sufferings enough; but there
will be neither universal calamity nor a
universal havoc
Proposed Changes.
1.-THE object is now to turn Russia's plight
to the advantage of the Polish nation. The
pan-Pohsh party. commonly known as the
Polish national democratic party. undertook
as result, the first step of broad political
action-the struggle for the Polish language
in the commune This political program
aims at the broad autonomy of the kingdom
of Poland, which means complete and
separate political constitution, manner of
legislation, system Of administration. of the
judiciary, of public education and finances,
all based on its recognition as a country alb
solutely Polish.
The Denationalizing Policy.
This movement confirms the long -known
fact that the Russian governments dena-