Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1908-08-01
In PruSsianizing Poland the En-
piTo Is Met BY
Dr2ymaIa.
IGNORANT OF HIS POSITION
Humble Peasant H. Really fmportan.
IN Calll1g Attention 10
SiethGds.
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4 Drzymall,a humble Polish pens
ant, who has no notion that he
IS Of Importance to the world.
happens TO be doing more than any one
eloa to call attention to the grim work
Germany has been doing 90 quietly and
so remorselessly In Prussianizlng Po-
land-the same kind of work In Poland
that made universal outcry when
Russia tried It on
Some time ago the Prussian govern
ment passed law forbidding Polish
peasants 10 build cottages or any roof
ed building whatever on their own
ground. When their huts fall to pieces
from sheer age they often are obliged
10 sell their little farms and go else
where generally TO America The idea.
of course. Is that gradually all the
farms now belonging 10 Polish peas
ants VIII fall into the hands OF Prus-
slams, who are granted special privi-
leges by the Berlin government for
developing the land
Now the good Michel Draymaia late
ly bought a small farm and finding the
dwelling in ruin, attempted to repair t.
The authorities interfercd and Dfzy-
mala and HIS family set themselves up
In the granary, cooking their food
on a stove erected In the fields hard
by. It was not long before the gen
darmes came, turned them out OF the
granary and destroyed the stove.
NOT EASILY DEFEATED.
Drzymala was not to be defeated so
easily, however. He walked about his
farm all day and slept with his fam
lily in ditch at night, living on bread
bought at the nearest village and water
from the river One day. after a week
or more Of this kind of existence he
saw caravan belonging to a wander
Ing clown approach his farm on it's wRy
TO neighboring town. II was bat
tered looking thing and small hut It
put an Idea into the sturdy farmers
head The clown agreed to part with
II for a small consideration. and Orgy
mala handed oyer part Of his savings
for this miserable cart on wheels In
which to live with his wife and fam
lily, Even the Prussian 'landrat" had
not foreseen such contingency. and
after making the Pole pay fine for
not registering his house" and put
ting him in prison for week or two
they let him alone.
GETS NEW CART.
When four children and their parents
must eat. sleep and cook In a covered
cart is feet long, barely feet high
and feet wide. comfort Is at a pre-
mum. But In short time the story of
how Dr2ymala had defed the Prussian
gendarmss spread through Prussian
Poland. and his countrymen who heard
of it said that the farmers pluck and
determination should have reward I'm
the form of new cart. which could
be warmed and made generally suitable
to the hard, northern winter Orgy
lnala had spent all his money on the
old cart and the fine and II would have
been very long time before he could
have bought a new home" small
committee was formed IN Posen and
modest subscriptions came in from Pol
tsh farm laborers and small farmers.
At last enough money was collected
to order a cart and Drzymala recently
had the pleasure Of receiving the Sift
II is % feet long, Q feet high and g
feet wide, and consists Of cupboard
like ''anteroom,' a small kitchen with
cooking stove, and living room whore
second stove can be fitted In winter
The wooden walls are lined with cork
and asbestos the five small windows
are fitted with stout shutters, whilo
the two doors-at back and front-are
provided with movable steps.
The timble-down clowns cart has
already found favor--dilapidated and
small as II ls--in the eyes OF several
small farmers whose cottages are
falling 20 pieces and who cannot get
the necessary permission 10 build new
ones Several want 10 buy II and the
man who does go viii be thought Yerg
lucky
sTA&7 OUT LANGUAGE.
The schools are another source OF
persecution because Of the Prussinns'
attempts 10 stamp out the Polish Ian
Euage The Poles are Catholic poo
PIE and this TACT does not plcnHH their
masters who do nll in their power 90
ruin the priests and abolish Catholic
churches. "Rcligipu" w tuurhl to the
Polish school children by German
masters who try to force their charges
TO say their prayers iu German. This
leads to all sorts uf struggles, for
the children refuse 10 pray I'm any
language but their own. For per-
sistent refusal they arc bcatou and
little mites of seven years old can be
soen with cuts and bruises All over
their bodies, inflicted by German mas
ters during the religion lcssura. one
OF the primo offenders is am clement
AIRY school teacher named Koch who
teaches I'm tho village school of NEs-
ziew, IN tho Grand purhy Of pospu.
lie and his many lmiatOrs an over
Prusslnn Poland do not vonhno
Themselves 10 beating the Polish chill
dren who refuse tp pray In German.
They keep them 'n the schools Tor as
long as 20 hours ni 3D. stretch, locked
up IN uUFh ROOMS without bUt kulNh
TO cat I'm they are too weak from
fear and hunger to rrsi-t longer and
say thor prayers I'm German Such
incidents are hoa5tcd of by the teach-
ers as examples of progress.
BRUTALITY or TEACHERS.
n one or two instances Koch's bru-
tally has been avenged by the pan
cnts The mothers of some children
who were kept in school by him fell
upon his house at uightfall. demand
ing that their children be- Released. Ho
refused, suyinp that 'Holish swine
must be taught manners" Whercuppn
they broke In ard would have torn
him "a pieces had not the police in
terfered, arrcstng parents and chill
dren. The former werc sentenced 70
several DAYS Imprisonment Will,
the inter were sent back 90 the ten
der mercies of Koch one OF lSochH
oolleasueh, teacher named Muller
VINO hNes ln neighboUng town, WA
Waylalu and beaten hy the parents %
some ehlldren he had llueated. Tn,
government sent him AS headmaste
10 digger Polish school. where n
carries on his system Of Germanlzatiol
20 ms hearts content. thrashlng an,
nnhrisonlng his pupils for spealNn
lollsh even IN play time Tho mpr
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