The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1910-07-18

which their descendants can never will
ingly return.
The Poland that remains II the real
Poland, the country where by race,
language and loyalty the people are still
Polish. But even in this narrowed area
and reduced population there Il the
basis Of a great nation. For the Russian
territory populated by Polish speaking
people alone exceeds that Of England
and Wales in AREA. while the total area Of
Austrian. Prlssian and Russian Poland
combined approIimates iOO.O0O square
miles. or half that Of modern Germany
and nine-tenths Of that of Great Britain
or Italy. This, too, IL the territory o.
the Polish speaking people.
Thepopulation of this surviving Poland
may In roughly estimated a. exCreding
2O.OOO,OO. or this total at least II 900, 90
are actually Poles and 500 600 Jews.
The remainder is largely German, with
various Slav and Teutonic elements.
The population Of Russian Poland alone
approximates ~, 900 900 and the remain
ing 5000 il equally divided between
the Polish district Of Prussia. in the prov.
inces Of Fast and West Prussia, Silesia
and Po-en. and the Austrian prov
inces 81 Galica and Silesia. Warsaw,
the capital Of the old Poland. counts
7J8. 426 inhabitants. Cracow 100 los. Po-
sen 1900. These. respectively, are the
capitals Of Russian, Austrian and Pr1Is-
sian Poland. and only Posen confirms "A
considerable non-Polish population.
Al the present time the condition Of
the Austrian Poles l. elone tolcrable
In the polyglot Austrian Empire. they
are threatened with no attempt az de-
naturalization. and In the Parliament
at Vienna their influence is cons iderable
in a State rapidly becoming Slav Hence
the celebration took place AT Cracow.
which il in fact the real capital of the
Polish people to-day, the headquarters
Of all the dreamers and workers for the
Poland that is not vet lost. In Prussia,
on the contrary, the plight 81 the Poles.
who are chiefly confined 20 Posen. il
pitiAble: successful in their resistance
10 attempted Pris-isnizinG. they vet
have TO endure tyranny and perse-
cution which are only comparable with
similar Prissian methods in AlSace-l or
rains and Schleswig
OF conditions In Russian Poland n IL
difficult 90 speak with precision. The
conflict between Polish ambition and
Russian determination. the struggle for
separate existence, II not for indepcn-
dence, continues undated. but the
l., OU.OO0 Poles who inhab.t thus re-
stricted area are by their very numbers
saved from any attack upon their racial
integrity such a. the Poles 81 Prussia
have daily 90 resist In the great social
and economic revolution through which
Russia il still passing and has been torn
with during the last ten wears the Polish
problem has lost a contemporary but not
a permanent place.
Fifty wears ago European statesmen
talked pleasantly 81 the frontiers ~
nationality and ~ racial integrity. An
incomprehensibln illusion, this theory
seems to-day in a Europe Of Alsacc-
Lorraines Schleswigs and Of shattered
Poland. Yet IL IL worth a passing no
tice at least that in the marches between
Prussia, Austria and Russia live Il ,OO.-
COO Poles, separated only by the most
arbitrary Of frontiers. a dotted line on
a plain. and united by all the bonds Of
common race history. language and
misery. a people that still preserve the
traditions Of ancient triumphs over
Pr7issian and Russian and the oven
more glorious memory IL tho day when
SoBIEsKI saved Vienna from IN" be-
siegcr and Europe from the Turk. For
the Poles at least there is consolation in
the knowledge that on far slightrr foun-
dation the kingdom II Prussia was
erected in the century and a quarter that
passed between FREDERICK the Great
and the first Emperor WILLIAM