El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1910-05-11
Two Polish Patriots
AMERICA WILL HONOR MEMORY OF
REVOLUTIONARY WAR OFFICERS

Statues of Pulaski and KosciuszkO,
national heroes both of Poland and
America viii be unveiled in the city of
Washington today The president of the
United States will make the principal
address, and the parade which will be 4
feature of the ceremonies will be made
up OF five thousand PoIish-American
patriots, loyal Poles and true Ameri-
cans, escorted by two thousand Unit
ed States soldiers and vast concourse
of plain American citizens.
With Other Statues
The statue of brigadier general Count
CaSimir Pulaski stands on one of the
small triangular parks thanking Penn
Sylvania avenue, that thOroughfare of
ma gnificent distances which connects
the white house with the capitol The
statue of TadeuSz KosciusZko, "'.Thad-
deus of Warsaw" stands on one corner
of Lafayette park, a beautiful square
which lies directly opposite the white
house and which is the very center of
the beauties of the national capital. On
two other corners of this square are
statues to the great French patriots
who assisted the American colonies IN
their war for independence, Lafayette
and ROchambeau. On the fourth cor
ner there soon will be erected g statue
Of Won Steuben. one of the German pa
triOts who fought under Washington.
The erection in the future of a sta
tue of Baron de KaIb in Washington
will complete the memorial hOnors to
that great sextette of European, aristo-
cratic patriots who fought for freedom
in America, the Polish KosciuszkO and
Pulaski, the French Lafayette anu Itoc-
hambeau and the German Won Steuben
and de Kalb.
The two Polish patriots whose sta
tues will be unveiled today have given
their names TO many American towns
and counties and they also have been
hOnored by the erection of monuments
in various cities. Monuments TO Kos
ciuszko have been erected at West Point
military academy, where he was once
governor, at Chicago, Milwaukee and
Cleveland. General Lafayette, when on
his last visit to America in 1925, LAID
the cornerstone of statue TO Pulaski
in Savannah, Georgia The present STA
tue of Pulaski in Savannah occupies an
other site. but the stone which Lafay-
cite laid IS included in the foundation
President Taft VIII Speak.
In Washington today the statue of
Pulaski will be dedicated first, the prin-
cipal address being delivered by Presi-
dent Taft. Then will come the great
parade of the Polish patriots and the
American military, after which the cere-
monies will be concluded by the dedt-
cation of the KosciuSzko statue The
principal address here will be delivered
by the secretary of war, j. NJ. Dickinson.
Many Poles in United States.
According to careful estimates made
by the leading Poles in America, there
are now more than two million Polish
speaking people in the United States
This does not, of course, include Polish
Jews. Chicago alone has quarter OF
q million Poles, thus ranking as the
largest Polish city after Warsaw and
Lodz. The Poles are intensely patriotic
They never have forgiven Russia, Prus-
STA and Austria for the spoliation and
partition of their country. But, although
the cunning OF Frederick the Great, the
deceit of Catherine and the treachery
of Napoleon may have conspired to
erase Poland forever from the political
map of Europe. not they nor all their
successors in power have been >able TO
blot from the hearts of the Polish peo-
pie the memory of their glorious his
tory as a free people. The DEGREES of
the Car Nicholas, the commands Of
the Emperor Francis Joseph. the laws
of the Kaiser Wilhelm, all conSpire -
destroy the Polish language and Polish
nationaIisni. even as their ancestors de-
stroyed Polish liberty. But they have
no: been successful and there l. evcly
reason TO believe that they never Will
succeed
Hope for Nations Liberty.
The hope of the restoration Of Polish
national liberty is born in the breast
Of every Polish child; it is fed on the
rich fuel of a peculiar language and
a particular history. and it blazes
brighter and higher every day in the
life of every Pole TO be quenched only
by the conqueror Death Rightly or
wrongly, every Pole looks forward TO
that day when a general war shall de-
stroy the balance of power in Europe
as the day of opportunity when the
crimes of 1912, 1898 and 1886 shall be
undOne and toned for.
Poland holds a place of peculiar in
terest in the political, the military and
the constitutional history of Europe.
The country Is the geographical center
of Europe, and was on the bOrderland
between conflicting races as well as
rival governments. 1t was brilliant in
war, yet it often was used as the help
less pawn in the hands of some alien
master of the game of battle. Under
the Poles saved central Europe |
from a Turkish invasion and recaptured !
Vienna from the MuSselmans. just as
they had, long before, stemmed the Tar
tar tide which threatened TO engulf all 7
Christian and European civilization
An AristOcrntic Republic.
Their government was presided over !
by a king, and the Poles often were con- |
tent TO ask a foreigner TO accept their !