Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1910-05-13
TWO POLISH--
l--===-PATRIOTS

Statues of Pulaski and Kosciusko, ma
tional heroes both of Poland and Amer
lea, will be unveiled In the city of Wash
ington today. The president of the
United States will make the principal ad-
dress, and the parade which will be a
feature of the ceremonies, will be made
up of 5000 Polish-American patriots, loyal
Poles and true Americans. escorted by p
600 United States soldiers and a vast
concourse of plain American citizens.
The statue of Brigadier General Count
Casimir Pulaski stands on one of the
small triangular parks thanking Pennsyl-
vania avenue, that thoroughfare of mag
nifcent distances which connects the
White House with the capitol. The statue
of Tadeusz Kosciusko. "Thaddeus OF
Warsaw" stands on one corner of La
fayette park, a beautiful square which
lies directly opposite the White House
and which is the very center of the beau
ties of the national capital. On two other
corners of this square are statues 20
the great French patriots who\ assisted
the American colonies in their war for in
dependence, Lafayette and Rochambeau.
On the fourth corner there soon will be
erected statue of Won Steuben. one OF
the German patriots who fought under
Washington: The erection in the future
OF a statue of Baron de Kalb in Wash
ington will complete the memorial honors
to that great sextette of European, aris-
tocratic patriots who fought for freedom
in America, the Polish Kosciusko and
Pulaski the French Lafayette and Ro-
chamebau and the German Won Steuben
and de Kalb.
The two Polish patriots whose statues
will be unveiled today have given their
names to many American towns and
counties and they also have been honor
ed by the erection of monuments in vari-
Gus cities Monuments to Kosciusko
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, Ga.
The present statue of Pulaski in Savan-
nah occupies another site, but the stone
which Lafayette laid is included in the
foundation.
In Washington today the statue Of Pu-
laski will be dedicated first, the princi-
pal address being delivered by President
Taft. Then will come the great parade
Of the Polish patriots and the American
military after which the ceremonies will
he concluded by the dedication of the
Kosciusko statue The principal adj
dress here will be delivered by the sec
rotary OF war, ]. NJ. Dickinson.
According to careful estimates made by
leading Poles in America, there are now
more than 100000 Polish-speaking people
i'm the United States. This does not,
of course, include Polish Jews. Chicago
alone has a quarter of million Poles,
thus ranking as the largest Polish city
after Warsaw and Lodz. The Poles are
intensely patriotic. They never have for
given Russia. Prussia and Austria for the
spoliation and partition of their coun-
try. But although the cunning OF Fred
erick 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 Pol
ish people the memory of their glorious
history as free people. The DEGREES of
the Gar Nicholas, the commands of the
Emperor Francis Joseph, the . laws OF
Kaiser Wilhelm, all conspire to destroy
the Polish language and Polish nation
alism, even as their ancestors destroyed
Polish liberty. But they have not been
successful and there is every reason to
believe that they never will succeed.
The hope Of the restoration OF Polish
national liberty is born is the breast Of