New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-09-06

history thoroughly understands the spirit of the
race and through his daughters, is related to two
historic noble Polish houses, the RadziYills and
the Czartoryskis.
have been engaged during the last two years
m try ng to explain that the sO-called race prob
lem in Austra-Hungary has since 1867 changed
gradually from racial into an economic qucs-
ton It is battle not Of nationalitics, but
Of classes chiefly Of the peasantry against the
land owners If it were question OF race opprcs-
sion the Jews Of Austria hungary would have
grievances ot their own greater than those ad-
vanced by the Slavs of the Dual Monarchy. As
matter Of fact, they have no grievances at all.
They are just as comfortable and free in the Dual
Monarchy they in the United States, simply
because .hey not peasants. If they were they,
too, would feel the pressure OF economic condi-
tOns and would no doubt unthinkngly ascrbe
their state to anti-Semitism.
The Anticipated privileges of the arstocrstic
system that still survives in Austria Hungary
weigh as heavily on the German and the Magyar
as on the Ruthenian the Sovak Serb peas
ant. And their landlords likely to be Of
their own race German Austrsns Magyar
Hungaraus This is the underlying cause Of the
hatred between the two SIav races that live to-
gcthcr in Austrian Poland. the Poles and the
Ruthenians. The Poles are the aristocrats, ,he
Ruthenians the common people, and in her own
part of Poland Russia has always fed this ami
mostly Of the Rutkenian peasantry against the
Polish land owners This economic condition
would not be ameiCrated by change from Aus.
tran or Hungarian to Russian rule On the con-
trary, it would be aggravated until it reached the
deplorablc level of economic conditions in Russian
Poland.
Such movement as that of the independent
in 10 If
changes in the Dual Monarchy when this
broke out II was not Magyar movement, but
one of all Hungarians, irrespective of race, a
movement for the abolition Of Anticipated priyi-
eges and the establishment Of equal rights for
rich and poor OF a secret ballot, Of the complete
control b. the people of their own affairs This
is the very thing which Russia has never tolerat-
ed She may promise 1t in an hour of stress; she
is sure TO suppress it with tire and sword in the
hour of security, as she has done in Russian Po>
land during the last hundred years
THE RUSSIAN JEWS AND THE PROMISES
OF THE GEAR.
The Russian Jews have their own spokesman
IN this country far ADLER to speak for them than
J. Still | may be permitted to say word apropos
Of Nicholas It's promise to them Of equal rights
+ they will only do his lighting for him in this
war Will he keep his word? The Russian Jews
in Poland know better They have fought on the
side of the Poles for centuries; they have shared
their fate in defeat. Oh, yes, they know. They
can expect nothing from a victorious Russia eX-
cept more pogroms, greater misery and increas-
ing pressure TO leave the country where they
we're established long before Russia was
ramc.
They have never had any rights, but they have
one privilege, that Of being put in the front Of
the battle. They were excellent material to stop