The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1915-08-25
THE CONQUEST OF POLAND.
A Boomerang.

telegram of August Fl forwarded TO
General Won Beseler via his temporary
Chief Clerk for Foreign Affairs, Gen.
eral Won Bethmann-Hollweg at the &C.
casion of the conquest OF Novo Geor-
gievsk. This has been mainly accom-
plished by the well aimed thrus OF nun
dreds of tons of deadly metal at mere
brick n cement and the still more
sensitive flesh of the Russian soldiers
heroically defending the famous fortress
against the ~insolent Invaders OF their
country. Thanks to Gods gracious as
slstance Novo Georgievsk Is
In our hands. II was a sub
lime day, for which I humbly thank
God" And the s~ervile. garrulous scrap
of paper" Chancellor to echo the mas
ter's hypocrisy: Thousands last eve
ming sang songs of triumph and Now
Let Us All Thank God before the
Palace"
Why have Germany's imperial Ober-
staatspastor. William H.. and the
learned t~heologians of his twenty-five
universities who slavishly Endorsed his
treacherous. Goddess career OF crime and
blood from the invasion OF Belgium TO
the sinking OF the Arabic, not at least
the deceucy openly TO confess that
Christ's God Is no longer their God and
that they have returned TO their tribal
deltles, 1hOr ana WotanT
But this merely in a predatory way.
What l wish to point out here Is that
neither Germany nor Austria has any
reason whatever genuinely to rejoice
In the conques OF Russian Poland for
unless the German Emperor wishes a
second time to break his solemn imperial
word and old Emperor Francis Joseph be
anxious at the edge Of his grave to fol-
low the example OF his ally and friend.
both will have to give up the conquered
territory TO n resuscitated Polish ma
ton. and, sooner or later. to throw In.
the ono Galicia. the other a part Of
eastern and western Prussia with their
about 100000 Polish inhabitants.
Austria. egged on by Germany. started
this war. apparently to punish little
Serbia for her Vaccinations In Bosnia
and Herzegovina, two provinces almost
exclusively inhabited by Serbians, but
really TO pull from the FIRE Germany's
big horse chestnuts a la Bernhard and
Tirpitz. And now after thirteen month";
of victories Serbia Is not only uncon-
quered. but should the Balkan Alliance
be renewed will trlumphantly add to
her territory those two Slavic provinces
OF Austria and very probably a few
more shrcds from the Turkish estate !;
italy will. in all probability. get Aus
tria's Italian provinces and a part OF
the Dalmatian coast. But even more
than these territorial losses will the
dlsaffection OF nearly 10000, 900 Czechs,
Slovaks, Slovencs and Hungarian Serbs.
the humiliation OF owing even their par
tial salvation to the Prussian victor of
Sadowa, and the financial and eco
nomical ruin Of the country, heavily
weigh for decades to come upon the
unfortunate remnants of the Qua Mon
"a RAh An1 Nka A-AgNNH NA1n n na ~. -
francis Joseph will to his grave be
haunted by the bloody souvenirs of ls4s.
the beginning, and l9li-lJ. the end OF
His reign.
Now as to Germany. She who has
bitterly prosecuted her Poles. trying by
all sorts OF Bismarckian fiscal tricks to
sneak away the estates of the little
Polish landlords. who forbade her
100000 faithful Slavic subjects 10
use their native tongue in school and
court the postal authorities In their
heinous pettiness coins so far as to re-
fuse letters addressed in the Polish Lam
guage. Germany will be condemned by
the irony Of fate to ~reestablish the old
Kingdom OF Poland which Frederick
II. had d~Ismembered with the con-
nivance OF his cousin Catherine H.,
originally sent to Russia as one OF the
many Prussian royal spies. with whom
| already then the Courts OF Europe had
been honeycombed. and Of his great
victim Maria Theresa, from whom nc
stole Silesia. meanly abusing the trust
which had been laid by RE imperial
lady Of Vienna In the INSCRIPTIONS
royal cyric OF Sans Souci. Further, she.
the original fatherland Of racial anti
Semitism and tender foster-mother or the
ant!-Jewish policy Of the Russian Tchin,
will have been. risum t%eneatis, the in
voluntary instrument in the deliverance
Of the more than 1000, 600 Jews Of TIE
Russian Pale from the barbaric persc-
cution Of the Cars bureaucracy,
But the eventual loss Of Prusslan
Poland and Of Alsace- Lorraine. the loss
Of her feet and her colonies, the heavy
sacrifices in blood and money-the new
war loan 81 last week was double the
amount ~ the indemnity extorted from
France in 1871 by Bismarck-arc moth
ing n compared with the ir~eparable
moral loss facing the German nation,
July 2S, 1914. the entire world, France,
rer old enemy. included, respected, ad-
nired. and in certain quarters feared,
Germany to-day. after a dozen OF
Pyrrhlc Victories" German "civiliza-
tion" has become n byword among tho
nations; in many countries. urs in
cluded, German and spy have become al
most Identical notions In brief, Ger
many. owing to her obstinate backing OF
the Hohenzollern policy, stands to-day
as n moral bankrupt at tho bar Of hui
mainly. France and England and Bel
GUM. Russia and Japan and Italy, will
tightly close their doors for years 10
come 10 every Germ7n. TO his commerce.
yea To the works of his crudition and
art. In short, the contemporary Chris.
tian, Mohammcdin and even paaan