The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1915-04-04

II was a strong appea! that lgnace
Paderewski. native Of Podo'ia. made
recently for sympathy with the peo-
pie Of Poland. fighting in this war.
Pole against Pole. COR overlords Rus
sian. Prussian and Austrian. Evil
derCcs multiply that at this Supremacy
critical juncture IN its history. when
Poland is recording "A chapter % suf-
fering unparalleled even in its an
. mails Of distress. the land j. a Belgium
multiplied 10y seven IN l's sorrows as
in its area l. this. the Polish mu-
stefan asked. voicine the query of his
countgymen. the end for Poland or
the beginning Of revived nationality"
. The country may he viewed as the
/ rearguard of Europe or a an Out
post of westward pressing Asia; n
reef over which two Hoods break In
mighty pillows of fate. Solne vivid
but we imagine essentially accurate
though rot omnl!ateral impressions of
the peupl" Of Poland ar" set down 10y
FRANCES DELANEY LITTLE IN sketches
in Poland tStokes). Miss Little saw
the land and the folk before the war
began the addition by another hand
OF Historical postscript can hardly
he considered, in its propagandistic
"timelness." a literary Improvement,
To the English author Berlin seems
| like "a rich and well fed woman who
! * dressed hy tho most expensive mo-
dlstcs and has everything that money
can buy. but never the unpurchasabl,
| quality Of charm" Cracow, a dozen
| hours away. is in contrast "a lady
Of ancient and unhappy race. con-
scious but accomplishing Of her great
| adversiticS," possessing fascination.
| distinction. simplicity. Danzlg is n
medieval burgher living in the mem
! Dry of once great wealth and power
! Warsaw, "a ruined beauty. hiding
with an artificial laughter her dread
! ful story and her breaking heart" II
| will he perceived that Miss Little
| has iigurativc ina gination; but, n
| millionaire in sympathy" she does
not permit that excellent though
sometimes treachcrous emotion To
| bankrupt the treasury of sense. II
| Poland has endured pitcous wrongs at
! the hands Of others she has also
I suffered in her own fault. In the
| sixteenth century Sobicski drove the
| Turk from before the walls of Vienna
and saved Europe; tu what benefit
Of his own country people? As John
| III. he could not keep the peace in
| his own republic of mobiles" So that
a Polish gentleman, with the patient
! ironical smile OF his race, remarked /.
Nothing happens without cause.
| and II we have endured great wrongs.
we have been guilty of great errors.
| III 4 IA, L. . 4
without being horriicd at the folly
and the cruelty and the sclfishncss
! Of the mobiles, who cnSlavcd their
peasants and made war among them
selves without any loyalty to the
| King or any regard for the good
of the republic" (of noblcs). The
| liberum veto this patriot saw rooted
| in an ideal. "the ideal that every law
was To have the fun ANA free and
! unanimous assent If those who ohcyrd
J it,: sCrfs not being taken into =
| rolhlt, Not only dill the opposin.
/ vote. of any one member Of the Diet
suffice to XIII the act of legislation
, against which IL was directed but
, one such vote made invalid every law
| that might have been passed on that
| day, A. for all their deep rooted love
Of country the Poles have ever been
| inclined To factional riNalrics OF
mediaval intensity, such system
meant for them simply state of
Idealized anarchy. Was ever more
| completely inadequate scheme of M :
tiona government devised by the
mind of man?
Cracow. "thc last free acri, of the
| 81. 1.