Arizona republican., 1917-09-17

of the demand made by the Holy See lpon the king of Poland, John III So- bieski to save Austria, contrary to the interest of Poland, from the danger threatening at that time the Hapsbourg empire at the hands of the Moslems.
 On the other hand the connivance of the Holy See with Austria's participa- cion in the partitions of Poland is generally known fact. Known also is the interdct pronounced by the Holy See against the Polish revolutionaries in 1930, 1881
 But now, when on May 2S, 1917, the Polish nation through it's representa- tives proclaimed at the city hall in CracoW d free, united and independent Poland with access U the sea by way of the port of GdanSk, DantZig the Holy See failed to assume the same peremptory attitude as it took in the defense of Belgium and France and failed to demand from the Germans and Austrians the immediate eVacua- tion of the territories of the former commonwealth of Poland, which was for so many years, nay centuries, so loyal and so submissive to the Roman Catholic church.
 The attitude taken by the Holy See with regard to the sovereign rights of .he Polish nation assumes an entirely unexpected aspect when we take into consideration the fact that the Polish nation, suffering under the German occupation from starvation and de- prived of their homesteads because of the burning down of thousands of vil- ages and towns by the Russian and the German armies, managed to for
 
 ing children of the last slice of bread a very considerable amount of the Peters Pence to his holiness, the Pope.
 It is possible that in accordance with the desire of his holiness the same lead CTS who started the present war will be hailed by the coming generations as splendid pacificators.' The future generations of Poland, however, will find other appellations for these lead ers, and for those who represented Po- land as a beggar deserving pity from the mighty of this world.
 We can, however, assure his holiness, that with great confidence and grati tude, the Polish nation addresses itself to that People the representative of which assumed an entirely different attitude with regard to the Polls ques- tion.
 The entire world has listened to the words of President Wilson, which af- ford no possibility of equivOcal inter pretation and which gave courage to all oppressed nationalities.
 President Wilson said among other things:
 Every people should be left free to determine it's own policy its own way of development, unhindered, unthreat- ened. unafraid, the little along with the great and powerful No peace can last, or ought to last, which does not recognize and accept the principle that governments derive all their just powers from the consent of the gov arned. and that no right anywhere eX- ists to hand peoples about from sov- ereignty to sovereignty as if they were property There should be a united. independent and autonomous Poland"
 President Wilson explicitly stated who is to determine the future con- figuration of the world by saying as follows:
 Phrases will not accomplish the re- suit. Effective readjustments will But they must follow a principle and this principle is plain No people must be forced under the sovereignty under which it does not wish to live. No ter ritory must change hands except for the purpose of securing those who in habit it, fair chance of life and li- berty And then the free peo- ples of the world must draw together in some common covenant, some gen uine and practical cooperation that will in effect combine their force to se- cure peace and iuStice in the dealings