Bisbee daily review., 1918-11-07
Poland

Of all the peoples and principalities of the earth none have suffered more than Poland. We have heard often of the wrongs of Ireland and the glorious strug- gle of the Scottish chiefs against English rule and the tale of oppressed peoples is as old as the world and it will never end. But it IS to be doubted if any strong, in telIgent, forceful gifted people ever sui fered more than those. of Polish blood. Ire land and Scotland doubtless suffered much at the hands of the English in the old days but their oppression was a mild and simple thing compared to what Poland has sui fered for centuries at the hands of the Rus sian and thefE1un. Fate surely owes great compensation to Poland for having placed her between such wolves as Prussia and Russia. They ravened at her borders from the very beginning, and every year the rapacity of the one and the greed of the other Topped off fair province here and city there until in the year I7o5, the year of her final dissolution and absolute slavery.s her original area of some 375, ,000 square miles had been reduced to 94,000 and her population of seventeen millions to four millions. Russia grabbed six-sevenths of this territory and Prussia the other seventh. At one time Poland's borders were Tapped by the gulf of Riga in the north and ex- tended almost to the Crimea in the south. Poland and part of East Prussia and the Ukraine were once Polish and marked her boundaries east and west.
 But Peter the Great and the Branden- burgers and Prussians were insatlate, and about the beginning of the year 700, just fifty years after Poland had blossomed out as a great nation, they began to dismem Der her. Russia completed the job entire ly, just one hundred years later, and Pc land in her entirety passed under the ter rible yoke of the czars. Only the angels could have kept the entire record of her wrongs and all she suffered for the past one hundred years But her people, forceful, fearless and intelligent, like the Scots and Irish, chung close to their own literature, music, art, national customs and peculiar ities. And while the English rule frightened and broadened for the Scots and Irish, the Russian rule remained the same, dark. cruel besotted and merciless.
 Probably the saddest chapter in the his tory of Poland was that written during the Napoleonic era, and it was certainly the blackest mark against the great Corsican. When the French emperor conquered Rus sia he promised Poland her ancient liber- ties and independence as a state. And the famous Polish princess gave herself to Ma poleon as a sacrifice to her country if he would keep his promise And the Polish youth fought in the French armies, each one like palladin, on the strength of that promise But 1t was never kept.
 Not until the good year 1918, the year of free peoples that will shine the bright est of all the years of the world did the first ray of light come to enslaved Poland. Today she is recognized as a nation by the allies, and nation she shall be- It Is her proud right The land that gave the Sob ieskies to add to the fame and fine quail ties of mankind Is richly entitled to self rule as free. proud and independent state.
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