Wiarus. (Winona, Minn.) 1895-1919, 1919-05-02
MEMORIAL Wydzialu Narodllo:
Wego do prezydenta VIII
soma v sprawie Gda1ska.

Akcye w klerunku prZynagle--
MIA przez- Wychodztwo pomyslne-
go rozwiazania kwestyi Gdanska
przeprowadzif Wydzial Narodowy
Polski W sposob najw1aSciwszy i
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS., j~eszcze dnia
.5go kwietnia, kiedy W momcncie
..krytycznym, przes}a1 "a posredni-
ctwem amerykanskiego Departa-
mentu Stanu kablogramem, ener-
giczny memorial do prezydenta
Wilsona, z prosba o przedlozenie
Konferencyi Pokojowej protestu
calego wychodztwa polskiego W
Ameryce przeciw nstepstwom ia
rzecz Prus w sprawie Gdanska.
Memoryal ten, ~kt6ry doszedl
juz rak prezydenta Wilsona i "a
komunikowanym zosta} Konfer.
paryskiej, opiewa W Originate IA
stepujaco:
Hon. Woodrow Wilson,
President Of the United States,
Peace Congress, Paris, France.
American citizens Polish origin
have heard reports Of change of
attitude in Peace Congress as to
disposition Of Danzig and crea--
ton proposedPolish corridor from
Baltic through Polish territory of
West Prussia, with grave appre-
hcnsion, been disappointment. Be-
cause Of years of oppression TN
der German rule and understand
ing Of German character, which
drove many to America, we view
with distres possibility Polish PEG
pie 'Danzig region and country
extending from Danzig Gulf
through Polish West Prussia
south to Posnania may be conti--
nued under German authority,
Conditions from which we fled
and which the Poles have been O.
bliged to endure are almost indies
cribablc. Fundamental rights, to
speak Polish language, to hold
land, to build homes, to observe te
nets Of their religious faith, have
been brutally denied. The pledges
and promises Of solemn covenants
and treaties ha+c-been ignored,
not impusively, but as a part OF
q formal Polish nationalistic feel
ings.
Remembering these past Ger
man excuses, we feel obliged to
testify, that any plan for NEUTRAL
.zation Of Danzig territory even
with guaranteed railroad commu
nication, must. inevitably fail. 1t
will only precipitate a struggle
between the ambition Of the Ger
mans to control this land, and the
Polish desire for existence. Under
any plan other than complete to-
ritoriaal possession Of the Danzig
territory, it will mean that at a
time when the Poles require all
their energy for the moral and
physical rehabilitation Of their ma
ton, they will be obliged to enter
into a new struggle with an impla
cable foe. It will mean that a ma
ton which has suffered four
years of war, whose fields have
been ravaged, and factories dis
mantled by her o%ppressors, will
be called upon to meet in combat,
a nation industrially intact, with
an armed and equipped force OF
considerable size already in the
field.
TO permit Prussia to keep Dan
zig, makes the existence Of an eco
nomic, independent Polish State
impossible and, further, confirms
Prussia in the principle that
might is right - that because she
was mighty enough a century and
a quarter ago to rob Poland, she
has, established an international
law of limitations, confirming tit
lie. to stolen property, This is con-
trary to the principle of equity
and justice.
The German population>in Dan
zig, the German population such
as exists on other distinctly Pol
ish lands, is there by reason OF a
systematic colonization system, to
which the German people have
devoted billions Of marks and
which they have executed with a
brutality beyond the comprehen--
sion of all except those who have