The Chattanooga news. [volume] (Chattanooga, Tenn.) 1891-1939, 1919-03-21
NEED OF STRONG.
UNITEDPOLAND
PadereWSki Fears Union of
Germany With Russian
BoISheviks.
WAR HAS NOT BEEN WON
With Hordes of Asia Organ.
ized Germany May Crush
Democratic Civilization.

lieu 0cI Aduy Mdy SIuSA
Democratic Civilization.
(By John Bass. American Press Rep
fesentative With the American Mis-
sion to Poland)
Warsaw. March IS. via Paris
March ELL. N. S.)-"Germany is
ready to acknowledge herself beaten
h in the west, but not in the east. The
+ same men who organized the presen,
swar count on reorganizing Russia IN
|Atheir own interests"
|# This declaration was made by lg-
mace Jan Paderewski, prime minister
|I0f the Polish government. in an inter-
view given to me today. The pre-
mier continued:
A Importance of Peace.
1.-THE importance to the peace OF
eEcurope Of q strong, united Poland
cannot be exaggerated. Germany
made war not for honor and ideals,
but for markets and railway mate
rails. The war has not yet been won
*Tf the same men who organized
the war succeed in reorganizing Rus
sia in their own interests, they will
\ have an endless supply of labor and
rGW material. Besides wheat they
xtll have a splendid cotton supply
from Turkestan. oil, tremendous lum-
bSr supplies from the forests, i'm
mense coal and iron deposits. to say
nothing of gold, platinum and other
minerals.
with these reinforcements Ger
many would inevitably stamp her
dominion on the whole world. Think
or the effect on the splendid body of
America's highly paid labor if Ger
many trained and directed the cheap
labor of Russia and China. No one
could compete with such cheap pro-
duction. What stands in Germany s
way? Not France or England, both
lso far off.
At Gates of Russia.
~ "Germany Is at the gates of disor-
ganized Russia and once let her COM
blne with the bolsheviks and reor-
Ranize Russia, as she will have leis-
IRE to do in time of peace, she will
Nominate the world. Strong Poland
alone can block this plan. From time
xnmemorial it has been the task of
Hbland to protect Europe from the
hordes of Asia and now they may be
organized by Germany in an indus
trial machine to crush democratic
civilization.
This Germany would do by break
ing the standards of living of the
western peoples. For the task we
need a free nation to cope with Ger
many in influencing the development
at Russia. Danzig we must have, for
without it our commerce would be, as
I it always has been, at the mercy of
Germany. With Danzig and the Wis
tula river to upper Silesia, we could
lfilrnish iron ore to our coal fields.
The vistula is navigable as far as
Eracow. T1s an artery which, with
rs tributaricy. gives life to the body
.6f the PolisH nation.
III PoIan,. Garden of World.
81 From De, zig to Posen the major
.ity of the pulation is Polish. You
who have cen the country know
what a arden it is. 1t furnishes
two- thirds of the potatoes for Ger
many. The people are industrious
and, il somewhat slow, are good Or
ganizers. They will furnish the con-
structive men in the development of
*our country Upper Silesia is even
more Polish than Posen. 1t will be
ithe greatest center of our iron in
'dustry."
ut is pity that the Czecho- Slovak
forces have attempted to deprive us
of the Teschen region for that area
8 inhabited mostly by Poles. Bo-
shemians do not need coal since they
mine thousands of tons for export. !
hope the peace congress in Paris
will not deprive these people of their
right to national unity with Poland.
1t might have a disastrous effect IT
It were done.
In eastern Galicia there is ma
iority of Ruthenans. The distinction
between them and the Poles is not
racial it is purely religious and a
matter of language. Ruthenians be-
long to the Greek church which
recognizes Rome. When Polish
woman marries a Ruthenian, the girls
issuing from the marriage are classed
AS Poles and the boys as Ruthenians.
Thus, in the same family one may
find Ruthenians and Poles speaking
both languages. The whole national
distinction is the religious rites.
Peasants in eastern Galicla ana
our peoples are sustained by the en-
thusiasm of a newly found national
unity, freedom and independence
This patriotism is deeply rooted IN
the Poles and will cement our ma
'tion, making it n strong barrier
"a gainst bolshevism on one hand and
pan -Germanism on the other If We
receive from the peace conference
those districts which will give us real
pendence-nationall industrially
and commercially. l hope that the
American people will help us attain
his end"