The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-05-29
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extensive development of the schools and the means of transportation. the province became rich.
 All of this, however, was of little advantage to the people born there. This mixed Slav people of Polacks did not, as Lloyd George believes, immi- grate for the purpose of working the industries. No. Upper Silesia, that TOO years ago was severed from Poland, is the home of the Polacks. It was the Germans who immi grated. And because they knew more and could do more they created They were more indus trious and clever, and were not Sc much the slaves of priests and alcohol. Consequently they became overpower- full. ruling caste came into exis- tence, it must be frankly admitted, and always prevented even the more indus trious and intelligent natives" from rising to higher spheres.
 But the Upper Silesian was not an ill-treated slave, as PaderewskPs for tissimo and other Polish rhapsodies tell us, but second-class citizen and a medium for the purpose of indus trializing the province. The mine own CTS, directors and merchants were German. They needed the "hands'' of the Upper Silesians and didn't bother
 
 side of the proletarian population. { Prussia, after Sparta and Roms probably the greatest master in nation alizing a people, never learned the hu- manizing state.
 It Is only owing to these circum- stances that Poland, under whose short rule the formerly flourishing provinces of Posen and East, Prussia have been thrown back half century, was able %N aP iy, the plebiscite.
 Hate Everything German Tn the broad masses of the country and town, a working class mistrust and hatred of everything German pre- vails. The national contrast is in- creased by a social one, and in the up- per classes the argument as to wheth- CT one intends to become German or Polish has caused disunion in the hearts of families. Many ploughboy and miner says, We know 1t will be worse under Polish management, but we do not wish to be treated as half mortals any longer
 Korfanty, the miners son, whose re- bellion was to save the country for Poland. Is worshiped in one place as savior. and in another Is cursed into the depths of hell.
 Do the people mean anything to the
 
 Upper Silesia?
 | France. whose politics is deter mined by the ministry to be able to rivet forever an iron girdle about a highly civilized people of 60.000, GOO wants to take away from Germany the possibility of arming sufficiently for ordinary protection, wants to keep the Ruhr basin always within her shoot ing range or else to occupy it, and ,tc to ertx trial district to her Polish vassals and debtors.
 The industrial dictatorship over the continent that this possession of coal and ore would give France cannot be tolerated by England. Therefore, in spite of the danger of the entente cordiale being rent asunder, England breaches noble minded righteous ness. to which she seemed to have be- were at stake.
 Their only Interest It must be admitted that for most Germans and most Poles the treasures Of the earth are their only interest They do not ask what Is to become of Upper Silesia through the terrible bit terness aroused by the indictment oi national interests when tomorrow Ger man rule may be proclaimed here and T Both nations probably would protest angrily if the supreme council should proclaim transitory period of inter- standardization and naturalization to effect qualification. And yet this in- violable international rule, which would end after return to quiet com mon sense, and 8 new and definite plebiscite is the only means of avoid ing perpetual fighting and continual ly renewed disturbances of the indus trial apparatus, as well as the eco- nomically disastrous parceling out oi the country which. according to the letter of the peace treaty, is inevitable Whether a small people, pursued for many centuries by misfortune, may at last breathe freely again in inde- pendence. whether a nation which ac- cepted from Washington his dogma of human rights, may today, despotically in accordance with her fantastic mis- trust, central Europe--these seem to be the questions to answer which America called her youths and men away from peaceful work to the Star Spangled Banner and sent them over the Atlantic to the battlefields of hu- man destiny.
 TWO INDICTED FOR FORGERY
 Florence, May 2S.-(Special. )-The special grand jury which has been in session here this week, in addition to tc