NEW-YORK DAILY TRIBUNE.
5
THE YALE UNIVERSITY HOCKEY TEAM.
TnfftH^- Fltrlnp down are (from left to right): TC. W. \u25a0vTarmra^tle (sUDStftutel. H. B.
are (from left to right): G. B. Ward. A. K. Oliver (substitute"-. F. C. .Tunian. F. W. Kevins. H. K. Storn.
HOCKEY.
THE GAME OF THE SEASON IN COLLEGE Howard
AND AMATEI'R ATHLETIC CIRCLES.
Hockey, the king of winter sports, now occupies
the athletic world. Foot- Clarke and Williams, two former Canadian players,
the centre of attention In
ball Is over, and for the next three months the
modern adaptation of "shinny" will receive the in- Hallock Drakeley. Wall. Dobby. Shiebler and Ken-
terest of those who follow college and amateur
pport.
Intercollegiate branch of the
the game
This year
promises to usurp In popularity the place held last
season by the amateur league. This stimulus is Brooklyn Nicholas
due to the admission of Harvard to the associa-
tion, whose other members are Yale. Princeton.
Brown and Columbia. For the last three years
Harvard ha? been keenly anxious to take part In point,
the contests for the championship, but a stern fac- Tale seven two years ago. and Bronson. of last
ulty Is said to have frowned se\-erely on the project,
and the only privilege granted the Crimson was an Belden.
annual trip to the St. Nicholas Rink to meet Yale. wards.
Now. however, objections by the faculty to the
journeys to New-York have been done away with. the least important of thefrom last year, Including
largely because the schedule has been shortened so Ellison at goal: Cunningham, at point: K«»rnan
(bat each team meets every other seven only once,
end not twice, as heretofore. » Huntington.*McK<
As to me prospects of the season, it looks like a The have been rle.-t*i. as follows- President. Bartow
pretty close contest between Yale and Harvard.
Eli-has a seven stronger, if anything, than last
sessna, as shown in her victory a week ago. Har-
vard, though pome of her men have been lost by
graduation, has a" team that Is about as strong as
her combination of last season, which furnished the Canadian
New-Haven collegians a pretty tussle In their an- New-York with the New- York Athletic Club, and
nual game. Both Brown and Princeton maintain
The same relative standard of merit, and are not
likelyto prove any more dangerous than last year.
Columbia, however, is likely to be a more note-
worthy factor, as last year the members of her
MM were debarred by the faculty for taking
forbidden trip to Pittsburgh, and in consequence a plicant for relief to the Birkenhead
substitute seven had to he organized to play In the
lnt«?rcolleplatp series. Pennsylvania, which finish*-.!
at the tail end last year, has resigned from the
league, as there is no ice skating rink In Phila- remarkable
delphia this year. Cornell was anxious to be ad-
mitted to the league, but her application had to be whose wife died In her thirty-ninth year, having;
refused in order that the schedule might not be- given birth to twenty-four children.
come too cumbersome.
At The conclusion of the intercollegiate schedule
th« two teams ranking highest on a percentage
bads will meet in a series of three additional games
to decide the championship. The university win- wife. France has need of such.
rintr first plat*" for three years will become perma-
nently possessed of a silver cup offered by Goodwin
Stoddard.
Whil^ the college games will attract the greatest
amount of popular interest, they are not to compare
in point of skill or excitement with the best of the scribe Mr Churchill as the rising hope or the stern
contests in the Amateur Hockey Lcasue. Indeed, and unbending any
these matches, in spectacular play, speed and brill- rising
iance, probably surpass similar qualities displayed
in other branches Of outdoor sport. The excellence
by the fact that the membership of th league has
-
of th* contests will be further enhanced this year label Churchill's
peen reduced Jo four clubs— the New-York Athletic
Club, Crescent Athletic Club, Hockey Club of New-
York and St. Nicholas Skating Club. This cuts out
the Quaker City and Brooklyn sevens, both of The two Winston Churchills were both born In the
Which were rather a drag <«n the league last season.
Probably, as 'lsual. !!•>•• struggle for the <:ham- ist has written some war articles the English politi-
pionship "will rest between the New-York and cian and war correspondent bai adventured
Cioscent sevens. For three years the Brooklynites novel Th« brace of Winstons, by the
have been victors, and this season the spirit of New-York a few months ago, and thanked
keen rivalry Is stronger than ever. Both teams ex- other for casting
pect to pat on the Ice practically the same com-
bination? as last year, with one or two exceptions.
RUSSIA'S SURPRISING
WORLD SMILES
ALL THE
WHEN THE POT CALLS
THE KETTLE BLACK.
People have been for so long accustomed to
Identify Russia with the stories of savage per-
secution and cruel despotism, suffered by the
Poles, that it is somewhat startling to find the
latter being held up at present by the Mus-
covite prrss to the sympathy of the civilized
world as victims of barbarous oppression on the
Indeed, there
part of the German Government.
are plenty of people to whom the cable dis-
patches of the last two weeks bearing upon the
matter have recalled the generally forgotten fact
that besides the Poland belonging to Russia
there are two other Poland?, one forming a part
'•'. Austria-Hungary and the other a part of
Germany. For when the ancient kingdom of
Poland, which played so great a role in the Old
"World history during several centuries, was par-
titioned, it was divided into three parts, Russia
taking the Ben's share, with about seven million
inhabitants; Austria a smaller slice, with a
population of some four millions, while Prussia's
part in the spoils was a territory with a popula-
tion of about three millions.
The Poles of Austria are to-day the most loyal
and contented of the subjects of Emperor Fran-
cis Joseph. It is from the ranks of their no-
bility that he prefers to recruit his ministers
and great dignitaries of the household, the Chan-
cellor of the Dual Empire and the minister of
the imperial house at the present moment being
a. member of th» Polish aristocracy: while it is
the devotion of the people of Austria Poland to
the Hapsburg dynasty that constitutes one of
the strongest bulwarks of defence of the Dual
Empire from any Eastern or Northeastern at-
tack en the -part of either Russia or Germany.
The Poles of Russia and of Germany are, on the-
other hand, so discontented and imbued with
SUNDAY. DECE^rBEK 22. 1001.
HOCKEY TEAM OF THE NEW-YORK ATHLETIC CLUB.
standing are (from r!gnt to left ft AJ
Pto<ldarfl (captain). C Hitchcock. The m*n stanflln? u5 The men tire (from left to right): E Jennlson. T. A. Howard (captain), W. Hornfeck. Those
Hunt. E. J. O'Ponnell, J. Caruthers. C. M. Clarke and Substitute Wylie.
X. L. Snow, E. C. Ostby (substitute.
buildings in Washington. Mr. Lodge's ommendation, and acting in rn-r»perark!« witb
The Mercury Foot seven will have its defence in- acceded to the request and gave the old soldier beautiful the Secretary of Agriculture, Secretary Root has
GOSSIP OF THE CAPITAL. a hearty grasp. idea erect an entirely new building near
to
tact, including O'Donnell at goal. Hunt at point
and Fenwick at cover point. This is probably the
enough to the present White House to be con-
with it by a covered passage or a tunnel
appointed Professor E. Lamson-Scrinner,
present chief of the Bureau of Agrostology, to
the
best defence in the country, and willbe a big factor "It Is absurd," said a member of the Diplo- nectedaway establish the annex to the n-partrn^nt '~>t Agri-
In the outcome of the championship. On the for- does with all objections. The architecture
matic Corps from South America, the other should be in harmony with that culture for which the act provides.
ward line the club rejoices In the possession of KING OF SIAM COMING TO AMERICA- of the' building
and Hornfeck. two of the fastest forwards day, "the constant gossip I hear regarding the of the White House, to which it will be in a It is in every way a happy appointment Pro-
playing the grame. Belden. a forward last season,
SOUTH AMERICAN FRIENDLINESS- alliance in South America against the United sense an addition, and besides the
offices, it fessor Scribner has had .t lons experience in the
will be missing, as he has pone to the St Nicholas should contain ball, reception and dining rooms Department of Agriculture, -'thusiast
Skating Club. Just who will be the other two for- States. It is almost impossible to understand in his special line. He has i -tudy
wards in the championship series is doubtful, but THK PRESIDENT SITTING of dimensions sufficient for the accommodation
how BU^h rumors could have originated. The Of the thousands who are now invited to the of the agricultural possih M Philip- \u25a0
FOR HIS PORTRAIT. pines, and says they are unbounded in the terri-
are said to be excellent. republics of South America regard this country official functions given by the President.
The Crescent Athletic seven expects to put on the tory to which h' is assigned. Experiment sta-
big sister, to whom they appeal in
ice the same team us last season, with McTCenzie, Washington. Dec. 21 (Special).— For the last as their tion:-:, organized on the same ::an as those in
time of trouble and of whose help and sym- The average visitor to the Library of Congress this country, will be I in the Philip-
Hobby and Wall are the bulwarks of the two years, before even he made his European
nedy.
pathy they feei sure. It does not concern us makes a rapid tour of the building and while pines, hut all the scientific work will be under
Crescent attack, end have been big factors In the trip, rumor has credited the King of Siam with
club's successes the last three years. The Cres- that you are acquiring new territory, and we exclamations of approval are
to be heard on all the direction of the Secretary of War. so that
a n.-sire to visit this country. The bill intro- have never felt the slightest alarm lest you sides few people take the trouble to study the the bureau may have only one head. Professor
cents have also been strengthened by the acquisi-
tion Of some of the -players of the now defunct duced by Senator Frye, as acting chairman of should extend your dominion into the southern Scrihner will sail for his new post early in Feb-
decorations or learn the significance of the fres- ruary, and wfll take with him a large •force of-
Skating Club.
Club though it began the season th^ Committee of Foreign Affairs, early In the continent; as a matter of fact, the aim of our cos, relying for Information upon the first em- 1 agros-
The St is interest assistants which will inc.-;
badly with a defeat from Ya'». nevertheless expects week tends to confirm this rumor, and it is not your representatives in this country to ilture and plant breeding, dairy
to accomplish much in the v. ay of victories. Hay-
capitalists in the development of South ploye they encounter. Dan. an Irish messen- tofogjr, plant \u25a0
ward at goal: Ayres. the Princeton fullback, at Improbable that the Siamese Kin;,' will make a America. We have so many undeveloped riches. ger, is a favorite with the tourists because of w ork. and a hot
and Mortimer, at cover point, are veterans tour of this country" within the coming year Our rubber forests, our mines and bides inak>- a the readiness and aplomb with which he replies
from last year. Shims Campbell, captain of the Charles H. Darling, who has been appointed
as the Sliest of the nation. Senator Frye's handsome return for the money invested in to all questions. succeed Secretary Frank W. Hackett as As-
year's Yale team; K. Gordon and Walton, veterans: them, should tempt your rich men. The Who is that.'" asked a lady wearing the in- to
formerly of th» New-York Athletic Club,
bill was inspired by the American Minister at balance and of trade Is now in your favor, and we quisitorial air peculiar to the professional tour- sistant Secretary of the Navy, has already as-
Palmer, a new man. are all candidates for for- Bangkok, Hamilton King, who was unofflcially are anxious to deserve and to secure, if pos-
and ist, pointing to a picture by Klihu Veddet v sumed the duties of his department to which,
inf-nned that the King projected a trip to sible, more of your patronage."
The Hockey Club of New-York is likely to prove Minerva. th" retiring assistant secretary introduced him.
sevens, although It num- America. It authorizes the President to invite 1
Minerva, to be sure," said Dan.
Constantine Makovsky. the court paint' i of And who is that?" demanded the woman, Secretary Long's new aid is a man of pleasant
bers several rood men the Kin? of Siam to visit the Western continent Russia, who is painting n portrait of the Presi- pointing
\u25a0
to the smaller figi:re in the foreground personality and wide culture. He is a native of
and Newburv at cover point, and Phillips. Corry. as a pu<-st "f the United States, and appro- winning golden opinions ; i the of this famous mosaic. Vermont, and wr.? l»>rn forty-two years ago. Is
and J,oughman.
\u25a0
at forwards.
priates an unnamed sum for his entertainment.
dent. Is \u25a0A near relative of her family, to be sure, re-
officer- of the nmateur league for this season a graduate of Tufts College, and began his
According t.> tn- American Minister at Bangkok, where h* (s the recipient of many social atten- sponded Dan.
career, as so many men in public life have be-
S Weeks New-York Athletlc-Club^-vice-presldent, th- King will make the journey across the Pa- tions. He came here a.s the X"-st
of the Rus-
\v \ De Witt St. Nicholas Skating Club: secre- Count Cassini. and since his The appointment of Momdgnor Sr-aretti to gun, by teaching school in his native town of
tary* and treasurer, Howard Drakeley, Crescent cific in the royal yacht, stopping at Japan en sian Ambassador.
Athletic Club. arrival has received many orders, the most in- succeed Baonsignor Chapelle in tho Philippines Woodstock. He afterward studied law. Is an
Apart from the amateur league contests, much route. teresting of which is naturally the commission meets with warm approval in Washington, alumnus of the Dartmouth Law College, and a
Interest attaches to the games in whi-«b the crack It may b<- remembered that two brothers of for member of the bar both in Maine and Vermont,
teams will compete. The Ottawa HocKey the President. The sittings are mad- in where the new- Apostolic Delegate served where he has gained distinction in his profes-
already overtures tor matches In the Kinsr, Prince Narefl and Princ- Sonapandlt, from
some time as auditor of the Papal Legation.
Club has made
embassy which made a prolonged the Cabinet room, and Mr. Roosevelt will be sion. In ISS7 Mr. Darling was appointed judge
seven. Victorias are also ex- headed an in the large camraa which Mr. Consignor Sbarettl is a man of force
and tact, of the Municipal Court at Bennington. holding
an all New-Y •« The stay In this country in 1884 in the c>urse of
represented
this office for nine years, when he resigned to
pected to appear here. Makovsky plans at the head of the Cabinei who has a broad knowledge of affairs in America
it:- tour erour.i*. th^ world. This eml>;i*sy was become the law partner of O. M. Barber. Ha
tanle. Those \\h« know him well realize how and sympathy with its people, in the face of has served in the Vermont House of Represen-
LARGE FAMILIES. received hr-re with great cordiality, and enter- Impossible it would be for the President actually adverse conditions he made a notable record tatives, and in ISSO was elected president of the
I by the government. Until no* there has to pose, r Mirin.tr the sittings he is here, th re ,;i Havana, and his course there promises w--i! Vermont Bar Assoclaticn. Mr. Darling is a con-
From The -..ondon Chronicle. everywhere, chatting .with visitors, giving
a
Few fathers have such large families Guardians, as the ap- been ii" permanent Siamese Legation at the and directions to his staff and leiling a gw»d stor; foi his career In Manila?, where he will establish
servative and pain?*akinz man. and has held
almost every municipal office in thf* gift of his
who stated that he was
the father of twenty-on. youngest
whom was fifty and the
seventy years of age. was
children, th" oldest of
an infant. Tin-
.. .
American capital, that country being repre-
, \u0084 here by Phya Prasbiddhi, who \-..is also or laughing ai one. Occasionally he will mike his headquarters.
a real effort t.i help the ariist by remaining forty-five years old, and comes from a noted
redited to the Court of ?t. James. Recently, nuietly «rated. butof soon forger* the necessity
Monsignor Sbarettl is only
distinguished mem-
city.
ST. RULE'S TOWER.
man has married twice, hencelarge the case is not as i
however, Phya Akharaj has presented his cre- and s"*ts the ball conversation rolling again. Roman family, whose most
an instance of a family as those
The Russian artist, however, is noted not only ber in r.-cent times waa the late Cardinal Sbar- From The London Chronicle.
given by Thoresby In his "History of Leeds. He
cites th« case of Dr. Hudson Chancellor of York.
dentials to the President, and will establish a for his technique, bur for his sympathy with his ettl, who was a f-llow stndent ol Leo-ignal XIII.This St. Rule's Tower, in the town of St, Andrew's, is
permanent legation at Washington. Th<^ now subjects, and ii is not to be doubted that he may count in a measure for the favor an evidence of the link which binds St. Andrew, to(-
Loftus, will make a more acceptable portraii of the Monsignor Sbaretti has enjoyed at the hands of whose fe?st ail good Sooti-hm<-n r>r" '-'\u25a0\u25a0•?
\u25a0
Another lon* Siamese Minister la ac< ompanled by Mr. day, to the country ..f whom he i* the patron,
(amity was that of Joseph Cooper, belonging to President than if he were a conventional model. the Pope. The new representative of the Roman •saint. Th* legend runs that h mo^k caO^d Regu-j
who was attached to Prince Nares'a embassy.
was educated
the sarr.e town, whose wife bore twenty-six chil-
dren hut the most remarkable was that of Will-
Catholic Church In the Philippines I'niversiry !us. or Rule. hroiisrM the bones of St. Andrew froinj
lam Gre>iihlll of Abbots-Langley, In Hertfordshire,
and a^ain visited this country In the suite of The only practical plan so far proposed to pro- a! the Roman schools and at the of Constantinople to Scotland, and buried them near}
the retiring minister! >1t- Loftus "ill remain
Ro ,ii". Upon his ordination as a priest he was the icoasT. on th~ spot round which the present
who bad no less than thirty-nine children by one vide adequate space for the President's family mice Theology Urban College town of St. Andrew's afterward gr<»w. Whether
professor of at the
as permanent secretary of -lie new legation. and suitable offices for his staff is that fathered Of the Propaganda, where he taught for several the story is tree or not. there sterr.s U> be no other
The Crown Prince of Siam is at present In bill into years His American experience began in l^'.'-.
way to "explain the connection ol this particular
THE TWO WIXSTOS churcbills. England, and ii Is possible that he may return by Senator Lodge, and Introduced as a
appointment to Havana. sain I with Scotland: for h*» stems to have pa«— \u25a0
home by was of America, which would give the Senate, which provides that there shall be and ended vuth his {he who!" of his life ut> to the moment- of his mar-
tyrdom in Hie iC.iHt. James H eertaiah associated!
From The London Chronicle. him an opportunity to \isit a country in which built to the south of the Treasury Department
Winston Churchill reaches the advancedshow age of him with the country across the Tw<»<i, for it -wasj
no lie has !oii£ been deeply. Interfered. Th" heir One of th- most Important acts of the Philip- be who founded the Order of St. Andrew in 1657. tc
tliirtv to-day, but his undoubted powers a building to be known as the Executive Build- pine Commission is the recommendation for "an
FiKiis" of decay. It would be going too far to de- to the Siamese throne is said to be ;» hmad the first floor dining and re-
br- conferred on the Kins an.! sixteen knights.
mil l.d prince, richly gifted, who has been care- ing, comprising on
Insular Bureau of Agriculture, widen shall con-
he might tie the fully educated for the exalted position he is to ception rooms, and on the second floor offices
Tories, because
investigations and disseminate useful In- LOOT! Mi IS PEEIXG.
party. Politicians, unless they
hope of
or anchored to one party by occupy. for the use of the President and the executive duct
are mediocre firmly
ties of office or family, seldom pursue a career of clerks. There is no question of the need of a formation with reference to the agricultural re- From The London Chronicle.
sources of the Philippine Islands, the methods Stories of looting in Peking continue to tilt**
unblemished consistency as regards the particular Mr. Loud, of California, who has been chair-
they wear, and it would not surprise many of supplementary building to the White House of cultivation at present in vo^ue. ;md then im- through and a hish official of the Straits Settle-
Mr friends if he were to be to found fight- man .if the Committee of Post Offices and Post
is strikingly which was originally planned as a home for the provement, the practicability of Introducing new ments who happened to be in Peking during- (M
of last year t»>!ls of ;i Chinese servant, a
in' under a banner different from thatfact, which he
scarcely
Roads since the LlVth Congress,
n<> space being allowed for offices and valuable
agricultural products. The intro- <troubles
bristian convert, who wa.s i-ent out. when the '.?\u25a0»-
now Rives allegiance. There is. In he has the President. duction of new domesticated animals now found
like General Grant in appearance: tions were relieved, with a mule cart to obtain
anything in his views which would not fit one great which now occupy the major portion of the sec- in the islands, and shall in general seek to pro-
provision?. He be^.ie.l for an armed Sikh a3 pro-
as well as another. same figure, the same determined expression and
party
This is .\u25a0' month of a double double In birthdays. ond floor, leaving scarcely room enough for ihe mote the development of the agricultural re- tection. The pair returned with the provisions In a
wears his heard after the fashion of the great and his family. sources of the archipelago." The territorial field magni!
•
\u25a0equipage. Christian Chinaman ami
1871, and. whereas the American novel- soldier. Not long ago a grizzled veteran ap- accommodation of the PresidentThere have been of the new bureau is to include "the government heathen Sikh imperturbable as ever. Asked how ho
November of proached California Congressman; and and destroying all privacy. had come by so valuable a vehicle, the Chinaman
the
various plans proposed for the enlargement >;" farms at Magalang, in the province of Pampan-
replied that" he ha<i met :i couiit|£lc!a>Ba who had
upon a thrusting out his hand, said: opposed by Con- ga. and at La cariota. in the province ol West- •persuaded him to make the exybang'-" From the
way. met In
"1 know you ain't General <:rant. God rest his the White House, but this is generally, and the government agricultural ex-
each memory, but, gosh, if you ain't so much like gress and Intelligent people for to ern Negros. sales of Chinese valuables at Coveni Garden It may]
so much lustre on the name. The who is build wing, or to in any way increase the size periment stations in the provinces of lloilo, Cebu, be inferred that such 'suasion was frequently el-j
him Iwant to shake hands." Mr. l.oud.
'naturally [sabela, Illocos and Albay." Following this rec- ercisc! by native? c-f -er.erous impulse. i
two Glssinps, George and Algernon, novelists both, War, of this structure would mar one of the most
have also their birthdays during November. himself a veteran of the Civil
ACCUSATION AGAINST GERMANY OF SAVAGE DESPOTISM OVER THE POLANDERS.
it is in this that must be sought one of the chief mem on charges of inciting
'\u25a0• disobedience of
such bitter feelings toward their Muscovite and and subjected to a slavery more cruel than the the national songs of Poland In any public place.
sources of discontent In Russian Poland. For the authorities. One old woman, widowed and
serfs of Russia previous to their liberation, were The Russian official, especially of the tower
Teuton masters that they form a very im- any materially the lei of the Polish peasant, now an ailing, who was sent to prison for two years on!
portant element of danger to both Germany and even worse off than the beasts of the field, their grade. Is as a general rule devoid of
owner \u25a0•;" ids land, entitled to ;t share in the this
account, exclaimed pathetically in reply,
Russia, a danger which the military authorities frequent risings '. against their oppressors, that breadth ut view, tact or sense of justice, added
is to say. the Palish nobles, merely adding to to which he i.s imbued with that disposition
tow- communal property, and a serf no longer, is Wo to the inquiry of the court as to what she had i
of those two countries are obliged to take into per c.nt superior to what it was in the days Of to say for herself: Ail we ast^ia that our chil-
account in considering the possibilities of war. the general chaos and confusion. ard despotism and tyranny peculiar to the Ori- Polish, and not
It may readily be
understood, :
Poland's national independence and of the op- dren should be taught religion in
In a word, there is no Polish question in Aus- Russia has been subjected to fierce abuse in ental races.
pression of the working classes by th>- nobility in German, so that *<\u25a0 may at least have the
connection with her treatment of Poland. Yet therefore, that the policy of Russianisatfon put
tria, but in Russia and in Germany the Polish satisfaction of being able to pray with them."
questions are a source of as much trouble, anxi- ii should not be forgotten that it was Russia Into execution by instruments of this class Prussia is at the present moment following in It is only during the last few years that this)
ety and weakness as the Irish question Is to the which not only freed the Polish peasant from quickly developed into intolerable oppression. the footsteps of Russia, and seeking to German- programme of Germanizing the Poles has been
i".;.- horrors of serfdom, but which likewise en-
British Empire] which weighed far more heavily on the travelled , ize her Polish provinces, and to stamp out Polish enforced with such vigor and severity. Old Em-
dowed him with a proprietary right to the land and enlightened Polish aristocracy than it did
| nationalism. Identically the same methods are peror William would never allow it.his marked j
A few notes in explanation \u25a0•. this condition which he tilled. Until the rebellion of 1830. the upon the peasantry. Indeed, the latter would
employed as on the Russian side of the border, predilection for the Pole.--, and the goodwill!
of affairs may b« of timely Interest, the more Russian portion of Poland was regarded, as a have yielded thereto had it not been for their
and whereas the Roman Catholic Church is which he entertained for them being- popularly j
so as there has always prevailed in this coun- constitutional kingdom, subject to. the Czar. clergy. /
!treated with the most distinguished considera- ascribed to his romantic infatuation in eariyj
try h strong f- eiing of sympathy for the Poles Poland was governed by responsible .
ministers,
The Poles in Russia, in Germany and in tion in the western portion of the German em- life for the lovely Princess* Elise RadziwilL a
Americans cannot forget that the Polish patriot with a Senate and a legislative chamber; there Austria have always been fervent Roman Cath- pire, it is subjected to every kind of restrictive Polish noblewoman whom be would have mar-
Thaddf-us KosHuszko. to whom a memorial lias was a national army under a national flag and olics. The clergy of that denomination were ' measure in the eastern province of Poser . ried even at the cost of his succession to the j
1
been erected at West Point, was one of the a separate budget. Polish was the official lan- quick to appreciate the fact that the substitu- where, as in Russia, the government sees in the throne had it not been for his father's prohibi-|
lieutenants of Washington, and thaj a number guage, and personal liberty and freedom of the tion of the Russian language for Polish con- Roman Catholic clergy the principal obsta- le la tion. During the first part of the present Em-]
of his fellow countrymen took part' in the press were guaranteed. This worked well until stituted an important steu toward the sub-
Independence. Besides, the its programme for Germanizing the Poles. Cath- peror's reign the Polish aristocracy played a.i
American War <>f the Paris Revolution of 1830, and Its successful stitution of the Russian orthodox faith for the
upon in the Issue, led a lot of hotheaded young students at olic nobles are high in favor $t the court of Ber- great role at the court of Berlin, especially the
Poles have always been looked Roman Catholic Church, the conversion of the
lin. and occupy the most eminent positions in the lovely Baroness Koschiel KosehielskL whose al-
Tniud States as victims of monarchical despot- Warsaw to start a movement of the same kind Catholic Poles to the national State Church of imperial household, in the army and in the vari- leged influence with the Kaiser constituted on
ism, ani as having been unjustly deprived of by a wild attempt to seize the Czar's brother
Russia being, indeed, an avowed feature of the ous branches of the government administration. one occasion the subject of a fierce public de-
their national independence in order to satisfy and Viceroy, the Grand Duke Constantine, who scheme of Russianizing Poland. Owing to this But only Prote9tants are appointed to any oflflce nunciation by the late Prince Bismarck. Shortly
the territorial gieed of three unscrupulous em- until that time had been regarded as the idol of the Roman Catholic clergy of Poland have for
'in German Poland, and everything is done to after this, however, she vanished from the court
pires handed together for no other purpose than the Polish people, and who was morganatlcally the last seventy years formed the most active
a relatively small married to a Polish woman. The troops called induce the rising generation to adopt the Luth- of Berlin, and Polish influence ceased to be a
to crush out of existence and successful opponents of the Russian policy
the eran faith, not on religious grounds, hut for the factor in imperial and official circles, and to-
neighboring State. upon to suppress the riot fraternized with In Poland, and being in much closer touch and purpose of emancipating it from the spiritual. day the Kaiser is heir- held up by the Russia*
While there are elements or truth in this people, which was not unnatural seeing that more intimate communion with the peasantry and. incidentally, the political influence of the press to the obloquy of the civilized world as
view, it is not entirely correct. The writer has they belonged to the same nationality. ,That than 'any Russian official can ever hope to be , Roman Catholic- clergy, which remains an ob- the oppressor of the Poles.
no intention of embarking here upon any course was the end of Polish autonomy, and as soon
of Polish history or of championing the parti- as the insurrection had , been suppressed
tion of the kingdom. But be would merely point means of Russian troops Poland was declared
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by have encouraged the masses to cling to their
language, and to resist all attempts to Russian-
upon their
stacle to the Germanization of the people.
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Austria, being a Catholic power, has. of course,
As in Russia, the German officials of the lower found no foes, but rather allies and friend*
the coun- a Russian province.. ize them. They have impressed class are often brutal in their methods, devoid among the Polish Roman Catholic clergy, and. I
out that at the time when it occurred .*•/\u25a0' » mind that it was their spiritual welfare which of judgment and tact, and apt to regard diso- thanks to this, has been enabled to accord to
try was in a state of anarchy disturbing the
From that time forth the one object and was at stake, and that it was preferable to sub- bedience to their behests as furnishing an ex- her Polish provinces a lar^e amount of au-
neighboring States, and due to the intolerable
has mit to the persecution entailed by the resist- cuse for the employment of measures of an alto- tonomy, as well as the permission to obtain the
oppression of the peasantry by the nobility, avowed aim of the Muscovite Government
provinces of the ance to the Russian authorities than to Imperil gether intolerable character. It Is 'mpossible use of th«» Polish language in judicial and ad-
which latter was divided into innumerable fac- been to Kussianize the Polish
tions, carrying on sancuinary warfare among empire and to obliterate as far as
possible every their salvation by making concessions, th» ob- to describe in anj» other language their conduct ministrative matters. The result is that the
The Russian language ject of which was to bring about their abandon- at Wreschen. where Catholic Polish children Polish party in the imperial Parliament at TH
themselves. Originally the same principle nf vestige of nationalism. schools, uni- ment of the Church of Rome for the orthodox were flopped by their school teachers unit! they enna is the one upon whose support the sovern?
and communal proprietorship of the w;:s substituted for Polish in all
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peasant
communi- rite. Hundreds of Roman Catholic bishops and were crippled for life for declining to learn Ger- ment can always rely, and that the aristocracy. I
land that exists in Russia and in the Balkan versities-, l^gal procedure and official
States prevailed in Poland. But by degrees the cations. At times the.
representation of Polish priests In Poland have been imprisoned and ex- man prayers and hymns, the subsequent inter- , th» clergy and the peasantry of Austrian Poland
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stage, and peo- iled to Siberia. But. like their flocks, they are vention in their behalf by their parents being ; alike hail Francis Joseph, in Polish, as their"I
Polish nobles had appropriated all the land, and plays has been forbidden on the
any of ready to suffer martyrdom for their faith, axid visited upon the latter with terms of imprison- | King. EX-ATTACHE.
the peasantry, possessed of no political rights, ple were also prohibited from ainging