PRUSSIA AND POSEN.

Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 81, 30 December 1907, Page 7

PRUSSIA AND POSEN.

A BOYCOTT. POLISH MARK OF RESENTMENT. BY TELEGBArH—HtESS . ASSOCIATION—COPTRIGHT. (Rec. Dec. 29, 4.55 p.m.) ' . Vienna, December 28. It has been determined to boycott. Prussian goods throughout Galicia'as a mark of resentment at the action of tho Prussian Diet iu Germanising Pcsen. Tho ancient kingdom of Poland is now torn into threo parts—German, Austrian, and Russian. Professor Wincenty Lutoslavski states that "as far back as tho tenth century after Christ tho Poles had already produced n national state and government—a far more ancient record than can be shown by the three Powers, Austria, Prussia, and Muscovy, which carried out the partition of Poland in 1772-1795." To-day the: Poles number 20,000,000, and as a kingdom rank sixth in point of numbers. Warsaw, the capital, lias {200,000 inhabitants. Under German and Russian rule tho Polos art) an oppressed people, longing for their liberty again. " How that rulo bears upon - our people — for tho methods of government by Prussians and Muscovites arc very much the same; they aro mutually loarning from each othor—may bo told in a few sentences. Polish children are forbidden to speak their own languago, Polinh towns are robaptised by German or Muscovite names, Polish commerce and industry aro kept down by exceptional laws, Polish books are : confiscated by the polico or forbidden by the censor, Polish citizens are dealt with by overy kind of special legislation meant to ruin thera. In Prussia 200,000,000 marks have been dovotcd from tho national funds to tho purpose of settling German landholders in Polish provinces. In Russia, Poles are forbidden to buy land in the whole eastern part of their ancient stato, and hugo ostites in Poland aro given to Muscovite genorals and officials."—" Morning Leader." Froni ,1815 to 18.10 Russian Poland had a constitution of its own and a separato government till 1864. In 18G8 it was incorporated with that of Russia, Tho moderato Poles look for salvation through a reconstructed Russia. Others demand separation. A serious situation arose in Novembor, 1905, a 6 the country was placed outside the reform manifestoes.