Whoever
tells you that Austria in alliance with Prussia intends to build up
Poland once again is a blinded dreamer. The result of a victory for the
Germans and Austrians would mean a new partitioning of Poland, a yet
greater wreckage of our nation. Grasp this, listen to no seducers.
Remain passive, watchful, insensible to temptation.
During the coming struggle the Kingdom of Poland will be the marching
ground of various armies, we shall see temporary victors assuming
lordship for a while; but change of authority will follow, and
inevitable retaliation; this several times, perhaps, in the course of
the campaign. Therefore every improvident step will meet with terrible
revenge. By holding firm through the present conflict you best can serve
the Polish cause. In the name of the love you bear your country, of your
solicitude for the nation's future, we entreat you, fellow-countrymen,
to remain deaf to evil inspirations, unshakable in your determination
not to expose our land to yet greater calamities, and Poland's whole
future to incalculable perils.
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POLISH AMERICAN OPINION.
Kazinirz Jaworowski, Manager Polish National Alliance, New York, Aug.
16.
The Poles are treated better in Russia now than they are in Germany.
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