GERMAN AND POLE.

Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 111, 3 February 1908, Page 7

GERMAN AND POLE.

STRUGfiLE FOR THE LAND.

THE EXPROPRIATION POLICY

Br TEtEGIUrn—rRESS ASSOCIATION—COPYRIGHT. . . Berlin, January 31. • \"rinco Radziwill, Cardinal Kopp, and other .magnates in the Upper" Houso of the '.wo have:warned Prince von Bulow, tho. Imperial Chancellor,: of tho:danger;under tho l J oson Appropriation Bill of infringing tho rights of property by ospropriatiug tlio land of 'Polish owners, and ;of oxciting mistrust : md disaffection. : ■ ; Princo von Bulow , roplied that tho oxist- ■ ' once-of-a Polish Stato,was,a:monaco; it .was impoSsiblo s to- allow'tho growth of a State within a State.: -Tho gravo-emergency: demandod exceptional legislation. : The' Bill was. referred to a committeo. / FAILURE TO DISPLACE THE POLES. " ' Reccnt-Teviews of the land -"question in Gor- ' . man Poland Jndicato : that Germany has. failed to replace,.Polish '.'settlers .with berman., by. the ordinary'plan .of buying estates coming in- ' to the market, and planting.Germans on.thein. ' With all' the advantages which .-.the, bovorn- ■ ment, '. through : its settlement wmmission, offers: to. its German proteges, PousV settlua hold.,their own; besidMi: the Poles out-bid tho 1 commission' for land that comes into tnfl innr- : ket. - It hoped to displace tho .Polos by • compulsory • appropriation ;ot tnoir land., the effect of;this stop goes farther. : Keen • •••••■-• competition fiebreen the/Polish, buyers and the 'settlement commission has, it is said, lnllatea tho.value of land.::;. The. Government, tired-of paying" such;, prices,, thinks .to correct ..wis enhancement" by compulsory purchase. But this' is" Sgainst >thc obvious interest -of many ; laudaVners;,.' of ...varying parties and classes, who have been hoping t,o v sell for high fißures. "A :tettlement commission (comments .ail / exchange) buys land from; Poles with Govcrnment'money, .but tho arc so banded, to- ■ • gether, arid receive such help from their.com- : : patriots 'outside the ! Polish provinces*that they are able to compote,successfully this commission.: In the words,of Prince Bulow, they havo l not only been able to. mako Rood : thfe'-loss'of land through tho commission, but ■ ■ havo enormously obstructed activity, rrom 1896 to 1906, that is to say m, eleven years, ''• 'ISO.ObO 'acres. inore. has passed'over,.from- Gor- ; . man. into Polish hands. If the Polish acquisi- . 1 < tions in Pomerania;,/ Silesia, ■ and ,Last I russia i are- included; tho 'figures, reach '240,000 acresHow is this done? High and \vork toeether. ,-V<Thoi exiguous -savings . of > the; l ousti '' artisans:'of Silesia, or ; Westphalia are accumu-lated-in the banks of Posen and West-Prussia for I th'o purpose of outbidding.the.commission, when an estate comcs.into the maiict..