The Chicago Polish newspaper, Dziennik Narodowy, published a long article about the Lithuanian-Polish relations. Sorry that the Polish author knows so little about Lithuanians. In writing about Lithuanians, he makes such foolish statements as these: that Lithuanian students have begged the Russian government to make more severe the persecution of the Poles. Further, the Polish writer says that it should be the most essential effort of Lithuanians to keep the Poles in Lithuania, for if the Poles should be taken from Lithuania, the culture of Lithuania would disappear. "The Poles brought culture to Lithuania," he says. The Polish nobility and the clergy did not bring culture to Lithuania. They brought slavery, oppression and ignorance.

That the Lithuanians and the Poles ought to unite against Russia is a good idea, but such a unity is impossible. As soon as the Lithuanians and the Poles come closer, the Poles say that in the past the Lithuanians 2 have been enslaved, so even today the Poles must be the master and that the Lithuanians should obey the Poles. No self-respecting people will voluntarily accept serfdom at the hands of a low-cultured people.

Not only the Lithuanians, but every nation want to rule itself. When strangers try to stop the resurrected nation from ruling itself, then no wonder that the reborn nation refuses to have any relation with its former oppressors.

In our struggle with Russia the Poles never helped us, but denounced our struggle against the oppressor. The Lithuanians do not want to have in their country the Russian nor the Polish masters. Neither do the Poles want to have the Russian masters over them.