How the minister of the interior answers the interpellations of members of the sejm

To the latest interpellations of the PPS member Puzak concerning police violence during the collection of taxes in the Częstochowa county (to say nothing of our "Kresy"!), Minister Hübner gave the following answers:

The interpellation says that the wójt and a policeman climbed into the house through the window. The minister says this is untrue, because they only… "through the open window took a pillow from the bed that stood by the window"…

To "take" something through the window from a locked house means, in the language of the Penal Code of all times and peoples, simply to steal. And a Polish minister ought to know this legal language, since he was formerly a prosecutor and surely many times demanded severe punishments for such "taking"… Does theft cease to be an offence when it is committed by the wójt in the presence of an armed policeman?…

In another case, as the interpellation says, the property of a village resident was plundered in his house in the owner's absence. "Untrue," answers the minister of the Polish Republic: "there were two children in the house: one 13 years old, the other 3"…

Surely it was the latter who signed the confiscation report…

But the minister explains even more curiously the countless cases of residents being beaten by the police during the "seizure" of property… During the executions "a scuffle with the policemen began, in the course of which it cannot be excluded that this or that resident may have injured himself against the policeman's carbine"…

And now one can be quite certain that nowhere, never, will the police beat the people in Poland! It is finished! And all the Leagues in France and in Geneva may stop wasting their powder… Now, thanks to the minister himself, every policeman will state quite openly in his report how hard and bloodily this or that clumsy peasant "struck himself against his carbine" in the course of the "scuffle"…

And the direction of "internal affairs" in the Republic is entrusted to such a minister, from such a gentleman people expect the defence of the population's "security", from such a gentleman someone hopes for an "improvement" of conditions in the Kresy, for the "reorganization of the police and administration" and other good things!