# The Endeks Incite the Army

- URL: https://syn.by/en/history/archives/the-endeks-incite-the-army/
- Published: 1924-06-13T19:20:00+00:00
- Updated: 2026-10-23T21:00:43+00:00
- Section: Archives
- Language: en
- BE edition: https://syn.by/historya/arkhivy/endeki-padburajuc-vojska.md
- RU edition: https://syn.by/ru/istoriya/arhivy/endyeki-podstryekayut-voysko.md

> In its leading article, the Vilnia endek newspaper calls on the army to uphold "internal order". The author observes that this is incitement of the army against the national minorities, and puts questions to Polish lawyers.

The endek newspaper "Dziennik Wileński", in No. 128 of 7 June 1924, writes in a leading article under the headline "Miecz i waga" ("The Sword and the Scales"):

"We address you, gentlemen of the military, who exist not only for the Third of May parade. When, Poland, will you show your foreign and internal enemies your mighty fist, when will you say: 'Quos ego!'"

It seems the "constitutional" means of oppressing the "internal enemies", against which the whole civilized world protests, are still not enough for the Polish endeks: they are inciting the army against all those whom the endeks regard as "internal enemies", and of course above all against the hated "national minorities"…

In the same article the same newspaper greets the Polish lawyers who have gathered in Vilnia as representatives of the law. It would do no harm to ask them whether Polish law permits inciting the army against peaceful citizens whom the endeks have proclaimed "internal enemies".

It would also do no harm to ask Minister Zamoyski which of her neighbors Poland is threatening with her "iron fist".