The Tabor independent. [volume] (Tabor, S.D.) 1913-19??, 1914-12-03
ZANGWILL URGES JEWSTO
SUPPORT ALLIES cause

ALLIES CA
I responding more cheerfuily or effective
ly than the Jews to the obligations OF
war. The Russian Jews seem indeed
the only Christians left in Europe.
Here In London, where the Russo
Jewish immigrants might live in peace,
I know OF not a few burning with anx-
iety to enlist In Kitchener's army IN
order that they may, eve in the west,
lay down their lives, IL necessary, for
their native country's cause.
these things will not be forgotten.
They are being remembered In Peiro-
grad already. for ! read favor to the
Jews between the lines OF an imperial
ukase, just promulgated, accepting the
dumas decision to allow all commun-
tiles to erect their own schools and col
leges without let or hindrance.
This means that Jews have the un-
precedented privilege OF establishin1
and maintaining their own educational
institutions. II Is no mean concession.
Prussia's Treatment Of Jews.
"Do American Jews who think n
more natural to espouse the cause OF
enlightened Prussia than s~barbarous'
Russia realize that Jews In Germany
suffer under the most obnoxious dis
abilities?
There is no geographical pale In
Germany, but there Is q social pale
hardy less odious. In no country in
the world Is the Jew so completely an
outcast as among the military and aris-
tocratic oligachy which constitutes up
per class Germany.
not be mentioned in what purports 10
be polite society. His sons may not
aspire to h status fixing rank of an
officer n the army or navy. They may
not hope for careers In the civil service.
unless they disavow the faith of their
fathers. They may not Join the great
student organizations at the univers-
tiles.
Enrich an Exception.
"They may only become second-rata
professors Of the arts or sciences. Err
Itch. OF Franfort, is an exception which
u proves the rule. q
The kaiser has honored men like
Ballin and Rathenau and Simon at the
cost OF alternating the loyalty and sup
port Of true Germans whose souls are
aflame with anti-Semitism.
"Dr. Dernburg, himself, Germany's
chief protagonist in the United States.
Is q victim OF unreasoning Prussian an
u-Germanism. Although he was ele-
waited to the colonial secretaryship be-
cause OF conspicuous merit his down.
fall was plotted from the moment he
took office. by the court clique, which
could not tolerate ever the renegade
son of a Jewish father In Its exclusive
midst.
Germany has scant claim on its rec
ord of its treatment Of its own Jews to
the sympathy OF Jews In America or
any where else In the world.
You interrupt and ask: How about
France and Dreyfus? Drefus was per-
secuted: but French public sentiment,
Etrannh Iowa NJ rffruffna axyank,1aII-
purged and indicated him.
Berlin Paper Barred.
What hope do you think there would
be Of such a moral regeneration in a
community like Berlin. where the best
newspaper. because Jewish owned and
Jewish edited and waging. prior to the
war, an uncompromising and truly Jew
ish crusade against m~ilitarism, is form
ally barred, by decree, from entering
the home or pocket OF a German Off
Ger? I refer. OF course. to the Berliner
Tageblatt.
"I ask American Jews, the Jews who
are in o u Senate INT House of Rep
r~esentatives, and in your army n
navy, who have been in your diplo-
matte service n who are always pre-
eminent in all that Is best in American
life. to remember these things when
Count Bernstorff and Professor Muen-
sterberg flaunt Russia in their faces
and ask them how good Jews can
sympathize with he allies cause.
Cites speneerian Metaphor.
A to the Strengthening out Of the
Jewish situation in Russia. I am fond
OF quoting a metaphor invented by
Herbert Spencer. He said that, If you
took a saucepan with a lent in it to
be mended, the tinker never hammered
directly at the bulge, TOR that would
nave simply caused a bulge on the 9TH
er side. He just tamped all around the
bulge, flattening out the surface so
that the bulge disappeared of itself.
IF the Jews of the world concentrate
attention too much on their own par
ticular grievance, especially at a mo-
ment when all civilization is In the
melting pot. they win find that what
is gained in one way Is lost In another.
Let them help now and always In the
general struggle OF civilizations; Let
them protest as much against the III
treatment OF blacks or Indians or Bel
CLANS as against their own i'll treat
ment; let them assist everywhere In
the triumph of righteousness and peace.
and 1t Will be found one day that the
persecution OF Jews will have become
as unthinlxable as the persecution OF
witches"