The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1914-11-22


umph Of the Niles and their
c,u- Israel Zangwii said. mot be-
r.us, they hate Russia less but because
fh,y hate I'russan reaction and mill
t5rism mere.
n was ~ London. and had heen
saving To- the celebrated NnC,o-Jewish
patriot and author thit Am rican j wa
baked %. The idea of according their
moral support to any coalition of hellig-
erents or 90 any cause with which Rus
sa was identified
I reminded hun that We Of the United
States ourselves were at this time NJ
losucrhoad. with Russia In a matter
nyn,V.uS humanity To- Jews In gem
era, ana 1ur own Jewish fellow citizens
in particular. | tried to make Xau.will
unders nd that IT was hard Tor Amer
csu Jews. won those whose memories
did rot 90 hack further than kishinen
and Bcillss. To- generate enthusiasm for
Russian d:ms.
ZangW.ll required no such assurances
from me lie has had a stream of cor
RESPONDENTS from Amer ca raising the
same pertinent point. and he gladly en-
braccd the opportunity. he explained,
to argue il.
"Th question for Jews everywhere
% consider he said. is this: What is
the interest Of the higher civilization
;h, war? We should not approach
me question purely from the standpoint
o. Jews by race. We should weigh It
ms hshly from the standpoint Of Jews
by spirit.
MY own convictions are not born Of
inc fact that am either a Jew by race
Or an Eng,ishman by birth. They are
Dictated 10y the conscience of a man Of
~.
versa,.stic teaching ot the n brew
prophets and who boasts that there *
not a chauvinstic corpuscle In all the
blood that flows through his veins.
when this war began remembered
that had produced. among many other
works IF art. three at least which quail
fed me to claim for myself utter inn
ar'ial.ty,
During the Eoer war | wrote The
Mantle of Elijah an Indictment of the
British. Dom Paul's secretary. Or.
LeydS told me, when | visited Kruger
in his exile in the Riviera. that the
numo.rs NJ HGrper's containing it were
read by the Boer soldiers in the tie ii
and had cheered their hearts with the
thought that there were lovers OF jus
tic IN England,
~ few years ago ! wrote an indict-
mon OF everything that Kdisorism and
PrUssian militar!sm stand for. The War
Cod played by Sir Herbert Tree. a
drama which in the light IT events Vas
prophetic in detail Of this present at
temp. ~ Germany To impose its armored
domination upon the world
My earlier play. The Netting Pot
NOT unknown in America. was among
o'her things a sweeping condemnation
of 'ho Russian Pharaoh 81 to-day.
r think therefore. ! can claim 10
approach the diagnosis Of ArmaGeddon
N no mvopic. hiEoted spirit.
To remind M of kishinef and ritual
murder prosecutions, a. you and SC
many If my correspondents do. is &c
bring Goals to Newcastle Why, my In
document Of Russia, The Melting Pot is
pAyiu- IN England at this very mo-
mont Notwithstanding that Muscovy Is
orr ally. But that very play teaches
also reconciliation and forgiveness, anc
ne melting up of the past into incl
future
You tell me the hope of liberty an.
freedom for the Jew in Russia is DIN
and dismal in the light of the Czar'
hrok promises in the past. You say
AWo lean Jews fear that Russia's tri
umuh In this war Will spell even greater
h,y have suffered hitherto. You de
s.r,na Am rican wonder that l!beral!ze'
F'aaHd could have made common
caH-c With reaCtionary Russia
.'.r' me deal with the last point first
l. r. true that British conceptions o
civ 2allon ma their exact antIthesi
| 10 Russia, SO far as the bureaucracy /
CON ern,l, though certainly not so IA
as teachers Ike Tolstoy and kropotklr
ny rcighhor in the country by the way
are onccrned
However, II "" are strange and un
}. naWa, political hed'clows It is tn
German menace, the military terrorism
| w. j Germany has sought to impos
upon European mankind, that has com
0".td Europe 20 organize and federal
tcr H. overthrow.
"Ecuuhlran France alone was power
less IN resist H. 1t allied itself wit
d.-"o'in Russia in the hope that be
tW ~ them they might roll it back.
'Tn"n peril which had long bee
moody continental aud military becam
? European ard maritime. Tina
upr .ol England To affiliate itself wit
those others who were face to face wit
'.. German danger.
II admit that we have sunk below IN
BRUSH level ethically viewed, in ou
h'--.tu alliance. But it is German
"" D. 1t- dragged MS down to the plan
Of ..'' force.
Hur same dwelling process ha
N.ntH' Az Europe to the lowest STRAIT
o. Nr vll zition, war, but war wage
'. ... highest civilization that Ia, free
" and political peace.
H..l or victory IS won a victor
'..N Russia VIII share. another ley
H.. . IL,