The Wheeling intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1903-1961, 1914-12-02

| Germany. but there is a social male
hardly less odious. In no country in
the world is the Jew so completely an
outcast as among the military and
aristocratic oligarchy which consti-
tutes upper class in Germany.
outeasts In Germany.
His name is a by-word which dare
not be mentioned in what purports 10
De polite society. His sons NAV not
aspire TO the status fixing rank of an
officer in the army or navy. They
may not hope for careers in the civil
service. unless they disayow the faith
OF their fathers. They may not join
the great student organizations at the
universities.
Ihey may not only become second.
rate professors Of the arts OF scien
ces' Enrich OF Frankfort is an ex.
ception which but proves the rule.
The kaiser has honored men iike
BALM and Rathenau and simon ~
the cost OF alternating the loyalty and
support of true Germans whose souIs
are aname with anti-Semitism.
DR. Dernburg himself. Germany's
chlei protagonist In the United States.
Is a victim OF Inreasoning Prussian
ahtiGermanism. Although he was
elevated 10 the colonial secretaryship
because OF conspicuous merit. his
uo"ntail was plotted from the moment
ne loon ONCE by the court CLIQUE.
winch could not tolerate even the
renegade son OF Jewish father in liz
exclusive midst
Germany has scant claim on its
record Of its treatment OF its own
Jews 10 the sympathy Of Jews jn
america or anywhere else in the
world
You Interrupt and ask. How about
france and Dreyfus? Dreyfus was
perseclted. hut French public senfi.
ment. French love Of Justice event
ually purged him and indicated him
what hope do you think there
would be OF such n moral regeneration
IN community like Berlin. where the
best newspaper. because Jewish
owned aud Jewish edited and waging.
prior 10 the war. an uncompromising
and truly Jewish crusade against
militarism. Is formally barred by de-
cree from entering the home or
pocket OF a German officer? I refer.
oi course. TO the Beriiner Tageblatt.
lhfn8a 70 remember.
ask American Jews. the Jews who
are In your senate and your house of
representative. and In your army ana
navy. who have been In your diplo.
matte service and who are always fre-
eminent IN all that b. best In Ameri.
can life. % remember these things
when Count Bernstorn and Prof
hnensterberg hsunt Russia in Their
faces and ask them how good Jews'
can sympathize with the allies cause
As 90 the Strengthening out Of the
Jewish situation In Russia. 7 am fond
OF quoting n metaphor invented bv
Herbert Spencer BE said that. II Won
TOOK saucepan with a dent In ID 10
DO mended the tinker never ham.
mered directly a. the bulge. for that
would have simply caused a buleeou
the other side. He just tapped an
around the bulge. nattening out the
surface 20 that the bulge disappeared
81 Itself
II the Jews OF the world coneen.
trate attention too mach on their own
particular grievance. especially az
moment when all civilization is In the
melting pot. they viii End that what
D. gained On one way u lost In another
let them help nov and always in the
Eenoral struggle ~ civilization. let
them protest a. much against the I'M
treatment 81 blacks or Indians or Bel
CLANS ns against their own IN treai
ment let them assist everywhere In
The triumph ~ Righteousness and
peace. and T. will b. found one dav
that The persecution of Jews will have