Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1914-12-02
ZANGWILL URGESJEWSTO
SUPpORT ALLIES CA USE

aeine. but at once.
"Britain's advice to Russia is Do it
nov. But at the worst the British for
eisn secretary is bound to be a vital
factor in the peace to follow the war.
Patriotism of Russian Jews.
There viii be another factor which
viii serve the Jewish cause in the hour
o. peace. That is the really emar
able enthusiasm with which the cars
Jewish subjects are doing their duty
as Russian patriots and soldiers.
The R~usso-Alnerican Jews who
write ~denouncing my views should
rather denounce the Russian jews who
put my views in practice. But it is
clear that those exiles in America have
utterly lost touch with the European
situation.
No men in the ears vast armies are
responding more cheerfullN or effective
~ 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,
| know of not a few burning with NIX
iety To enlist in kitchener's army in
order mat they MAY. even in the west,
lay down their lives. if necessary, for
tileil- native country's cause.
These things viii not be Forgotten.
They are being lmembered in Petro-
grad already, for ] read favor to the
jews between the ines of an imperial
ukase. just promulgated. accepting the
dumas decision to allow All commun-
tiles to erect their own schools and coll
leSes without let or hindrance.
This means that Jews have the I'M
precedented privilege of establishing
ana maintaining their own educational
institutions. 1t is no mean concession.
Prussia's Treatment Of Jews.
DO American Jews who think It
more natural to espouse the cause of
enlightened Prussia than 'barharous'
Russia realize that Jews IN Germany
suffer under the most obnoxious dis
| Abilities
There is no geographical pale in
Germany. but there is a social pale
hardly less odious. In no country in
the world is the Jew so completely an
outcast as among the military and arts
~tocratic oligachy which constitutes up
per class Germany.
His name is a by-word which dare
not be mentioned in what %purports to
be polite society His sons may not
aspire to h status fixing rank OF an
oiilcer IN 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.
Ehrlicn an Exception.
They may only become s%econd-rate
professors of the arts or sciences. Ehr-
Itch. of FRANKFORT. is an exception which
but proves the rule.
The kaiser has honored men like
Ea!ll!l Ii R%athenau md Simon at the
cost OF alternating the loyalty and sup
port oil true Germans whose souls are
afiane with a-nti-Semitism.
'Dr Dernburg. himself. Germany's
flfJDI Grnt1 unniCt in t1n- V-,i{nl HC+o%0.
Is Z victim of unreasoning Prussian am
t~-Germanism. Although he was ele-
waited to the colonial secretaryship be-
cause OF conspicuous merit his down.
fall was plotted from the he
took office. by the court clique. which
could not tolerate even the renegade
son of a Jewish father in it's exclusive
midst.
Germany has scant claim on it's rec
orc OF It's 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.
French o of justice eventually
purged and vindicated him.
Berlin Paper Barred.
What hope do you think there would
be OF Such a moral regeneration i'm a
community like Berlin, where the best
newspaper. because Jewish owned and
Jewish edited and waging. prior to the
war. an unccmpromising and truly Jew
ism crusade against militarism, is form
ally barred. by decree, from entering
the homo or pocket OF a German Off
Ger? | refer. of course, to the Berliner
Tagcblatt.
II ask American Jews. the Jews who
are in Your Senate and House of Rep
r~esentatives, and in your army and
navy, who have been in YOU diplo-
matte service and who are always pre-
eminent in all that is best in American
life. to remember these things when
Count Bernstorff and Professor Muen-
and ask them how good Jews can
sympathize with the allies cause.
Cites Spencerian 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 dent in it to
be mended. the tinker never hammered
directly at the bulge, for that would
have 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 h 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 Will find that what
is gained in one way is lost in another.
Let them help now n always in the
general struggle of civilization; let
them protest as much against the i'll
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 unthinkable as the persecution OF
witches"