Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1914-12-03
URGES JEWSTO
SUPPORT ALLIES CAUSE

ALLIES CAUSE
I responding more cheerfully 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 h Russo
Jewish immigrants might live in peace,
| know of not a few burning with anx-
iety to enlist in K%itchener's army in
order that they may, even in the west.
lay down their lives, if necessary, for
their native country's cause.
These things will not be forgotten.
They are being remembered in Petro-
grad already, for I 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 hat Jews have the UNI
p~recedented privilege of establishing
and maintaining their own educational
institutions. 1t is no mean concession.
Prussia's Treatment of Jews.
DO American Jews who think II
more natural to espouse the cause of
enlightened Prussia than 'barharous'
Russia realize that Jews in Germany
suffer under the most obnoxious dis
abilities?
h 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 aris-
t%ocratic oligachy which constitutes up
per class Germany.
Ills name is a by-word which dare
NOT be mentioned in what purports to
be polite society. His sons may not
aspire to the status fixing rank of an
officer in the army or navy. They may
NOR hnnn fnps ~ ~ n,~r in h anvil wi
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 se%cond-rate
professors of the arts or sciences. Ehr-
llch, of FRANKFORT, is an exception which
but proves the rule.
The kaiser has honored men like
Ball1n and Rathenau and Simon at the
cost of alternating the loyalty and sup
aflame with anti-Semitism.
"Dr. Dernburg, himself, Germany's
chief protagonist in the United States,
IS a victim of unreasoning Prussian an
ti-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 even the renegade
son of a JeWish father in it's exclusive
midst.
Germany has scant claim on it's rec
ord of it's treatment Of it's 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 love of justice eventually
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 uncomprornising and truly Jew
lsh crusade against militarism, is form
ally barred. by decree, from entering
the nome or pocket of a German Off
Ger! | refer. of course. to the Berliner
Tagebldtt.
Il ask American Jews, the Jews who
are in your Senate and House of Rep
resentatiVes, and in your army and
navy who have been in your 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-
sterberg flaunt Russia in their faces
and ask them how good Jews can
sympathize with the allies cause.
Cites Spencerian Metaphor.
A to the Strengthening out of he
Jewish situation in Russia, I am fond
81 quoting a metaphor invented by
Herbert Spencer. He said that. if YOU
took a saucepan with a len in it to
De mended, the tinker never hammered
directly at the bulge, for 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
tlcular 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 and always in the
general struggle of civilization; let
them protest as much against the in
treatment of blacks or Indians or Bel
gians as against their own i'll treat
ment; let them assist everywhere in
the triumph of righteousness and peace
and 1t viii be found one day that the
persecution Of Jews will have become
as u~nthinkable as the persecution of
witches"