Iditarod pioneer., 1915-05-01
CONDITION OF THE JEWS
 IN THE GERMAN EMPIRE

natural to espouse the cause of enlightened Prussia than barbarous' Russia realize that Jews in Germany suffer under the most ob noxious disabiEties?" said Israel Zangwill the eminent Jewish writer, to an interviewer in London as reported in the Chicago Tribune.
 There Is no geographical pale in Ger many, but there Is a social pale hardly less odous. In no country in the world Is the Jew so completely an outcast as among the military and arlstocratic ohgarchy which constitutes upper class Germany.
 His name is a byword which dare not be mentioned in what purports to be polite society. His sons may not aspire to the Etatus fixing rank of an officer in the army or navy They may not hope for careers in the civil service, unless they disavow the faith oi their fathers They may not join the great student organizations at the uni versailles
 They may only become secondrate pro fessors of the arts or sciences. Ehrlich of Frankfort Is an exception which proves the rule.
 "The kaiser has honored men like Ballin and Rathenau and Simon at the cost of alienating the loyalty and support Of true Germans whose souls are ahame with anti Semitism.
 ''Dr. Dernberg himself, Germany's chief protagonist in the United States, IS vic tim of unreasoning PrusSian antl-Semltism. Although he was elevated to the colonial secretaryship because of conspicuous merit, his downfall 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 its exclusive midst.
 Germany has scant claim, on its record of its treatment of its own Jews, to the sympathy of Jews in America or anywhere else in the world.
 "You interrupt and ask How about France and Dreyfus? Dreyfus was perse- cuted; but French public sentiment, French love of justice, eventually purged him and vindicated him.
 What hope do you think there would be of such moral regeneration in a com munity like Berlin, where the best news paper, because Jewish owned and Jewish edited, and waging prior to the war an un- compromising and truly Jewish crusade against militarism, is formally barred by decree from entering the home or pocket of a German officer? I refer, of course, to the Berliner Tageblatt.
 T ask American Jews, the Jews who are in your senate and your house of repre- Sentatlves, and in your army and navy, who have been in your diplomatic service and who are always pre-eminent in all that IS best in American life, to remember these things when Count Bernstorff and Professor Muensterberg faunt Russia in their faces and ask them how good Jews can sym pathize with the allies cause
 "As to the strengthening out of the Jew sh situation in Russia, 1 am fond of quoting a metaphor invented by Herbert Spencer. He said that if you took a saucepan with a dent in 1t to be mended the tinker never hammered directly at the bulge, for that would have simply caused bulge on the other side. He just tapped all around the bulge, fattening out the surface so that the bulge disappeared of itself.
 ''If the Jews of the world concentrate at tenton too much on their own particular grievance, especially at moment when civ ilization 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 Ill treat ment of blacks or Indians or Belglans as against their own i'll treatment; let them assist everywhere in the triumph of right eousness and peace, and it will be found one day that the persecution of the Jews will have become as unthinkable as the persecu ton of witches"