The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1915-02-21

the Jews, exclaimed:
IL am the man who a generation
ego wrote, we love Poland, not In
the same way as we love Germany,
or France, or England. but as we love
liberty. For what is to love Poland
hut to love liberty, e feel a deep
sympathy with misfortune and to adj
mlre courage n combative enthu-
siasm? Poland Is the symbol n all
hat which the supreme among man
kind have loved and for which they
AVE fought These were my words
and until now I have adhered to them.
Shall I have to fe | ashamed OF hay-
ne written these WORDS now that Po-
lands future is b ing decided?
How IA they who are fighting for
heir liberty after so many years of
n treatment be willing to seize an
opportunity to i'll treat the only people
who have suffered far more Ind
twenty times as long a. they them
selves have suffered. the only people
100 strong to he destroyed"
On the threshold OF their freedom
the Poles, who have been hoping and
dreaming and yearning for freedom.
aTN l1lNiAiiS ihh7sdAifs VI 1--WE
appealing for the sympathy of the
world the Poles are continuing a pol
icy OF pogroms in the Polish provinces.
And people Everywhere are asking
themselves whether a nation Of pog-
rom makers Is worthy Of the sympathy
Il the world. whether a nation that il
taking away the last; rays of hope from
anospR nation without rights IS
worthy Of freedom. Not all the Poles
are poefofn makers. Of course. But so
Far no Pole OF prominence and infu-
ence has raised his voice OF protest
against these atrocities.
The best and strongest men among
the Jews in Poland are on the battle
field. They are fighting ~valiantly for
heir "fatherland." while at home. he
mind the backs Of the Jewish heroes.
heir Polish ~neighbrrs have set tho
stage for anti-Jewish terrorism COM
pared with which Dante's Inferno Is
A playthihg of the imieinati1n. while
he youths are shedding their bio
IN Russian-Polish batt,cficlds their
fa;hers, mothers. wives and children
are subjected to outrases and atroc-
ties at the hands OF Polish mObs.
Taeir possessions are seized, their
homes destroyed. and hundreds Of in
nocent Jews are hanged or shot.
The following eXtrac. reproduced
rom an appeal 10y a large number of
labor organizations d piCt.ng tn
shocking conditi n Il the Jews in Po-
and and publ shei origirally in the
French journal. LHumoHiic. Will be
~ interest to American readers:
Even a town like LODI. the Man
hester Of Russia. with a population OF
500. 900 people. while the Russians still
occupied II underwent a riot which
.ssted several days. The Polish Jews
are literally outside the law.
Not content with these persecu-
tions, traditional. so to speak. the mill
AIRY authorities add TO their programme
a further law. borrowed from the an
nails Of the Middle Ages. This is the
exile Of entire Jewish populations from
a great number OF cities. This law
nrings us back to the most barbarous
periods OF medieval prosecutions. Al
he sound OF a drum the Jewish popu-
alton OF a town is assembled and in
formed OF the order of the military
authorities to leave the town within
t~wenty-four hours, sometimes within
three hours. The tardy ones are ar
raigned before a council of war.
And this forced exodus of the Jews
IS made under the most inhuman con-
ditlons. Thousands OF these unfor-
Inmates, men and women, healthy and
weak, the aged and the children, drag
along on foot, at times throughout en-
tire weeks. in spite OF the distance,
comparatively short, which separates
hem from the only town where they
an expect to find sheiter-Warsaw.
Ties exiles suffer unhclrd If misery.
often the children die on the road;
premature births take place. The panic
= so great that mothers lost their
musings and suddenly are Mortified 10
perceive that they are ~hugglng empty
wraps,
Hereunder is a description from a
Petrograd newspaper, given by a wit
ness, one OF the unfortunate exiles
from Grodzisk:
About 2 o'clock in the afternoon
he entire road to Warsaw IA o
cred by the Jewish population from
Grodzisk. We were about 1900 fami-
lea, Of which about 800 families were
nohilizcd-old and young, children.
women, several of them in dictate
'ord.t!on, while others were recover
ny from confinement, sick and infirm.
Between . and 8 in the evening
~ reached. the small market town OF
Bouc about twelve miles from Grod-
~ But we We're not allowed to
.l',. the town. we we're not allowed
.t.u fo cross il by following the road,
l' we're obliged TO go a roundabout
't' acros a flooded meadow. We
~. 'r'd branches, covered them with
uthcs and thus carried the women
.n- the children across 10 the other
de
NIgnt fell. a cold and damp
nGut. The sticky mud compelled us
- 'ldcken our pace and we advanced
~. difficulty, abused, and al times
'"--2acd by the scld!ers. me woman
H. Int a mother, another suffered
prem ture birth and a third died on
a." road.'
'NAo above II a typical case. other
Dc 'iptions only add to these painful
d.ils Hereunder we give the re-.
port received IN the same day OF an
tN.l' from the country town oil
Nf.hlueZ GomZa Govcrnment)t
''iIl the Jews, including the women
s'l children, 300 families In all hav-
Ing taken away the scrolls ~ holy