The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1915-03-14
APPEALS FOR JEWS n
WARNING C0UnIRIFs
Editor Jewish Daily News Tells ol
Injustice Pract.ccd On Kinsmen
In Europe.
pERsECUTED FOR THEIR FAITH
Hebrews, However, Are Giving Their
Lives Freely In Defense OF the
Various Countries In Which They
Are Domiciled,

There Is q feelingfTn the air that
the hour had weik-nigh struck when,
! in accordance with the Divine plan.
the Hebrew people, long nation with
out a country, will once more stand
on its fee under a Hebrew flag way-
ing over the sacred hills where David
rcigne6.
Outside of America. however, the
Hebrew is Row forced to battle his
lands i'll the blood of his kinsmen.
In the European countries, some OF
which have long denied tho Hebrew
ordinary human rights, the large con-
tinGent OF Hebrews is furnishing many
thousands of men for the firing line.
serving loyalty the several countries
a. war in which they are domis lied.
However, this has not kept them
aud their defenselcsS families In come
countries from suffering persecution
In addition to the hardsilips of war
That some steps may be taken To
amellorate their condition the e.iituv
OF the New York Jewish Daily News
suggests that an American Jewish
Conference he held. He writes as fol-
lows to the Virginian:
An Appeal for Jewish Rights.
Permit me 10 address you, and
through Your readers, upon a matter
engrossing tho attention of the peoples
Of t ne world.
Nearly half "a million Jews are
fighting in the ranks Of the armiea OF
the Deliigerent nations, battling on
behalf Qr countries where they have
suffered and are still suffering terrible
injustice through the dcprivation cf
the rights accorded to all other cft.-
zens. While the husbands and sons
are on the firing line, the wives and
daughters, the mothers and sisters are
at the mercy Of anti-Gemites, who.
tyY-it IA nd 70 Tirh her nd
the patriotic sacrifice OF Jewish blood,
are melting the populace against them.
This is notably the case in Poland
II is a pitiful state OF affairs, one cal
ling for the intervention of all justice
and liberty-loving men and women.
We. Jews. look to America. to the
overpowering sense Of righteousness
of the American people. TO esrouse the
cause of the SIX million innocent men.
women and children driven and hunt
ed for no other reason that that they
cling 10 the Faith OF their Fathers.
THE question naturally arises,
What can be done2'
The Jewish Daily News has sug
gested a plan for the calling OF an
American Jewish Conference for the
purpose of bringing TO the attention
Of tho nations the deplorable plight
OF the Jews of Europe. This proposal
has received the hearty endorsement
of the Secretary OF War tiaTrtscn-
Governor Walsh OF Massachusetts,. the
Hon Oscar s. Straus Professor
Charles W Elliot, President Er.eri-
tus, of Harvard, Professor j, g. Schur-
man, President OF Cornell University.
Mr.. Hamilton Holt. editor Of the Tn
dependent; Miss Jane Adams. Of
! the HUI House. Chicago Mr. George
I KEENAN, and other noted Americana
| I'VE appeal 30 you to aid lis in this
! humanitarian work. America. the
! country that has always opposed
! tyranny and succored the oppressed,
| can play no nobler part in this terri.
| BILE worlds drama than raise It's mighty
| voice and demand in the name OF
all that is sacred that the carnage of
| unoffending human beings cease
I'VE ask you to help lis. and the Yroes
unhamperea press OF the United States
| can best do SO. to secure fun edsi1f
rights for Jews all the world over
| for have we not all one Father, has.
| not One God created us?"
Very s'rcerelv YOURS
EDITOR. JEWISH DAILY NEWS.