Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1916-11-20
FREEDOM FOR JEWS
AMERICAS DEMAND
Members of Jewish Race Sac
rifice Their Lives and Prop
erty in War.
WANT ONLY JUSTICE

Il
world, religious, political, economic
freedom, as one result OF the Euro
psan war is what the Jews OF
America are hoping and working for"
This is the statement of Colonel
Harry Cutler OF Providence, R. l., a
member Of the executive committee
of the American Jewish committee,
American Jewish Relief committee
and. other organizations which have
raised nearly 100000 this year for
relief of the Jews in war-stricken
countries, who has been in Omaha
on business the last two days.
IAN executive committee, Of which
Victor Rosewater, editor OF The Bee,
is to be member, was appointed last
Tuesday at a meeting in New York"
said Colonel Cutler, through which
call will be issued for congress
OF American Jews to meet, probably
the first OF next year, to take steps
essential for the emancipation OF the
Jews OF all Europe and Palestine at
the close Of the war.
Brother VS.. Brother in Trenches.
This is more important even than
the material remedial measures which
our committees have provided and
will continue to provide. Today the
Jews of all the warning countries are
fighting. Many thousands have given
their lives and lost their property.
They have fought, brother against
brother and father against son, be-
cause before the war families were
scattered in various countries, and
they have fought as bravely as the
bravest.
Nov, when the war is over shall
they not be rewarded for their
patriotism by coming into their own?
Shall they not gain in those countries
all the equality and justice which
they have in the United States and
which makes the United States ma
ton to which the Jewish race will
forever have the greatest gratitudeF
Now Sees Peace Ahead.
"The signs are brighter now for
peace than any time since the war
started and this congress will urge
upon the belligerent governments the
propriety Of granting equal civil
rights to the Jews in all lands where
they do not now have them. ..
1--WE have sent millions for the re-
lief Of the Jews in the warning coun-
tries Our Joint Distribution COM
mission recently sent commission
abroad to study the question OF re-
habilitating the Jews after the war
stops. was the alternate of Rev
DR.. Judah L. Magnes. DR.. Magnes
on his return, recommended the rails
ing OF $l0,00o000 for relief in 1917
and also big free-loan plan for
starting the poor Jews anew in life
after the war.
That Freedom Fund.
i "This fund, as stated in Saturday.
dispatches in your paper, will b.
probably the largest ever raised fol
such a purpose. 1t will be providet
!. by Jewish philanthropists in thi
: country to be administered on tn,
J order Of 'free-loan funds found in al
states and communities in this coun
: try. These funds loan money with
!. out interest to poor immigrants
! Many an influential Jew today hal
!, started life in this country by Dor
! rowing SIS from such fund to bu,
{ a pushcart to start In business.
ut is impossible to say just how
large this loan fund will be and alst
impossible to say how long it will
continue. But probably generation
and half will be required to max
!, good the devastation wrought by tn
, war and set the Jewish people in tn
various countries on their feet again.
Cutler a Self-Made Man.
: Colonel Cutler gains his militar.
= title from his rank Ii the militia O
J Rhode Island. He has had dramati
: life history. When he was bo
\ in a village OF interior Russia, prison
I ers en- route in chain gangs on foo
! to Siberia were sometimes quartere
y at his parents home during tn
= night. He witnessed massacre i
Y Russia in which the Cossacks to,
I tured their victims with the mos
- barbaric cruelty. He came to thl
II country a poor boy and has sine
!, gained competency and distinction
It THO d;t;nnc AFRO All