Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1917-12-30
HY AIAxIM GoRKY.

ny countsy-ltus3ia-iJ threatened
by rebirth OF an,i-Scm.tisrn.
Equal rights for the Jews vas one
Of tho most splerdid achievements Of
our revolution. On the day We gave
our Jewish lellow-citizcns equal rights
. we washed on our consciences a shame
full sanEuinary and n dctestab!u
stain.
/ record this without pride. because
in our action there Is no cause for
being proud. We had TO cause to be
proud. because the Jews had earned
their freedom. They had fought for
Russia's political emancipation much
moro honorably and cncrEeticaily ,han
We Russians ourselves did. and they
produced much fewer renegade. and
traitors. We had no reason. therefore,
TO consider ourselves benccac.o-s az
the Jews. as some kind-heartcd. but
= short-siShtcd. Russiara ircist on con
siderinE themselves.
81 The assumptions OF these h;nt-heart-
ed, but short-siehted, Russians sound
TO me az impcrtincnt and false
Having emancioatcd tho Jews in tho
) -pale of settlement" from, the restrio.
fions which disEraced the cxtinc. car
dom, our fatherland gained the adj
vantage Of being able 70 use the on
ersJ OF men and women OF race
Which works harder thSn ourselves. Ia
It now known TO every one, American
as we'll as Russians. how badly Rus
sia needs men and women who love
their work? We had no cause to feel
proud OF having freed the Jews; bat
we had reason to rejoice that ct least
we had succeeded in accomplishing a
work that was noble. moral end OF
practical worth.
To-day I observe that no spcc;aI iov
Is felt In Russia over the em,ncipa-
ton OF the Jcws. Pcrhr?s Tn. rea-
son is that Russia has 40 free tim.
for rejoicing. She Is too deeply inn
Hersed In what she calls "high pou-
Tics tfSs .tature Of which il described
o. Ru sian nonsense coup!et:
Tigers are fond OF marrna,adc.
SO men eat one another"
Instead OF seeing rejoicing. Observe
with pain that anti-Scnitisrn l., sti,1
alive Gradually it is raising higher
and higher it's hideous head; II Is hiss
iaS. eliminating. scattering the pois-
onous saliva Q: hatred. What is the
reason OF this? The reason, I ar,
asked 10 believe. IS that in the ranks
OF the anarchical and much despis.d
BolsheViEs couple OF Jews have been
discovered. There may he even threa
: BolsheVilS jews, and some industrious
men have actually counted seven. and
Dtnoee Industrious men are Convinced
= nat the seven Boisheviki SamsonS will
tear into 1000 fragments the tremcnd-
Gus RUSSIAN temple, constructed Of
1TUoo3,0o0 human bricks. That is the
excuse OF the new auti-Semitism which
i5 to-day threatening TO destroy What
little good remains OF Russ;as revoiu.
ton.
p REASONING RIDICULOUS.
.icfi STUPID AND WHOLLY BASE:
This reasoning would be ridiculou.
and stupid IL 1t were not wholly base.
The mcnacing Jehovah Of the Israel.
ties spared whole city Of Offenders
FOR no other reason than that he found
among them one just man. But Eus-
; sian men and women who profess 70
believe in an All-Merciful Christ pro-
claim that for the sins Of the two-o-
it may be OF the seven-Bolsheviks the
whole Jewish race In the new Russian
republic should be mado to suffer and
should perish.
~ This reasoning. as tell my fellow.
Russians. is ridiculous. IL W. apply
it generally. We should ne forced TO
declare that, for the sake Of LcnIne.
who is purc-hlooded Russian sinner.
should suffer all persons who dwell in
his native province. and also ALI men
who dwell in the neighborhood.
There arc great many Jews also
In our moderate Socialist party. which
nobody accuses OF running Russia; this
Is fact vel! known TO nie and to Rus
sia's anti-Semites, yet these anti
Se,pites. being extraordinarily, ignorant
people. proclaim and pretend TO be-
Iicve that all Jews are anarchists.
Tho accuse ton that Jews are anar-
chists has flown around the world. It
'-is a baseless generalization from scantv
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