New-York tribune., 1918-03-25
A Few Prompt Hangings
Needed, Says Repre-
sentative Kahn
Paci6sts Denounced
Vigorous War Advised in
Synagogues of New
York

norton of those whose remarks are ST.
ditious and reasonable, declared Kep-
resentative Julius Kahn yesterday az
the services of the 1nstltltlonaA oyna
eogue in Mount Morris Theatre. IL IS
the second time Mr.. Kahn has urged
short shrift for traitors, the nrs1 nav
ing been on January 10 at q Iuncn
given by the National Security League.
The service yesterday was one OF
several in New York synagogues al
which pacifists were denounced ana
vigorous war was urged. Mr.. Kahn is
the ranking Republican 1T the House
Military Affairs Commiuree and led the
fight for the selective service act.
Says Hangings Are Needed
"When seditious or traitorous voice
is raised here" he said, II hope the
arm of the law will reach out and grasp
him and we shall have few prompt
hangings. We must make an example
of these people, and do it quickly. The
man in this country who denounces the
war to-day, with his country in the
war, has no business on American SOIL.
The man who refuses to contribute
dollar to buy Liberty bonds and sup
port our boys in the army. that man, in
nv humble opinion, is traitor to our
country. If my boy and your boy are
willing to die for our country and a
man without boy closes his pocket
book and will not give, he should be
whipped out of the country by the
scourge Of public opinion.
Rabbi Herbert S. Goldstein charac-
terized the speaker as "the foremost
oh mr.
Representative Isaac Siegel, president
of the synagogue, referred to Mr.. Kahn
as "America's leading immigrant from
Germany" and "the whitest man in the
House of Representatives"
"Amerca In and After the War" was
the subject of Mr.. Kahn's address. He
said he had been informed that
many persons in the neighborhood in
which he was speaking opposed the
tempered justice should be meted out
to traitors and seditionists.
The approaching Feast of the Pas.
sover was "the Jewish Fourth of july"
he declared. The wanderings of the
children Of Israel in the wilderness
and their deliverance were like the
early struggles of the United States
when it warred for the freedom of the
seas.
eve of the Jewish faith" he said,
"have every cause to fight for this land
of freedom. In land of such oppor
tunity as this ought you not to be will
ing to give everything you have. even
life itself?"
Warns of Cutters Fate
"Let use not delude ourselves, but
get ready. The enemy. is remorseless.
Look at Russia and see what will be-
come of us if we are 'quitters.' You
young men will have to take the places
of us older men when we move off the
scene. You belong to your country as
you belong to your own mother. You
boys must remember that you owe
everything to your country, even life
itself"
DR.. Joseph Silverman, who spoke in
Tempel EmaruEl, was not quite so
radical as Mr.. Kahn. Not all pacifsts
were traitors; there were some idiots,
he said. Only the latter deserved pity,
in his opinion. In either capacity, he
declared, they were obstructionists, as
there is time for war and a time
for peace, and it must be evident to
any one having the welfare of his coun-
try at heart that the present is not the
time for peace"
The Bolsheviki betrayed their folly,
said Rabbi Samuel Schulman in Temple
Bethel, when they dreamed of a revo-
luton in Germany. German Social
Democrats were not of revolutionary
fibre, he declared. He asserted that
what the Allies had lost in material
assistance when Russia quit was more
than compens ated for by Americas en-
trance and the moral strength gained
by the severance Of relations with an
autocracy like old Russia.