The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-12-26
POLES TOLERATE
 NO JEW BATTING SAYS SMYKOWSKI Tales of Bloody Pogroms Due to Activity of German
 and Austrian Jews.
PILLAGING SOLDIERS
 HAVE DONE MURDERS
Jew to Have Equal Rights in Poland, But Not Inde-
 pendent Nationality.

Bridgeport denies that the Jews of Poland are persecuted with the con- sent of the Polish government, and declares that any offronts committed against the Jews have been by rov- ing bands of soldiers, Germans, Aus trians, or Bolshevik.
 The Polish Citizens Committee ap- peal, said Dr. Smykowski, today, to their fellow Americans, to investi | gate the facts before passing judg- ment The case has been stated, he said, by the Polish committee of Bos- ton, as follows:
 Poland at present is over-ridden by Russian war prisoners, released by Germany and Austria, by German soldiers returning from Russia, and especially are the green guards, consisting of Austrian deserters, scourging and pillaging in the part . of Poland called Galicia. As 1t was recently officially stated by the French Minister of Foreign Affairs, MT. Pichon, these soldiers, not under the command of officers, wander at will through Poland, sacking villages and attacking the population regard less of race or creed.
 The Polish government in Poland is in state of formation and has its hands full, not only with preserving order in the country, but also with clearing and defending this country against the Bolsheviks in White Ru- thenia and against the Ukrainians in East Galicia, and against the Germans and Austrians in every little other available place.
 Tt is probably true that there have been attempts at or killings of Jews within the borders of Poland; but that these were done by Poles, and not, as would seem to most fair minded men to be more natural, by the piIlaging bands of foreign soldiers or by persons interested in thet stir ring up of disorders for purposes of their own, is to all unprejudiced people with any knowledge of the situation inconceivable.
 History will tell us, if we care to go into her pages, that in the days when Christian Europe outside Po- land offered no asylum for the Jew, he had the utmost freedom of ac- tion, thought, and worship in the Commonwealth of Poland.
 There never were in Poland any 'pogroms'
 lie 1CIeS nave never put any claims for Palestine, but they will never let the Jews make of Poland a 'Judeo-P Polonia.'
 Let the Jews in Poland be Polish citizens as they must be American citizens in America, though the Unit ed States is the home of liberty and freedom.
 There are thousands of exactly rrrnI Poland, and they all are Polish pa triots, perfectly satisfied with the way the Poles are treating them.
 "A strong indication, if nothing more, that the Jew in Poland is treated as a Pole and recognized or his status as a man, is the fact that the Chief Justice of the supmere Court of Gahcia, elected by the Poles Is MT Justice Loewenberg, a resident of Lemberg, the very hotbed of the alleged pog1'yms.
 Tt is the Jew outside of Poland who starts the trouble
 "One of the leaders of those out side Jews in Poland, Mr. Prylucki who is trying to impose Bolshevil ideas upon the Polish Jews in War saw, was severely beaten during tn, last municipal election, but by hi ~ own compatriots, the Polish Jews, anC not by the Poles.
 The Polish people never deniet the Jews equal rights and the nativ Polish Jews never asked for sucl 4 privileges as would form a stat within a state, but if such wer asked, by native or foreign Jews tn Poles would undoubtedly deny then
 The Poles never quarrelled wit the bulk of the Polish peace-lovin Jews but they must defend and the will defend themselves against tn aggression of German and Bolshevi Jew
 "The Poles will defend themseIve against this foreign Jew economical ly, because economically before tn war he joined Russians and German against the Poles. and threatened Russianize and Germanize the Polls commerce and industry.
 "The Poles will defend themselvt against this foreign Jew political because politically during this wa he joined the Germans and now joining the Bolsheviks in Polan against the Poles.
 "He used all possible means hurt Poland
 He served the Germans as a ST and denunciator of the Poles.
 He accumulated and concealed u provisions, leaving the Polish peopl to starve in order to sell them to u Germans and get his exorbitant we profits.
 During the time of Poland's CT pression, this foreign Bolshevik German Jew in Poland stood aiway with the oppressors, never with u oppressed.
 ITO this activity and the deman of such Jews the Polish people repl We give you as we have given eQu opportunity as man. a citizen if yC are one, a friendly alien if you a such, but to you as a foreign natfo ality nothing but what you can ta and hold by force"
 Dr. Smykowsk1 is a leader amo the Polish citizens of Bridgeport has a large practice in medtcir with offices at 405 Barnum aven1 He has taken a prominent part the enlistment of Polish voluntet to fight with the Allies.
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