New Britain herald. [microfilm reel] (New Britain, Conn.) 1890-1976, 1918-11-19
COMMUNICATED.
POLAND AND THE JEWS.
DR.. Rupert Predicts No Pogroms Will
Be Permitted.
New Britain,

BE Permitted.
New Britain,
Nov. II, 1918,
Editor New Britain Herald:
Your editorial of Nov. 16, 1918
Hurting Their Own Case is based on
misinformat ton. Do not take any
stock in wild announcements of
Wholesale murders of Jews in Poland
1t is a part of chronic anti-Polish
anti Rumanian Jewish propaganda by
the Jewish owned press of the world.
The Jew as he was and as he is in
Poland and Rumania is totally diff
ferent from the American Jew. He
refuses to be true Pole or a true
ed to make money by all means and
stay a Jew, an enemy alien in relation
to Poland and Rumania, 1t is so with
the majority of Jews in Poland.
Do not forget the Jewish tempera-
ment. If by chance one gets a little bit
hurt-hundreds will wire to America
wild stories about pogroms and mas
sacres. Nobody intends to slaughter
the Jews in Poland and, as you say,
'destroy democracy by doing it. The
Poles have always treated the Jews
very gently for six hundred years.
When they were prosecuted in West
ern Europe they found a refuge in
old Poland. 1t was the best medium
in which to grow because millions of
Jews are living peacefully on the ter
ritories of old Poland. The New Brit
ain Herald should not worry about
imaginary dangers to the Jews of PO-
land! How about the thousands of
infaIn Gus Jewish Bolsheviki in Russia,
about Trotzky, alias Leijbs Bronstein,
and his Jewish gang? What would the
New Britain Herald do to them?
New Poland will grant to Jews full
civic rights. 1t will demand in return
from the Jews to abandon the Yiddish
jargon, mixture of distorted German
words and other linguistic fragHn ents,
and adopt the Polish as the language
Of every Jewish home in Poland, to
send their children to Polish schools,
to he honest and fair in comm ercial
transactions with the credulous Polish
peasant and working man, easy preys
Of Jewish ISM artn ess;" to be ready in
return for full rights, to give 100 per,
cent. services and undivided loyalty
to Poland's national interests as the
decent American Jew to America. We
want the Jew in Poland to be a true
Pole and shall treat him as a brother
citizen.
We do not want and shall fight the
Jew who refuses to be a Pole and
wants to live on Poland as a foreign,
imimical, inassim liable element, as
separte alton with strange habits and
customs, with a foreign tongue, with
a very selfish greedy commercial dis
position, with POLITICAL social and
racial policies dangerous to the well
fare Of the Polish nation. We shall
fight the radical Jewish Socialist the
Jewish Bolshevild without religion,
nationality and morality. We shall
fight the Jew whose only principles
are ''ubi bene ibi patria,' whose only
ideals are money and business"
Such ones are undesirable even in the
U. s.!
Welcome are the Jews, the loyal
100 per cent. citizens of their respec-
tive countries.
In regard to your views about Po-
land. Poland is indebted to America
for promises and knows America will
keep her word. Po1and's problem is
not a philanthroloic affair but the lost
important international problem to be
settled at the peace conference. An
independent, united, strong Poland
possible a powerful anti-G erman
Slavic Central Europe; is a condition
sine qua nou'' of a just and perma-
nent peace. We are glad that the
Allies, after Russia's collapse, have
understood the need Of free Poland,
not from humanitarian motives, but
because of political necessity. Poland,
in the past the defender of Christian
ity and civilization against the attacks
of the Turks and Tartars in the pres
emit war nation who has suffered un-
told tortures and ruin from the hordes
of Germans, Magyars and Russians,
is entering the court of nations not to
be tried Gas you think) but to receive
back her stolen lands and liberties
from those who have robbed her and
apologies and support from those who
had forgotten Poland until America
came in to make right and Justice
supreme in international relations.
Respectfully,
JULIUS RUPERT. NJ D.