The Denver Jewish news., 1919-06-11
Remedies I O. CurbSpread
OF Anti-Semitism
THE PRESS MUST PRESENT FAIR
AND UNBIASED FACTS CON-
CERNING JEWS TO THEIR
READERS.
,By our Washington Correspondent
Joseph l.. Tepper.)

anti Semitism in Poland. ROumania.
and elsewhere. follow the old familiar
riute of protest meetings, resolutions
end as much as possible newspaper
agitation. Thus we here in Washing
ion organized the various Jewish So
a, ties for the purpose of aronsing
. such sympathies as have not been
drained dry by the war and still yield
10 humane impulses.
1t was virtually impossible to get
any publicity because these sources OF
information have been poisoned against
us before we woke up to the danger
,hrea tening us. OF course, the protest
meeting was adopted. and 1t is hoped
HAT we can easily duplicate. and even
excel the performance of 19ll. the
great mass meeting held here before
the ahrogation of the commercial trea-
~ with Russia. That was the great
,st Jewish mass meeting at Washing
ion and reverberated thruout the Unit
I'd States. because. representative mem
hers OF tohSfesS Were the h"ih 'l'oS
ers.
However. as soon as we started out
10 organize the meeting, we at once
recognized that something was wrong !;
somebody threw Il monkey wrench ill.,
To the works. Every available man
of note in the political life 'of the
country we approached to speak. with
two or three notable exceptions. found
some reason or other for declining
1t did not take us long to find out
that they knew more about the Pol
I'd. but from the wrong angle. 1t
vas apparent that considerable propa-
ganda work was put I'm against us.
The Polish Committee. perhaps Rou-
panian ageneies.t were active on the
-,vb-ao sy,oison -fiiesr intn- ahewfre MS
and in TINT way forced a wedge Into
the link of public sympathy for our
martyrs. As already mentioned, the
newspapers were strangely wary. In
short. the cards were stacked against
us.
But. of course. they could not choke
eff the Jewish voice, and we avniled
ourselves of our sovereign rights OF
protesting in our name and we DIS
PATCHED two cables to President VIII
son. one appealing for his intercession
to check the bloody pOgrOms insfigaf'
I'd by the new Polish democracy" the
second cable calling his attention to
II provocative campaign by an infann-
Gus clergyman in ROumania that the
three Jews. Lcnin, TrOtsky and ke-
rensky represent international Jewry
in conspiracy to overthrow the Cath
ollie church and calling on the masses
for life and death struggle with the
Jews. Indeed. the mass meeting pro-
iect is to follow and we were fortunate
TO secure Senator Pomerene apd Con-
Sressman Madden to speak for Ameri-
"a once more, and denOunce cold blood
ed murder by the Polish government
of innocent people as n means to hold
itself in power.
1t must be observed in this connec-
tiOn that it would not be altogether ac-
curate to charge this coldness of some
public men to our just cause entirely
iu the Vaccinations of the Polish COM
Iiittee here in Washington and similar
agencies These men would not be
quite as gullible as to swallow the
dope handed out by the Poles here or
in Paris had the way not been paved
by an outrageous campaign by many
Of the great American dailies against
Jews in the form of news and cor
respOndence from Europe. The ten
dency of this correspondence was two
fold. First every manifestation of
people to unseat established authority
was tatoOed ms Bolshevism and. sec
cpd, to point the accusing finger Tor
l:Olshevism to the Jews. In many
cases, as. for instance, with the effus-
ions of certain correspondents, notapiy
A. Il. Decker and Edward Price BEL
in the Washington Star" Chicago
Daily News" and others in the New
York Times" whose proprietor, Ochs'
is Jew, these reports we're downright
unmitigated anti-Semitic propaganda
In ordinary peace times such outpot'r'
ings would be dangerous enough, but
in these bloody times when public opin-
ion is still in heavy mist Of pas
sions, hatreds, prejudices, they are
nothing short of conflagration.
People are only too slow to realize
the relation between their welfare and