New-York tribune., 1919-05-22

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military This is the most merciful
Interpretation to put upon the deeds
that have been wrought in Poland since
the day of peace. Upon any other in
depreciation the Polish people must
take their place by the side of Turk
and Kurd. If the government is re-
sponsible for these pogroms it is not
fit to stand. If the people are respon-
sible they are net fit for freedom
they are not fit to be the masters Of
their own national fate.
God save Poland from the shame Of
standing out as the oppressor of the
Jews in succession to the Russia that
is not, but was"
A great demonstration followed the
reading of the resolution introduced in
Congress by Congressman Florello H.
La Guardia.
The following telegram was read
, from Governor Alfred f. Smith:
Il am earnestly in sympathy with
your gathering which expresses indig-
nation over the outrages against the
Jews in Poland, Galcia and Lithuania.
There is no place for such occurrences
in modern society. | hope means will
be found to check those barbarous out
RACES and that the Jews who have
fought for the rights of small nations,
| including Poland, will be guaranteed
equal rights in Poland and Eastern
Europe"
Senator William Calder wired:
You may assure the Jews of New
York that | shall be glad TO Join with
them or any organization which you
may perfect to protect the lives of
these people No people in all of the
United States were more loyal to
their country in the trying days that
have just so hapoil-' ended than the
Jewish people"
McAdoo Sends Message
Although William G. McAdoo,
former Secretary of the Treasury
was unable to speak, he sent the fol-
lowing message:
The voice of the civilized world
should be heard in unmistakable terms
in condemnation of the atrocities of
the kind you describe And ] earnest
" hope that out of the blood and
welter of this war civilization may be
reorganized upon a basis which will
give the Jews the same civil and po-
litical rights and the same equality
of justice received by every other ele-
ment of the countries in which Jews
may reside Certainly nothing less
than this can be asked for and nothing
less than this should be granted by
any government worthy of being called
civiized'
Text of Resolution
The following resolution was unani-
mousy adopted:
"Whereas, a series of massacres and
excesses unparalleled for brutality and
savagery have taken place during the
last seven months against Jews in
more than 100 cities, towns and viii
lagos in Poland-pogroms in which
Jewish men, women and children in
every walk and station life we're tor
tured, killed and burned alive, in which
thousands of Jews were wounded.
scores of women and young girls raw
aged, IN which countless Jewish homes
we're plllaged, their houses ruined,
their business and property destroyed,
Wild and bestial orgies in which not
even the sanctuares of the Jews were
spared, and dozens Of synagogues were
burned down, and their worshippers.
old religious Jews, were mercilesslv
shot and burned, together with their
holy scrolls; and
"Whereas, The outrages were com
mltted not only by violent and uncon-
trollable mobs, but were instirated
and organized by agencies acting
openly in face of the existing Polish
authorities, and the pogrom propa,
ganda and pogrom activities were
countenanced and in many cases di
rectly encouraged by representatives
OF the Polish government, as, for in
stance, IN Lemberg, Galicia, where the
spogrom was carried out mainly by the
SPolish legionaries, members of the
Polish army, led by their officers, who
acted IN an organized manner, and in
the course of a two days massacre.
November 22 and 23, 1918, killed sew
cnty-two Jews, wounded 443 and looted
and destroyed property valued at 103,-
O00,OOO crowns; or, as for example, the
tragedy of Pinsk, Lithuania, under
Polish occupation, surprising in horror
anything that had heretofore happened,
when peaceful meeting of seventy
Jewish citizens. held to discuss the
distribution of relief supplies sent by
America to save a people verging on