The Denver Jewish news., 1919-01-16
Is A New Danger
Confronting The Jews
ANTI-JEWISH PROPAGANDA IN
THE WASHINGTON PRESS
BY our special Washington cores
pondent, Jos. l.. Topper.

news and it is not. from choice thar
I am imparting information that to
me seems ominous for the Jew here
only he checked when it is. detected
at its beginning: an hour later it may
become uncomfortable. If l am I'M
duly alarmed, not much harm can come
from discussion of the subject. but
if perchance, should happen to have
put my finger on a real sore and dan
gerOus spot, then the warning in it
self will do incalculable good. for, I'M
derstanding the danger we can so
guard ourselves against II.
I have reference to what appears to
he purposeful tendency on the part
of some of the newspapers here at the
Nations Capital, and. I am reliably
informed, in some of the leading met
ropolitan cities also. TO. fix the blame
for the sanguinary struggle between
the '.prpletarion one side and the
"burgeoisie" and Capitalism Oh tho
other, now raging in large part of
isuiopt Itlclltu " hN
Bolshevism upon the Jews.
As vet. as far as I could learn. no
PAPER or magazine possibly with the
single exception of "Life." has point
ed the finger of accusation directly
at the Jew. Indirectly. however. it
is done by newspaper correspondents
from Germany. England, and other
parts of Europe. No one has a right,
of course, to find fault with n cor
respondent for reporting facts for thai
is what he is sent for. But those
correspondents. insofar as they con
Germ the Jews, do not report facts
They are most unadulterated antise-
mitic propaganda. The most uninitiat
cd in the affairs of the world can N,
once detect the lying diatribes. IT
these alleged correspondents were
specifically hired. like the late Black
Hundred in Russia, to organize TO
groms. they could not possibly do their
work any better or more thoroly. This
may sound pretty sharp. hut judge
from some samples of thc work Of
these scribes.
None but n brainstorm could ever
connect Irish agitation with Jews. II
is EnGland's old chronic trouble of over
n century and a quarter but was never
so acute as during the present war
The Gcrman-Irish conspiracy headed
by Easement is of fresh memory. The
Jews in ireland are very few and I'M
heard of. Nor have the Jews ever
mingled in the Irish question. Yet
one Edward Price Bell writes from
London under date of Dec. 21st. for
the Washington "Star." an afternoon
paper with n circulation almost equal
TO Washington's other three papers
combined, on the Irish question, among
others:
"It fBolshevismi is n case of crime
using as n weapon HUMANITARIAN ideal
ism or anything else it can lay hold
of that promises to be helpful in its
warfare on society. 1t wants to make
wholesale murder and robbery easy by
draping its naked villainy in the cloak
of the world emancipation. 1t is the
most msportsmanlikc form of felony
ever devised. for without so much as
all the opportunities of homicidal
thug. "At the head of the agitation
are few international crooks who are
not Irishmen at all. Most of them arc
Of no iSl, typ that
has brought Russia to the depths of
misery. Their only motive is to throw
the country into confusion and par
nlyze authority. and then murder and
ph,ndcr the propertied classcs.'
at is merely n bloody brigaudage
strategically projected on national
scale. Tens of thousands of honest
Irishmen arc dupcs of these scientific
felons"
Another hireling of scribe. a. II.
Decker by name. writing in the same
paper on the 23rd of December descrih-
ing the situation at Berlin. refers to
the ascendency of the extreme social
lists with disapproval bat without much
passion and with more or less oh
iectivity; indeed. in some places and
as to some people, his attitude is that
of Difference and even admiration. But
when he comes to mention the Jews,
for evidently no correspondence of his
is complete without knocking the Jews
as / will presently show. he grows
crimson in the face and froths at tho
mouth with invectivc. Referring to
them he says: ''As in Russia. so the
Jews of Germany see chance for
profit by destruction and are flock
ing like parasites to the Liebknecht