The Topeka state journal., 1919-05-30
Wire TO WILSON
Jews Met and Adopted Resolu-
tions Thursday Night.
Ask President TO Stop Massa-
creS in Poland.

Resolutions asking President Wilson
and the peace conference to take steps
to protect the Jews in Poland, Ruth
enia and Ukrania were adopted at a
meeting of the Jewish people of To-
peka at a big protest mass meeting
Thursday night. The resolutions are
to be wired to the president at once.
T. A. McNea1 addressed the meeting:
the Rev. Solomon Koplon, Sarah I.
Galitzki. Harry c. Shapiro, Fanny
Glichenhaus, Abe Jacobson and Mrs.
Sarah Ulamperl drew up the resolu-
tions, which are as follows:
The Resolutions.
Whereas, the recognized republic, Poland
has committed in most savagle, brutal
forms, massacres upon the Unfortunate
or age in more than hundred cities, towns
and villages in Poland massacres upon
Jewish men, women and children that
where thousands of Jewish people have
been wounded and left upon the streets
and highways; where a large number of
Jewish women and young girls were raped
and their homes ransacked and ruined
and their business and property destroyed !;
and in this wild and beastly national in
toxicatiOn large number of synagogues
were destroyed and the old religious Jews
who were attending prayers were merciless-
ly shot and burned with the Holy Scrip
lures in their arms;
And Whereas, these massacres were the
results of an organized national movement
in Poland for more than six years. known
as the Boycott, that was openly supported
by the Polish leaders; and it was these
same leaders who Systematically carried
out these massacres against these people
who had sacrificed their freedom for Po-
land.
And Whereas. such brutal acts are rot in
concert with the great ideals of President
Wilson and the statesmen and people of
the United States: to free from subtection
the smaller nations to work out their own
destinies and to organize their own demo
cratic governments for which in reality the
Jews have given their blood upon all the
battlefields for Justice. freedom and democ-
racy;
And Whereas, It is beyond the American
understanding of justice and humanity
that the free Poland which had received the
sympathy of the Jewish people, which had
been given both as the result of the victory
of America and the allies in the war. to
deny TO the Polish Jews such fundamental
human rights which were given to Poland
in their new birth of freedom;
And. Whereas, such brutal massacres
have also appeared in many cities and viii
lagos in Rumania and Ukrania, therefore
be it
Resolved by the Jewish citizens in their
protest mass meeting in Topeka, Kan. that
actions and that we ask our government to
use its influence to bring these inhuman
from occurring again in the future and that
all those who are responsible for these
mobs and massacres shall be punished and
answer to their government for these mur-
derly deeds. And be it further
Resolved, that President Wilson and the
peace conference shall take such steps that
should give to the Jews in evidence in
Poland, Rumania and other governments in
Europe to guarantee social, religious and
political freedom and such minority tights
as other small national groups of those
countries. BE 1t further
Resolved. that copy of these resolutions
be sent to President Wilson and the Ameri-
can peace conference thru the state depart
ment, and to the representatives of Kansas
in congress.