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New-York tribune., 1919-06-29
French Had Framed
No Peace Programme

II the French weresfrankly incredulous
and openly critical, they were, on the other
hand, totally unrcady with programme for
the peace conference, and their own plans
were not dsarranged by Mr. Wilson's pur-
poses. At all times and under all circum-
stances the league of nations part of the
business of the peace conference was in
more advanced shape than the balance, nor
was. the attention Of the conference d.
vcrtcd from actual peace making by this
detail
When the President reached Europe he
received one of the most astonishing well
comes ever given to any public man in
history, probably without precedent. He
was haAed with enthusiasm by millions
who saw in him the promise Of new age,
without any clear notion In their own
minds as to what this new and golden ago
WAS to be, but with plain and poignant
appreciation Of what the world they lived
IN had bcsn In recent years.
For momont the President was tho
New-York tribune., 1919-06-29
The Ne,u Anti-Senaitisn,

| have received a large batch of anti
Semitic proclamations. They were sent
to me by the Central Committee of the
Union of Christian Socialists" One of
the proclamations is dated Moscow. An
other is signed by the "Petrograd Sec
tion' of the above union. do not
know whether the above mentioned or
ganization really exists. If it does
exist then its members are neither Chris
tlans nor Socialists, but are of the Or
dlnary variety of Russian people-thosc
loose goodfor-nothings and idlers who
have only themselves to blame for their
misfortunes, but who insist on making
every one except themselves responsible
for their uselessness and inability to Or
der their lives.
That they are not Christians and still
less Socialists is seen from the very
low tone of their proclamation Here
are the Introductory sentences:
"Anti-Semites of all countries. of all
peoples, of all parties, unite! -
New-York tribune., 1919-06-29
Believed He Could
Settle Questions

Mr.. Wilson encouraged the idea that he
could go to Europe and solve this problem.
settle all these questions. He undoubtedly
believed this, and many. of his followers
believed it, also. Once in Europe. he found
that all he could possibly accomplish was to
get the best possible organization of the
league of nations and hope that out of it
would develop a method for avoiding wars.
But if the President is being attacked bv
one wing for having failed, for having
stayed in Europe instead of quitting and
coming home, thus bringing about gen.
eral crash, 1T seems to me he deserves the
approval in this respect of all thoughtful
men and women who do not believe that
even Bolshevisn from one end of Europe
to the other with possible spillng over
into America, was sman price to pay for
putting certain liberal or so-called liberal
ideas into effect
If Mr.. Wilson, when he found Clemenceau
and Lloyd George could not follow his ideas
without falling, had quit Europe I firmly
believe that there would have been Boil
shcvistic explosions from the Channel east
ward and perhaps in Britain, Germany
might yet have won the war and France.
Italy, Europe, have been ruined
New-York tribune., 1919-06-29
Lost Their Sympathy
BY a Single Action

All this the President was to discover
the moment he undertook to apply cold
logic to the claims of the French, for ex-
ample. Actually, he discovered it even be-
fore this, for within month after he
reached France he had lost French sym
pathy forever by single action. All
France, every French man and French
woman demanded, expected awaited
Presidential visit to the devastated areas.
France desired that Mr.. Wilson should see
her wounds, that he might better apprase
German offendings and therefore deal With
them more severely. Seeing what the Ger
mans had done in all the industrial districts
of the north the French believed Mr.. Wilson
would the more readily accept French csti
mates Of the bills Germany must pay.
On his part, however, the President
promptly and firmly declined these invita-
tions. He explained that he desired to act
without passion and that if he saw Flanders
and Artoss he might "see red" where it was
essential to see without emotion. The re-
fusal marked the immediate end of Mr..
Wilson's popularity in France. The breach
was final and irrcvocablc. Thereafter he
disappeared from the thoughts Of the
masses Of tho people; henceforth he was no
New-York tribune., 1919-06-29
w Light the Part Played by President Wilson at Paris

with programmes arranged or with policies
agreed upon. On the contrary neither
country had framed a programme Jointly
or separately Britain, under Lloyd Georges
lmpulsion, had gone through the throes of
an election, which had consumed all the
energies and attention of it's statesmen:
France was wrestling with the grim prob
lens of anzation-temporary incip-
lent reorganization after four years and
half of invasion and devastation.
More than this, the President did not
bring his league Of nations plan to Europe
and force it upon reluctant or hostile
conference. Before he had even reached
Europe Great Britain had decided to cham
pion this great experiment, and many Brit
ish ministers had taken their turn at dc.
vising actual machinery, for the President
had not gone beyond the vaguest conception
Of world league.
New-York tribune., 1919-06-29
By Frank II. Simonds

EVERY circumstance of the Presidents
IL foreign mission has in recent months
been subject to SO much controversial
comment that it is difficult in the extreme to
discuss this visit without seeming to Join in
sue controversy. Yet it is patent that there
was a fact, that there were MANY facts.
aoout the stay Of Mr.. Wilson in the French
capital Which can be described as they ex-
S'ec without reference to the domestic
political differences at home, just as misap-
p'ehensions exist at home which can be ex-
s'a'ned away without dealing with the main
asoes Of partisan dispute.
sor example, when | landed in New York
'he newspapers were filled with the terms of
'"e preliminaries of peace, which had sew
sia' weeks before been served upon the
Germans and the Republican half of the
ss'a'e vas criticsing an apparently unsuc-
s.SSiui effort of the President to withhold
.e ., terms from it and from the American
s1''c. But the fact vas that Mr.. Wilson
ea Tried frequently and earnestly TO have
- - 'errns published He had urged such
l-HeaNon from the very hour when they
aao been served upon the Germans. belicv-
."s and declaring that the people Of the
'o were entitled to know what the Ger
'' knew as matter Of right
New-York tribune., 1919-06-29

more than Orlando or Lloyd George a visit
ing statesman.
The truth which certain glib commen-
tators do not seem to appreciate yet is
that Mr.. Wilson never master of the
Paris conference and exercised a steadily
declining influence as the debate shifted
from general questions, like the league of
nations, to specific problems concerning Eu
ropeans directly. He came to Europe with
a very clear idea in his own mind that by
applying his fourteen points quite literally
and following them up with a league of
nations he could put world peace on solid
foundation. He discovered very promptly
that his fourteen points were really no
points at all, since they could be used ef
fectively by both sides in any real con-
troversy; he discovered that the millions
who cheered the idea of permanent peace
turned from him with cold hostility when
he demanded of them sacrifices which to
him seemed essential to obtaining such
peace
There came time, then, when Mr.. Will
son had to choose between doing the best
he could and coming home and leaving
Europe to fight it out. He is gravely criti-
csed by so-called liberals for electing to
remain in Europe, but in the main this
criticism is accompanied by the assertion
that had he actually started for home the
governments which existed would have
come crashing down and new governments
would have replaced them and done as he
advised. Here again is the familiar argu-
ment that Mr. Wilson was in fact master
of the situation, if he choose to use his
power, but the fact is quite different
New-York tribune., 1919-06-29

without exception are infected by the
Jewish pestilence, that is, by the doc
trines of brotherhood and equality of
all nations and races-the holy prin-
ciples preached by nearly all religions
and championed by the great thinkers
of all ages and all countries-the au-
thors of this proclamation arouse an all
too flattering but unfortunately false
conception Of the Russian citizens. To
cite but single example: The citi-
zen members of the "Union of Chris
tlan Socialists are not only not con-
taminated by the lofty principles of
equality, but like the majority of Rus
sian citizens they have not the slight
est conception of the universal cultural
values of these principles.
Further along in this proclamation we
read:
"The Aryan race physically as we'll
as in it's moral aspects represents pos
itive type of the highest scale of civ
ilization; the Jewish race represents a
negative type When our intellectuas,
the salt of the Russian soil, once per
ceive this they will make an end to
these cheap phrases about the equal
worth of the Jew and of the necessity of
treating these pariahs of the human race
on a basis of equality with other
races -
New-York tribune., 1919-06-29
Every Family Has
Cripples ON Its Hearth

These antl-Semitlc proclamations CON
Germ themselves chiefly, of course, with
such Jews as the Bolshevists, Znovicw
and olodarski-Jews who refuse TO see
that their tactlessness and foolishncss
supply rich material for an Indictment
Of all Jews. Every family has its Grip
pies. But people does not consist of
cripples only. and there are surely thou
sands of lows who hate such pcr.crs
ac Vo.odarski no less than the anti
SemItes hate him. Of course this is
not going to convince the anti -Semites
that not AL Jews are alike and that the
class struggle among the Jews is no
less acute than it is among other ma
tlons. That will not convince them. be
cause they wish to be convinced Of the
opposite.
Perhaps, however, those whd. like
dogs, are being melted against the Jews
(the masses) who are being urged to
execute pogroms, perhaps they will OBJ
ject. Perhaps the people will call the
authors Of these proclamations to ac-
count and will tell them:
Hands off, We are the masters of
the land. We have fought for our free
dom with aboveboard standards and
will not permit glib-tongued swindlers
to direct our will and senses. Hands
off,
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most popular man in Europe. On the whole
he lost nearly if not all of this popularity
in the following months, but not all of the
responsibility was his, although in the case
of France it was largely personal. And the
decline in popularity of Lloyd George and
Clemenceau was at least proportonate.
The mood of the masses was something
quite different from what has been asserted.
These masses had fought the war through;
they were dog-tired with the agonies and
sufferings, they hated this recent war, they
hated all wars, they wanted peace and the
millennium, but they did not want to pay
the price, if any price could contribute to
the end desired.
New-York tribune., 1919-06-29

''The Union of Christian Socialists
turns to all Russian citizens with the
appeal to clear themselves of the Jew
ish pestilencc with which our entire
country is contaminated to the very
depths of the population. Especially
hard hit by this pest are our intellectual
classes, which have been educated by
the Jewish press, which is preaching the
lying doctrines of brotherhood and
equality of all nations and races. Every
sensible man knows, however, that there
is no equality and brotherhood nor will
there be. AS a consequence an equal
relationship to all men and to all ma
tiOnaltes is impossible"
New-York tribune., 1919-06-29

would have fallen because in the difficult
months of the winter and early spring ali
conditions in France we're extremely bad
and the people who suffered from the in
escapable consequences of the war held the
Ministry responsible. But if Clemenceau
had fallen then there would have been a
prompt drift to the radical left, Boshevism
all over Europe would have received an in
slant stimulus and heaven knows that in
that time it needed stimulus
Wreck these the President might have. in
all the difficult months, when Bolsheyism was
marching westward and internal misery and
anarchy growing out Of the war were SUD-
plying fresh finder for Bolshevistic fires.
But more than this he could not do. His
liberal critics assert that he might have
drawn strength from the radicals of Eu-
rope, but they do not recognize, as he had
TO- that such strength was slight and that
the men with whom he was debating terms
would be turned out of office if thew con-
ceded all or most of what he was asking
them to concede. It was alwavs nossib1e
for Woodrow Wilson to become the Rol-
shevist leader in Europe; he had on1v 70
break with Lloyd George and with Clemen.
ceau to replace Lenine and Trotzky, and
unquestionably Boshevism would have
gained instead of declining in the follow
ing months.
MIR. Wilson's gravest mistake, in nv iudq-
ment, lay in his original misapprehension
of the real facts He thought, he believed.
that there would be peace of conci]at;on.
he believed the mass of the plain neonle of
the world were prepared to make anv sacri
nc TO BRING this about, and he believed that
the fourteen points and the league of ma
tlons would take care of everything Not
only did he believe it. but he proclaimed
the fact and many people who heard him
also believed it. Then, when it hecame
perfectly clear that Europe was still Errone
and that no American solution, based LARGO.
ly on a mixture Of sublime faith and an.
palling unfamiliarity with the under,v;no
facts, could or would be permitted to solve
anything, he was attacked on all side. hv
New-York tribune., 1919-06-29

France would be glad that the President
had come TO the peace conference. because
his had been usefully modcrating inau-
ence.
Criticise Mr.. Wilson as one NAV. 1t is
still necessary to recognize that at task
which to be sure was self chosen. he
worked with an energy and fidelity beyond
question. He was at it night and day.
HIS was, IN sense. pathetic figure.
Popular ty. such had come 70 him in the
hrst hours of his stay. disappeared: he
was remote, he had not the capacity for
making friends and he had an infinite ca
paclty for being misunderstood Paris by
turns laughed at him and passionateiv
criticised him, msnterpreting his adhesion
to academic notions as in fact actual cham
pionship of Germany
In the end, the treaty terms which we're
made amounted to recognition Of the
reasonable and the rejection of the extreme
CLAIMS of am nations at war with Ger
many. so far as Germany was concerned
mad the President had his way they would
nave oeen milder, had he not been at the
peace conference | am certain they would
have been more severe. But they ,vere
European terms pure and simple as thew
were always bound to be. The President
had not dominated the conference He
could not dominate it. He had found him
self N the presence of an unyieldirg on
position when he threatened to go home if
his associates did not yield He then de-
chned the opportunity to turn the world
over to Boshevism because he could not
nave his own way. and for this he is now
being assailed by American narlor Bolshe
visn, which begins and ends with the as
sertion that Mr.. Wilson could have had his
own way and that he is to be blamed there
fore' for not producing that millennium.
10 be sure he more or less promised this
th'ng, but 1t was impossible at all times
Tor reasons which are themselves the ex-
PLANTATION of a thousand years and more Of
european and for that matter human his
tory,
G Mcclure Newsrya n~r 9vrSic.<~
New-York tribune., 1919-06-29
The Redeemer Never
Made the Distinction

Aren't they a fine lot to be the chill
dren of the loving Redeemer, who in
his own life never made distinction be-
tween Jews and Greeks; who as we'll as
the first apostles, was a Jew and who
general, for men of all races and orr
gins! Yes, and what splendid Socialists
they must be to speak Of the doctrine
of equality as "lying" and "Jewish
pest"
Foolish, miserable, unfortunate peo-
pie! BY asserting that Russian citizens
New-York tribune., 1919-06-29
AKIN Corky Acquits the Russian Jews of Bolshevism
s'There Are Many More Jews Among
the Mensheviki Than There Are
-
Among the Bolsheviki of Russia"


governments speak, the
burden s not ypohti alone
figure Gorky has been Russian beginning
q t
o Russiasg
child the Russian
respected alike
sqobbes oU
peaFs the rot the this
Russiras he hears 1t.
1owing Petrogrod Lfe
New-York tribune., 1919-06-29
wilson Did Not
Delay Peace Plans

"1' mere is much larger field Of criti-
I'm OF the President, which rests upon
;'ssspDrshsnsion. There seems to be-
10 nssspfead belief in this country that tho
l..a ss'aens by his incessant urgings Of tho
s~s' o. nations actually delayed the
mss.ss'. . ot settlement of terms upon tho
.s1'ai -. problems. This is totally inexact.
..... nsn hr. Wilson reached Europe. IN De.
sf ~ did not find France and britain
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Might Have Caused
Upheaval in France

If, for example. Mr.. Wilson had quit
France because he was displeased with the
French demands in the matter of the
Saar, it is conceivable that Clemenceau
might have fallen. not because of the op-
position of the mass of the French people
to the Saar claims; quite the contrary; It
New-York tribune., 1919-06-29
Maxim Gorky
Who has called himself "a voice in the pilderness'

sincerity with which it is striving after
freedom, a sincerity which excludes the
application of violence to any man.
believe that Everything passes and that
only truth is permanent"
New-York tribune., 1919-06-29
Won Friendship
OF Clenenceau

Facing the dilemma. the President STAYED
and made such fight as he could for bis
programme Clemenceau told labor dele
cation just before left Paris that he d;a
not believe any one could have made
better night, and-odd circumssance-Cle-
menceau, who began by sneering openly at
the President has ended by feeling for
HIM considerable measure of respect and
liking have heard more than one French
man OF real weight say that in the end
New-York tribune., 1919-06-29
By Maxim Gorky

"HE granting of equal rights to the
Jews is one of the most beautiful
achievements of our revolution. By
putting the Jews on an equal basis with
the Russians we have removed from our
conscience bloody brand of infamy.
Nor does this conduct toward the Jews
contain anything which would give us
the right to self-pride For the very
reason that the Jews have struggled
much more honestly and energetically
for the freedom of Russia than many
Russians and have supplied fewer rene
gades and agent provocateurs, we can
not and must not attempt to appear as
"benefactors of the Jews" as many
kindly" and "soft-hearted' people do
in their letters to me-
By permitting the Jews to come out
from within the pale and to free
themselves from the dungeons of ex-
try an opportunity to make use of the
energy of people who know better how
to work than we. 1t is universally
known that we can now use men who
love to work
We have, therefore, no ground to feel
proud of what we have done, but we
should, OH the contrary, rejoice that we
have achieved a piece of work that is
both practical and moral
I'VE Are Absorbed
I'm High Politics.
Still, there Is little rejoicing to be
seen anywhere. Possibly we have no
time to rejoice; we are SO absorbed in
high politics." which consists chiefly
IN chewing up the head of our neighbor.
There is no rejoicing. On the con-
trary, ant-Semitism keeps growing. 1t
lifts its ugly head and spreads the poi
sons of calumny and hatred all about.
But why all this (anti-Jewish agita-
tom? Why, think of it: among the
anarchistically inclined Bolsheviki
there are two Jews Yes, almost think
there are three. Some even say that
there are seven and are convinced that
these seven Simeons (Samsons?) will
pull down the temple which is inhabited
by the 17O,00O,OOO Russians.
If there was not so much baseness in
1T this spectacle could be called foolish.
even comical.
The Hebrew God Of revenge wished
to spare an entire city because among
totally sinful population there was
one virtuous person. And now, men
who claim to be followers of the all
forgiving Redeemer believe that for the
New-York tribune., 1919-06-29

sins of two or seven Jews the entire
Jewish population should atone.
If this logic is to be followed out one
ought to say that for the pure Russian
sinner, Lenine, all citizens of the prov
nce of Simbirsk, as we'll as the surround
ing territory, should be made to suffer.
There are many more Jews among
the Mensheviki than there are among
the Bolshevikl. Yet my correspondents
seem to ignore this fact, and keep on
talking as if all Jews were anarchists.
This is very unfortunate way of
generalizing. I am convinced I know
that the Jews as a mass-and this is
astonishing-are showing much more
sensible love to Russia than many Rus
slams.
The majority of people do not notice
this, although this is quite evident when
one reads the articles written by Jew
ish journalists.
The "Riech," a newspaper which
while one ought not to love one still
must respect, has many Jews on it's staff.
Among the staff of the ''Novoye
Vremya" also there are Jews. And yet
this paper only recently called the
"Riech" a "Jew paper"
The writer's on the "Riech" moreover
show not the slightest sympathy for the
Bolsheviki.
''Jew.Bolsheviki''
A Foolish Formula
There are thousand other evidences
that the formula w-Bolsheviki" is a
very foolish formula, which is simply
being put up to satisfy the geologic in
stincts of excited Russians
will not cite proofs for it: decent
people don't need these proofs, and the
others will not be converted by them
Idiocy is disease that cannot be
cured by suggestion. To those who suf-
fer from this disease it is clear, since
there are among Jews seven and one
half persons who are Bolsheviki, the
Jewish population is guilty of every
thing.
Consequently, the decent and healthy
Russian begins to feel once more
anxiety and shame for his Russia and
for the Russian thickheadedness which
seeks the hated enemy for difficult prob
lens with which life confronts it out
side of itself instead of searching it in
the depths of its own stupidity.
hope that my numerous correspond
cnts asking me about the "Jewish uues
tions" will be satisfied with this answer.
And l add that for me The "oucstion"
as such does not exist.
do not believe that the calumnious
propaganda of the anti-Semites will be
successful. | trust in the reason of the
Russian people, in its conscience, in the
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Why There Are No
Beggars Among the Jews

1t is true that outside of the pale
there are no Jewish beggars This is
due to the wonderful organization of
the social self-help system among the
Jews, as we'll as to the fact that the
police arrest Jewish beggar on sight.
| think, too, that the scarcity of Jewish
beggars in such territories is due to the
fact that the kindly Greek orthodox
Christians give the Jewish beggar a
stone, or press snake into his hand
instead of piece of bread How the
whole thing is woven over with lies.
how revolving is. the ant-Semitism of
these foul jades
When one reads such screeds of hate
with all their petty venoms and their
base slanders feeling of shame and of
fear selzes one for our Russia. for the
land of Tostoy, who has created the
most humane literature the world has
even known.
The third proclamations presents an
even more foolish invention of some
agent provocateur.
This proclamation is headed:
Very secret. To the charmen of
the local groups of the Israelite's World
Union.' The ''chairman'' is thereupon
urged to exercise the greatest caution.
I'VE must carry out our aims with per
severance and strength; we must de-
stroy strange altars and thrones" "We
must bend Russia to her kncos s.y17
must DO everything for the greater glory
of the great Jewish people, but with.
out haste and with the greatest "cau-
tion.''
When will all these idiots cease will,
their stupidities? Had they but care