The Denver Jewish news., 1919-07-23
Russian Jews Not Bolsheviki
SAYS Cork
Continued from Page One.)

the JEWISH pOpulatlon Is Suuty. foi
everything.
Consequently, the decent and healthy
I,ussian begins to feel once more
anxiety and shame for his Russia and
for the Russian thickheadedness which
seeks the hated enemy for difficult
problems with which life confronts it
1t in the depths of its own stupidity.
1 hope that my numerous CORES
pondents asking me about the Jew
ish questions" will be satisfied with
this answer,
And add that for me the question
us such does not exist.
do not believe that the calumnious
PROPAGANDA of the anti-Semites will
be successful 1 trust in the reason
Of the Russian people, in its conscience.
in the sincerity with which it Is striv
ing after freedom. sincerity which
excludes the application OF violence to
uny man. l believe that everything
PASSES and that only truth is perma-
ncnt.''
1 have received large batch of
anti-Semitic proclamations. They wer"
cent to me by the Central Committee
I'VE turn to all Russian citizens
with the appeal to clear themselves of
tl,x, Uo.x,t.h r,a,t;lau.., x,-;th x,-ht<h o,,r
entire country is contaminated 10 the
very depths OF the population Especial
Ilyfhafd hit by this pest are our ih4
tcllectual 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
consequence an equal relationship tC
all men and to all natiOnalltics Ia iIu-
possible"
The Redeemer Never Made the Dis
tinetiOsl.
<AICh thCs u IihC AOt W bc liz
children of the loving Redeemer. who
In his own life never made distinction
between Jews and Greeks: who, us
well as the first apostles, was jew
and who suffered n martyrs death
for men In general for men of ull
, races and origins. 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 citi-
zens without exception are infected by
the Jewish pestilence, that is. by the
doctrines of brotherhood and equality
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 to flattering but unfortunately false
conception of the Russian citizens. s.
When one reads such screeds of hate
with all their petty venoIns and their
tase ISLANDERS feeling of Shame and
of fear seizes one for our Russia. for
tile land of Tolstoy, who has created
tile most humane literature the world
has ever known
The other proclamatfons are no less
stupid than those quoted.
4 / have no several occasions told the
anti-Semites that certain Jews have
more advantageous and better paying
/ positions in life. because they know
| how to work. because they love to bc
|. uctive and do their work with ecstasy
The Jew is almost always Il better
workman than the Russian. One must
not be disappointed, but one simply
must learn from him. This holds true
whether in the field Of personal en-
tieayor or social endeayor--the Jew
does his work with much greater tenn
| perament than the talkative Russian.
T, Whatever nonsense the Inti-Scmites
! say. the fact remains that all their
hatred for the Jew is attributable on
~ to this, that in many ways the jew
| Is better. clever and more industrious
. than they. Today when we have rea-