The Wheeling intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1903-1961, 1919-07-09
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POINTS AND A NEW NATION
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DnA&3 Correspondent Of the World
C6pyright, 1919. by the Press PUBLISH
ING Co. (The New York World-)
Special Cable Dispatch.
WARSAw July .7.-Leon Berenson'
leaaer Of the Jewish Social Reform So-
cfs4y OF Assimilators, has granted an
IsstsTSiew to me on the JewishtPolish
Qpe9tIon.
Tia agSimilators have been active for
sfxty years and the larger Jewish COM
idupseies have been under their influ-
ence. They have founded schools and
ihops, and while engaged in real uplirt
work have usually voted with the or
shcdox party. They are nationalist pa
sriota.
Leon Berenson'a attitude Is that OF an
impartial judge, with a mass OF evidence.
The Jews are net so much threaten
ed with death in Poland as they are
rnaltreated." Mr.. Berenson said 10 me-.
I'VE are suffering general mistreatmcnt
eSerywhere all the time. Tho historic
Rood relations between the Poles and
{ The Jews have gone and now the Poles
are constantly abusing the Jews. for the
nEaosS part In minor ways.
~ Pstty Izd1gnit1ss Recited.
= '"The Poles will not let the Jews oc-
Sex,py seats in crowded trains. they cut
fGAe Jews boards, mock their clothing
4and make insulting remarks to them. all
Apf which renders the Jews life miser-
cable The Jews break out in resentment
NoccAsionaly and that makes matters
&Srorse. The Poles are getting worse.
q what gives the greatest concern to
me II that not one Pole. not govern
@anent newspaper or q public man has
yfaised his voice against this Jew-baiting.
We need just one thing more to make
HE present situation insupportable. and
0khaf II to have the Peace Conference
Sagree to the fourteen paragraphs about
a9sainorities in thet new nations. This
aRould create q jewish state and perpet-
auate a state Of affairs which might
n6kherwise pass. The passage of the four
teen points would solidify Polish sent&
Eauent against the Jews and make life
6ne prolonged misery for the 4,0o0.o00
Jews who probably will be incorporated
in the Jewish state. Half million
Knight efnigrate, but what about the
others whose ancestors have been living
here for centuries?
disqualification Favored.
- The situation is now so disagreeaole
ssthat cannot offer a solution Of II. but
the solution must lie along the lines OF
making Poles and Jews feel that the
have o common interest as citizens or
9he same state and that they must re-
Rain their old mutual tolerance. The
fourteen points would render that par
1nansn4ly impossible. As things now are.
every time the Poles read OF meetings
In New York to favor such a separation
epr read that the Poles are treating the
aJews brutally some Poles go and take
ayengeancs on the nearest Jews they find.
sAAll this makes vicious circle.
a What disturbed the ancient good re-
.lations between the Poles and the
Jews asked.
"The change in the old tolerance
began with the great influx Of Russian
Jews who were driven into Poland by
, the Cars" Mr.. Berenson answered. The
Jews remained Russia. kept the Russian
language and rubbed the Poles the
wrong way as the Polish Jews had never
done. This has been the cumulative
sitpation over a course OF years. Then
came the war. Russia lost Poland. but
: here the masses OF Jews kept on speak
Ing Yiddish. which to the masses OF
Poles is the same thing as German. The
Poles considered the Jews Germanophile
ana all Jews were swecpingly declared
fosfe German spies. For however little
TIA Poles liked thn Russians. they hated
the Germans more.
- = -rws Used BY Germany
rThe Germans. meanwhile. found tho
I~svs useful in buying through th"m tc
:'In to Germany. You can't imagine
-hct effect that had. 1t branded ths
T.r.s in thn popular mind as unqusstion'
-tlo' German agents 10 some actually
v-Hrc. hrt the ndium fell on the whole
-1kn. Then. on top OF the war. came
T. SlsheYism. and because many Russian
Jews In Poland were BolshaviSi and
took part against the Polish national
cass~ another score was set against
"a certain pnrt Of the Jews is not
without fault. but injustice and NAL
Treatment arc visited on all and many
q cf hem are wholly and loyal Poles" NJ
tB&renson concluded. Eventually this
may pass and the Jewish race here may
regain rs former tranquility. but what
isSneeded chiefly TODAY Is active resist
ance. to mistreatmcnt by the Poles. This
< would come with moro settled state
o& affairs. but never II the Jews insist
cd holding themselves with their school;
: their language. their whole life. apart.
~The Jews Of New Yorl; mlpht as vel
instSf on speaking only Tiddish. on re-
f&8snH to become Americans and on lily
inK under their own laws. That weule
Ia1-tako lonE 70 mako serious SitUas
Non IA Vow York. Add situation likt
= That to one already bnd here and yot
have what Poland would b. II tho four
ten prints are accepted. Tn worst n
y II isI that tho fourteen paragraphs vii
ID accepted. for they have very powerful
support among tSe Jews OF other coun
trtc5, who mean to do well by us bu
who do not understand what harm the,
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