The Denver Jewish news., 1919-06-25

and rendered Russia service which
will forever stand out as a very miracle
CT loyalty and forbearance.
As an American Jew, when the war
came in 1914. sharing the mind of sew
era1 million American Jews, felt that
the only thing for the Jew to do was
to forgive the wrongs that he had
suffered in Russia and TO stand by
Russia TO the end. whatever that end
might be. As IL Jew as well as an
American. it seemed to me that the
jew must be great and magnanimous
enough to forget his lesser wrongs, If
lesser they might be styled, in the
fnce of the greater wrong. which
Germany, the foe of freedom. threaten
ed to inflict upon the whole human
race.
the Jews. of America had not chosen
to leave Russia. They were driven
and scOurged out of Russia and for
II time 1t would have been more than
IL thty " tiit HN'ShN
of complete forbearance touching Rus
sia, which had stoned their men, yio-
lated their women. struck down their
children. 1t is not to be wondered
Mt that, as long as the Romanoffs re-
tanned control. some Russian Jews in
America could not give their whole
hearted allegiance to the Allied cause.
And still they We're more loyal TO the
Allied cause than the Romanoffs and
tue Russian court circles, for these
and their agents were in collusion with
Germany and Russian victory over
Germany would. under the Car, have
meant no more than RussianiZeI
form of Prussian domination. When
the day of liberation came, and Rus
sia had shaken herself free from her
intolerable masters. then the Jews OF
Eussia were the first to dedicate them
selves to the cause of liberated Russia
snd the Allies, and American Jews,
as today they stand ready to support
the cause of free, democratic, de-Bol-
shevized Russia as one OF the great
company of the Allies.
The existence of Bolshevism in Rus
sin and the threat of it in other
European lands is being made to serve
a justification for every manner of
reactiOnary group combating every
manner of democratic progressive
movement. In the guise of combating
Eolshevism, reaction i'll America as
well as in Europe is striking at those
forces which spell not Bolshevism. but
wholesome, sound democracy. 1t might
fave been possible for President VIII
son and his associates of the Peace
Conference to wage vigorous and Of
fective warfare upon Beishcvisn if 1t
had not been for the circumstance that
the peoples of Europe rightly or wrong
ly believe that Bolshev;sm is being
tendency in the direction of social pro-
gress and Justice. To. illustrate what
mean when l declare tLat in many
lands Bolshevism is bang set up rs
an excuse for comhaiin.. the dcn"r
cratic tendencies of ia" worlds life.
| need only refer TO the ludiTous cir
cumstance that some members of the
United States Senate speak of the
League of Nations plan as another
symptom of Bolshevisln. 70 these
gentlemen let it be said that we war
upon Bolshevism because il spells an
archy, and anarchy is the undOing OF
democracy. But we are not ready to
join hands with those who are opposed
TO Bolshevism not because it is law
less. but because it threatens to bring
nearer the day of il completely demo
cratic life.
As for the assassination of Eisner.
the Bavarian Premier, who was
Galician Jew, as TrOtzky is Rus
sian Jew, it was Eisner, the Jew. who
almost alone in Germany. dared to put
the blame OH the right shoulders, ana
to say that the guilty party in the
world-war was not the Allied world
but Germany and Austria. For the
sin of speaking the truth unafraid,
Eisner the anti-BolslIevist, paid the
penalty with his life. shot down by
some miserable princeling who felt that
his caste was dishonored by the eX-
posure of the truth thru the medium
of this Polish Jew. Tho Eisner has
written his name upon the roll of the
immOrtals in that he dared us no man
10 tell the truth about Germany, why
tInoc not tha world ring with the