The Denver Jewish news., 1920-01-07
News About ew-Baiting

The following bitter remarks by Mr..
/ Sam ii. Clark-gentile editor in gen
| tile paper, are self-eNplanatory
Il don't give a damn. l wouldn't
care if every Jew on the face of the
earth would starve to death. There's
the door" Such were the despicable
words venomously shot from the lips
of A. c. Deming, reputedly wealthy
merchant of Rockford, Illinois. This
venom was spewed at two fellow
townsmen who We're soliciting for the
three million Jews fronting stark star
vation in stricken Poland
Mr.. Deming afterwards relented five
dollars worth which was Indignantly
returned to him by the Relief Commit
tee composed of Protestants, Catholics
ard Jews alike. That committee is
and we all gamble that Mr.. Deming's
cinpoisoned hatred for Jews will be
their greatest asset. Every Catholic
priest and every Protestant clergyman
III p"aNAs f"'
are aiding the fund. The wife of one
Protestant minister has discharged heI
only household aid in order to give
more from slender purse. We wager
that Rockford, H.. will go over the
top of that $4,000 trench with
I triumph-boosted by the parsimonious
poison of wealthy jew batter. That
I isn't what's on our mind.
This is what is on cur mind and we
must utter it: No editor with a free
/ pen-as thank God ours is-and with
I IA hairs weight of gratitude TO one oil
4 the greatest races which ever graced
this planet can keep silent with that
4 Deming slug of embittered venom spat
4 by typical Jew batter fronting him.
I We know nothing. and care less if pos
! sible, about \. c. Dcming of Rockford.
I Illinois. He may loom large there
4 tho we doubt it-but he isn't worth n
rimless cipher in our eyes however
high he may be rated in Bradstreet's.
/ But we do know something about
.iewry in the world and in this land.
Homeless, denationalizcd. but as true
to their faith and to their traditions
as is the needle to the pole the deeds
of Jews run thru the warp of world
/ history like a thread of gold. And in
| this land the charities and the phil
! anthropies of Jews--not only TO Jews
! hut TO Gentiles as wcll-far outshine
those of any other race. Could we
gather into one scale the charities and
philanthropies of Jews in this land and
scrape into the other scale the petty
.ifts of Jew bailers it would he as n
mountain to a grain of sand Jew
baiters, jew haters and jew pcrsecu-
tors all possess purses so tightly weld
ITy loose one copper cent. You know
il. Put your hand on Jew batter
and you have grabbed a charity hater
every time,
Scan your town or your city with a
spy glass and see if you find-or can
find anybody who can find-a Jew in
Il public almshouse. There be poor
Jews too, but Jews care for their own.
to their eternal credit be it said
Scan your court rooms and your court
calendars, both crowded to the limit
with salacious divorce cases, and see
if ever you find Jewish family laund-
ering its dirty linen in divorce court 4!
The family life of Jews is a daily living
rcproach to welded infidelity in this
land. They cherish their own with
deathless love while legions of Jew
baiters are trying to scrape up alimony
dues and hunting for another tempor-
ary relationship cuphoniousIy called
marriage
Scan your birth statistics and you
\ find that Jews are not committing race
suicide nor are they infected with the
nawkish and poisoned slush of birth
control. But you will find legions of
Jew hatcrs shrinking from fathcrhood
aud from motherhood living in what is
but legalized concubinagc.
Scan your penitcntiaries, take CEN
sus of its inmates, and you will find
Jews very conspicuous by their alb
sence. We do not say that you will
find no Jews but we do say that out
of the three and one-half million Jews