The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1920-12-03

falsehood The originators of Bol- shevism were exclusively non-Jews.
 While it is true that there are Jews. among the Bolshevists, notably Trot-
 sky they represent a small fraction
 of the Jews and of the followers of
 Bolshevism, Lenine, who belonged
 to the Russian aristocracy and has
 not a drop of Jewish blood in his
 veins, was the creator as he has been
 the motive power of the Soviets.
 Tchicherin, who has conducted their
 foreign affairs. Bucharin, Krassin and kainin, all non-Jews. are, with Le-'
 nine, the brains of the communist
 party.
 the Peoples commissars, consist of
 twenty members, of whom Trotsky
 and Sverdlov are the only Jews, and
 they are Jews merely by. birth. Of
 the Central Committee of the com munist party, including Trotsky,
 there are four Jews out of thirteen.
 The so-called Extraordinary Com
 miston, whose function is it to sup press opposition to the Blshevist re- gime from within, is directed by and two Let's, none of whom is of
 Jewish origin. Although 'Trotsky is the head of the war department, his general staff is composed exclusively of non-Jews. In ''The Cause of World Unrest'' a list of fifty names is given, most of which are classified as Jews and
 Bolshevists, in order to establish the
 thesis that nearly all of the Bo1- shevist leaders are JeWs' An examf-
 nation of the list shows that ten of the Jews included in the list are the leaders of the anti-Bo1shevist move ment in Russia: that a number of those who are classified in the list as Jews are not Jews a all; that a | large proportion of those classified as Jews are men who are so obscure | and hold positions so inconspicuo ous that whether or not they are Jews
 is not only uncertain but unimportant. They are certainly not leaders.
 Jews Fight BoIshevists.
 On the other hand, the leaders of l the Mensheviki, who are the sworn | foes of Bolshevism, are to a large extent Jews. Among the chiefs Of of Russia. who are strongly op- | posed to the Soviets. are Vinaver
 Sliosberg, Pasmanik, Kaminka, Lan- dau and Friedman, all prominent | Jews Among the leaders of the Peoples Socialist, the Socialist Revo-
 lutionary and the Menshevik section
 of the Social Democratic parties, bit
 ter opponents of the Bolsheviks are | large number of Jews The lead | ing antiBolshevist newspapers, | which. of necessity, are published out | side of Russia. have Jews upon their | editorial staffs. An overwhelmine majority of Russian Jews have been
 ruined by the coercive measures of i the Soviets. They have submitted to
 the confiscation of their property and
 are undergoing unspeakab1e hard | ships. The Orthodox Jews, whose numbers preponderate, remaining
 loyal to the faith of their fathers
 regard the Bolsheviks as the enemies | of all religion. and. therefore, hold | the doctrines Of Bo1shevism in a|bhor-
 renee With comparatively few ex- captions, the Jews are looked upon by | the Bolsheviks as belonging to the | hated bourgeoisie and as favoring cap- | italism. The Zionists, who constitute
 a numerous and important element of
 the Jews of Russia, have been de- nounced by the Soviets as counter | revolutionary, and many of them have | been cast into prisons and threatened
 with death-Zionists, we repeat, who | are the followers of Herz1
 If the Jews are to be condemned
 because of a Trotsky, who has never
 in the slightest degree concerned him.