The Denver Jewish news., 1921-02-23
Jews Protest Againstlm-
migration Restrictions
DIR. WISE, SECRETARY POST, CON-
GRESHAM SIEGEL AND 9TH
ERS ADDRESS HEBRBEW IMNII-
GRANT AID SOCIETY:
u. c. B. Servlce.)


crowded into the Hippodrome to at
tend the twelfth annual meeting of
the Hebrew Sheltering and Immigrant
Aid Society of America. The meet
ing unanimously adopted resolution
protesting against the Senate immi-
grafton bill now before Congress re-
stricting immigration upon basis OF
|. per cent. of the number of foreign.
born persons of each nationality resi-
dent in the United States. The bill
was characterized as opposed to
American principles, unscientific ana
contrary to the highest dictates OF hu-
manity.'
Assistant Secretary of Labor, Louis
f. Post, made his farewell public ap-
pearance prior to leaving office Oh
March 4. He said in part:
For nearly eight years it has been
my fortune to hold an administrative
office in which have had to do very
intimately with matters that concern
the Jews of this country, whose rela'
tiyes and friends have come here to
escape persecution. 1 have been COM
PEELED to turn many Of them back, FOR
one reason or another, over which Con.
gress alone has control. This duty
has been appalling, not for its mag
nitude. but for the cruelties involved
and I am heartily sick OF it all. Never
when / was Il boy did l look forward
to the Fourth Of July with more Gag
crness than / look forward now to the
Fourth Of March.
my American blood boils when
realize the campaign of hate that be-
sets your race. The prosecutions stim-
ulate immigration to this country OF
boosted freedom and equality, aud
when the refugees arrive they en-
counter the barbed-wire fence of our
immigration laws. These laws may
: not seem unreasonable at ctirsory"
glance. but in operation their cruel
ties are at time almost unspeakabie.
They operate with exceptional sever
ity upon the Jews. The Jews are n
people without country. They can
not as a people make an appeal thru
international channels as from one ma
ton to another. Among the nations
they are helpless in the mass.
IF President Wilson failed to place
our country in the League of Nations
il was no fault of his. He exhausted
his official powers and, ike every
other stricken soldier in the World
War, lie has paid tile price OF cour-
ageous DEVOTION
The Jew Who Endangers America.
Rabbi Stephen s. Wise making his
first appearance ut an annual he
brew society meeting, bitterly protest
ed the passage of the proposed immi-
grafton bill.
1--WE cannot translate ourselves over
night into English stock" he declared.
"The Jew in America who endnngers
America is not the Jew who is Jew
ish. but the Jew who would be un-
Jewish. He is the danger of America.
The Jew who imagines rhat he must
flee from things jewish that he must
escape the Jewish burden-he Is the
danger to America. The door or
America has not been shut Tor
ycors As long as the President
of the United States was IN
the White House that door remained
wide open, and I wish no better thing
for the next President of America that
he. too, may stand guardian at the
gate to America"
In presenting his annual report
President Bernstein paid tribute 10
the late Jacob II. Schff, who was
member of the Advisory committee OF
the society. Cantor Rosenblntt re-
cited memorial prayer After point
ing out that most of the Jewish I'M
migrants now are women and children
destined to their husbands and faith
ers already settled in this country ana
telling of the work of tho society,
President Bernstein continued:
Prom 1881 up to the end of 1920.
o.OG1 90 Jewish immigrants came III
TO the United States. The total I'M
migration was 23.722 ,453, so that the
percentage of Jewish immigration to
the whole volume of immigration was
So"
A statistical report was read. snow
ing that 65000 Jewish Immigrants
landed in America last year. OF this
number 81 per cent. came to join ram
lilies and, "A per cent. were women anu
children But twelve applicants lot
admission to America were deportet!
during the year, according to the re-
port.
The building committee report show
ed S279,2O7.G4 contributed toward the