The Denver Jewish news., 1921-02-02

ohS VI AStNbtahtf WYNN ~ " 1uAAA
npn-believer because Of the words
Of st. John. Similarly, it was ride
ulous for NJ. Niemojswski to take
everything In the Old Testament and
in the Talmud literally"
Mr.. Goodhart is not at all back
ward in quoting the following excerpt
from the daily Robotnicza, which cpl
tomizes the attitude Of the Poles to
ward the Jews:
"Our public wants nothing which
will entitle the Jews in Poland to any
rights In the future. We know that
time imposes right. Therefore, we
should create nothing that could III
time be claimed as right. :. . The
Polish public must take up anti-Semi'
tic action which means an economic
fight Treating Jews like wanderers,
we should apply to them boycott in
friendship and in our everyday life, as
1t las been done with the Russians.
We do not wish to be acquainted with
the Jews; we do not bow to them or
enjoy their company. We buy nothing
from them nor sell anything to them.
II man desires to remain healthy
he should isolate himself from disease.
For on this very day our health and
the health of the whole nation Is u,
stake"
The attitude Of the Jews toward the
Poles is exemplified in the following
passages:
This evening after dinner the abl"S'
of the Jewish journalists who travel
led with us to Wilno from Warsaw
came up to my room. He said he
wanted to explain to me what Jewish
nationalism was. Unless you can uh'
terstand Jewish nationalism you can.
not understand the whole position of
the Jews in Poland. BY Iationalism
we mean the free development of our
racial culture and ideals. OF course.
all our talk about race here in Cen
trail Europe Is incomprehensible to the
average American. In the umte'
States you have a country which has
no dominant race. Altho AnglO-Saxons
are In the majority, no one in his right
senses would say that it was neces
sary to be an Anglo-Saxon to be n
good American. In Poland on the
other hand, citizenship is almost i'll
variably confused with race. The
Slogan Poland for the Poles woulL
he analogous to a slogan Of America
for the Anglo-Saxon! Poland for
the Poles excludes the Lithuanians,
the Jews and Ukranians who live
within the borders of Poland. Before
peace can he established in this coun-
try the Poles must realize that real
citizenship does not depend on race or
religion. A jew whose family has
lived in Poland for hundreds of years
cal be as good Polish citizen as 9
man Of Polish race. We are tired OF
being treated as servants. At the
present moment we are suffering from
nationalist intolerance, but If we can
only keep on fighting for justice we
shall win thru just as we did against
religious persecution
MIR. Goodhart noticed even the at
titude of the Polish nobility toward
the common folk:
while ] was talking to the Polish
Countess in charge Of the dances she
smilingly remarked, You see, we are
learning American ideas of democracy.
Tonight our daughters are dancing
cn1liorS' ~ Mr.
Goodheart comments on the pleasant
ry in a characteristic way:
81 do not think dOughboy would
have appreciated being called a COM
mon soldier in just that tone Of voice"
Under date of September 2nd. Mr..
Goodhart makes the following entry
This morning we received copy of
the Gazetta Poranna of August 10th.
This newspaper, altho noininally pri-
vately owned, is one OF the two official
organs of the national Democratic par
ty. Its open policy is the furtherance
of the anti-Semitic boycott movement.
He quotes nearly two pages descrtp-
tive of mass murders of the Poles In
AIinsk, five thousand persons shot.
machine gun on church." etc. all OF
which were pcrpctrated by the Boil
shcvik Jews. Mr.. GoOdhart ma~es tile
following significant comments. from
which I quote only few passages:
This article is typical of the kind
CT information on which the Polish
public is being fed. The story about
the thirty officers, mostly Poles. who
we're murdered by the Bolshcviks is
false Count Zoltowski and I were the
first men TO visit this building.
and | found no bodies there.
The figures of three to five thousand