The Denver Jewish news. [volume] (Denver, Colo.) 1915-1925, 1921-01-05
'|Jews Furnish Valuable Element in Our
People. They Have Assimjlated''
Speech the Honorable George Huddeson of
in the House Representatives December TO- 1920.

ure as an old fashioned American, as
one who comes of stock so long III
America that there is no record OF
when they came. SO that l may he
lmrdoned, | hope, for taking an old
fashioned American view of this ques-
ton and for not adhering to some OF
the remarks which have been made
upon this bill. l hold to old-fashion'
ed ideals of Americanism and not 10
the ncw-fangled, narrow, and chauv
inistic spirit Of nationalism. l still De-
lieve in the principle of jefferson, IN
the principle recognized in the Amer
lean Constitution, and in some of the
old ideals for which our ancestors Ia
bored and fought.
1t has been charged that this bill
is an anti-Semitic bill, that it is aim
ed particularly ut the Jews of Europe
who are seeking to come here. To such
an extent, if any, as the bill has the
Jew particularly in view and aims ut
his exclusion, it is an irredcemably
bad bill. / have no hesitation in say
ing that.
A Significant Statement.
l read in the report of the COM
mittee a very significant statement,
statement of sinister significance.
found OH page 6, which is this:
The committee has confirmed the
published statements Of a commission
or of the Hebrew Sheltcring and In
migrant Aid Society made after his per-
sonal investigation in Poland to the eff
feet that ''if there were i'll existence
a ship that could hoIl 100000 hu-
man beings, the 3,OOO,OOO Jews of Pol
and would board it to escape to Amer
ica.''
| also read IN the appendix, on page
il of the report, comment on the sit
uation as to applications for passports
tor emigration from Roumania.
Possibly 10 per cent of
applicants are Roumanians from
TRANSATLANTIC or the Old Kingdom.
The remainder are Jews. mostly from
Rcssarabiu and Bukowinn. practically
all. except women and children, being
petty merchants or statesmen. 1t should
also he noted that the proportion OF
men cmigrating is increasing and that
not few are probably fugitives from
Ukrainia, who have managed to obtain
Roumlnian passports. Ninety per cent
Of applicants are Jews of both sexes
and all ages.
wonder, in the light of those
statements, why it is that the Jews OF
JJkrainia and ROumania are seeking
to escape, and the Jewish population
? to the last individual is seeking to es-
cape from Poland. l Wonder why 1t
is. Their economic situation Is not
more severe than the balance OF the
population of those countries. There
exists no reason. SO far as l can con-
ceiye. unless the Jews are meeting in
the countries of their nativity with
oppression and abuse OH racial and re-
ligious grounds. 1 can draw no other
inference from the fact when aa-
tion's entire population of certain
race and religion is seeking to escape
from that nation.
Disappointed in Poland.
read with deep indignation ac-
counts of Poland's anti-Jewish pog-
roms, of the butchery of men and
women in cold blood. The stories OF
these atrocities were denied by rep
resentatiyes of Poland. Now we find
them verified by the wholesale flight
of the Jewish population. l can not
forget that the new State of Poland
was brought into being by the aid
of America and her associates in the
Great War that we have succored ana
sustained the Poles, furnished them
supplies. and loaned them money from
the public funds. More than that, We
furnished many millions of dollars i'll
supplies and munitions with which
Poland might repel the Bolshevist in
vasion. l am deeply disappointed by
the failure of Poland to appreciate the
spirit in which American aid was
given. America can not, and will not,
be partner and companion win
bloody-handcd oppression of race and
religion.
have in mind also that Ukrainia
and Roumania are reaching out thelr
hands to us for help. Already we
have given substantial aid to Rou-
mania. These people must be made
to know that our country will not
counteaance rapine and murder; tha'
we will not aid those who commit
atrocities upon harmless and inof-
fensive people.
The present white Government OF
Hungary owes its existence in part to