The Denver Jewish news., 1922-04-12

leader of German Jewry close student
Of German history. He traces the poiiti-
cal vicissitudes of the Jews in Germany
and arrives at the important conclusion
that in the new German State. anti
Semitism will he reduced to inSianiicance.'
Editor.
The Jews have for two thousand
years been prosecuted, maltreated,
robbed and killed because they are
Jews. They have managed to endure
it all and survive till the present day.
There are other peoples, too, who
have had to undergo periods of ter
ror and suffering. But there is no
parallel in the whole of history to
tie development of Judaism. We
have never had TO record anything
similar to the endurance which kept
It people alive and together. NOT iaer"
ly temporarily, but for centuries, and
enabled it despite all caiamaties TO
emerge from them all, and continue
its life and maintain its place among
the civilized nations of the world.
With the commencement of the
nineteenth century and the influences
which the French Revolution cNertei
on the modern civilized nations. the
Jewish question assumed new form.
MasSacreS of Jews on n large scale
took place only IN Russia. Rumania
and the Asiatic and African countries
In the so-called civilized world there
were few attacks on the Jews of vafi-
Gus degrees of violence. bur mass
slaughterngs We're never again re-
sorted to- That sort of thing was left
TO the Czarist Empire and the smaller
Rnmanian State. and more recently.
to the newly risen Polish Republic
and South Russia.
The development of events i'm Ger
many was closely similar. The estab-
lishment of modern Germany began
with the end of the War of Liberation
which overthrew Napoleon j. who had
destroyed the old state system of Eu
rope ont of the ruins grew slowly
very slowly. II new Germany in which
the Jewish question reappearcd in
modern form.
Dt lTllrSllu army WHICH, i'h-h'
against Napoleon |. already contained
considerable number of Jews. And
on the evidence of the Investigations
of the then Prussian Ministry of War
these Jews carried themselves as
bravely as their Christian comrades in
the campaign against the corsieun
genius. To dispose of the legend that
Jews are bad soldiers. ! have pub
lished series of statistics relating to
the Jews as soldiers. not only i'll Ger
many. but in all the states of modern
Europe and in the United States of
America and these show that the
Jews of various countries have com
pletely fulfilled in military as in other
matters the obligations imposed on
them by the lands of their birth. These
facts being recognized. voices were
heard In Germany Immediately after
the War of Liberation asking that the
German Jews should be granted all
rights equally with the other citizens.
This attempt to disgrace the modern
state in the eyes OF the German people
by hammering il into their heads that
the idea of equality of all citizens be
fore the law was an invention of un-
German minds. especially Of the Jews.
is typical of the times of Stein and
Hardenberg and Of the whole of the
nineteenth century. and is still TO he
found in Germany til; the presant day.
ppaA
are still exploiting anti-Semitism and
the Jewish question III order to dis
credit and suppress the development
of liberal ideas in Germany.
Once again reaction won in Germany
after 1913. and again the Jewish ques-
tion was brought up in order to make
the liheratinS. progressive movement
distasteful to the German people.
Then followed the years when under
Bismarck. Germany and especially
Prussia. gradually rose.
bismarck gave equal and secret
franchise to all Germans, and we had
Constitution which made it possible
also for Jews To attain to any question
IN the STATE. II proclaineu cohfpiete
equality of rights in the eyes of the
law for all German citizens without
exception. As citizens, there were to
he no longer any distinctions between
Jewish Germans and Christian Ger
mans throughout the whole extent of
the German empire.
A statesman of the penius of Bis
marck saw that the German empire
had primarily to be made secure from
within. that he could not afford to lose
the support of any section of the popu-
latiou not oven fiat of thp lows thut