The Denver Jewish news., 1922-01-11

dcrs with regard to alien admission in
general. and Jews in particular. II
was after all Raker who was respon-
sible for creating most of the anti
| Jewish atmosphere surrounding the
|, tiers remarks. as well. indcd. as of
those Of Brum.
Throughout Roberts testimony
I tl,crc wcprc frequent references To the
| rlthincss of the Jews in Poland and
be other places which he visited. He
described how II Jewish home he visit
| ed in n small town near Warsaw was
| infested with vermin. In this town
also. he said. the Jews swarmcd ont
| IF their homes and crowded around
him until he could not move. He ask
cd them to write on pieces of paper
| the names of relatives in the United
| States. and he said. there was not n
soul amongst them who didn't have n
| relative in America.
IF You do not restrict the legisia-
tion for the admission of husbands
wives. and minor children, you might
rs well unlock the gates and throw
the keys away" he declared. because
| they would he here bv the first boat
they could get" After some further
references as to how Jews crowded
around him. he said: when you tax
of the harsh treatment of Jews ON
Ellis Island. I recall what an Ameri-
can doctor told me in Antwerp. who
had been i'm charge of great many
immigrants. there is only one way Ill
which the Polish Jew can he handled
and that is by driving him. They are
used to being driven and bawled out
and You can't treat them any other
way"
Hc said that in response to his in
ouirics of Jewish Immigrants abroad
for their reason in desiring to come
10 the United States. the invariable re-
uly was business is rotten. Mr
Siegel cross-examined Roberts and
tried to bring out from him the fact
that Jews suffered from persecution
hut Roberts stucl, to the last state
ment
NRoberts' knowledge of conditions
wa1 obviously very superficial. ana yet
If was plain that his recital of one or
two isolated instances of alleged char
acteristics of Jewish immigrants ana
their filthincss made most mar"ea
IMPRESSION upon the non-Jewish mPh'-
hers Of the committee.
Bruhm. who said he had visited
DnnZir, Esthonia. Germany and the
Scandinavian countries. but whose
testimony revealed similar super
ficiality. dealt chiefly with the IN
tluences OF Bolshevism in the places
visited. He tried to give the general
impression that the Jews were vide
ly susceptible to Bolshevik propa-
ronda He agreed with Mr.. Naile.
member of the committee. that the
reason for this was that the Jew, being
an intellectual and idealist. subject to
oppression was more likely to go
wild" than his more phlegmatic non
jewish nelShhor.
what arc the nationalities and ma
tivity of those in power. the leaders,
who control the Red Army of Rus
sia?- inquired Representative Iiaker.
Il think the leaders are Jews re-
piled Bruhm because my opinion ~
cnly based on the 800 or 400 Bolshcvist
officers that / have seen in the seven
o, eight different Bolshevik bureaus
have visited. / don't think l saw ten
Christians. or ten what they call real
Russians.
As reason for Jewish preeminence
in Bolshevik leadership. Bruhm adj
vanced the opinion that the jew is
business man. while the Russian
dreamer. The difference, he said. was
npparcnt between I4enin and Trotzky.
The former was typical dreamer
while the latter, according to Bruhm,
was the man on the job Trotzky,
opined Bruhm. is the greater and more
powerful of the two.
1t was interesting to observe that
| Chairman Johnson seemed to be UNI
der the impression that Lenin also
was jew Bruhm had remarked: :
when / say Jew | mean member
Of the Jewish, the Semitic race Lenin
ia Slav.'
Chairman johnson; slavic in your
opinion?'
Bruhm: YES, sir
Turning to the Jews of Poland.