The Denver Jewish news., 1923-01-17

he dcsiroycr>' OF American ideals and
american life
Mr. rntcrmycr concluded with an ap
peal TO the audience TO give twice as
much to the Palestine Foundation
Fund this year rs they had given The
previous year in order to rccstabliSh
our homeless people and III the same
time put our enemies everywhere Ia
shame and confusion
Mr.. Unlcrmyer'S address follows:
MIR Chairman. Ladies' and Gentle
men, Fcllowl Workers in the cause of
Zion:
am very glod indeed To have been
given the opportunity Ia come here to
You tonight and bid you God-Spced in
the great effort You :erc about To launch
in your city for the Palestine Founda-
tiGn Fund. am not unfamiliar with
what your little state. little in geo.
graphic proportions but great in its
spirit and achievements, has done in
the past for this cause. Connecticut
has hccn n banner state in The response
ltl.ll Itlt' .ItN> lliNt W lil''
10 miild n home in Palestine for the
hundreds and thousands of our home
less brethren in the lands of Europe.
know. also, the splendid response that
the city of Hartford in particular m;f,ic
to the appeal of that great leader of
Israel when he WAS here not quite two
Years ago to arouse the Jews of Amer
i,s to their great Jewish duty and OPP
portunity. 1 am referring. OF course,
to DIR. Chayim WciZmann.
Recent events are adding daily con-
iirnation to the necessity Of providing
II home in Palestine for the prosecuted
of our people; Il home where under the
wise and bcncicicnt aeGis of Great
Britain they may live in peace and
prosperity amid the surroundings that
are clolucnt of their past achievement
and n spur to further effort. y home,
also. where they viii live in the clos
est harmony and cooperation with their
non-Icwish ncighbors, the great Arab
people.
We must. | say. we the privileged
Jews of America. build such II home
for onr l,omcIcss brofhcrs But II
seems to me further. that n successful
accomplishment of this historic under
taking will add greatly to our own
stature. to our own prestige and to our
own sclf-respect.
Palestine is being rapidly rebuilt
through Jewish effort. Jewish enter
prise in innumerablc forms of activity
hut primarily and fundamentally thru
the Palestine Foundation Fund. What
the Jews are doing at the present mo-
ment in Palestine is going to forever
bury the slandcrous myth that the Jews
are not n productive people. This
charge has always been II calumny and
n myth And If there are times and
any considerable proportion of Jews
were driven to the sOcalled non-produc-
tive occupations. it has been due to the
oppression and bigotry of the very peo-
pie who have exploited this libel against
them.
1t has been due to the persistent de-
nial of opportunity to engage in pro
ductive occupations. for which the
Jews have suffered in various periods
and in many lands For centuries they
were not permitted to own or till the
soil and this is still true in some of
the countries where bigotry and perse-
cuton yet flourish and where civilian
tion is at IA low cbb.
Fortunately. this denial of oppor-
tunity does not exist in our own coun
fry. The scharge of unproductivity
against the Jews of America is false.
reckless and contemplate and is prompt
bigo.ry. 1t is without excuse. but it
cannot be ignored 1t must he answered
and put at rest.
In this connection my attention has
been called to widely published re-
port in the newspapers of few days
ago quoting high official of that
strange and medieval eruption on the
civic life of our beloved country. the
Ku Klux Klan, in which that individual
is quoted as having emitted the libel
that the Jews are an unproductive peo-
pie. He is reported as follows:
The Jew produces nothing anywhere
on the face of the earth. He does not
till the soil He does not create or
manufacture anything for common use.
He adds nothing to the sum of hu-
man welfare Everywhere he stands
between the producer and the consumer
and sweats the toll of the one and the
necessity of the other for his gains
| This tissue of falsehoods of which
each and every word is vicious lie is