The Denver Jewish news., 1924-09-11
A Reply to the Anti-Semite
BY DANIEL BRENNER

nationalist students, and there Is a
strike and bloodshcd; in Riga, Jewish
students are killed. The Polish stu
dents Of l.emberg march en- masse to
the plac Maryacki and take an oath
to drive the Jews from the university.
The Jewish students of kronstad
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form battalions for self protection. In
Wilma, the movement against the jew
ish students is growing. The students
in the college of kleusenberg demand
ed, with the usual rioting. that the
Jews be excluded from the college un-
less the Jewish community furnished
corpses for dissection. And even in
our own country, President Lowell Of
Harvard university at one time took
steps toward excluding a certain per-
centage of Jewish students at his uni
versity.
In addition to being excluded from
intellectual activities, the jew is being
Disseminated against in the CONNER
cial world In New York, it is al
most an utter impossibility for
trained Jewish worker to obtain en-
ployment in the New York offices of
banking concerns, construction com
panies, department stores or any
other business establishment. In the
Middle West and far West, although
the situation is not so acute, it is as
suming alarming proportions. 1t is
the policy of many organizations to
show no partiality, but the hiring of
employees is left entirely in the hands
of the managers of the various de-
partments. If this manager wants no
Jews employed, his wishes are carried
out.
1t seems that the world is only half
civilized. We do great deal of boast
ing about our intelligence and our
progress and our greatness, but as
long as there remains in this world
any considerable body of men or wom-
en- who prescribe each other on ac-
count of race or religion, the world
will only behalf-civilized. Intolerance
is the child of ignorance. The cir
conference of mans intellect is
measured by his intolerance. The
man who believes that because he
springs from a particular race, he is
superior to other men is by that belief
an ignorant man. Every man of in
telligence knows that virtue and de-
cency and that the quality that makes
for manhood and for citizenship are
not monopolized by any family or by
any particular religious sect. When
you find Baptist who believes there
are no good people except those who
are members of the Baptist church,
you find man of small intelligence.
| When you find a man who believes
there is no one of Importance unless
he is a Presbyterian, you find man
of limited intellect. When you find a
man who believes that everybody who
does not belong to the Catholic
church is a bad citizen, you find man
whose intellectual capacity is circum-
scribed, and when, above all, you find
a man who denounces any race of men
because of their blood or their relig-
ion, you find fanatic and an enemy
of civilization.
Every man who has read history
knows all the members of this great
family of men possess in common the
same cardinal virtues. He knows
that all of them have produced mar
velous works of art, wonderful COM
positions of music, great orators,
great statesmen great inventors, bet
ter than all that, great lovers of man.
kind. And he learned that men are
not to be estimated according to their
particular blood, or their particular
race, or their particular creed, but are
to be estimated according to their acts
as they live in this world and accord
ing to the standards they set up and
maintain.
The Jews should try to build up u
higher degree of pride-not the pride
that causes a man to think he is bet
ter than his neighbor, but pride that
makes man think he is above a
small or contemplate or cruel act
a pride that proscribes no other man
but tries to keep always high stand,
ard by which to live.
Down through the line OF years we
must remember the fact that in the
Dark Ages, when the light had gone
out in all the satellites of learning
when the teachings of Socrates and
Aristotle and the great men of the past
were forgotten. that it was the Jewish
scholars and Jewish physicians that
carried the light of learning in all parts
of the world. They penetrated Arabia
and they taught the Arabian his skill
| which grew to a marvellous extent at