The Denver Jewish news., 1925-09-17

1t would be unfair TO the majority
of good men and women in Europe to
allow the impression to prevail that
these outrages went ON without pro.
test. Both the Swiss and German
sections Of the International Wom-
ems League for Place and Freedom
condemned anti-Semitism as "the sin
of the civilization Of the goth cen
tury," a Hungarian Roman Catholic
cardinal thundered against the anti
Semitcs; a Hungarian deputy scores
the uumerus clausus, and cabinet
minister resign because of the gross
miscarriage Of justice in the Cson-
grad case. But, these protests were
futile, because, as the homely Jewish
proverb puts it, "Whcn fool throws
a rock into the garden, not even ten
wise men can remove it,"
In Roumania, the Jews seem to be
in the same bad case as in Hungary.
with the difference that in the former
country, the government is not on
the side of the -baiters-at least.
not openly. But even in Roumania,
the government is either so weak or
so indulgent that q university stu
dent who assassinated n police pre-
feet for doing his duty and appre-
hending several students who muir
dered two Jews in high stations was
acquitted by the court and permitted
to go up and down the land and in
cite the populace to perpetrate new
outrages. Several university profess
sors lead the youth in the "holy' war
against the Jews, and quite recently,
police authorities discovered that
these pernicious malcontents were
laying plans for sort of st. Bar
tholomew's night, upon which all
Jews We're to be exterminated.
Student anti-Semitism exists also
in Poland, but in that country the
greatest suffering of the Jews is in
the economic field. That section of
political leaders who, before the war,
held the view that Poland was not
big enough to afford n living for both
Poles and Jews, or that Poles could
never compete on equal terms with
Jews, has been in power since the
foundation of the new republic. The
exponents of this theory have sedul-
ously cultivated a trade and profess
sional boycott of the Jews, and have
even succeeded in effecting their aim
by statutory means, principally by
declaring certain articles of manu-
facture and commerce which Jews
controlled to be government nonopo-
lies, and substituting for the Jews
who had been gaining livelihood
from them, non-Jewish veterans OF
the wars. Anti-Jewish discrimina-
tion was practiced also in the army
and in the civil service These meas
ures have resulted in the financial
ruin of many long-established bust
ness firms, accompanied by an cpl
demic of suicides; Jewish workers
and small traders have turned their
eyes toward Palestine, and it is from
Poland that the Holy Land is draw
ing the bulk of its middle-class immi-
grafton.
This condition has had deleter-
ious effect upon Poland's financial
standing abroad, and several Of her
more enlightened statesmen have
come to realize that the enforced mi
grafton of upwards of three million
people is not a practical possibility
that Jews, too, must live in Poland.
and that no country can prosper in
which antagonism is continually TO-
mented as between the various ele-
ments of the population. As re-
suit of this realization, a sort of
Modus vivendi has been agreed upon
by the government on the one hand,
and the jewish representatives in the
Sejm or Parliament, on the other,
This treaty" which has been greet
ed almost everywhere in Jewish cir
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