The Denver Jewish news., 1925-09-17

slhnd, comprised all Inc mental food
that the stomachs Of these simple
minded people craved. The few, more
developed individuals read diligently
the writings OF the llternteurs and
journalists on the other side OF the
Big Pond. where there was an entire
galaxy of find writer's, with well.de-
yelOped tastes and talents and with n
fine tradition behind them. A Inter
day. day that dawned In the red
wake Of the ingloriously lost Russo
Jnpano war, the almost-succeSsful re-
bellion against the Gar In 1905, and
Its final suppression by barbarous re-
prisals at the wholesale slaughter of
the innocents In one hundred and thir-
ty Jewish communities within the Pale.
soon brought to these shores new in
ilnx of refugees seeking shelter and
safely In America.
A New Type Of Immigrant With n New
Outlook
This new influx was composed In
great measure Of far different ele-
ment from all the previous tides OF
Immigrants that had been deposited.
willy-nilly, on these hospitable-in past
If not present days-shores. In the
intervals that elapsed between the ear
Her and later exodus, new generation
of men and women had arisen in Russia
and Poland. 1t was generation that
had become permeated by new ideas,
had acquired the habit of reading and
thinking for itself not little. had
learned 10 desire n fuller and freer
life as well as to stand up and fight
Tor 1t If need he. 1t had, In great
measure, learned to shed the old.
fatalistic mode of life, OF melIaeval
self-sutiiciency and silent acquescence.
and to desire their full share of that
freer life lived by practically all the
people of the rest of Europe. These
people brought with them spiritual
needs and cravings that they felt the
need of satisfying, just as soon as they
found firm ground under their feet. In
cluded in this latter immigration there
was also goodly number of men fully
able by their previous experience and
training to fill this need, so that quite
n number of daily weekly and month
ly publications were established. or
ganizations for the publication of
books came into being, and literary
ever these new immigrants settled in
any considerable numbers.
That which happened to most all
other classes Of Jewish immigrants did
and educational clubs sprung up where
literary and journalistic fields upon
their arrival in their new home Sweat
shops soon grew up in the guise OF
newspaper and magazine offices. These
new enterprises, literary even, as the
purely mercantile ones, had to wait
quite some time before they became
firmly established and adequately
financed. They induged-as n matter
OF necessity perhaps-in merciless ex-
ploitation of the man whose brain
really was the mainstay of their bust
ness, but who, being mere brain-work-
er instead of tOiler with his hands,
found himself entirely helpless and at
the mercy of the publisher and entire
preneur, even as his brother had been
unable to withstand the exploitation in
the other, and more prosaic, form of
n sweat-shop. The literary worker was
even worse OF, due to the fact that
he possessed no trade for which he
could find a ready and widespread de-
mand, nor any commodity that could
he sold in the open market. II had
TO be sold to these few purchasers, or