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Gorky About the Jews

There is a haunting quality in small part of the uproar would
At the opening session of the
the face of Louis Dembitz Bran- have proceeded from quarters Petrograd Russian Society, com- the guilty is confused from olden
deis which was more vivid .when where sympathy with the ideals posed of prominent Russian writ- tunes. His sense of justice is
imperfectly developed in his soul
I first saw it, about a dozen years cherished by the nominee was be- ers, scientists and publicists, at
which
has been distorted by the
ago, than it is now, but not till yond cavil as to sincerity. It the end of February Maxim Gor-
Tartar yoke and the horrors of
some time had passed was I able would have been based on the not ky, the writer said:
serfdom.
to define it. Then, happening up- unreasonable assumption that you
"Uittil now, the attitude of the
"In recent years, there have
on a portrait of Abraham Lincoln, waste good material, and improve Russiati intclligentzia toward the
been
bred in Russia many people
neither
the
victim
nor
his
en-
•a‘
taken at the same age, I recog-
vironment, when you transplant trageay of Jewry has been spas- who are taught to think that they
nized the resemblance. The nose
a skilled mechanic from his shop modic and influenced only by oc- are the best people on earth and
was different, Brandeis' being his
a sculptor's studio, or set a currunces from without, mainly that their enemies are people of
most obviously I febraic feature, sculptor to building stone bridges. pogroms.
We have occupied alien races, and first of all, the
whereas Lincoln's was distinctly The imaginative faculty which so ourselves with the Jewish ques- Jews. These people have been
a gentile organ ; but the shape of broadens the product of one work- tion—if one may say so—from. long and urgently assured that all
the Jews are a restless people,
the face, the growth of the hair er must be redueed to a minimum pogrom to poe-rom, complained
protested,
but
that
is
as
far
as
strikers,
rebels. Then they have
in a shock which calls for taming exercise in the work of another,
been
told
that Jews liked to drink
by discipline from without, the and the obverse, Judicial capacity the matter ever went. Had we
long
ago
really
occupied
ourselves
the blood of stolen boys. In our
mild expression with the instinct is a thing quite by itself, and pub -
with
the
Jewish
tragedy,
a
great
days,
it is suggested to them that
lic
opinion
insists
that
it
must
not
of pugnacity behind it held in re-
many
sad
consequences
would
the
Jews
of Poland are traitors
be
confounded
with
capacity
of
straint, the drawn-in corners of
have
been
avoided.
Let
us
work
and
spies."
any
other
sort.
There
arc
many
the mouth, the contemplative,
perhaps prophetic, eyes under lids positions of honor and trust in"' this direction now."
In conclusion, M. Gorky said
that if left to themselves would the public service where a pro- On another occasion, Gorky that if this preaching of hatred
droop—all these things arc par- pagandist, or an earnest political said: "It is unbearable to see will not bring- on bloody results,
alleled, so well in the two men partisan and leader, would fit very that people who have produced so it will be only because it will meet
that a composite portrait would well, and could accomplish much, much that was beautiful, wise and with the indifference of the Rus-
probably show little blurring of without undermining a common necessary to the world are living sian people to life, and will be
among us, oppressed by special drowned in this indifference.
the lines. Lincoln's face, also, sentiment of confidence.
laws which limit in all manner of
was a haunting one. I saw it only
One of the facts which one ways, their
right
s r labor and
a little while before his first in- hears cited on every side as an liberty. It is
nec to e life,
t
say,
because
auguration, and it lingers still in evidence of pharisaism in Bran- it is just at
Philadelphia Jews Form a
/A
usefa
u
l,
to
ce th e
my mind, though I was a mere (leis is most unjustly thus attrib- Jews
Regiment.
p - of equality i n
on a lane
schoolboy at the time.
The uted. I refer to his refusal to ac- t e
rights with
the this,
Russians.
heard, which is so conspicuous an cept compensation for doing cer- is hir
necessary'
to do
not only It
An enthusiastic demonstration
element in the portraits familiar lain things in the line of his pro- out of respect for the people for preparedness was made in
to the younger generation of to- fession, but primarily helpful to which has served and is serving Philadelphia last Tuesday night
day, had just begun to grov;. His the community a4' large. It is humanit y
and us
, but also out of when the I\laccabean Regiment.
earlier portraits show him beard- \yithin the knowledge
e of he
his and
in- respect for ourselves. We must the first Jewish military corps in
less, as Brandeis is. Lincoln had ncr circle of friends that
•
the United States, was formed
ints,en
with this the
ordinary
human
a way of slouching down in his Mrs. Brandeis, when they were zIffair
because
hostility
to- preparatory to any call that
chair when not actively engaged first married, decided, as a rule ward the Jewa is growing among
might arise for the nation's de-
at something, and so has Bran- to govern their lives not to let us in Russia, and if we do not at- fense. The regiment unanimous-
dies ; this makes further for the pecuniary considerations influence tempt right now to ch
ly elected Jacob D. Lit, a leading
eck the
resemblance in their general them in any matter in which their growth of this blind hostility,
it merchant, Colonel, and an execu-
physiognomy, particularly when hearts and consciences were en- will ruinously react upon the cul- tive committee, With Isidore
Brandeis, in a lolling position, lets listed and they simply have ap-
his chin half rest on his breast.plied that rule so as to make it rural development of our country. Stern, a prominent attorney, as
It must ge remefbered that the chairman. It is intended, if pos-
work
both
ways,
for
either
profit
Russian people has seen little sible, to have United States Army
Lincoln was most noted for his or loss.
leadership of men, Brandeis for
good, and therefore is ready to officers to direct the training.
his advocacy of causes and his en-
Already more than 200 young
Comparatively recent history believe evil,—whatever is whis•
ergy as a propagandist. If any has been sprinkled with cases pered to them by the man-haters. men have enlisted. Of these a
one had nominated Lincoln for a which in one way or another sug- the Russian muzhik, no or- number have served in the United
high judicial office, demanding
States army or the National
calm and dispassionate judgment gest analogies with the nomina- ganic hostility toward the Jew is (;card.
tion of Brandeis. President noticeable. On the contrary, he
on questions involving individual
Grant's
effort to promote Caleb manifests special attention to the
rights, rather than the larger hu-
Cushing conies at once to mind, religious thought of Israel, so
man rights, the establishement of the objection urged against Cush- charming in its democracy. Not-
permanent legal precedents, and
Sergeant Issy Smith, the young
ing being that he had been not withstanding that, when the Rus-
the scrupulous linking of any for-
Jewish
lad, proclaimed in Eng-
too much, but too many different sian muzhik hears of persecution
ward movement of his own along kinds of a partisan to fill accept- of the Jews, he says, with the in- land as one of the most gallant
a certain line with the last stage
ably a high judicial office. There, difference of an Oriental, `Inno- heroes the war has yet pro-
of his predecessors' progress
duced, has been signally honored
along the same line, the proposal also, were the two prominent New cent people.are not tried and not for his bravery. At Buckingham
whom, in succession, persecuted." IIe of all others
would have drawn forth as vig- Yorkers
Cleveland struggled to put into ought to know that in Holy Palace recently the kingainvested
orous a protest as has the nomin-
the chair left vacant by the death Russia, the innocent are tried and him with the Victoria Cross.
ation of Brandeis for a scat on the of
Justice Blatchford, but whose persecuted only too often. But The record of the act which won
Federal Supreme bench, and no
him the cross was read to the
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his conception of the right and king, who shook hands with Issy.

J.