THE JEWISH 4 THE JEWISH CHRONICLE Issued Every Friday by the Jewish Chronicle Publishing Company. Michigan's Only Jewish Publication. Editor Manager Samuel J. Rhodes, Anton Kaufman, - Subscription in Advance $1.50 per year Offices 701 Penobscot Bldg. Telephone Cadillac .2588. The Jewish Chronicle invites correspondence on subjects of inter- est to the Jewish people, but disclaims responsibility for an indors_e- ment of views expressed by the writers. All correspondence and society notes to insure publication must be sent in so as to reach this office Wednesday morning of each week. L•I*. • • 'Dollars among the Jews of gives us that opportunity. Shat Detroit Jews have given muc. are confident that they will give FRIDAY, MARCH 24, 1916. Some Light on the Brandeis Case. Those who have kept their ears to the ground during the hearings by the senate committee anent the confirmation of Mr. Brandeis for Justice of the Supreme Court, have felt all along that much of the opposition to him emanated from those who were fearful that a man of his temperament upon the Supreme Bench of the United States might seriously interfere with those who had to do with the so- called ''Big Business" of the country. Only those • who wish to be convinced have been at all persuaded that any charge thus far brought forward as reflecting upon the personal integrity of Mr. Brandeis, has been well fouhded. As a matter of fact, the sort of evidence intro- duced by those who have opposed his confirmation, has been the best testimony to the weakness of their case. In line with the fact that it is in the interests of "Big Business" that his opponents are working, we cite a paragraph from a letter recently received by Rev.. E. R. Shippen of this city from a prominent citizen of Boston. Ile writes as follows: "A number of thos composing the opposition to his (Brandeis) appointment are conscientious and honest men who are sincerely un- able to comprehend him. They belong to the same class who opposed Lincoln's policies at the time of the Civil War. There is another class headed by the United Shoe Machinery Co. and interests roughly de- scribed as "Wall Street" who are opposing him with all the skill and money they can command because they are in a panic at the thought of a man of his views mounting to the Supreme Bench. They realize that with his great power and force he is sure to become majority in any group in which he works. He is now, even as a mere private citi- zen, without any doubt the terror of big business gone wrong." Testimony of this character is 'ultimately of more value to those who would form an accurate estimate of Mr. Brandeis's fitness for a place on the Supreme Bench than is the testimony of those who have personal and political axes to grind. REMEMBER APRIL 4th ! It is a DAY OF OPPORTUNITY for every Jew and Jewess in Detroit. Our Privilege. We are witnessing the greatest Jewish catastrophe the world has ever known. We would compare it to the Downfall of the First Temple. But the downfall of the Temple affected only the political fortunes of the Jew. The present calamity threatens his very existence. We would compare it to the Roman destruction of Jerusalem. But Rome, again, struck only at the Jewish state and religion. Russia aims at Jewish radical extermination. We would compare- it to. the great Spanish Exile. But the Jews could flee from Spain. The Russian Jews could not escape. "Behind them was floly Russia, closed to them by the May Laws of 1881. In front were hostile Germany and Austria. To the South was unfriendly Roumania. They were overwhelmed where they stood and over their bodies crossed and re-crossed the German armies from the West, the Russian armies from the East and the Austrian armies from, the South." Again, the number of Jews driven from Spain was half a million. The number of Jews suffering from the hardship of war and Russian barbarism is seven millions. The Jervis, On March 26th delegates fro the land will assemble at Philadel posed Jewish Congress.. Much has been said and writ! Je/ish Congress. Much has bees been unsaid and unwritten. Fron there exists a sharp difference of 01 can Jews. Some of 'the leading of the type of Louis Brandeis and support the Congress movement. representative, just as aggressivel) It is not our purpose to take p in this issue are presented the resp reader choose between them. Let soiling is the more cogent, which a: subject of the Jewish Congress is a different object in mind. we Jews have suffered much f should, therefore, be tolerant towa ing views with respect. The disci , gress has revealed that the contrar (lest features is the narrowness of \ acterized. If any evidence is needed to h. assertion, it is furnished by the roce. to the Yiddish newspaper "The V advocates of the Jewish Congress It is, indeed, high time that trifle saner, and from the history lesson of broad-mindedness with Ny that they realized that on the Con question which is important cnougl \ there is room for an honest differe to continue in the high respect and he has well earned, it is to be ho, (lawn upon Mr. Schiff. No- Jew has ever had cause to h tunately, on the other hand, Judai• to be unashamed of some of its jev,' \\' hen parents complain of ti things Jewish, we have a right to i. been at work upon the children in I With the Brandeis case under genthau's return, the editorial writs excuse to dip into the "Jewish Qt1 , readers.