THE JEWIS4-1 CHRONICLE
Sole Question Before Jewish Congress
Should Be Civil Rights for Jews
Important Announcement
TO MERCHANTS
Disruption Will Ensue If "Group Rights" Is Raised
One of the objects to be attained,
says the American Israelite, which it
is generally understood will be con-
sidered and possibly be approved by
the proposed i American Jewish Con-
g ress is the inclusion in its program
the assisting of those professing Ju-
daism to obtain "group rights," in
such_ countries where these are
ranted to a portion of the population,
hut denied to Jews.
The granting of "group rights," in-
cludes separate representation in the
legislative body and the right to main-
tain separate schools in which all
branches are taught in a language
other than that declared to be the of-
ficial language of the country, in fact
Yiddish. It also implies several other
rights and privileges, but those men-
tioned arc the most important.
It is well to also bear in mind that
"group rights" arc not recognized in
any of the more civilized countries,
except in Canada in the Province of
Quebec.
An instance of the disadvantages
that may grow from granting "group
rights" is now being presented in the
domain of our northern neighbor.
When Canada was ceded by France
to Great Britain one of the conditions
was that the inhabitants of the Prov-
ince of Quebec should be allowed to
have the French language retained
and placed upon a par with the Eng-
lish in all the official transactions,
whether executive, legislative or ju-
dicial. The Catholic religion was to
be recognized as on an equality with
the established church and there were
to be separate schools for Catholics
and Protestants, in which it was op-
tional to teach all studies, including
the common school branches in
French.
This has prevented an amalgama-
tion of the population, more especially
that part of it which though Canadian
by many generations of descent is of
French stock. There has been con-
stant friction as to the proper divi-
sion of the school fund and through
the language question. Many of the
Habitants, as the descendants from
the French stock are called, refuse to
allow their children to speak or even
to learn English.
In the present war Canada is de-
termined to furnish 500,000 men,
which is a proportion of its able-
bodied citizens that it would seem
hardly possible to get into the army,
through a volunteCr system. .Yet this
number is in a fair way of being re-
cruited without conscription and in
spite of she fact tlit the French Prov-
ince of Quebec is about ninety-seven
thousand men short of its quota, and
though the city of Montreal, through
its large English speaking population
succeeded in doing its share.
We in the United States are for-
tunate in that the language question
has never been very troublesome. We
started right by recognizing no official
language but English. Sonic of the
German settlers in the Northwest,
notably in Wisconsin, established
Lutheran parochial schools which
taught all branches in German, and
sought to have these recognized as
.schools within the meaning of the
compulsory education act. This the
educational authorities of the state re-
fused to do and the legislature, which
was largely Republican, was asked,
without success, to repeal the objec-
tionable law. As a result the Repub-
lican party lost the legislature at the
next election, but this did not avail
anything for the malcontents. The
Democratic majority took the same
position as their Republican predeces-
sors, with the result that the Wiscon-
sin public schools remained American.
On the question of striving to ob-
tain for the Jews, the world over,
equal religious, civil and political
rights with their non-Jewish fellows,
there is no division of opinion. On
this subject we arc all united. But on
tlie question of what is called "group
rights," which includes that of using
Yiddish as an official language and
the language in their separate schools,
there is not only a divergence of
opinions in this country, but even in
the countries where this question will
be presented, especially in Russian
Poland and Galicia. After the parti-
tion of Poland took place education
was made compulsory in that portion
of the ancient kingdom which fell to
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