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Mr. Butzel's Letter on Zionism.
The letter of Nit- . Fred NI. Butzel anent the unfortunate misunder-
standing over Zionism that has arisen in American Israel, threatening
to separate the Jewry of this country into two camps, is to use the old -
phrase, "a word in its proper time." While we do not agree with Mr.
Butzel in all particulars. nor accept all of his conclusions, we do believe
that he strikes the proper keynote when he calls for more mutual for-
bearance and welcomes any attempt that may be made to bring about
a spirit of better understanding among the Jews of America. Certain
it is that these arc not times when internecine strife should be encour-
aged. Certainly, mud-slinging camPaigns dishonor all parties concerned
in them. Zionists cannot strengthen their position nor Anti-Zionists add
dignity to theirs by calling each other hard names. There should be
mutual forbearance and each side to the contest should grant to the
majority' On the other honesty of purpose and sincerity of motive.
The positions taken by the advocates of Zionism and of Anti-Zion-
ism should be clearly and unambiguously stated. Thus far, we fear
there has been comparatively little clarity of statement on the side of
the Zionists. Each spokesman of the cause scents to contradict the
other.
The writer of this editorial has no right to speak for any one other
than himself and vet he believes that he voices the sentiment of most
Reform Jews who call themselves non-Zionists or Anti-Zionists when
he makes this statement of opinion in regard to Palestine and the mod-
ern Jew.
Every effort directed toward the rehabilitation of Palestine so as
tion. Until it comes. the .int•rican people will Stand squarely back
of the President of the United States, whose sane statesmanship and
far - sighted wisdom the whole frond must commend.
make it a more desirable habitat for the Jews of the oppression than
,would be any other land whose material resources are equally favorable.
Tile Jest' is entitled to a home in which he may live his life in his own
stay and practice his traditional customs, if he so cares to do, without
being subjected to the ridicule or the malice of those who do not under-
stand his spirit. Should Jews settle in Palestine in sufficient numbers to
warrant their direction of the political affairs of that country and should
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only a minority of the pro
moters involved in the scandal.
Popular feeling was inflamed 6,
the publication of a sensational pain
phlet, "l)er Sieg des Judentions ulier
das Germanentuni". by a hitherto un•
known scribe, Nlarr, who de-
imindeil that the State should he a
national rims comprising only indi
victuals of the same racial origin
Nlarr argued that the lieterogencon ,
elements should either he absorbed
or eliminated. Such was the pseudo-
scientific principle of the new Anti-
Semitism. after%varils there
appeared another sensational pam-
phlet. by Otto l.ilogati, violently at-
tacking the le‘vs for their participa-
tion ill the commercial scandals.
Bismarck's Part.
The political impetus to .\ iiti-
Semitism was supplied by Bismarck.
Since 1877 the relations between
Bismarck and the National Liberals
had gradually become strained, after
the leaders of this warty, Lasker and
Bamberg-r, had helped the Iron
It is not surprising that evert creed and class should wish to Chancellor to bring about the con-
repudiate that wickedest and most degraded of the human species— solidation of the Empire.
Bismarck now wanted the support
the Kaiser. But for all that, it is intensely amusing to note the
of these leaders in his proposals for
mental gymnastics in which some of our friends of the Christian new taxes.
Lasker and Itamberger replied by
clergy indulge to prove that the Kaiser is not a member of the Chris-
tian church. The latest of these is Bishop Theinlore S. Henderson, demanding the introduction of a con-
stitutional and economic regime like
of the Nlichigan Diocese of the Methodist Church, who asserts that that in England, and as Bismarck
the Kaiser is not a Christian at all, but a :Mohammedan. He claims refused they led a powerful secession
even to have knowledge of his conversion to that faith and says that of National Liberals into Imposition.
Bismarck was then compelled to
many of the Kaiser's sayings are closely akin to sentiments ex- seek a new majority among the
Catholic
and Conservative parties.and
pressed in the Koran. .XII of which is, of course, very amusing.
in order to wreak his revenge upon
Christianity, since the war, has been compelled to change its
the "Judiased Liberals" he decided to
front on many important ethical problems. It has discovered that make use of the convenient weapon
Peace is, after all, not the highest of virtues and sonic of its great- supplied by Anti-Semitism.
From 1878 Anti-Semitism became a
est teachers have been hard put to it to show that not to Judaism
instinct political program. It was the
alone belongs the merit of having taught through the centuries the first time in history id a modern
doctrine of a Justice that is Higher than Love. But the latest at- State that candidates sought election
to Parliament on the ground of their
tempt to show that the Kaiser is not a Christian in faith, whatever
enmity towards Jews.
our
Id
camouflage
which
even
he may be in practice, is a species
The elections of that year resulted
respect for Christianity and its leading spokesmen cannot persuade ill an increase of Conservative mem-
bers, and an attempt was made to win
us is the right sort of thing for ministers id religion to indulge in.
over the masses of the people to the
Christianity is no more responsible for Kaiser Bill than Judaism is Conservative program by the founda-
for Trotzky or any other religion for this or that brute in human non of the Christian Socialist Party.
The Religion of the Kaiser.
to make it habitable for those Jews who chose to live there, ought to be form who chooses to call himself by its name.
given the unqualified moral and material support of all classes of Jews.
The sentimental associations clustering about the land of the fathers
Anti-Semitism A Monster 'Jewish Leaders Appeal
For Chaplains for Our
One.)
seated
200,000 Boys in Khaki
Stocker and Treitshke.
The founder of this new party was
the Court Preacher, Adolf Stocker,
who combined eloquence and energy
with social influence. eider his
tnakficein direction, there began a
campaign of abuse and hostility
against the Jews, which made their
m
rights a mere mock-
in a public scho o l in a large city not far from Detroit, a teacher cry. ,
told a questionable joke that reflected upon the integrity of Jews as Stocker created his Christian Social-
ism with a view to bringing the
a class. When the matter was brought by representatives of the
ithansi sr t ‘ .hs , under r utheng
f oorf tilu ti es
Jewish Anti-Semites.
their-genius-permit them to work out it system of government under indignant Jewish pupils of the class to the attention of the superin-
which they may live in peace and security, no sane person could raise tendent of schools, that gentleman—who is both fair-minded and
nefarious policy. Ile had the support
Lutherans, and
his voice against the carrying nut of their plan, which would be in the far-sighted—expressed his indignation and surprise that a person Of
binc r(ah inrai:idtativei so,ira.trid own•istihaux
tlii,erisr
direction of a normal development, though not by that token a fulfill- occupying so responsible a position as a teacher in a public high
ment of their world mission.
school, should so far forget himself and the dignity and the obliga- made in the Prussian Diet against the
It is our own belief that the very well-spring of Jewish life is his tions of his position as to tell so mean a story.
"But," he added to those who brought the complaint to him,
religious consciousness and that any plan to organize the Jewish life of
a community upon a large scale which is indifferent to or in any sense "I)o you not know where all such stories originate? It is Jews who
in opposition to the conception of the religious mission of the Jew, must tell than first. They tell them in their parlors and in their clubs
by that token fail. It would be in our opinion, a misreading of his his- and at their banquet tables. They tell them front the stages of our
tory and a distortion of his destiny. The religious ideal must be para- theatres and from the lecture platform, and they even write them
mount
in any scheme that
Tvould make for Jewish permanency.
down in books and newspapers."
To all of which, of course, the
Nor do we believe that a single homeland would solve the problem parties bringing the complaint could enter no denial..
of the Jew. Rather, it might tend to make his problem graver and more
This incident and its sequel is here quoted to bring home to the
difficult of solution. Ire ()dime that EVERY land should offer to the Jew that much of the prejudice Willa liON• exists against hint is of
Jew as to all others who accept with the rights, also the responsibilities
of eiti:enship, the opportunity to live within its boundaries, a free, ftdl,
and normal life in which self-development and self-realication are pos-
sible.
his own making. \Ve do not minimize. nor excuse the bigotry and
Messrs. Schiff, Straus, Marshall
and Others Urge Congrega-
' tions to Encourage and Sus-
tain All Rabbis Eager
for
This Holy Service.
"DO NOT FAIL IN
SPIRITUAL SUCCOR"
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NEW 1•01 K.—.\ powerful and
touching appeal for more Jewish
chaplains for the 200.000 Jewish boys
in American uniform has been sent
out from the headquarters of the Jew-
ish NVelfare Board.
The appeal comes in the form of
a letter to rabbis and congregations
throughout the United States signed
by Jacob II. Schiff, Nathan Straw..
Louis Marshall and Other Jewish re-
ligious and patriotic leaders. The let-
ter appeals to rabbis to enter tin
work and to congregations to Oder
any rabbi every needful assistanc e to
inaVe it possible for him to enter it,
urging that the congregation pay to
the rabbi's family: the difference be-
tween his regular income and the pay
of an army chaplain.
The Letter.
The letter in full is as follows:
Dear Friends and Fellow Jews:
There are now in the army and
navy of the United States approxi-
mately 100,000 Jewish young men.
A conservative estimate shows that
by the summer of 1919 there will
lie 100,000 more. It is essential that
these, our sons and brothers, shall
be aided in .their difficulties and
watched over in this critical period
of their lives by the household of
Israel, so that they may receive so-
lace, coin fort, advice and instruc-
tion in their trials and tribulations.
To that end the Jewish \Velfare
Board was organized.
To aid in the accomplishment of
that result the Government of the
United States has provided for the
appointment of Jewish chaplains,
who shall attend to the religious
needs of those of the Jewish faith
who are lighting the battles of the
republic.
Nothing can be more important
than that those who are charged
with the performance of this sacred
duty shall be men of character,
tactfulness and intelligence—m•n
who understand the soul of the
Jewish boy and who can keep ;dime
in the heart s of our youth the di-
vine spark of our ancient faith.
Those of other creeds are lookin
after their own sons who are in the
service. We cannot, we must not,
lag behind in meeting this nonce.
dolls responsibility.
The services of rabbis are Ulmer,
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Jews.
judenrcin
proclaiming
themselves
A petition was even addressed to
(free from Jcws1. Many watering
Bismarck praying for the exclusion
places and health resorts made the
of the Jews from the national schools
stay of Jewish visitors impossible."
and universities, and also from all
These senseless attacks upon Iln.
public offices.
Jews aroused a feeling of revulsion
Stocker found a powerful champion
among the enlightened intellectual
of his reactionary doctrines in the
element, and a manifesto, signed by a
historian Trettschke, who, through his
number of illustrious men, including
lectures at the Berlin University, was
Virchow and
able to poison the minds of the
Siemens. was published, denouncing
academic youth against the Jewish Moninisen, Gneist,
itis
. nti-Sem
A
in as a blot on German
people.
In his pamphlet, "Ein 'Wort, fiber culture and as a gross injusti, t.,
unsere Juden", Treitschke spoke of
the German Jews as "Posa
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si
1,1. 1e , J`..". " . themscivcs • But Si ' '' ' 'ag
feeling
i In conic
:no , toe , an t i-.1 eNish the
uatilit(hat
even .Momsen
was swept away
t
m
the narrow-mindedness and the ignorance that pre' ails against the engaged in the sale of tro
trousers",',
" described
b y
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' ew' as aa
Jew in Christian circles, butt we do hold that for much of it, the Jew wrote: "In the circles of educated
himself is responsible. •
It is then only with the political aspects of Zionism that any think-
Germans, who would protest itolig-
upon them to shake otf their chase
!tautly against the charge of religious element of decomposition and called
teristics and adopt Christianity.
or national intolerance, one single cry
Leasing Vilified.
is heard, 'The Jews are our misfor-
de-
On
, the other hand
"1 711 '.e " statements of Treitschke were fenders of the Jews. whether dead or
actually referred to by 'Von Putt- living, Were exposed to bitter slim
This very matter of telling ugly and suggestive stories about
ing Jews can be in disagreement. If Zionism is a mere colonization the Jew is a cast: in point. \•ito does not know how stories reflect-
scheme; or if it is a plan by which certain Jews now in oppression may ing upon the honesty and the integrity of the Jew are passed from
secure a place of refuge where they may live their lives as human beings
mouth to mouth in Jewish meeting places? To be sure, when a Jew
and not merely exist as brutes and beasts; or if it contemplates the cre-
A movement to raise a statue la
tells another Jew of the foibles of his co - religionists, there is seldom katner, who was appointed hlinister
ig,,r ,, ndy
of Public \Corship by li
Iterlin was
k, as Leasing
ation of a cultural center where the art and literature of the Jew may
any. malice in the telling. But once the story is told, it is bound to
nec e s s it of preserving
flourish anew and where prophets of God's word may arise again, it
eliaract
y
l ::re f rt\itit il ! (!•11=e1
s, and
by
( ;erIZ
pass beyond the first listener until it reaches the ears of those who the denotnittatiotil
would be stupid for any Jew to stand in opposition to the movement.
project was long deferred.
arc unsympathetic to the Jets and arc only too eager to spread a t i c schools.
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Similarly,
the
celebration
of \ila
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d bate
the
It seems to us, therefore—and this has always been our conviction as
tale that may seem to bear out an all too current opinion that lie is
reference to the past files of this paper will show—that if the unanimity
iovchow,
accustomed to play . the usurer or to burn his place of business for declared that the Anti . - Semitic
:
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s.
so much to lie desired is to be realized, it can be brought about by an
coo ,
the sake of collecting insurance. or to fail dishonestly- or to do any menu had received encouragement and Jewish cause, aroused a strong
material aid from the secret funds ter-agitation among German stude«i-
official declaration on the part of the authorized spokesmen of the Zionist
other of a dozen things of which from time immemorial his enemies of the government, which desired to I The Prussian Government, w h ich
organization that the Jewish State is not essential to the scheme and that
have accused him. sec some Jewish deputies defeated. was repeatedly appeal, d to, said that
while Palestine because of its sentimental associations seems to he the
deln',ri ec itcshcahnk,epi(u,:;ia f iu\ottlt ithsLe. tnilsL .acHae- it would protect the Jews in their
l'inloubt•dly, the most serious obstacle that lias arisen in the
constitutional rights, but it mad..
logical place of refuge for the Jets, it does nit stand as
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way of those who have sought to OVerconic the stage caricature of was seconded by Engen Duhring, a seal concessions to the Anti-Senn! , -
Instigated by the goverloniol, the
the Jew has been the fact that in nine cases out of ten, those guilty Socialist lecturer on philosophy,
It is not too late to bring alann that better understanding for which
whose antipathy to all products of Reichstag refused to grant J. w,-fi
of presenting this' Jew upon the stage in all unpleasant light, have the Semitic spirit was so strong that ministers of religion the same prio-
Butzel prays in his letter. But that it may come, Zionism must
themselves been (if Jewish extraction. This statement will be easily he even attacked Christianity.
tunes es were enjoyed by Christian
define itself in clear and unambigious terms. But even if this is impos-
ministers in regard to the discharge
i
university
verified by an examination into the facts of the case. Ender such luminaries
found innumerable
i
sible, let the campaign of mutual denunciation which has already gone
_ of military duty, whilst the Minister
circumstances, it conies with ill grace 1.11 the part if the J ew' to be
the . setni-official Nord- of Instruction, von l'UttkanWr, rt;
too far, come to a speedy close. Surely, Jews in America may differ
\a.esr
rtt
eternally protesting against the so-called "defamation" of the few /l eitogt-d
(- e r sun,e11;:e"Xli
in the tike h l:telttio t r erutt. iigr i n dulged
I l g icoutl
one front the ((tiler even upon great and vital issues and yet live together
grade
in Jewbaiting; nani(il
wle
in the press and on the stage.
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in a condition of peace and harmony. It is to be hoped that men of the
e leading
are Jews surprising ptehrasteceut
veiroyn IIR
rxiisNei sii.cial paper If:
But the evil goes farther than this. Only too often
societi es were formed by Gerillall ,t11
stamp of Mr. Buttel will go far to bring about this happy condition.
n ,
dents With a program of active At
to lie found who are actually guilty of industrial discrimination
and municipal eltetiociis,:aici;a01,
But the quarks
against their fellow - Jews and it is not at all an unheard - of thing for
were Snml ciliated by the
of labor to assert that they will not employ Jews to pamphlets or the press. The Jews
jewisli eployers
m
The President's Answer.
r te o 111ii ‘ e ,tt t " efirnsee(.1
in their p lace of business. The difficulty with these people is that,
aa Ills s roo f s of
like the defamers of the Jew who are themselves not Jews, they pass
man y rura l districts
leading u, numerous duels, often With
Every man in whose veins there courses the blood of true blanket judgments and because they may have hadsomee unfortunate their houses were removed, their a fatal consequence.
fruit-trees
were
cut
down,
and
their
Americanism will endorse every word contained in President Wil- experience with this or that individual of Jewish faith whom they
l)n New Vest's Etc, 1881. a band
olive-yards and cornfields were laid of 5111) :Anti-Semitic rowdies rushed
son's response to the peace overtures of our Teuton enemies. War- may have employed, they would shut their gates to all his fellows. waste.
land of the Jew.
weary as the nation is and eager for peace, we would yet not for
So long as these conditions exist, our battle against social anti-
one moment consent to a negotiated peace , insofar as that would imply Semitism will be a very difficult one for us to fight. Let its then,
compromise with the enemy. We have spilled too much of our first of all, be rid of our Jewish anti-Semites. I.ike charity. decency
precious blood and we have spent too much of our treasure to be and justice ought to begin at home.
willing at this time to yield in a single point that would give the foe
even a momentary advantage, much less that would imperil the
future of civilization for whose sake we have brought our supreme
sacrifices.
Of course, it would be a great mistake for the American people
through the Jewish quarters m lter"
1 ithe
all towns," says 1'rofes- lit, committing outrages whrreccr
soy
Martin
0 Philippson,
"the Jews they could. That these excesses ill,
found themselves boycotted in society, not become worse was solely due
and often also in business. Officers the restraining influence exercised by
and officials openly displayed Anti - the Socialist leaders, Bebel and 1.ii b-
Semitic papers, the students mocked knecht, among the working classes
and thrashed their Jewish comrades, (In an article to be published in
proceedings which often led to duels; The Jewish Chronicle next week. De'
in gymnatic and veterans' societies the Cohen will discuss the more recent
cry re-echoed: 'Out with the Jews!' history of German Anti-Sernmso•
Restaurants and hotels tried to bringing, the record down to the
attract the Anti-Semitic public by present day.)