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jmmmfmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm ways found Jew-baiting a fine means of fanning the fire of Polish nation alism; and that sickeningly nonsensi cal, bloody Judas myth has ever made his kind chuckle. What came of this in the present situation is plain and was expected. Patriotic Poles frankly called their Jewish compatriots trait ors to the Germans when the latter were present, and pointed out their neighbors as spies and betrayers be Afore the Russians when these were in local powr. The lies were flimsy, the accusations ill-woven; but many Jews were led to the gibbet In Lublin fif teen young men on one occasion found a bitter death in this way. This is one specific case, and hundreds like it are awaiting inquiry. Even old men were hanged. The uniformed Russian hooligans whipped to death even graybearded old men in crazy attempts to make them confess "the secrets imparted to them by the Ger man general staff." And recently the worst began. The Russian bear is crawling back to his lair and he drives his Jewish subjects before him. Whole communities of Courland and Polish Jews are made to move in front of the retreating Muscovite armies. Tehy are weak and helpless, sickness rages among them. And in this condition, while their fathers and brothers are in the battle line giving their lives away for the same oppressor, women and chil dren are forced to leave their homes and walk as the railroad cars are for cattle, not for Jews walk to holy Russia. Why are these simple people driven from their homes and treated in this ruthless manner? Here is the an swer: Because the Jews are, in a way, responsible for the Russian defeats mp the unmuffled imputation runs. Now this is not at all interesting. It is certainly much more pleasant to peruse flamboyant accounts of the latest god-like appearance of the kai ser in his newest mantle, before his cheering troops. And your press re alizes this truth. It knows that dying Hebrews will never make a savory subject, and the sympathy with suf fering Polish Jews will at no time be as fashionable as sympathy with suf fering Belgians. And therefore you don't know that, at the present mo ment, the Jews in the western prov-r inces of Russia are undergoing great er persecution and misery than befell their kind in the medieval ghettoes, on the racks and fires or Spain, and a few years ago in the same Russia. . But understand this is a matter of blood and tears, And when one comes close to his genuine self, blood and tears supersede mustachioijI'Kai sers and the rest of that current ibam and show and becomes even Interest ing. Turn then your eyes to the east and see how weep and bleed my brothers and sisters in Europe. H. C. S. LOOP PRESS WAYS. It is sure ly interesting to note the amount of space the morning papers are giving to the Armour robbery and how lit tle space or prominence they gave tp ,the unveiling of the Altgeld me morial statue. If the loop papers gave as much space to educating the public along the lines of the economic philosophy which Gov. Altgeld lived for and died for it would not need to take space to illustrate the struggle be tween the house of want and the. home of have. R, F, C, - o o IT WAS As a steamer was leaving the har bor of Athens, a well-dressed young lady approached the captain and, pointing to the distant hills, inquired: "What is that white stuff on the hills, captain?" "That is Bnow, madam," replied the captain. "Well," remarked the lady, thought so myself, but a gentleman just now told me it was Greece." o o - "Nice people" are the ones who use charge accounts. MAIMMiMMMMMMMMMMMM