Abstract

Poison in the Melting-Pot

The German-American Bund at Madison Square Garden, New York, on February 20, gave the worst exhibition of Jew baiting ever seen in the United States. Alongside this mass effort at character assassination it is quite justifiable to place two other attacks upon Jews, stabbing's with knives instead of words, one occurring a few days before the Bund rally and the other a few days afterward. Jews by non-Jews, not withstanding the anti-Semitic battle cries. But it can be said that these stabbing's are accurate symbols, at least, of what is bound to result from the anti-Jewish rabble rousing now going on in New York. The German-American Bund rally was unfortunately no more than a magnified conglomerate of numerous other meetings held every week in New York, in obscure balk and on street corners, from Yorkville to the far edges of the city, all inducing hatred and inciting to violence.