El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1898-06-16
lives of their greatest men we're given

lives OF their greatest men were given
to studies that benefited the state; for
generations they had collected and
studied the writings of antiquity at
time when the races around them were
devoting the best years of their lives to
fighting.
The discovery of America comedies
with the beginning of Spanish decay.
This country OF ours seems to be pre-
destined by . good providence to rid
this hemisphere from Spanish misrule
and Spanish barbsrities.
All this the Jewish masses may not
know. G assess never philosophize.
row, they perceive it with their entire
being. This circumstance accounts
perhaps for the fact that thousands of
Jewish young men who fled from Rus
sic in order to evade military service
under compuision are 80 willing and 30
eager to enlist and risk their lives for
the Stars and Stripes. They feel that
the present war with Spain Is pro-
gretsive fight for liberty and peace.
In another article the same paper
says under the head of ''Duty of the
Hour":
When Europe was slowly emerging
from the darkness of absolute ignor-
snce our ooreligionists were famous in
tho Moorish schools OF Cordova and
Toledo, and later in the Salern0 and
Montpelier, for their knowledge OF
medicine, philosophy and mathema-
tics. In spite of ali that, massacres of
Jews have never been ceased in Spain.
The historian Llorento tells us that
the inquisition alone inundated on its
scafolds upward of three hundred
thousand people in the course of three
centuries. Perhaps the greatest part
of the victims are Jews.
Today Sp in stands tottering, q vers
shadow of herself, fallen into distre y
and poverty, while the people she
sought TO exterminate pursue their
destiny steadily and hopeful ly. Per-
ample of the past ages before him the
Jew goes steadily on, hoping for the
day when he and his brethren may be
allowed to live 10 peace. The pressure
OF outside circumstances has made it
self felt; wealth and temptation
thinned his ranks: the faults of ex-
ponents of his own faith have driven
some away, but q solid phalanx is left
to go steadily forward preserving
traditions sand carrying the great
history forward to its destination.
It 10 one of the most wonderful coin
cidences in the history of the civilized
world that this Western Hemisphere
was discovered when Spanish cruelty
reached its climax. Since that time
Spain has been gradually shOrn OF its
power and prestige in . measure as the
New World grew in strength, wealth
and liberty.
At last this country is at war with
Spain. The hour of Spain's end has
struck, aud It's awful career of brutal
ity 10 nearing an end. 1t is fitting,
fndao6 that thia 0lOrinuo land Of
liberty should be assigned the duty of
Furnishing that iniquitous land of ty-
ranny, cruelty and bigotry May the
punishment be terrible, for it has been
deserved.
And in this hour, when freeme are
muskets to fight in holy
cause, what is the duty OF our brethren?
Can they forget the martyrs of the in
QUESTION? Can they forget the rack;
tn flame? Can they forget the holy
men and women, the flower OF our
race, who died with "Shema Israel"
on their lips? Can they forget those
who died for God and Judaism? Can
they forget the expulsion, when eighty
thousand perished in one day? No!
No! They have forgotten to forget
they have forgotten to forget"
A writer in the "Jewish Press"
says:
The general mass of Jews, it is need
less to say, sympathiEe with the Unit
ed States and with Cuba, and ardently
hope for the success of the American
arms. They pray daily in the sacred
language of the PROPHETS for the VIC
torious progress of Uncle Sam, whose
Intervention on behalf of
freedom and civilization will add a
glorious page to history. Who
can appreciate such an act better |
than the Jews-the Cubsns of ancient |
and modern history? We suffered the
bondage of Egypt's tyrauts, the Phar- |
aohs of the nineteenth dynasty, who |
we're then our Weylers. Israel's woe
then re-echOed, as Cuba's woe today,
the gloomy desert. The