New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1898-05-22
YIDDISH WAR COMMENT.
EAST SIDE JEWISH PAPERS ENTHUsI-
ASTIC PATRIOTISM
THEY REMEMBER SPANS PERSECUTION OF
THEIR RACE. AND sYMPATHIZE
WITH CUBA.

The Jewish Gazette" one OF the East Side Yid-
dish papers. says in recent editorial
No special appeal to the patriotism Of the Jew is
required In order 20 exhort his enthusiasm for the
the United states ~ America and that hotbed Of
religious intolerance and hloodthrsty persecution
which is known as the Kingdom OF Spain II is
sinful TO think Of revenge. but the Jewish people
cannot help remembering Spain
Toward the end ~ the fifteenth century the Jews
in Spain. though they suffered severely from time
20 time were IN good repuie In most or all OF the
ediy honored the lives OF their greatest men were
given to studies that benefited the State for gen
erations they had collected and studied the writings
~ antiquity AZ a time when the races around them
devotlng the best years Of their lives to fight
The discovery OF America comedies with the be-
ginning OF Spanish decay. This country Of ours
this hemisphere from Spanish misrule and Spanish
barbarities.
All this the Jewish masses may not know.
Classes philosophizc. But they feel II in
their blood and marrow they perceive IT with their
entire being. This circumstance acco units perhaps
who fed from Russia in order 10 evade military
service under compuls'on willing and 80
eager enlist and risk their lives FOR the Stars
spain is a progressive night FOR liberty and peace
In another article the same paper says under the
head Of DUTY OF the Hour
when Europe slowly emerging from the
famous IN tho Moorish schools OF Cordova and
Toledo and later IN the Salerno and Montpelier for
their knowledge OF medicine. philosophy and math-
have never ceased Ia Spain. The historian Llorento
tells us that the Inquistion alone inundated on It's
scanolds upward OF three hundred thousand people
In the course OF three centuries Perhaps the great
part OF the victims were Jews.
To-day Spain stands tottcring. very shadow of
herself fallen INTO distress and poverty while the
peopI, she sought 70 eNterrnate pursue their des-
tiny steadily and hopefully. Persecution still cx-
lsts but with the example of the past ages before
hr the Jew goes steadily on hoping Tor the day
when he and his brethren may be allowed 10 live In
made itself felt wealth and temptation thinned his
ranks the faults OF exponents OF his own faith
70 so steadily forward preserving traditions AMI
carrying the great history forward TO its destina-
II il one of the mos, wonderful idences in the
history 81 the civilized world that this Western
reached It's climax. Since that time Spain has been
sradualiy horn ot Its H2wer and prestige In
At last this country is at war with Spain! The
indeed. that to This glorious land of liberty should
land Of tyranny cruelty and bigotry May the pun
shmen, be terrible, for 1t has been deserved!
muskets 10 night in holy cause. what IL the duty
Of brethren? Can they FORGET the he martyrs oil
wheel the auto da fe. the stake and the flame? Can
n forget the h Min aga as G"s he
lips? Can they forget those who died FOR God and
s sish,y thousand pcrished in one day? No No
"rhey have forgotten to forget-they have forgot
ten to forget
A writer I'm The Jewish Press says:
The general mass OF Jews. II Is needless 10 say
sympathize with the United 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 TIE victorious progress OF Uncle
sam whose disnterested Intervention on behalf OF
freedom and civilization will add glorious page TO
history Who can appreciate such an act better
than The Jews-the Cubans Of ancient and modern
history? We suffered the bondage OF Egypt's
tyrants the Pharaohs OF the nineteenth dynasty.
who were then Weylers. lsraes woe then
echoed Cuba's woe to-day. throughout the
hoped for Dewey and Moses arose With his
sagacty he overwhelmed the tyrant But what Is
the Egyptian tyrant in comparison with the Span
ish Inqrlsitors who roasted us alive for the crime
OF being born OF Jewish parents. who burnt our
homes and violated daughters in the blaze OF
our burning synagogues. ard who inally exed us
I'm the name Of Christianity. which we have given
10 them In the name OF the meek Nazarene. the
great Peasant-Teacher. who vas only Jew. We
condemn Spain and expect her dow mall
through the mighty arm Of our glorious Union.
GOVERNOR RAMSDELL WANTS 500 RIFLES
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