Waterbury evening Democrat., 1905-12-01
COMING OF THE JEWS
Cleveland at Anniversary oi
 Landing of Hebrews.
PRESIDENT TESTIFIEs GOOD WILL

"whiIe They Have Remained Faith
 full to Their Traditions They Have
 Become Loyal Citizens of
 the United states."
 NEW YORK, Dec. 1.-The two hun dred and fiftieth anniversary of the coming of Jews to America was cele- brated by an immense mass meeting in Carnegie hall here. Former President Grover Cleveland and Governor Frank Wayland Higgins were chief speakers. A letter from President Roosevelt was read Among other distinguished men who made addresses were Mayor Nc Clellan. Bishop Coadjutor David Greer anr the Rev Dr. H. P. Mendes.
 The hall was decorated with Ameri.- can flags. A choir from the Peoples Choral union and the New York Sym phony orchestra filled the large plat form. The music was under the direc- ton of Frank Damrosch. After the playing of an overture by Mendelssohn Rabbi SilvermRn offered prayer. The speakers who followed were introduced by Jacob H. Schiff, the chairman.
 Mir. Cleveland said in part:
 If the people of the United States glory in their free institutions as the crown of mans aspiration for self gov ernment. let them not be unmindfui Of the fact that the Jews among us have in their care and keeping the history and traditions of an ancient Jewish commonwealth astonishingly like our own republic in its democracy and un- derlying intention This ancient com monwealth was ordained of God for the government of his chosen people, and we should not close our minds to conception of the coincidence in divine purpose. discoverable in the bestowal of a similar plan of rule, after thou sands of years, upon the people of the United States, who also had their be- ginning in willing submission to Gods sovereignty and the assertion of free dom in his worship"
 President Roosevelt's message was in part as follows:
 "I am forced to make a rule not to write letters on the occasion of any celebration, but make an exception in this case because the lamentable and terrible suffering to which so many of the Jewish people in other lands have been subjected makes me feel it my duty as the head of the American peo- pie to express my deep sympathy for them. feel very strongly that if any people are oppressed anywhere the wrong inevitably reacts in the end on those who oppress them, for it is an immutable law in the spiritual world that no one can wrong others and yet in the end himself escape unhurt
 "The celebration of the two hundred and fiftieth anniversary of the settle ment of the Jews in the United States properly emphasizes a series of his torical facts of more than merely na- tionaI significance. Even fin our colo nial period the Jews participated in the upbuiIding of this country. Dur ing the Revolutionary period they aid ed the cause of freedom by serving in the Continental army and by substan- tial contributions to the empty treas ury of the republic. During the civil war thousands served in the armies and mingled their blood with the soil for which they fought I am glad to be able to say that while the Jews of che U~rf0aa G4as.u rwho nr4rnf4n~ rranro than a million. have remained loyal to their faith and their race traditions they have become indissolubly incor- pOrated in the great army of American citizenship. prepared to make all sacri- fees for the country, either in war or peace, and striving for the perpetuation of good government and for the main tenance of the principles embodied in our constitution