New-York tribune., 1905-11-30
JEWS HERE go YEARS.
Oscar S. Strqus Speaks IN Boston at
Celebration Of Landing.

landing of the first Jewish settlers in America was
celebrated in Faneun Hall tonight. The hall was
crowded and many were unable to get in. Presi-
dent Charles W. Eliot Of Harvard University. Gov
ernor-elect Curtis Guild. jr, and Oscar 5. straus,
of New-York. were the principal speakers
Mr.. Straus gave a graphic history of the Jews
and their hardships and successes up to the present
day He said: #@1. d. .- "~ ..... ~ #~.
Few greater caiamItfes,s' says Lecky, ecan be-
fall nation than to cut herself off. France did
vi With e her own past Here IN this historical hall
dedicated by that great comnoner James Gus,
town meetings throbbing with the nascent prln-
samuel Adams ana Joseph warren Hrst oLgdRlzeu 4 4
resistance to arbitrary government 1t Is most Mt
Insignificant in itself. yet whose threads, dyed
in the blood of martyrs for soul liberty under
fitting place in the composite fabric Of our conti-
civil and religious liberties. The historian Of
the persecution of the Jews, DR.. KayseTlng, says:
, their history in America beginsi the lnquistion
is the last chapter Of the confessoFs s @ OF Jqqa
on the continent of the Western Hemisphere The
nd e ScoTey Sc See Of 9 m linked ogef6e
not only contemporaneous events, put also IN
Castelar,, in his history of Columbus, says that
as soon as Luis Santangel the controller genera OF
greatly helped to enlighten the Ghristlan Woriq,,
heard of the dismissal of Columbus he prevailed
upon the Queen to order his return, and when she
complained OF the emptiness OF the eastman ueas-
ing state OF the Aragonese finances. doqbtless says
the historian because Of the revenues derived ILI{
the coniscation OF the properly OF the eT sTa
Jews. From the archives OF SlmanGas. @ @Whlch arr are
whom the historian has named the Beacons-
field his time, and whose uncle OF the same name
and other kinSmen died at the stake in SaragoSsd'
not only was instrumental in connection with Juan
Cabrera also Of Jewish lineage, IN @ SucGtsl - Iy m
beyond question that he advanced the money thaL a
PERSONAL beI6ngfngs Furthermore the first and
the second letters of Columbus n@aTIaog @ me IaGc
of his great discoveries were addressed 70 oanta-
gel and his brother-in-law, also a Marrano, or Sc
In order TO obtain the crews to man the caraves
OF Columbus it was necessary 10 throw open the
Within their dungeon walls were found many mem.
bers Of the hunted and expelled race ana y ls @ ol
surprising that to such the dangers OF the u-
tbe tfae Fate 1t is known that the interpreter.
The surgeon and the physician of the fleet besides
several sailors who We're with columbus on @ Iiis - "a
of the last vessels transporting into exile
the Jews expelled from SPAN 6y oysafe5 and odious
tribunal of the faith was the embodlneht, PaSsiS5u Pi5
@h6ae W oae s ereaon 6g should be new born haven be
afforded to the quckening RrncIpe& & 81 rnahised
Spirit of reaction was wreaBng one of its stupen-
dous and futile crimes in that very hour when 3e the the
genius of liberty was searching the ai1ed
abode for the ideals Of progress .1, most an
Among the earliest, and certainly the it l!oSL e 81
lghtened, coonists who came 70 Ihis fq ~ Atiatic
South America and to the isanas IN IN te Ptgs,i In
order 70 escaRe M aP fhe HOLY Office The num-
her IF he nbidren and grandchildren Of those Jews
Who - had heen burned and condemned by the In
iret shortly after the discovery was 50 large that
Queen Johanna considered 1t necessary III 1''''
In 1925 When the Dutch West India Company
nd wSS s9bseouenty directors therein. and in 165
when the Dutch colony OF brazl cams came itie5 ~
4ae and seek a new place Of refuge In SEPTEMBER
ne @ 5af % Saar iT5eDtythree of these fugitiyes ar
id OF Lnat + ENsH,Amsterdam They did not receive
hearty welcome RX the lo' vhose conception Of
our future metropolis was to make lf a ]
LITTLE P PatHh gage WIEN TlTn six months months later the Gov
ernor endeayored to expel the nsWgoihsLs ~ -
H6Iand. and instructed that the right Of the Jews
TO live unmolested witnln tn roEbit them would
be unreasonable and unfair esPeciaiIy beaGs ~ 4a ~
cant1re Of Brazil and because Of the large amount
Of capital they had invested IN the slaies oI 'i7
This is the beginning Of the first JeEish settle fe
29th annivegsary e t n roHsh the persistent eorts
~ Inc SANE p T3ar TsraeI through the kindly favor
Of the tolerant Oliver Cromwell the Jews regalned
they had been expelled in 1890 uRder IN f Edward Il
should be here noted fat 0 of Of the es i'm Great
Britain was Roger Williams, that Immortal pioneer
Freen1an who was then in London to obtain new
cbsrter uniting the several Rhode Island towns
ent5s 5 81 sacIIre and safeguard those inestimabe
blessings TO which he c9nsecrated his life under
suades them one in ne name ne Of =. his GGd
brongbT the little bard Of hunted and desPoiled
fIIeitives from Brazil 10 our shores another niue
1laTl a
the stormy ocean. waited by the airs OF Heaven 70
yon bleak coast There she landed her little crew
~ rafIJgeeS-Irer. women and Children-on Plynl-
01Ith Rock that stepping stone to the tempe ot
orr liberties whose CapstOne. athed in the blood
Of. their descendants. was placed two hundred ana
liberator Abraham Lincoln. They were purists.
without priests priestly orders, separated from
the national church. but at with their tod
and drawing their Inspiration directly from the
Bible: not the CateChism OF Archbishop Lauu Dut
from the open Bible of Moses and Luther Ihey
years of struggle for freedom had prepared Tor
This voyage They studied the Old Testament in
order o better understand the New From the
their civil pOlity. from the laJ-
their church discipline and ceremonials Moses
their lawgiveT. the Pentateuch their code, ana
Israel under the judges their ideal of popular gov
ernnlent. The path Of the crusaders to recover
the Holy Sepulchre dyed with the blood OF
the hunted professors Of Judaism, and from
hatred organized by he Church against the peo-
TEEN. a feeling which carried with many
Of the Roman rites into the early Protestant
Church With the rise Of the PUTitans and their
struggle for iE dependence and freedom from &c
Clesiastcal tyranny a revival Of the study
of the Old Testament Hebrew and Of Hebraic
the Mosaic code and the Hebrew commonwealth
living realities. intense their interest
earnest was their religious life. No architect /
his plans with more fidelity of purpose 10 re-
construct a building after ancient model than /
the PuTtans study this Biblical code and the !
Iebraic form of government which they endeav-
orcd to apply literally their Canaan. Else (
whore / have dwelt in detail upon the Hebraic !
mortar that cemeuted the foundations OF our /
American democracy. and how through the win |
dOTs of The Puritan churches the West looked |
back 10 the old East
Il vas only a few yeats after their first settle