The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1906-03-18
JEW ARGUES
FOR zIONISM
Max N. Aaron Makes a Spirited Re-
ply to Rabbi Freund's Fri
day Sermon.
SAYS 1T is HOPE OF RACE
NOTHING IN IT. HE SAYS, INCON-
SISTENT WITH AMERICANIsM

Whether Zionism is a good thing is
being discussed by Salt Lake Jews. Rabbi
G J. Freund, in sermon Friday night,
took the view that it is not good thing,
and the following article in reply was
written by Max NJ. Aaron, orator of the
knights of Zion:
IT Is beyond my comprehension why
KaDm treund preached to his congrega-
ton his diSapprOVal of ZiOnism unless il
be that the platform of reform Judaism
demands him to oppose all that is con-
Tary to assimilation. No Steadfast Jew
Will ever become assimilated, but will re-
main one or his peculiar sect and always
profess Judaism pecularities. The Jew
must forever be peculiar, in religious OBJ
SerVanceS and culinary preparations, as
well as in separate and distinct, though,
alas, scattered, nation, and no traditional
law alleviates its hardships by permitting
assimilation.
Every faithful Jew has among his pc
cullarities lions ideal, which will even
tua1ly be transformed into a reality.
Every faithful Jew knows his allegiance
to Palestine If l forget thee, JeruSa-
lem, may. my right hand forget its cum
roof Of my mouth
''Anti-Semites do not allow Jews to
forget Jerusalem, especially in Russia
Even in Denver, of this free America,
two Christian gentlemen celebrated this
last Christmas by stoning Jew 10
death because he was a typical Jew ana
because IT was grand sport Not for
nothing did ZangWlf write, when De
scribing the travels of Moses Ansell: To
be Spat upon was the very condition OF
existence of the modern Jew, deprived OF
Palestine and his temple, footsore men
dicant, buffeted and reviled, yet the dear
er to the Lord God who had chosen him
from the nations
And yet the good man of God does not
admit that Zi0niSm is a solution to the
Jewish question What is Zionism?
Zionism is an idea of or the BELIEF in a
legally assured home for the Jews what
is the Jewish question? The Jewish ques-
ton is How can we get the Jews out
of the reach of persecution, directed or
permitted by tyrants, and out OF the
reach of the scOrnfui hatred of anti
Semites2 There seems need of no fur-
Their explanation that Monism does SoiVe
the Jewish question.
THE rabbi maintains that the Jewish
question must solve itself. do not see
how it can unless we remain tongue-ued
and continue to receive reports Of terri
bile massacres until our cO-reiiglonlSts are
extinguished so that there are no more
to torture. To do this would not be talth-
full and, to be sure, 1nhuman- II the
millions that were given TO alleviate the
conditions of the surviving sufferers could
have been previously given to secure then
a legally assured home, Wouldn II nav :.
been better2 Common sense tens us IL is
nobler to exterminate sufferings tnan 10
alleviate them -.
Let no man become impressed that
enthusiastic LiOHlSiS CdtAiACt " 80 -
Americans Although cruelty might Sep&-
rate a child from its mother, that cnlla
can aDDreciate the kindness of its adopted
mother and at the same time long for
lis own. or at least try that his less for
inmate brother who fell into the hands or
a wicked mother, should redeem ITS own
narent- |. an American-born citizen, born
and reared in the nations capital, find
pride in saying that / sought the oppoT-
f,,uities which afforded me hearty hand
shakes with every president, and his wife,
who presided during the time Of my lie,
and that witnessed every inauguration
80 of Americas loss when l saw Nc
Kiniev in his coffin in the rotunda OF the
CAPITOL building, and yet 1 am Zion