New-York tribune., 1911-01-19


idealsm and l want 10 see these continue
One of my favorite bits Of literature is the
| Books Of the Maccabees. I want 10 see
! a reign Of peace or earth, but not OF weak
! ness and tmidity | don't want 70 see the
Maccabee spirit die out either in Jew or
Christian"
He alluded to services Of Jewish soldiers
in his regiment at Santiago and the way
they earned promotion, and also as patrol
men when was Police Commissioner.
when Rector Ahlwardt, Of Berlin, came
here 10 hold an anti-semtic meeting.
detailed thirty Jewish policemen 10 give
him the protection he desired said the
| speaker
No Hyphenated Americans.
Misrepresentation Is the main difference
| between one set OF Americans and an
other" he said "and through mutual SYM
pathy we must learn that the things that
divide us are superficial. and the things
| that bind us very fundamental. Our sue
| cessors will look back with amusement on
these differences. There are countries
! where there is oppression, but no race can
rise by trampling another. It will fall with
| the downtrodden. LoweIrs All men up is
a safer cry than some men down. and the
! right motto. l don't believe IN the terms
| irish American, German American, Jewish
American, and so on. American Is good
enough for IFS all, and you are Americans
I have talked TO you of virtues and things
| that you should live by. but have only
after all stated the old verities."
Mayor Gaynor was present, and when
called on, stood by the side of his secre-
tary Robert Adamson, who read the
speech. The Mayor had written:
You have brought down to US in an un-
| broken line from even before the time of
| Abraham. yea, from that border line where
/ begins, tho one great lineage and tradition
OF the world: a pure belief in the one true
| His providence over all you have given to
US as & living fact. And from it we realize
! the universal brotherhood OF man. through
which the long and ineXplicabls persecr-
! ton of the Jews by Christian nations IS
drawing. 10 a close, even In the one re-
naming Christian nation where IL still has
| a foothold. The Christians inherit from the
| Jews their belief in the one God. Jesus
was born Of the Jewish race We have APP
nropriated 10 ourselves the entire Jewish
| sacred scriptures, the Old Testament, as
| we call It. And all Of the scriptures OF our
! New Testament were written by Jews ..
| brother through n common God. we have
| only 20 realize these things that there may
| linger in our hearts no feeling against thee.
Oscar S. Straus recited the fact that the
voyage Of Columbus was financed by Luis
Santangel, the "Beaconsfed Of his time"
assisted by his kinsmsn, Gabriel Sanches.
royal treasurer Of Aragon, and went on
10 say:
| Circumstances destined this country from
| the very beginning 10 be the land Of the
and the prosecuted II the Pilgrims, the
! PuritanS and the Huguenots brought with
| them, as they certainly did, the remem-
brance OF sufferings for ideals and the
| that remembrance and with how much
greater intensity did that spirit glow in
| the souls of the Jews whose whole history
is record of martyrdom, OF suffering and
Of sacrifice for the ideals OF civil and re-
! lgioUs liberty While ZiOnsm Is a child
of despair In countries where the victims
| Of oppression are still counted by millions
| the repubicansm OF the United States is
| tho nearest approach 10 the ideals of the
| prophets Of Israel that has ever been in
! corporated in the form OF state.
Jacob Il. schiff Speaks.
Jacob II. schiff, the toastmastor, said:
Even if We are progressives in the con-
/ struCtion Of the doctrines of our faith we
! nevertheless moan 70 uphold It for its
| worth. not only 10 ourselves, but alike TO
mankind The mission OF reform Judaism
| IL not to discord. but TO reconstruct. not TO
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| basic conditions for assured future so
| that our posterity may remain within our
faith, ss proud Of & as our ancestors were
| ready to bring every conceivable sacrifice
| to maintain and perpetlate II. II IS our
! proud and justified claim that In this city
| Of million people Of the Jewish faith
| and this Is no doubt the case elsewhere in
| the United States--it ~ the reform Jew
| who has In the main created and looks
after the proper management not only OF
| Jewish charity institutions, but also after
| ~ ma n I'D al
| and cultural efforts within the Jewish COM
| munity.
Telegrars were received from President
Taft and Governor Dix.
Tho council will end to-day with
morning session at the Hotel Astor and
reception IN the evening al Temple BETHEL
| Fifth avenue and 18th street.
Attacks immigration Bureau.
At the second morning session Of the
Union Of American Hebrew Congregations
the delegates heard a stlff criticism of the
Inmisra ton Commission ana the methods
! OF the immigration service az the hands Of
| Max J. Kohler. a lawyer, who has been
interested in various immigration cases.
| He said that as result of what he termed
| the present harsh immigration laws and
the still more drastic laws CONTEMPLATED"
| the country was I'm Know Nothing era,
He used figures 10 demonstrate his asser-
ton that Jewish exclusion was greater
| than ever before; others 10 show the coun-
try was not overpopulated and needed
more settlers, and he vigorously opposed
the proposed lIteracy tests, which, he said,
would dobar many Jews and people from
| Southeastern Europe.
After characterizing the legal phrase
| likely 10 become public charge" as be-
| Ing susceptible Of TOO wide construction, he
oontrasted the immigration bureau as con
Quoted under the Department Of Commerce
and Labor with the policy observed when
the bureau was under the Treasury De-
| partment
Then" he said, there was some re-
lationship between law and administration,
and though judicial review ceased, law and
| payertbalaSg uTnNailed instead "A