El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1911-04-18

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fore the council of the Union of Ameri-
can Hebrew congregations, in New
York, which appeared in the Herald
recently, is worthy Of more than a
passing notice, as his utterances sug-
gest much of interest to the world at
large and much of vital interest to
all orthodox Jews.
Mr.. Straus. among other things,
said: America is peculiarly a prom
ised land, wherein the spirit of the
teachings of the ancient prophets in
spired the work Of the fathers of our
country" Could he not have added,
without exaggeration, that the United
States is the Israel Restored" prom
ised by the same ancient prophets?
This is undoubtedly the belief Of
many scholarly men who, Judging by
their writings. believe that the dis
covery Of America by Columbus was
the first step in the mighty work Of
God in the gathering again Of the
dispersed Jews, from all the nations,
and from all the places whittier I have
driven you" is not the United States
the nation of the prophet Isaiah had
in mind when he said:
Behold. thou shalt call a nation that
thou knowest not, and nations that
knew not thee shall run unto thee,
because Of the Lord thy God" Are
We not the people Of whom the prophet
spoke when he said: ''The Lord God
which gathereth the outcasts of Israel
saith Yet will I gather others to him,
besides those that are gathered unto
him." A people whom God hath
made both Jew and Gentle one, and
hath broken down the middle wall Of
partition between u.s." Christ broke
down that partition" and he IS Jew
now who is circumcised in the heart,
which truth was first announced by
one Of the greatest Of Jews Such
Jews dominate and absolutely control
and determine the policy of the United
States today, and many profound
thinkers and scholars assert that a
vast majority of the people of the
United States are blood descendants OF
Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, children
OF the lost tribes, and of those Jews
converted to Christ under the preach
ing Of st. Paul, St. Peter. the apostles
and those teachers who followed them.
In short the United States is a Jewish
nation and here the orthodox Jew is
at home He is among his own blood,
his kith and kin, the Chosen People"
of the Almighty, through and by whom
the prophetic sayings Of all the an
cient prophets will be fulfilled and the
holy land be restored to its rightful
owners.
A Jews Discovery.
Mr. Straus in the following stated
a great truth:
TT was Luis Santangel the Bea-
consfield of his time assisted by his
kinsman, Gabriel Sanches. the royal
treasurer of Aragon, who advanced out
of his own purse II 900 florins. which
made the voyage of Columbus possible.
Luis de Torres, the interpreter. as well
as the surgeon and the physician OF
the little fleet, besides everal Of the
sailors who were with Columbus on
his first voyage. were Jews"
He could have truthfully added, be-
cause it is a matter Of record, it is
said, that a Jew first sighted the new
land and the first foot,to press its soil
was that of q. Jew. In very truth, the
mother Of Columbus was a Jewish wo-
man, and Spanish Jew, a historian.
asserts his father was an Italian Jew.
Continuing, Mr.. Straus said:
Looking back through this vista Of
more than four centuries as Americans
and as Jews, we have reason to re-
member with justified gratitude the
foresight and signal services of those
Spanish Jews who had the wisdem to
divine the far-reaching possibilities OF
the plans of the great navigator, whom
king and queen, dukes and grandees
regarded as a a visionary babbler. and
"a scheming adventurer.' The Jewish
patrons. who caused Columbus or as
he was then called, Christopher Colon,
to be recalled, and who advanced the
security and without interest, saw, as
by a divine inspiration, the promise
and possibility OF the discovery of an
other world, which in the words of the
late Emilio Castelar, the historian.
statesman, and one time president of
SPAIN would afford to the quickening
principles of human liberty temple
reared to the God of enfranchised and
redeemed conscience, a land that would
offer an unstained abode to the ideals
of progress. The records of these
transactions are fortunately still pre-
served in the archives of Sfmancas in
Seville
Jews and not the king and queen
of Spain supplied Columbus with mon
ey for his great undertaking. The
merciless ecclesiastics Of Spain, in
their secret cloisters concocted the
story of the Spanish queen having
pawned her Jewels to furnish Column
bus with money, and this story was
not given to the world until the vast
importance of the discovery was es-
tablished
Emilio CASTELAR,, whom Mr. Straus
Quotes, was the greatest statesman in
all the history Of Spain, and in a care
fully prepared paper which he publish
ed in 1875 he predicted it is the des-
tiny of the United States to dominate
the world, and in the same paper he
warned Spain, that without radical
change in her policy the inevitable re-
suit would be her Punishment by the
United States from the western hem
isphere This prediction has been full