El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1911-01-20

pared by a Jew. The superintendent
Of the expedition was Jew and the in
terpreter, Louis de Torres, was a Jew.
$50 it happened that the first white
man to set foot on American soil was
Jew, Louis de Torres
1.-The first colony of Jews was es-
tablished in New Amsterdam in 1854
when Jacob Simpson and Jacob Abouff
landed there. The following year %
came from Brazil but among chem were
some whose goods would not pay for
the voyage and therefore they were
thrown into jail.
Persecution of the jew.
Peter Stuyvesant, whose head was
as wooden as one Of his legs, wrote
to Holland protesting against the in
flux of Jews, but finally permitted
them TO colonize there provided they
would take care Of their own poor. And
if the old Dutch governor could look
down on New York today he would be
proud of, the way the Jews have done
that There are 100000 Jews in New
York, one in every four of the popula-
tion and of this number only 26 were
at the expense of the county last year
and they only because Of disease they
had contracted prevented them being
cared for elsewhere. The Jews of New
York give 100000 a year to their
charitable institutions.
Denied Rights of Trade.
For long time in New York the
Jews could not secure a place for wor-
ship. There was a law against their
embarking in the retail trades. Now
they own $1,000, 900, 900 worth of real
estate and do $1,000, O0o,O 900 worth Of
wholesale trade a year
They were not allowed to have po-
liticaI authority until 1877. New York
was the first state to give full relig-
ious liberty but up to 1925 the Jews
were not allowed to hold political office
unless they believed in the Trinity.
TT was not until 1876 that Vermont
wiped out its law against the Jews
politically. In 1749 there was riot
against two Jews in New York because
they had been successful enough to
own horses and carriages and the
Christians destroyed their carriages and
killed their horses.
Prominent in Wars.
ITO the first organized movement to
enforce the non Importation agreement
in New York in 1870, the names of six
Jews were signed. At the beginning
of the revolution there were only about
5000 Jews in the colonies but more than
175 of these. among whom were 81 Of
ficers, served in the war and Daniel
Mordecai Noah, Col David S. Franks
and Col. Isaac FRANKS. Mai. Benz
MONIES and surgeon Philip Moses Rus
sell served with distinction.
when money was badly needed to
feed the soldiers and further the cause
Hiram Solomon gave more than $685.
600 for the purpose yet not one cent
of this has ever been paid back.
War of 1912.
"In the war of 1912 Gen. Jos. Bloom
field and Judah Arturo were prominent
The latter gave $4,000 toward the $2O,-
600 to build the Bunker Hill monument
and he it was who bought a Christian
church in New Orleans which had been
put under the hammer, and gave it back
to the congregation.
I'm the Mexican war David De Leon
was twice thanked by congress for his
bravery on the field of battle.
Just prior to the civil war Uriah
Phillips Levy. a commodore, secured the
abolition of corporal punishment in
the United States navy.
Anti Slavery Movements.
TN 1868 Michael Greenbaum led a
crowd that saved a captured negro
slave from a United States marshal in