The weekly chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Craig County, Okla.) 1905-1913, 1911-01-27
sfed Press.

4 of, the United States is the
Happroach to the ideals of the
OF Israel that has ever been
hated in the form of a state,
oscar S. Straus, ambassador
Ay in an address delivered last
10 the second annual council of
son of American Hebrew Con-
n Ans held at the Hotel Astor.
IA Is peculiarly a promised
|ISheren the spirit of the teach
1.-THE ancient prophets inspired
Il of the fathers of cur coun-
gtraus spoke upon, America
Spirit of American Judaism"
ress follows:
ssnirit of American Judaism
|thtserted itself when Stuyvesant
Vernon of New Amsterdam,
phsIet4permit the few Jewes who
Il Mated from Portugal, to unite
6ins other burghers in standing
r i Ior the protection of their
II when the tax collector came
Legs Levy to collect a tax on this
nto Hba osked If that tax was inn
to all the residents of New Am
ople No. was the reply, it is
/ susosed upon the Jewes because
bot stand guard L have not
efly \ be exempted replied Asser
|lowiysm not only willing, but l de-
ved al right to stand guard
|ntantight the Jewes have asserted
aftereised as officers and in the
|earefthe continental army and in
Cruce sis of our national history
of thS time until the present day,
L srican spirit and the spirit
can Judaism were both nur-
IN The same cradle of liberty.
IN 1 together in origin, in ideals,
|%4ssgtorical Development The
Aapter of the chronicles OF
Dts on the Iberian peninsula
pening chapter of their his.
rs continent. 1t was Luis
the Beaconfield of his
'sted by his kinsman Gabriel
Oo"the Royal Treasurer of Ara
10 Bdp advanced out of his own
E2een thousand forms which
Voyages of Columbus pos.
8 de Torres, the interpreter
the surgeon and the physi
2 little fleet, besides several
Elahomr rs, who were with Columbus
compE voyage, were Jewes.
,s.ax..S Sb9ck k through this visit OF
tl&ur Centuries as Americans
Fs, we have reason to re,
SCI wy Lh justified gratitude the
both nd signal services of those
repffges who had the wisdom to
edarssfat-reaching possibilities of
the great navigator, whom
55een, dukes and grandees
a visionary babbler, and
ag adventurer. The royal
-, afe finally won over by the
columbus might discover
-, Yer of gold and precious
- inrich the Spanish crown.
cs., with the Jewish patrons,
Columbus, or, as he was
Christopher Colon, to be
%ho advanced the money
- caravels without security
interest, as they saw, as
inspiration, the promise
of the discovery of an
(which in the words of
| ~ -, NO Castelar,, the historian,
u 'no ind one time president of
~ ~ afford to the quickening
human liberty a temple
a God of enfranchised and
Snscience, a land that
sl0llAafM unstained abode to the
|RGHNFress.
ids of these transactions
fnf1y still preserved in the
"Eimancas in Seville.
70 speculate upon hypo-
es in the face of the facts
/ course, America would
20 K 5vered and colonized
Flal OF ever lived, but had the
chargeY beginnings of American
ketchel 1from other sources into
pc deten9s it would be futile even
empt 10 taginative forecast of the
wealthy {uld have produced upon
hetchehd development of this
the tat3e merciless intolerance
kpect tod .stical system and the
pc counstpersecutions stimulated
|kerson Immigration, and subse-
P prose9t about the reformation
? OF the{Anglo-Saxon lands, and
nd ketct1it drove to our shores
--.--l@d the puritan fathers;
circumstances destined
9om the very beginning
of the immigrant and
...".......".~ lie fugitive and the per