The Washington herald., 1912-08-25
OUOTES HISTORY TO PROVE THAT COLUMBUS WAS A JEW

malicious Islander. ii is against my
will. for 1t is subject i would not
willingly recall. even in my dreams,
The governor. Bobadilla, has malicious
ly exhibited in open day his characte{
and conduct In this affair; but will
prove without difficulty that his igno-
rance. his laziness. and his inordfnata
cupidity have frustrated all his UNDER
takings. I have already said that Z
wrote to him as well as to the monks,
and set out almost alone, all our peo-
pie being with the AdeIantado and
elsewhere. to remove suspicion; when
he heard this. he caused ID. Diego to
be loaded with irons and thrown into
a caraval: he acted in the same manner
toward myself. and toward the Adel-
antado when he arrived. I have never
spoken to him. and to this day he has
not permitted any one to hold converse
with me, and / make oath that have
no conception for what cause am
made prisoner"
While Columbus had previously made
Christian claims for himself in some Of
his letters to the sovereigns, there are
no pretenses OF the kind In this. and the
following has tnge Of hostility to that
sect: THE tidings Of the gold which 7
said I would give are that on Christmas
day, being greatly afflicted and tormented
by the wicked Christians and the In
dams (de los malos Christianos de
Indios) at the moment of leaving all to
save my life IL possible. our Lord COM
forted me mi-aculously. saying to me.
Take courage, do not abandon thyself to
sadness and fear; I will provide for all
The seven years, the term of the gold.
ere not yet passed: and in this, as In the
rest. I will redress thee"
Character Was Distorted.
And he closes his letter with the state
| ment: God our Lord retains His power
and wisdom as Of old. and. above all
things. He Furnishes ingratitude."
As devout Jew, guilty of heresy, q
| crime so awful and undefnable as to be
| unmentionable, one can understand how
| the character of Columbus has been dis
torted and misrepresented. With the
ecclesiastical powers determined that no
| breath OF heresy should be uttered with
regard to the New World, the discoyerer
| of that world. II not a Christian. must
| be made one; and so the knowledge of
| the King and his agents, used to degrade
| the admiral has not only been sup
pressed for 400 years. but this Jewish
| hereto put forward as the advance agent
of the Church upon this continent
| That after writing the ''Libro de las
Profecias." in which his Jewish learning
| is displayed too strongly to be denied.
| he was permitted to equip four caravals
! for a fourth voyage. would seem to have
been done to allay his opportunities and
get rid OF him: besides, the King did not
know. but really hoped. that he would
find those wonderful gold mines, as he
claimed. But the contract. as related to
| the Indies, and particularly Hispaniola.
was on: according to-Las Casas. the new
! Governor. Oviedo. received secret in
| structions not to admit Columbus to the
| island.
Although in that last voyage. in his
Jealous efforts to gain a passage to the
mines of Ophir. he traversed the Gulf
| Coast Of Central America, landed on the
\ Isthmus OF Panama. and came near dis
covering the Pacific. Proper supplies
| were not forwarded to him, and he re-
| turned sick to Spain to die soon after
ward in poverty. One sentence of hia
last letter seems to be an appeal TO pos
terity. following the despair of ATTAINING
his exalted aim: Weep for me whoever
possesses charity. truth. and justice"
| While We may not weep, We can at least
exercise in our estimate Of Columbus this
qualities he suggests.
| Copyright. 1917. by Hyland c. Kirtl