The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1915-03-07


Great Wars Since the Time Of Alex.
ander-How They Were Driven Upon
the Polish and Russian Plains and
Stockade-A Journey Across that
Jewish Pale.
Mr. Morgan today outlines history's
greatest tragedy. the Dispersal and
gathering in the notorious Russian
Pale; he sketches his Journeys in the
Pale and tells how and why in thirty
five years America has become second
only TO Russia In the size of its jew
ish population.
Another article will be published
next sunday in this series of sketches
of the great backgrounds OF the war
Mr. Morgan saw them in the course
of his journey along the route of Ma
pOleOn's campaigns.
Copyright, lsls)
More than half of the Jews of thu
world are crowded together between
the Black Sea and the Baltic. where
the armies of three emperors are now
spreading death and ruin. They are
the Belgians of the war-trodden fields
OF the East.
The lot of the 100000 on the west
ern front really is less wretched, less
pitiable than - that of those other
the alien strife. For these have no
tag. n" country to console them for
their sacrifices and their suffering.
They have no king and no army, no
powerful allies on sea and LAND to
reckon with their despoilers They
cannot hope to hear the bugles Of |
their deliverers.
A Bitter Portion.
They are even compelled to take up |
rms and XII one another at the COM
thousands OF Jewish conscripts are
lighting for the Car or the two
iEaIsers Yet the defenseless homes Of !
these soldiers, their old men and thar
women and children find no protector
in any of the three armies that are
ravaEinE Poland and GaIicia. For the |
'eW IS The prey OF all the eagles.
SinC" the days of Alexander, IT has |
heen The unchanging fate of the Jew
20 10" caught, as today. in the cross !
mr." Of var. and TO be trampled be |
ora OF SunerinEs is by no means con !
lined to the Christian era On the
contrary. his woes and wanderngs
marched TO battle beneath the cross
For the kingdom of the Jews was 10
ihtm more than political institu-
RELIGIOUS faith. Refusing to surrender
II /" ambitious cOnquerors. they were
hrI'c "arried into captivity. and no
less than 1000. 900 exfIes from Zion
tn" days of the Ptolenies
ne Hreeks ana then the Romans
Tut 'eeuSu 10 the ancient heritage OF
spircd. and pagan Rome. with a feroc-
ity alien I" her usual temper and pol
icy, s'roye 10 exterminate Israel On
Tenders 10 the sword and sold the rest
OF the people into slavery Then he
laid waste the depopulated city and
stationed 4 garrison on its site, to pre-
vent the return of the Jews to the
ruins of their homes and their affairs
By The Arch NJ Tft..
Bringing with him from the ruined
Temple the sacred -branched
the golden table and
roll of the Law, the conaueror and de-
d TSSfr TO OF the the e, Holy %ty vas vel
umph which. after sixty generations
have pa ssed. still is COMMUNICATED nv
,h har Ar {, , OF Ti, ,Ss a. Rome There.
ne Forum and the Colosseum, 1t
stands to celebrate the pagan rejoic-
ing over the destruction of Jeru- {
As the visitor passes beneath it he ;
DAY see ITS scuptured pictures of the |
N"-T, scenes. which. after 100 years Y
zone In PoIand-aEed Jews with WON 7
en- and children gathered in terror !
stricken ;, groups; while pillagins SOL
also representations of the Romans
burning the Temple and of other no I
mans hearing away the holy candle I
So r. All- Nlbl" OIL SneW bread and
rious venerated symbols of the Mo-
sale faith, while Titus rides in his
chariot. with the magistrates and .
priests and philosophers of the Jews l
Ira eyed in chains beside lis wheels -
It is Roman gossip that to this day {
no orthodox Jew ever willingly has !
i'aSsed under the arch Of that ancient
monument of the downfall of Israel e
But from time to time. through many I
centuries and until the accession OF I
Pop" Plus IN, the Jews of Rome were =
N.1". Il
even TO take their oath of loyalty in I
its hulniliatinC shadow. I
Vet really II is become IN arch of
triumph for the Jews themselves For q
il has witnessed the fall of the CON I
lu"rlmC empir" and rises today amid t
~" ruins of pagan Rome herself. Long !
vanished into history. a Jewish rnayor I
presided over the city of the Caesars "
while the people of Israel in the world Il
At large have waNcd more numerous
and prosperous than they were when !
leEIonary of Titus flung a torch into c
he Temple of solomon
With Jerusalem de:Olation and no l
'w T"r'Uitt.! l." step foot within H. Il
n" Conquered but inoNtinEuishabIr race a
'am"d over Asia and Europe From a
ga TO sea. as 81. Jerome said. from I
he W"$f to the south. from the north II
% tn" last tn" world through the
ews went on their seemingly endless b
Quincy among strangers in strange l
alds. v
Flowing nOrthward on the VoIGa and
he Danube. and westward on tho Medi- Y
rrdnean. they divided into two family $
;rouDs. The Scpnardic lew develOped Ia
n the shores Of the Mediterranean and c
ne Ashkenazlm developed under north o
RI skies. on the German. Russian, and j
'0iiSh plains. n
The AshkenaZims now constitute per- L
APPS e" PEI cent of the race and are
"prcsentsi in the United States hy the r
mass Of the later Jewish inmicratio ion n
Ia" S"phardim stray"d from Spain to p
'ortUSal. 1" Turkey. to Africa to W
rance. "a England. and even TO the II
Sew World in its colonial period But Z
iollamd was his rallyinS point and u
here Do" lives on the immortal can h
% s>'~ az Rembrandt. Il
IL hor"rCo and in Africa ! have seen Il
i'm ~ the flesh and little touched bv a
r." aGeS. r"h"d in his EIbardine and q
l"kinG a$ il he had stepped out of a r.
i"ture I'm tn" old Testament Wher- W
yrT the Spanish Jew may be fornd Il
'illi"n S"Dhardi' Jews scattered u-l-
"r 70 score OF national flags he still
peaks SuaGrIoli. the language he ,c-
rlr"d wlil" dwelling among the Span Il
lrds. L.
The Expulsion from spain. al
spain WAS the first notable station in | ri
h'' westward journey Of tho LEWIS | =.
"nerations before the birth OF Christ n
ONE were already there and for twelve | +,
hti"rm centuries they finuTished | :;
'rOuEh"uf the peninsula. When Mo- | V
= m"tanism rose tn" race found IA
"r with lis "aliphs ard in the7Ionr I,
Stran cement of ChriSteudon, from is ii,
,n the neutral Jew naturally became n
g." useful Intermediary between the 81
y" civilizations. W
~" Was not only tn" prosperous trad n