The Denver Jewish news., 1918-12-26
Judge Mack Outlines the Needs
Of Jewry at American Congress
President Wilson all that the Jewish people
desire and his voice will be potent in the realization
of their hopes Gsf

national existence sthat would IN no
way endangcr the rights of other pco-
pies of that land, national existence
| that would not in the slightest degree
| injure or impair the full and COM
| plctc religious, civil and political
| equality of Jews, citizens in other
lands. the internal conflicts of Jewrics
on this problem. too. have well-nigh
been settled. The realization thru hu-
man iIlstrumentalities. but under the
divine guidance of the solemn hopes
md prayers of our ancestors for itwcn'
| ty ccntufies. is ut hand. The Jewish
people. which during its national TX.
istcnce laid the foundations Of modern
civilization and thru its creative power
was enabled to contribute to humanity
the highest and the finest religious.
moral and ethical values. a people that
has had the strength and the vitality
to persist despite the most frightful
| oppression TINT the world has ever
known is now offered the opportunity
| to re-establish itself on its ancient soil
the assuring support of all our co.
belligerents. and Americas leader; the
| President of the United States, in his
| New Years greeting to the Jewish peo-
pie. has given it his unqualified in
dorsemcnt
The clouds Of doubt have been dis
pelled. The misconceptions that have
| clung about the Zionist aims have
been cleared away. No one believes
any longer that the rcnascence of the
Jewish pople and the ultimate rcstab-
| lishmcnt of the Jewish commonwealth
| is n movement to drive all the Jews
| into Palestine or in the slightest de-
gree to impinge upon their exclusive
loyalty to the country of their birth
| or naturalization. No one expects or
acsiies thai all Jewry- shatil BIZ gather
ed together In that smnll land. Thru
practically all of their history Jews
/ have, been scattered. In the ancient
days but n nucleus of Them constituted
| the Jewish nation in Palestine, In
\ our days and generation and in the CEN
| turtles to come no one expects that
more than n nucleus of our people will
be gathered together in their national
home Those who arc so gathered will
however. be sufficient of the Jewish
| ly to be representative of the Jewish
people. They will there unfold and de.
velop Jewish civilization which it
| is confidently believed will inure NOT
merely to the good of the Jewish ma
| tionals, but to the benefit of all man
kind. Their brethren in other lands
will be the bearers of the Palestinian
| fruits to the tables Of their fellow
citizens and thru them the light that
| will come from Zion will be spread
thruout the nations of the world.
Just how and when and by what
means and thru which power and un-
der what political forms this re-estab-
lishment shall be brought about will
lie one of the problems with which the
| Zionists' world organizations will have
primarily to deal. 1t will be naturally
the interpreter of the hopes and the as
pirations of the Jewish people to the
assembled nations Our delegates from
this Congress should be authorized to
offer to that organization on behalf
of the Jews of America their fullest
and heartiest cooperation. together
| with such suggestions rs this Congress
may deem it wise to advance. Presi.
dent Wilson is at the peace conference
He stands for all that tho Jewish neo-
pie desire His voice will be potent
in the realization of their hopes. When
this gathering of the world powers
shall have eventuated into. League of
Nations. the re-establishment Of the
Jewish nationality will be accomplish
ed. An Independent statehood at this
time is an imprncticable and impossible
dream. Palestine must be placed un-
der the trusteeship of one of the great
powers. a power that stands for fun
damental liberty and democracy. And
if 1t shall be determined that Great
Britain whose armed forces have led
in the liberation of the Holy Land
from the oppressive rule of the Turk.
shall exercise on behalf of the League
of Nations the trustceship in Palcs-
tine, then surely the aspiration Of the
Jewish people will find full and com
plete-recognition
In our own struggle for this recog-
milton, we are in sympathetic accord
with those peoples in Central and in
Eastern Europe who. tho living for
centuries in their own land. have here
tofore been denied national exist
ence. American Jewry is in deepest
| sympathy with all these peoples. we
rnjoire with fhem that now at least