Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-04-11

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the family and the home. The Boil
shevists decry marriage and contemn
morality. The Jew is justly noted
for being thrifty and provincial,
recognizing as necessary, the insti-
tuition of property. The BolsheVist
is seeking the destruction of the
very concept of property. The great
mass of the Jews are faithful to
their brethren in distress. The club
of the Bolshevist knows no blood
relation and despises religion. In
deed the Jew is the very incarnation
of constructive American-like ideal
ism. And whenever and wherever
idealism is worsted Judaism is in
directly attacked. When our great
President Wilson's idealism was
made fun of in Europe, l felt hurt,
not only as an American, but as a
Jew as we'll. For our prophet Is
aiah, the real father of the League
of Nations idea was ridiculed. Any
one that is not a real idealist has
no right to call himself Jew anymore
than he has the right to call himself
know that the kaiser shocked the
world more by his sacriligious appeal
to "Gott" than by his unspeakable
brutality.
| Consequently, IL the Jews as a
nation and the Americans have a
common aim-the aim of high ideal
ism, genuine freedom and social JUS
! tice-why all that foolish and ire
sponsible talk on the part of hand
full of traitors about double allegl-
ance" or dual citizenship? Aside
from the fact that among the best
and foremost American citizens are
those Irishmen who are for a home
| land for their brethren on the other
! side, and aside from the prepoSter-
Gus attitude that would assume that
a born Frenchman could not be an
American citizen, look how the Sat
| urday Evening Post defines the word
nation" q have the clipping be-
fore me. 1t appeared in one OF the
issues of last month";. Here is what
! this weekly says: IF common de-
scent, a common mother-tongue and
the inheritance of common traditions
were necessary to the making of a
nation, the case of the limited states
with it's many races and mother
tongues would be hopeless; but oven
! Count William HohenZollern now
knows that the United States is n
Veritable nation. The
pursuit of common aims and their
being exposed to the common peru
and common struggle against that
peril fruse different races into one
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! across the boundary lines the peace
conference sets up for the time be-
ing. BY the same token, league
of nations, expressing a common
purpose and defense against a com
mon danger, will attract the loyalty
and sentiments of those VINO nVe
under it, until 1t finally becomes as
vital a human cooperation as is the
United States" In other words the
United States, England, France
Italy are in a sense one natlon
and have, in a sense, one common,
invisible flag. Why? Because they
have common aims and are exposed
to common dangers, although they
occupy different territories, nay, diff
erent continents.
Jews Victimized
Why, then. pick on the Zionists
because they have a banner TO repre-
sent their aims and ideals which are
identical to American aims and
ideals, viz, to help prosecuted, out
ragged and massacred Israel by re-
gaining for him his ancient home
land Palestine? Jews have been
victimized throughout the centuries.
We attribute this awful circumstance
to the awful fact that Jews as
nation have no home of their own.
1t is such a grievous fault that we
| Zionists try to remove once Tor all
the stigma from our people, the
stigma of being the historical Vaga-
| bond2 And what are the Alonlstlc
aims in Palestine, the land of our
fathers? To establish form of
government which should, like
America, be a model of justice, of
equality, and of freedom. The world
has been shaken to its very founda-
tions. Forms of government must
be reorganized. There is one coun-
try the whole world must copy If
it is to endure, nay, if it is to sur
vive. All governments must be pat
termed after our model, the glorious
United States. The Jews in Pales-
tine will be the first to adopt and
transplant American idealism on
the soil of their ancestors. All that
the Zionists aim at is to make in Pal
estine a little America" under pro-
phetic civilization. We do not care
for the diplomacy" of the old world;
we want to copy American straight
forwardness. Till now the custom
of the world was that when ZioniSm
or autocracy was endangered an
other autocratic country rose to the
rescue. But a new era is dawning
now. Under the League of Nations
when freedom will be endangered
and it will be exposed to peril for a
long time yet-another free and
idealistic country will come to the
rescue. And should American ideals
and institutions be imperiled by air.
plane, will the Jewish nation of Pal
estine send it's army, profits, and
prophets to protect the blessed spot
| in creation-America. Prophets
won this war too, the prophets of
justice.
The war has established the fact
that a nation in order to justify it's
existence must have a civilization,
an ideal a constructive mission.
otherwise, it could be called a gang
of maranders but not a nation. We
Jews have a distinctive civilization
a distinctive mission. We are Ma
| ton of idealists, a Nation of "Ameri-
cans" Americanism to us is syn
omynous with idealism. Our ideals
are essentially American ideals. Or
shall? say that American ideals
are essentially our ideals, the ideals
of the Bible, of the prophets? Our
Jewish nation deserves and has the
right to assert it's historic claim to
Palestine. There is no contradiction
| between the Jewish and the Ameri-
can flags. Even those Jews that will
live in Palestine will be Americans"
Americans in the noblest sense of
the word. 1t is the love of true
freedom that brought us Jews to
these blessed shores of Americanism.
Jews have always been, and will al
Ways remain, Americans. Jews were
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