New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1920-08-13
The jew in America
4 Defense Of His Conservatism and
Patriotism
To the Editor Of The Tribune

To the Editor OF The Tribune.
Sir: It was with much interest that
read the article in your issue Of Tues.
day, the 10th, on the case of Huszar,
but with dismay that I noted the sigma
ture American" AS one who. accord
ing to every standard and by every test,
has earned the honor o. the ttls
American" l resent an impostor His
are not the words OF an American.
He talks of the lies about pogroms
Such things are caused by the revou-
tlonary work of the Jews" He thus ex-
plains the whole thing satisfactorily to
himself, and would expect others to be-
iieve him. Perhaps the same thing ap-
plies to Armenian Christians, who are
very similarly slaughtered periodically
by the Mahometans
He goes on to say that "all the radi-
cally destructive elements in our own
country are led with few exceptions by
Jews or men of Jewish extraction" and
further along he states.that az the Jews
will observe law and order and become
real citizens of the country of their
adoption, and avoid leading revolutions
that get them nowhere, they will not
have to complain of persecution"
Your correspondent is i'll informed
and apparently guilty of speaking
whereof he knows little or nothing
careful investigation will disclose how
many Americans of many generations,
how many of Irish extraction and how
many of Teutonic and other origin, in
addition to the Jews, are leaders in the
liberal movements of to-day. Not be-
cause these races are particularly given
to such tendencies, but simply because
large part of the citizenship of our
country is made up of these people. and
1t is, therefore, unlikely that the leaders
in this or in the conservative or in any
other movement should be natives or
descendants of natives Of Afghanistan.
Referring to his statement quoted by
me above regarding the Jew becoming
real citizen of the country OF his adop-
ton, does he know that the percentage
of the Jews who wore the American
uniform in this last great war and the
percentage of jews whose blood GRIM
soned the battlefelds and whose bones
, enriched the soil Of France, a. compared
to the Jewish population of this country,
was greater than the proportion IN any
other creed that goes to make up the ell
1 lzenship of this nation? Does he know
that the majority of the Lost Battalion
was Jewish? Does he know that Sir john
Monash is loyal English subject!
Does he know that Dreyfus was loyal
French citizen? Does he know Of the
Kahns, Of the Strauses?
He says "it i'll behooves foreigners
who only recently came here" etc.
Does he know or realize that, no matter
| when his ancestors came here, unless no
is an Indian, he is Just as much for
eigner as is the most recently msoe
citizen who has taken the oath OF ale
glance to the American Gag? Does 10
realize that without the citize.s Of for
eign birth or foreign extraction tnis
country would be to-day only small
undeveloped, impecunious nation IN
stead of a world power?
AS a native American, a lover OF
America and American ideals, who put
on the uniform to defend those Ideals
God knows l and many many others
If Jewish extraction are real Amer
cans, and | resent the slur OF this inoi'
yidual who calls himself an American
AMERICAN.
Jersey City, N. j.. Aug. II, 1920.