The Denver Jewish news. [volume] (Denver, Colo.) 1915-1925, 1920-11-24
Unfair andUnwarranted
Says Martin H. Glynn
EX-GOVERNOR OF NEW YORK
AND EDITOR OF THE ALBANY
UNION THUS STIGNIATIZES
HENRY FORDS ATTACK ON
JEWS.

JEWS.
In recent issue of the Albany
Times Union. Martin H. Glynn, ex-
Governor of New York nad editor of
the paper in signed article says in
part:
.That there should appear in this
noble land of freedom-this land
which holds aloft the torch of human
liberty whose resplenent rays pene-
trate the darkest recesses in the furth.
ermost parts of the earth. giving CON-
fort and cheer to the oppressed and
dOwntrodden and guiding humanity to
| an existence of tranquility. equal op-
! portunity and happiness-that there
be construed as an attack upon any
race is almost unbelievable. And that
such an attack could he directed
against a people who have taken such
a prominent part In the activities of
the ages; who have proven their
sterling worth thru the centuries; who
have surmounted seemingly unpassable
obstacles. overcome almost unconquer-
able opposition. and have arisen serene
and brilliant as the evening star after
the turmoil of the storm: who have
given to the world some of its bright
est intellects and most noble person
ages, and who have taken such n
prominent part in every field of nc
tivity in this country. is absolutely in
comprehensive. An attack upon the
Jews has no place In this age of on
lightenment and. at the hands of any
publication identified with America,
Ia m outrage against the institutions
and spirit of this country. 1t is
watt of foul atmosphere from the dark
ages. whose odor is nauseating to thr
.,0strils of every fair-mindetl. man and
woman In the land. He who attacks
the Jews and places upoi, their shoui-
ders responsibility for any one of the
adverse, conditions that now prevail in
the world not only makes himself RI
diculous but subjects himself to the
scorl and condemnation Of everyone
with normal sense of justice.
An attack upon the Jews Is re-
lapse into condition of mind thought
to have disappeared forever from the
enlightened nations Of the earth. 1t
is n fall from the upward and onward
march of progress back into the val
ley of indefensible intolerance. 1t IL
q reincarnation of diabOlical spirit
antagonistic to equality Of rights. to
the ObliteratiOn of class barriers. to
the brotherhood of the races and to
all Of those noble impulses by which
humanity has been drawn closer and
the world made brighter and better
place in which to live.
And the American who raises his
voice or wields his pen in the pur-
suit of that which would injure the
Jews or increase their burdens in any
part Of the world would be but eN-
hibiting spirit Of the basest ingrati-
tude for people who have exercised
a potent influence and have been iden-
tilted with all that is compreheaded
by the term American for the past
four hundred years. 1t would be well
for the public to- remember the import
ant part which men and women of
the Jewish race have taken in the dis
covery, the settlement and the life of
the new world. The earliest ~consti-
tutions of the New England colonies
were framed upon the model Of the
Mosa IL coda Tha Hahrayyys conrnOn-
wealth was frequently referred to in
sermons during the revolutionary pc
riod as model and guide and Rev
George Duffield, pastor Of the Third
Presbyterian church of Philadelphia,
In a sermon preached on May IL, 177G.
drew parallel between George III
of England and Pharaoh of the ENo
.dus. ..i.ferring that the salne provi
dence of God which has rescued the
Israelites from the bondage of Egypt
intended to free the colonies Jews
took prominent part in the. discov-
cry of the new world. The money for
the voyage of Columbus was raised
by Queen Isabella. Wealthy Jews
helped largely. OF the sailors who ac-
companied Columbus on his voyage Of
discovery number had Jewish blood
in their veins. There was a Jewish
Interpreter named Luis de Torres.
Jewish surgeon, Marco: Jewish ply.
sician. Bernal. and it is declared that
Roderigo de Triana. Jew. was one
of the first to catch sight of the
land of the Bahama Islands. The first
Brazil. but they soon came. to New
York; first they came from Spain and