The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1920-10-31

laid down their lives by side of their
non-Jewish comrades under the pop
pies of Flanders. They, too. had rem
devious with death. Honor to them!
In the great conflict on all sides one
twentieth OF the Jews of the world
fought with nothing to gain but the
opportunity OF killing their own mar
tyred race!
The Melting Pot.
America spells opportunity for the
Jew.
Someone has said: I'm this melting
pot the Jew will be lost--he is losing
rapidly through intermarriage, mod
ernism and infidelity.''
No. He will not be lost. II he will
only be true 10 his ancient ndrnarks
he viii find himself. You see, he be-
longs here as surely as the rest of us.
He came with Columbus. There We're
five Jews in the fleet Rodrigo SAM
chez was the overseer of tine crew.
Luis de Torres was the interpreter
They We're of the first to behold and
set foot on the new promised land.
Abraham and Columbus Were men
who pioneered westward, not knowing
whittier. II, as is said, Columbus moth
or was Suzanne Fonterosa, a Jewess,
then Columbus was a fine successor
to Abraham. There Is no discovery
without faith--both were men of faith.
Who can tell whether the hand that
has guided the Jew westward from
the EuDhrates to the Jordan, from the
Jordan to the Nile, from the Nile to
the Tiber, from the Tiber to the Quad
alquivir. did not also lead him across
the Atlantic that he might, under Gods
- H.
he chooses, worship as he desires; no
ghetto to wall him in, no restriction
to fetter his feet, no tribunal to COW
his spirit; free TO develop his highest
faculties, and in return give the best
that Is in him to make America the
hope of a struggling world? believe
Americas noble treatment OF the Jew
is craven on his heart. He is Of a race
capable Of splendid sentiment and
great gratitude. Time will never eff
face 1t.
The Jewish Old Testment literature
nodded Puritan thought 1t was the
Jew who loaned Washington 100000
to finance the Valley Forge campaign.
The inscription on the Liberty Bell in
our fair city is taken from the Jewish
Bible. Lincolns addresses show his
inspiration from Jewish Elijah. What
a coincidence that the Lincoln penny,
the coin of the little child and the
common paople, is a product of Jew
ish INSTRUMENTATION d. Bremen In
America the Jew is a patriot without
a hyphen They have never tried to
form a Jewish vote" at election time
He IS the average citizen, reaching the
heights and depths of human posi-
bility. He is as rich as Dives or as
poor as Lazarus. He is Karl Marx. the
socialist. or Rothschild, the capitalist.
He Is Felix Adler, the law abiding, or
"Ikey the Cunman." He is a ShylociS
or Baron de Hirsch. He is a wanderer,
and yet he clings to the pale. He is
homeless, yet he owns Broadway. The
Jew at the lowest was Judas-at the
highest he was Jesus.
An American Jerusalem.
Not in Judea, but in New York, is
the real Jerusalem
If there are $4,000, 900 Jews in the
world. America has about 5000, 900, of
which about 100000 are in and about
greater New York. In that city every
sixth person you meet is a son of Is
rael. while on Manhattan Island the
proportion Is one to four. About one
third of the student body of Columbia
university is Jewish, the City College
is nearly 81 per cent. New York has
the largest high school in the world
the Washington Irving-practically all
Of its 5000 pupils are Jewish. The New
York telephone directory shows six
teen columns of Cohens and but four
teen of Smiths. In Philadelphia there
arc two and one-half columns of CO.
hens TO eleven of Smiths. There was
ffr,an to-
York was Roman Catholic-today it
is Jewish! There is not a Christian
church on the East Side, but there
are s61 synagoguesl
VIII the jew go back to Jerusalem?
Never, except as tourist. America is
the Jews Palestine. and Washington,
ID. c., his Zion, suspect that if you
plant the blue and white flag of zion
ism on the one side and the red, white
and blue of the United States on the
other and demand of the Jew, Choose
ye this day which you will serve"
there viii be but one answer.
This is his country. Vie is on the
bench of the Supreme Court of the
United States, he is in the Senate and
House of Representatives, he is Gov
ernor in three states he is Mayor of
several cities. Two of New Yorlx's most
successful newspapers, the World and
the Times, are works of Jewish propri-
etors. The business manager of the
Hearst newspapers is Jewish. The
banking house that stands next to ].
p. Morgan Company is Jewish A Jew
ish engineer built the Pennsylvania
tunnels under the East River.
VIII the Jew intermarry? / do not
know or the future-but he has and
does! August Belmont married a
daughter of Commander Perry. The
distinguished DIR. Abraham jacob
married Mary Putnam, Walter Dam
roseh married the daughter of James
q. Blaine, ossip Gabrilowiteh, the mu-
stefan, married Mark Twain's daugh-
ter DO you know any of the fruit of
Christian-Jewish marriages? Let me
refresh your memory, Did you know
that Bret Harte was one? A few Others
are Sir John Herchel, the astronomer: