The Denver Jewish news., 1924-02-14
ADA STERLING'S REMARK
ABLE BOOK, 1.-THE JEW
AND CIVILIZATION" JUST
PUBLISHED.
A Review by Zelda Popkin.

personal integrity OF the late Jacob ii,
Schifr. the westerner who today motors
through prosperous Gopher Prairies.
might still be riding behind his OK
team. The action Of this distinguished
philanthropist-f -financier who after the
panic of 1901 raised the money for the
rebuilding of the Union Pacific Rail
way. on the strength of his personal
prestige among foreign financiers,
sowed the middle west with cities, and
brought its grain TO the hungry cities
of the nation.
A family of Jewish peddlcrs financed
the north during the Civil War. Their
little clothing stores. scattered through
out the east, had grown into II great
banking house. the house of Seligman,
which with the cooperation Of the
Rothchilds in England. took over the
bonded loan of the United States in
1S7o-a sum of S1jO, 900, ,OO0-and has,
since Civil War Days under-written
every bond issue of this government
Miles OF waste land over which the
Nile poured its yearly floods have been
transformed into prosperous cotton and
grain bearing lands by the magic check
book of Fir Ernest Cnssel. This Jew
In 1895 offered to the British Govern
ment the vast sum that was required
for the building Of the Assouan Dam,
and gave to civilization one OF her
richest gifts.
An engineering feat of about equal
significance was accomplished by the
building of the Sutro Tunnel. through
the famous "Comstock lode" which
ovcrcame one Of the greatest hazards
of silver mining. and opened to Amer
ica the vast treasures of her silver
mines. The man who made this pos
siblc was the son OF penniless immi-
grants who came from Germany after
the panic of 1913. The city of San
Francisco today bears testimony of the
love that Adolph Sutro returned to
America for the opportunities she help
ell him to find. in miles of beautiful
streets. parks, monuments public baths,
an aquarium. and library.
These are "fiendsh Vaccinations of
the international Jewish financiers.
which are respectfully recommended
for corroboration OF the charges of
Mcssrs Henry Ford, Hillaire Belloc,
and their kin. They are four outstand-
ing instance, called from wealth Of
facts that make ZIP an absorbing volume
called The Jew and Civilization" This
book has just come from the press in an
effort to stem. with unanswerablc
truths. the floods of misinformation and
bigotry. The Jew and Civilization"
Is the work of non-Jewcss. Ada
Sterling distinguished In America and
England for two earlier successful his
torical works. Hopeful of promoting
better understanding between Jew
and non-Jcw. Miss Sterling has dclved
down into the history of civilization
and has brought forth facts, many of
which were hitherto unknown. and
many that eyes blinded by hate have
overlooked. despite their very obvious
ness.
In parallel columns. Miss Sterling
mnrshals the charges that Apion in 93
\. d. made against the Jews, and those
that nineteenth and twentieth century
dctractors of this people have brought
forth in an effort to revive thousand
year old flames of hatred. There is Il
similarity as striking as though ditto
marks had been employed. Apion. near
ly two thousand years ago, declared
that Jews hate all Christians. that they
have always been towards, that they
have never invented anything of value
of civilization. that they lack patriot
ism. and for ritual purposes kill Greek
children. These are the charges that
one heard ten years ago at the trial of
Mendel Bells; that one finds day after
day on the pages Of the Dearborn In
dependent. With facts. then, Miss
Sterling holds mp to dcrision, one after
the other, the charges of bigots. While
Ine stoTlcS VI 'uc pH'rlotiSui VI nay am
Solomon of Colonel Franks, and of the
Asscr Levy family are wcll-known, few
persons know that nine generals of
Jewish faith commanded during the
Civil War, and nearly eight thousand
Jewish soldiers were recorded in the
records of this conflict The achieve
mcnts of the jew in industry, in com
mcrcc, in philanthropy. in literature,
art, music. medicine, mathematics. di-
plomacy. arc blazoncd forth.
Particular interest however, sur
rounds the chapter that has TO do with
the Jew in international finance, for it
is about this group that the principal
accusation of the antiSemite center.