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Page 260 - ... should yet be most intense and most widespread in the United States ; for of all the great Powers I think I may say that the United States is that country in which from the beginning of its national career most has been done in the way of acknowledging the debt due to the Jewish race and of endeavoring to do justice to those American citizens who are of Jewish ancestry and faith. One of the most touching poems of our own great poet Longfellow is that...
Page 261 - York supported the patriotic cause and helped in every way, not only by money, but by arms, Washington and his colleagues who were founding this republic — from that day to the present we have had no struggle, military or civil, in which there have not been citizens of Jewish faith who played an eminent part for the honor and the credit of the nation.
Page 257 - No person of ordinary humanity can have heard without deep emotion the story of the cruel outrages inflicted upon the Jews of Kishineff. These lamentable events have caused the profoundest impression throughout the world, but most especially in this country, where there are so many of your co-religionists who form such a desirable element of our population in industry, thrift, public spirit and commercial morality. Nobody can ever make the Americans think ill of the Jews as a class or as a race —...
Page 271 - Do unto others as you would that others should do unto you," applies to all who would help others to gain their liberty.
Page 267 - ... would be punished to the utmost that the law would permit. I will consider most carefully the suggestions that you have submitted to me, and whether the now existing conditions are such that any further official expression would be of advantage to the unfortunate survivors, with whom we sympathize so deeply. Nothing that has occurred recently has had my more constant thought, and nothing will have my more constant thought than this subject In any proper way by which beneficial action may be taken,...
Page 65 - HISTORICAL CONDITIONS Kishinev; Riot of 1903. A Russian official stated the case against the Jews as follows: "What can we do with them? They are the racial antithesis of our nation. A fusion with us is impossible, owing to religious and other disturbing causes. They will always be a potential source of sectarian and economic disorder in our country. We cannot admit them to equal rights of citizenship for these reasons, and, let me add, because their intellectual superiority would enable them to...
Page 266 - ... upon the outrages at Kishineff and is moving vigorously not only to prevent their continuance, but to punish the perpetrators. That Government takes the same view of those outrages that our own Government takes of the riots and lynchings which sometimes occur in our country, but do not characterize either our Government or our people. I have been visited by the Russian Ambassador on his own initiative, and in addition to what has been said to Secretary Hay, the Russian Ambassador has notified...
Page 262 - Among the meetings of the Grand Army which I have attended one stands out with peculiar vividness — a meeting held under the auspices of the men of the Grand Army of Jewish creed, in the Temple in Fortyfourth Street, Temple Emanu-El, to welcome the returned veterans of the Spanish-American War of Jewish faith. When in Santiago, when I was myself in the army, one of the best colonels among the regular regiments, who did so well on that day and who fought beside me, was a Jew. One of the commanders...
Page 270 - Kishineff are but the direct result of the propaganda of falsehood and violence which our Government conducts with such energy.
Page 266 - ... hold myself unworthy of my present position if I failed to feel just as deep sympathy and just as deep sorrow and just as deep horror over an outrage like this done to the Jewish people in any part of the earth. I am confident that much good has already been done by the manifestations throughout this country, without any regard to creed whatsoever, of horror and sympathy over what has occurred. It is gratifying to know, what we would, of course, assume, that the Government of Russia shares the...