The Jewish Herald (Houston, Tex.), Vol. 4, No. 9, Ed. 1, Friday, November 17, 1911 Page: 1 of 8
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POULTNEY BIGELOWS
AMERICANISM
An article written by Poultney Bige
low lor the Independent in which lie
deploicd the disappearance from Con-
necticut iartns of the old Yankee
strain whose places are taken by Ital-
ians and lews has brought about the
publication in the New York Herald
this week ot a number ot letters start-
ing with an antiSemitic contribution
by Mr Bigelow and tollowed by spirit-
ed rejoinders by Dr Stephen S Wise
Dr Henry Moscow itz and others
The quality of Mr Bigelows pieju
dice is revealed in the following para-
graphs of his letter
Personally I love the Jew as 1 love
my fellow man and indeed all ot
Gods creatures but like garlic in the
salad a little of the Jew goes a long
way
These United States are becoming
lapidly so Jewriddenthat while every
other nationality or race can be freely
discussed the Jew alone sets up a
howl of persecution whenever a crti
cism touches him
The Herald being in my opinion
one ot the few surviving papers not
owned by a Jew and not dominated
by its advertising columns can do this
country no greater service than per-
sisting in seeing fair play between the
vanishing American and the horde of
Hebiow patriots who already tincture
our army and navy who are a harm-
ful element in our diplomatic and con-
sular service and whose presence on
the Bench and in the halls of Con-
gress deserves to be noted with care
unless we are to look forward to an
outburst compared to which the Drey
fus dayB will be very tame indeed
Dr Wises Letter in Part
One would fain be silent touching
feftho vulgarity and scurrility of Mr
Blgelow > In his reference to the Jew-
ish people for the sake of his honor-
ed father John Bigelow But not even
the stainless character and noble
services of the older Bigelow shall not
exempt his son from the contempt
which 1b rightly the portion of the
slanderer and vlflltler
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HOUSTON TEXAS NOVEMBER 17 191
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Mr Bigelows screed so closely le
scmbles the ravings and rantings ot-
a pietessional exploiter ot antiSemi
tism as to make his attack negligible
Mr Bigelow is one ot a happily
limited number ot Americans who to
their shame be it said are men with-
out a country Such is their socalled
cosmopolitanism that they cannot rise
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No 9
LEFT FOR DEAD NOW
BECOMES NURSE
The lollowing interesting item is
printed in the Now York Times
vth hof parents and two brothers
slain beside her in the stieet by a mob
in one of the pogroms in Odessa in
1905 and her own body so covered
with stab wounds and cuts that the
to the height of appreciating the Jews mob had left her as dead a 17yearold
Tov ish girl managed to drag herself
ot or the glare of the burning houses
that lit up the bloody night and to
creep to one of the hospitals ot tbe
city At tii st it seemed to those who
caught her tainting form that life was
extinct but under untiling care and
tieatment she managed through the
long winter months to revive and
slowly regain most of her strength
It was then that she determined be-
cause of the kindness of the people
who had nursed her back to life to de-
vote that life to similar work and
thus pay back while she lived her
debt to the kindness of humanity
The girl managed in the following year
to escape across the Russian border
and still through the aid of persons
who she had not known before many
of then her own people to make her
way to a German seaport and to this
country That was five years ago
and last night Miss Jessie Smith val-
edictorian of her class of four nurses
graduated at the Har Moriah Hos-
pital on Second Street and Avenue A
saw the realization of at least the
first part of the determination which
the young Russian orphan girl formed
in the Odessa Hospital that had vain-
ly tried by kindness to efface from
her memory the terrible picture of that
bloody night Miss Smith completed
the hospital training course In two
years and finished as well a course In
the evening schools and an evening
high school In honor of herachieve
ment and In view of the pathetic cir-
cumstances which had first Impelled
Her to think of it the directors of
the hospitals training school gave a
dinner In her honor there
capacity lor loyalty and devoted serv-
ice to the country which gives him a
home
This land the Jewish immigrant
loves and would seive with an ardor
and consecration which are inexplici
able to creatures of shifting principles
and unstable purposes To the Jew
this democracy means more than a
laridTor home to him America with
its hopes and visions and ideals is
nothing less than a religion
Mr Bigelow must look back to the
lives and deeds of his ancestors in
order to find occasion for pride
The Jew looks back upon many
centuries of history as honorable and
distinguished as the story ot any peo-
ple But the Jew unlike the scions
of some noble American sires hopes
that he may contine his peoples
proud record despite centuries of the
unChristian or ChriBtless condupt ot
which Mr Bigelow chooses to offer a
belated example
Mr Wolfes Reply
When he claims that a Jew is un-
patriotic Mr Bigelow shows himself
to bo a liar of the first cloth It is an
historical fact which I found to be
true as long ago as 1894 that in the
Glvil War there were more Jews per
ratio of population than of any other
faith In the SpanishAmerican war
600 Russian Jews driven from their
native country by persecution volun-
tarily enlisted in New York City to
fight for their adopted country
That Mr Bigelows sentiment is
not shared by the general American
populace is shown by the recent ac-
tion In the case of Private Bloom nt
Port Myor The Jew is as faithful to
hiB country as any man on earth
Ctnt iDUed wi Pc 2
Mention th Jtwlili Herald wb
patronising our advertisers it kelp
us both
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