THE JEWISH CHRONICLE

The only Jewish publication in the State of Michigan
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Vol. I. No.

DETROIT, MICH., MARCH 10, 1916

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The Jew in America

By SENATOR JAMES A. REED

Editorial Note:--lion. James A. Reed, the senior senator from Missouri, is one of the leading figures in national life. His position as
an d his reputation as one of the country's greatest authorities on immigration, un-
Chairman of the important Committee 00 Immigration

usually qualify him to treat of the above subject.

Great in his history,
Grin: in his tragedy,
Through the•long years
Ile has patiently trod.
Hoping and sighing,
Aspiring and dying_ -
Though bloody the path'
Still he trusted his God.

The ideals of a nation deter-
mine its destiny. The stream of
race life given direction by some
dominant trait is inevitably driven
toward the ocean of its fate. The
cruelty of the Romans sent them
upon wars of conquest. The sup-
erstition of the Egyptians expend-
ed the national energy in the crea-
tion of vast monuments to imag-
inary gods. Greek aestheticism
found expression in the majesty
of incomparable architecture and

conquerors. It has not 1)e,en so upon sublime, ancestral achieve-
ment and noble race history, feels
with the Jews.
Who seeks the riddle's answer not that exaltation of soul which
These ancient governments will find it in that rare fortitude renders him incapable Of a de-
have fallen and the ancient races of character, and passionate. love basement of his blood heritage.
diszi:peared. The present inhabi- of home, race and religion which If I were a Jew I would teach
tants. of Egypt could not be in- have always possessed the Heb- my fellows the proud story of my
spired with the resistless courage
people. I would inspire them
rew people.
of the soldiers of Rameses.- The
For two thousand years the with the thought that in them
spirit of Thermopylae no longer Jew has been without a national courses a blood as rich as any that
hovers over the tland of Greece. existence. IIe has been scattered ever filled the veins of man.
The creators of the Parthenon over the face of the earth, the ob-
When the world was engulfed
and Illiad have no descendants in
ject of malevolence and diabolic in a night of ignorance and fear,
Athens. The arm of the Italian is
persecution. He has survived. when crime flourished and idol-
too 'weak to wield the sword of
The story of mankind furnishes atry was universal, the Jew
Caesar.
taught the sublime principle of
no similar record.
The world is a cemetery ' in
In so proud a history every son one omnipotent God.
which is buried the forgotten of Judea ought to find an inspira-
When the authority of :brute
hones of thousands of races who tion lifting • him to the highest force was supreme, when the
rose to power, flourished, fell and plane of nobility. One of your world was peopled with slaves.
disappeared. These mighty peo- .greatest writers has exclaimed : and masters, when right was
ples have been exterminated or
",-'ts a man thinketh co he is." crushed. beneath the iron chariots
absorbed into the blood of their
Poor indeed is he who, dwelling of power, for fifteen hundred

at matchless beauty of the artist's
marble dreams.

