(Jewish Daily Bulletin)
Valuable assistance was offered the Palestine cause by representative citizens heretofore unaffiliated with the Zionist movement following Dr. Stephen S. Wise’s appeal at the mass meeting of the United Palestine Appeal held here. Aaron S. Rauh, Sidney I. Rothschild, David Eiseman, Louis Monheimer and Wallace Renard volunteered to assist the local committee to raise St. Louis’s quota of $75,000.
Forty-five thousand dollars has been raised to date. The audience promised Dr. Wise they would secure the balance.
“I am here not to beg but to take counsel with my fellow Jews,” Dr. Wise said.
“Through circumstances I presume that I have faced more Americans than any living Jew and I have never met a real American who did not say ‘God speed you in your work for a Jewish Palestine.’ It was that great American President Woodrow Wilson, the son of a Christian minister, who with tears in his eyes thanked God that he had had something to do with the rebuilding of Palestine. His comment is typical of the real American attitude,” Dr. Wise declared.
“Only a handful of Jews went to Zion centuries ago. Yet from this small number came the two great religions of the world, Judaism and Christianity. The present-day handful of Jews, for the third time will show the world that the spiritual genius of Israel is inexhaustable. The Jews in Palestine are going to prove to the peoples of all the nations that the Jews can live according to the Hebrew prophets.”
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