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The assertion made by Hugh A. Adams at a conference of patriotic societies that there is a great conflict in America between the Anglo-Saxons and other races, the recently arrived immigrants, for control of the country, is seen by the “Day” of April 9. as an untruth and an insult to immigrants.
“Not to speak of the fact,” writes the paper, “that the freest immigration could not possibly bring about a state of affairs where the natives would be in the minority, the assertion is in general a piece of impudence.
“Since when is America the property of the Anglo-Saxons? Why are the Anglo-Saxons more privileged than other elements of the population?
“America is a land that has been built up with human energy, by human hands and the human spirit. But many races and different people contributed to this process. No one people or race has more claim to America than any other people or race that helped create America.”
READING AND SAMUEL
The distinction of Jews as political administrators is discussed by the “Jewish Daily News” in an editorial on the occasion of the recent retirement of Lord Reading as viceroy of India. The paper draws a comparison between the roles of Lord Reading and Sir Herbert Samuel.
“The great difficulties encountered by Samuel in Palestine,” the paper says, “were perhaps even more complicated than those which confronted Lord Reading. It was a situation unparalleled before in the history of High Commissioners. When two men like Reading and Samuel distinguish themselves in such a manner it proves again the abilities of the Jews even in the field of statesmanship, from which Jews were debarred so long.”
A DIP INTO HISTORY
Maryland was one of the last states to remove the civil disabilities of its Jewish citizens even after it became part of the United States, a writer in the Baltimore “Evening Sun” points out, on the occasion of the celebration of the establishment of religious tolerance in that state.
“Is it not also remarkable,” we read further, “that in Georgia which could not protect or give justice to Leo Franck a couple of years ago under Governor Slayton, forty Jewish immigrants were welcomed in Savannah by Gov. James Edward Oglethorpe on July 11, 1733. Spectacular also is the incident that Reuben Etting, a Jew, was appointed by President Jefferson in 1801 United States marshal for Maryland, whereas under Maryland State laws he could not have held the position even of a constable.”
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